What are you currently reading?

[Stargazer]

Part 3/4 of the magical and mystical Shadow series by Maria Gripe. One of my all-time favorite book series since I was a kid.

 

[JamieBrown]

Just today I began this

 

[Nicholas123]

I thought i should have read this b4 watching the movie

 

[Stargazer]

Slowly but surely started my third (or fourth?) re-read of the Southern Vampire Mysteries Series aka the Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood books.

Because True Blood (the show) was completely ruined and is now completely unrecognizable from the books, I wanted to go back and revisit the full story as it should have been.

 

[Shmelsasha]

contains around 200 anecdotes brilliantly illustrating scientists in all their shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and the intolerant, etc.
The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. From the death of Archimedes at the hands of an irritated Roman soldier to the concoction of a superconducting witches' brew at the close of the twentieth century, the stories in Eurekas and Euphorias pour out, told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer.
Open this book at random and you may chance on the clumsy chemist named Sapper who broke a thermometer in a reaction vat and made the discovery that launched the modern dyestuff industry. Or the physicist who dissolved his gold Nobel Prize medal in acid to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Nazis. We meet mathematicians and physicists in prison cells, and even in a madhouse, making important advances in their field. And we witness the careers, sometimes tragic, sometimes carefree, of the great women scientists, from Hypatia of Alexandria, to Sophie Germain and Sonia Kovalevskaya, to Marie Curie and her relentless battle with the French Academy. A glorious parade unfolds to delight the reader, with stories to astonish, to instruct, and most especially, to entertain.

 

[r3gg13]

I love Guy Delisle , I hope to be like him one day (wishful thinking)

This travelogue BD is pretty much like his other ones. I've read Pyongyang and Shenzhen, and this one is just as good. His writing and drawing style has that certain quotidian charm. I just love him and his writings.

 

[SRBIJA]

I'm wondering if this is banned in Russia ..

 

[Sahistul]

Ten little niggers, by Agatha Christie.

 

[LonelyBrokenHero]

The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue

 

[Gera11]

Ten little niggers, by Agatha Christie.

I really need to read that

Currently reading..

#lame

 

[Sahistul]

Daca mai invatam, puneam si eu o carte de chirurgie sau parodonto ceva

(If i was learning anymore, i should have posted a book of parodontology or surgery)

 

[Milos-BC]

I really need to read that

Currently reading..

#lame

"Course of civil rights - general part" ?


Testing my knowledge of Romanian.........

 

[Gera11]

"Course of civil rights - general part" ?


Testing my knowledge of Romanian.........

Civil law instead of civil rights because drept = law or rights, depends on context. Wow your romanian is great

 

[Milos-BC]

^^ Thanks

 

[Sahistul]

That's my brother there

 

[Milos-BC]

That's my brother there

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

"Ten Cities That Made an Empire" by Tristram Hunt

He's our Shadow Secretary of State for Education (Labour) but he's also a historian and lecturer in history. The book tells the stories of Boston, Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay, Melbourne, New Delhi and Liverpool for the periods that they were each part of the British Empire.
Very interesting - Im not much of a reader myself but it was a birthday present from my friend and I felt compelled to read it, and I'm enjoying it .

 

[LonelyBrokenHero]

 

[Veronika]

"Girl in Translation" by Jean Kwok

 

[Veronika]

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez