reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.
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83% complete! Falko has read 5 of 6 books.
Das Buch der Stunde: Der bekannte Politikaktivist Arne Semsrott zeigt, was passiert, wenn Rechtsextremisten an die Macht kommen - und …
@gemlog@tilde.zone yeah, the poem itself is pretty cool and Michael Sheen just nails it. So good 🫶
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) …
“Do not go gentle into that good night.” I didn’t even like Dylan Thomas.
— A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (Page 234 - 405)
I do love that poem by Dylan Thomas because of the iconic recital by Michael Sheen
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) …
liking this quite a lot so far.
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) …
Chart after chart. Anxiety reaction. Tension headaches. Hyperventilation. Intoxication. Depression. (These are the diagnoses—the patients’ complaints are cancer, heart attack, blood clots, suffocation.) Each of these patients costs hundreds of dollars including ambulance, X-ray, lab work, EKG. The ambulances get a Medi-Cal sticker, we get a Medi-Cal sticker, the doctor gets a Medi-Cal sticker, and the patient dozes off for a while until a taxi comes to take him home, paid for with a voucher. God, have I become as inhuman as Nurse McCoy? Fear, poverty, alcoholism, loneliness are terminal illnesses. Emergencies, in fact.
— A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (Page 92 - 93)
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short …
@Tess0607@bookwyrm.social Yeah, "Thinking fast and slow" was definitely good as well, but also had its lengths. For the Steven Covey book I liked most the epiphany that you decide what you do. It's your choices that shape how others perceive you.
@Tess0607@bookwyrm.social Hard to single out one book. If I have to pick one , it would be books.mxhdr.net/book/521/s/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom
Studying …
This sounds like a fun read :)
María Sánchez ist Landtierärztin - ein körperlich sehr herausfordernder Beruf, der in ihrer Familie bisher …
Just saw a short documentary on arte.tv about this. Remarkable quote: I'm the sister of an only child.
It's painful and disturbing at times. But also beautiful and enticing. Kristie De Garis has a very unique and refreshing style of writing. Her honesty is brutal and she does not spare anyone when she writes about racism, sexism, rape and addiction. Not even herself. It's embarrassing to read as a man what she had to experience and how she was treated. Likely still is treated today. But she found her way to deal with it and not collapse. Instead she puts her experiences into beautiful and powerful sentences, paragraphs, essays and a book eventually.
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) …
Because @kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot recommended it
