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Hooked_on_books
Fall of Man in Wilmslow | David Lagercrantz
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Bailedbailed

I‘m fine with slow-paced books, but this one is like watching paint dry.

Soubhiville 🤣 that doesn‘t sound fun. 3y
Hooked_on_books @Soubhiville The interesting thing is that this is the writer who picked up the Millennium series books after Steig Larsson died and he‘s done a great job with them. So I know he can craft a good book! Too bad he didn‘t here. It was a wretched experience. 😵‍💫 3y
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Matt_Austin
Fall of Man in Wilmslow | David Lagercrantz
Mehso-so

Got the audiobook and if I had tried to read it myself I would have put it down before halfway. I loved the parts about Alan and his life but just couldn‘t really getting it the detective‘s story. The ending did hit me in the feels a bit. Overall I just didn‘t love it.

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Buechersuechtling
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Pickpick

And suddenly I was completely intrigued by the plot. I‘m no big mathematician, definitely not, but I liked to learn so much about Alan Turing‘s life and passion. Lagercrantz wonderfully explains complicated theories to non-experts. 😍 I loved and understood those parts even though I can‘t re-tell them.

Keeping the guys from the Government Code and Cypher School (G.C. & C.S.) apart was a bit difficult, but I was able to follow the plot, anyway.

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Buechersuechtling
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Off topic, but I just wanted to find a nice, not-cheesy saying to write into a “Get-well-soon”-card for a dear friend …

Gosh folks, so many terrible, awful quotes and things on my German internet. 🙄 Nothing I‘d use for introduction with a good conscience. Reading this makes you feel worse instead of better, believe me.

So in the end it was like always: After hesitation I use my own words and run out of space at the end of the card. 😇

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Buechersuechtling
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(📸 from: https://bit.ly/33jI6g9)

We had a very togetherness-y, cosy Sunday gaming 🎮 “Super Mario World” and “Earth Bound”. 💑 I enjoyed this so much, seems, it was a much-needed downtime for me.

Now that I am grass widow again I continue my audiobook, I‘m very curious how the “case” Turing will be brought to an end while I prepare kohlrabi with creamy cheese for dinner. 🎧📖

ljuliel What does Grass Widow mean ? 5y
Buechersuechtling @ljuliel Oh. 🤭 I‘m sorry to have confused you. I looked the term up myself because I didn‘t know the English expression. “Grass widow” was what my online dictionary suggested as translation for partners in a marriage or relationship who live temporarily alone, that is to say who are “temporary widows”. – no, that this is obviously wrong would you please teach me the correct expression❓ 5y
ljuliel Well, let‘s see. I guess you could say you each have your own places ? Or your “ partner” works away from home and is only there part time ? I‘m not sure. I know here, sometimes ladies call themselves Football Widows on Sundays when football is on, because they have their mind on the game and not their wife or girlfriend . 5y
annamatopoetry The equivalent of grass widow/er definitely exists in Swedish too! 5y
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Buechersuechtling
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I‘m not quite sure if I didn‘t know or just forgot that the book is about Alan Turing.

I like it – the bits of his biography that you get. At first I wasn‘t sure if I would also like Leonard Corell, the police assistant dealing with Turing‘s case, but meanwhile I think we get along well.

Even though it‘s hard to follow the story with the flu 😷, cough and heavy headaches.

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Buechersuechtling
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I own this as physical copy as well but because I don‘t have the energy to concentrate on reading at the moment I am happy I found the audiobook.

The only book by Lagercrantz I know is the 4th volume of the “Millennium”-trilogy. I liked it – with this he did a good job 👏🏼, but I also wanted to know how his very own creations are.

Let the story begin …

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LiterRohde
Havisham: A Novel | Ronald Frame
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“Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not scientifically but poetically.”

#QuotsyMay19 | 9: #Enigma

📷: Made with Typorama

LibrarianRyan Love that graphic. 6y
LiterRohde @LibrarianRyan Thanks! The human body is such a scientific marvel that it is poetic. It‘s not just mechanics, it is beauty. At least that‘s what the graphic said to me! 6y
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