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Juаn
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 Message 105 of 177
13 October 2010 at 5:04am | IP Logged 
Started Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin. An interesting read given the author's opinions in his latest book just a couple of years later.

Also begun reading La fiesta del Chivo by Mario Vargas Llosa. Don't have an opinion on it yet.
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crafedog
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 Message 106 of 177
14 October 2010 at 6:43am | IP Logged 
Languages: Speaking Korean - Francis Park. FSI Korean Volume 2. Assimil Spanish with Ease (and random other supplementary Korean and Spanish books).

Fiction: I'm reading "Crown of Stars" by Kate Elliot (Book 1) as I recently got into the fantasy genre because of George R R Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.

I want to pick up the newest Terry Pratchett book soon. I've got Speaking Korean 2 and 3 and Spoken Korean coming quite soon as well as 'Angels and Demons' in Spanish for L-R practice.
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 Message 107 of 177
16 October 2010 at 3:45pm | IP Logged 
I have just read a book from our library. There are quite some interesting non-fictional books about natural sciences to find - all of them are in German.

My book: Charlotte Kerner, Sternenflug und Sonnenfeuer - Drei Astronominnen und ihre Lebensgeschichten, 2004

(Three female astronomers and their life stories)

The book deals with the biographies of:

- Maria Cunitz (1604-1664)
- Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
- Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

Fasulye

Edited by Fasulye on 16 October 2010 at 3:46pm

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Lindsay19
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 Message 108 of 177
17 October 2010 at 12:32am | IP Logged 
Wächter der Nacht by Sergej Lukianenko: the German translation of "Ночной Дозор", since I
can't read Russian.

Elchtest: Ein Jahr in Bullerbü by Gunnar Herrmann, a story of a German family moving to
Sweden

Small Talk by Stephen Lermer, to uh.. help my small talk skills? (:
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 Message 109 of 177
17 October 2010 at 4:00pm | IP Logged 
Une soirée au Caire, Robert Solé.
C'est une chose étrange à la fin que le monde, Jean d'Ormesson.
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 Message 111 of 177
17 October 2010 at 5:17pm | IP Logged 
Currently I am reading 血と骨 (chi to hone), a Japanese novel written by a Japan-based Korean author, Yang Sogil (梁石日). I am just done with book 1, and will continue book 2 tomorrow. It is a highly recommended novel for all those Japanese speakers to learn more about the life of Korean in Japan, especially during the period of 20s-70s...

Edited by noriyuki_nomura on 17 October 2010 at 5:18pm

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fireflies
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 Message 112 of 177
18 October 2010 at 1:17am | IP Logged 
Lindsay19 wrote:
Small Talk by Stephen Lermer, to uh.. help my small talk skills? (:


I tend to read things like the 7 day weather forecast to help with that. I believe that whether it will rain or not is a topic that leaves both parties in any brief conversation happy.


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