I like big books and I cannot lie
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32% complete! Eivind (like the Terrible) has read 32 of 100 books.
They say there are only two things you can count on ...But that was before …
…that long nasal whine which meant that folk song was about to be perpetrated.
— Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #11)
Hvem bestemmer over togtrafikken i Norge? Hvorfor ivrer statsansatte direktører for utenlandskabler som gir høyere …
Virkelig på tide med et oppgjør. Synd vi blir sånn 13 stykker som leser boka.
They say there are only two things you can count on ...But that was before …
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.
— Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #11)
They say there are only two things you can count on ...But that was before …
What makes the Counting Pines particularly noteworthy, however, is the way they count. Being dimly aware that human beings had learned to tell the age of a tree by counting the rings, the original Counting Pines decided that this was why humans cut trees down. Overnight every Counting Pine readjusted its genetic code to produce, at about eye-level on its trunk, in pale letters, its precise age. Within a year they were felled almost into extinction by the ornamental house number plate industry, and only a very few survive in hard-to-reach areas.
— Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #11)
They say there are only two things you can count on ...But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. …
Den industrielle revolusjon utløste et globalt maktskifte og la grunnlaget for flere hundre år med …
"Alt er vann," skal Thales av Milet ha sagt for et drøyt kvart dekamillenium siden. "Ikke /alt/," modererer Terje Tvedt i denne monokausale studien av den første industrielle revolusjon.
Blant alle nyttårshilsningene dukker det opp et mystisk postkort i postkassen til Anne Berests familie. …
Dette blir nok en av årets høydare for meg. Veldig god bok.
Blant alle nyttårshilsningene dukker det opp et mystisk postkort i postkassen til Anne Berests familie. Kortet har ingen avsender, men …
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted …
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age …
Her propensity for receiving free merchandise quickly turned into a philosophy about women speaking up and taking communication back to basics. In the middle of the night, Alix changed her Instagram bio to #LetHerSpeak.
In the winter palace, the King’s new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also …
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted …
Er ikke noe glad i uttrykket "guilty pleasure", men dette var en for meg. Ikke fordi den ikke er intellektuell eller smart nok, men fordi jeg tok meg i å tenke "bør jeg egentlig like denne boka?" hver gang fordommene, som sikkert var typiske for den tidas hvite nawlinsere (og i stor grad sikkert også samtidas), blei krast slengt ut av en av rollefigurene.
I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
Her logic was a combination of half-truths and clichés, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel.
