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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)
