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Eivind (like the Terrible)

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I like big books and I cannot lie

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Susanna Clarke (duplicate): Piranesi (EBook, 2020, Bloomsbury Publishing)

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.

In his notebooks, day after …

Since the World began it is certain that there have existed fifteen people. Possibly there have been more; but I am a scientist and must proceed according to the evidence. Of the fifteen people whose existence is verifiable, only Myself and the Other are now living.

Piranesi by 

Iain M. Banks: Matter (2008, Orbit Books)

Was it more honourable to starve than to steal? Many people would say yes, though rarely those who’d actually experienced an empty belly, or a child whimpering with its own hunger. Was it more honourable to starve than to steal when others had the means to feed you but chose not to, unless you paid with money you did not have? He thought not. By choosing to starve you became your own oppressor, keeping yourself in line, harming yourself for having the temerity to be poor, when by rights that ought to be a constable’s job. Show any initiative or imagination and you were called lazy, shifty, crafty, incorrigible. So he’d dismissed talk of honour; it was just a way of making the rich and powerful feel better about themselves and the powerless and poverty-stricken feel worse.

Matter by  (Culture, #8)

quoted Maskerade by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #18)

Terry Pratchett, Peter Serafinowicz, Indira Varma (Narrator), Bill Nighy (Narrator): Maskerade (AudiobookFormat, 2022, Transworld)

There’s a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. …

He looked up. Standing in the air, at eye-level, was a robed figure about six inches high. A bony nose, with bent grey whiskers, protruded from the hood. Tiny skeletal fingers gripped a very small scythe. Mr Pounder nodded thoughtfully to himself. You didn't rise to membership of the Inner Circle of the Guild of Rat catchers without hearing a few whispered rumours. Rats had their own Death, they said, as well as their own kings, parliaments and nations. No human had ever seen it, though. Up until now. He felt honoured. He'd won the Golden Mallet for most rats caught every year for the past five years, but he respected them, as a soldier might respect a cunning and valiant enemy. 'Er. . . I'm dead, aren't I. . . ?' SQUEAK. Mr Pounder felt that many eyes were watching him. Many small, shining eyes. 'And. . . what happens now?' SQUEAK. The soul of Mr Pounder looked at his hands. They seemed to be elongating, and getting hairier. He could feel his ears growing, and a certain rather embarrassing elongation happening at the base of his spine. He'd spent most of his life in a single-minded activity in dark places, yet even so. . .

'But I don't believe in reincarnation!' he protested. SQUEAK. And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in you.

Maskerade by , , , and 1 other (Discworld, #18)

Kristine Næss: Mitt følelsesliv er som en åpen bok (EBook, Norwegian language, 2025, Oktober) No rating

Dette er historien om Hanne. Hun bestemte seg for å ta en master i idéhistorie …

Ingen ville bli gamle og ta farvel med verden, heller ikke Hanne. Hun fant seg ikke i sånt, det kom bare ikke til å skje. De siste skulle bli de første. Hun skulle komme de idiotisk selvopptatte venninnene i forkjøpet og bli professor, og mer enn det, hun skulle vise verden, hun skulle vise hvor inn i helvete mye alle gikk glipp av når de gikk glipp av henne. Hun skulle lage sitt eget tankesystem. Sånn var det. Hun var ridd av hybris, og det var kanskje like greit, for da fikk hun noe til å skje. Ja, Hanne var gudskjelov høy på pæra, og dette, i kombinasjon med en serie nattlige drømmer om sin rolle som fortolker av Romerriket fikk henne til å skride til handling og søke opptak som masterstudent.

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Lisa Röstlund: Norgeparadoxen (EBook, Swedish language, 2025, Bokförlaget Forum)

De älskar sin storslagna natur. De kämpar globalt för mänskliga rättigheter och mot krig och …

Om Norgesparadoxen.

Detta är en bok i samma anda som Skogslandet av samma författare, men nu med blicken mot grannlandet i väster. Det är ändå en liknande dynamik hon målar upp: Det finns en stor industri som har stor negativ inverkan på naturen och klimatet, men där företrädare enträget hävdar att det man gör i själva verket är det som skall rädda oss till slut (eller i alla fall att alternativen är sämre); industrier som samtidigt har stor påverkan på forskning och politik.

Det som är slående är hur många av de som Röstlund talar med i boken som inte ser motsättningen mellan att fortsätta oljeutvinnandet och att motverka klimatförändringarna — flera säger sig inte tro på klimatförändringarna, men det är ändå bara ett fåtal. De flesta ser ändå att klimatförändringarna är något som vi behöver ta itu med, men är ändå fast i att oljan skall upp! Det är ett …