Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Prophet Song: 4 stars
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers …
Halfway through and it's so, SO bleak
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Eivind (like the Terrible) started reading Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front …
Halfway through and it's so, SO bleak
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: 5 stars
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Reluctant Fundamentalist: 4 stars
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid
'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Pestnetter: 4 stars
Pestnetter by Orhan Pamuk, Ingeborg Fossestøl (Translator)
Et historisk epos om mord og mysterier, mytedannelse og nasjonsbygging fra nobelprisvinner Orhan Pamuk.
Året er 1901. Natten faller …
Eivind (like the Terrible) finished reading Pestnetter by Orhan Pamuk
Et historisk epos om mord og mysterier, mytedannelse og nasjonsbygging fra nobelprisvinner Orhan Pamuk.
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Jeg var ganske lei halvveis, men sitter nå igjen med følelsen av å ha lest ei god og original bok. Vel verdt innsatsen.
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated How the World Really Works: 4 stars
How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil, Stephen Perring (Narrator)
In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn’t inevitable—the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent …
Eivind (like the Terrible) finished reading How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn’t inevitable—the foolishness …
Turned out to be a quite interesting book, but it was hard to get through the first few chapters on climate change, nature loss, land use, and fossil fuels as they were written almost entirely in gammon.
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Other Wind: 4 stars
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel Roukin (Narrator) (Earthsea Cycle, #6)
The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him to them at night. Through him they may free themselves …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Antropocen: 3 stars
Antropocen by Ole Jacob Madsen, Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Dag Olav Hessen, and 11 others
Menneskets påvirkning på klima, atmosfære og natur er blitt så dyptgripende at vi har gått inn i en ny epoke …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Rebel spring: 2 stars
Rebel spring by Fred Berman, Morgan Rhodes (Falling Kingdoms, #2)
When the evil King Gaius announces that a road is to be built into the Forbidden Mountains, formally linking all …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Sunfall: 3 stars
Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili, Rupert Farley (Narrator)
2041 and the world as we know it grinds to a halt. Our planet seems to be turning against itself …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated A Woman's Story: 4 stars
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
Upon her mother's death from Alzheimer's, Annie Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Sunset Park: 3 stars
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
Twenty-eight-year-old Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, an incident that caused him …
Eivind (like the Terrible) commented on Pestnetter by Orhan Pamuk
Et historisk epos om mord og mysterier, mytedannelse og nasjonsbygging fra nobelprisvinner Orhan Pamuk.
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Begynner å bli litt lei, gitt, og er ikke halvveis. Akkurat som under IRL pest-lockdownen.