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My Best (and Other) Reads in 2022
Cycling; AI, big data and the implications; two novels that provided mixed or no pleasure; and a motley pile of more non-fiction books about this and that.
Riposte
The Next Generation
Being (Very) Serious
The Appliance
A narrative that might be read as a cautionary tale (though the humble author, regrettably, could not spare the time to further elaborate on the lesson to be learned).
Hilleman
Still Life
Copykid
The blog author looking back on the only time in his life when he held an office. His tenure, though, was similarly successful as his career as a precocious novelist.
Connected
Arcalís
17 June
On the Street
Judging the Past
After having read this little article the reader might feel inclined to say: »OK, blogger« – or not.
Quietude
Selenicereus Grandiflorus
Non Scholae …
Songs in Ink (17)
Sid
Another Seventy
My Best Reads in 2021
Short novels; the world of fungi; a glance into the human mind; and on mudsills, crackers, and rednecks.
Ecce Homo
Rae
Wintry Sketch
The Teacher – A Novel
Math and Myth
The very true account of a business trip, demonstrating why a businessman should not be swayed by legend.
Egner
Righter (Than You)
Sacapuntas y Azulejo
Toning Exercises
Musing on a very beneficial kind of mediocrity.
Giro del Mondo Dantesco
DJ Wurstmeister
PS
Songs in Ink (16)
Beam-o-Matic
Photo Session
Reading is …
Roaring Again?
Some musings on history: in what way it will most probably not repeat itself. Or will it?
Seventy
Le Savoir-Faire
B.
Cuckoo!
My Best Reads in 2020
A literary discovery, a couple of modern classics (or novels that should be considered so), three lives, and just a small dose of pure history this time.
Music in the Air
Seven
Space Port
Donné par Maman
Job Opportunity
Inches
An edifying and instructive conversation between two persons not to be further specified which was transcribed with due diligence and accuracy and with deep-felt reverence for the art and tradition of Socratic dialogue.
Lupus
Popper
Bull
Sparks
Summer is nearing its end. A good time to sit down with a cup of coffee for a casual minute of contemplation and retrospection. – On what makes us and what draws us close to each other: not our opinions …
Just Routine Work
Gilgi
Raving about a novel from 1931 that has blown me away.
Update
Para o Brasil!
Bummi
How can a little yellow bear be political? And what does it have to do with May Day and Bratwurst?
Songs in Ink (15)
