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Reading this makes me pause every three pages, look up one of all those rock anthems on Youtube and relisten half my youth. It‘s that good.

Ein Roman in bester Tradition Stan

Aber was bedeutet eine Wahrheit schon, die in der Zukunft liegt?

Genau das Buch, das ich lange suchte.

Rambling, rambling..

I‘m not too much a fan of short stories, so I wonder what this will turn into.

Time for some McCarthy!

It‘s pretty fascinating how St. John Mandel interconnected her three most-read novels, as if there‘s one overlaying plot from the very beginning.

Nach nur zwei Kapiteln bereits drei neue Ernährungsgewohnheiten entwickelt. All Stars bis jetzt!

No star burns forever.

„Growth is like the third rail: Touch it and you die.“

„The period of human influence on this planet shouldn‘t be called ‚anthropocene‘ but ‚capitalocene‘.“

A block away on Main and Carroll, desperate pedestrians prowled the shops for caffeine and calories, picking their way through the many homeless people of all races.

I should‘ve read this fifteen years ago. Too bad it was only published in 2021.

There were storms to the south and masses of clouds that moved slowly along the horizons with their long dark tendrils trailing in the rain. That night they camped on a ledge of rock above the plains and watched the lightning all along the horizon provoke from the seamless dark distant mountain ranges again and again.

High time for another McCarthy!

„And now in a twilight once more lit by candles, the age of electricity having come and gone, Titania turns to face her fairy king“.

„I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.“

„The project of freedom is precarious, and we should regularly remind ourselves how many people who came before us never got to experience it, and how many people there are still waiting.“

„One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.“

Really well written!

„He had the kind of hangover that an Old Testament God might have smitten the Midianites with.“

Night shift read: has to be easygoing!