French and English books, a few in German.
Many fields, including economics, philosophy and psychology, but lately more into Buddhism of the Zen persuasion.
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Kahneman introduces two modes of thought - system 1, fast and intuitive, and system 2, slow and reasoned - and …
Set against the backcloth of National Socialism, [this novel] is told in the first person …
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When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge …
I enjoyed reading this, with the many layers of meaning behind the premise in the story. I see my city with a new eye thanks to this novel. I am also training to see and unsee things in a more mindful manner.
However, the quality of writing is not very high, the author seems to take too many shortcuts with the language, which leaves one having to go over quite a bit of meaningless or incomplete sentences. This decreases the pleasure of reading a very captivating novel.
In the squalid, gothic city of New Crobuzon, a mysterious half-human, half-bird stranger comes to Isaac, a gifted but eccentric …
A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH …
Mr. Palomar is a 1983 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. Its original Italian title is Palomar. In an …
The next best thing to learning to fly, which could take yet a few more generations, is spending one's life in the trees. I have very good memories of reading this book, maybe because I also wished to live apart and above others.
La Peau de chagrin (French pronunciation: [la po də ʃaɡʁɛ̃], The Skin of Shagreen), known in English as The Wild …
