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[batchiara]

Le mappe dei miei sogni di Reif Larsen

Le mappe dei miei sogni di Reif Larsen

Letto perché me lo ha regalato Fab, è un libro secondo me tecnicamente non leggibile su kindle: si tratta di uno di quei casi dove testo e illustrazioni interagiscono in modo strettissimo e significativo.

Il protagonista è un ragazzino dodicenne mezzo matto, che ha un insuperabile talento nel riprodurre non solo carte geografiche e mappe, ma in generale illustrazioni, diagrammi, disegni tecnici e…

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[pastnotfuture]

I realized we were nothing but imperfect copies of those around us.

I Am Radar.  Reif Larsen

[pithia]

And yet sometimes we become the person we most dread. Or maybe we dread most the person we know we are to become.

Reif Larsen

[kerryquotesquotes]

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

[wundertree]

Lassen Sie uns also eine Wissenschaftlerin nicht nach ihrem Geschlecht beurteilen, sondern danach, ob sie gründlich arbeitet und den Maßstäben der moderen Naturwissenschaft gerecht wird und ob sie ihren Beitrag dazu leistest, dass wir alle mehr über den Sinn unseres menschlichen Lebens auf dieser Welt erfahren. Denn das allein zählt, mehr als Geschlecht, Rasse oder Relegion...

Die Karte meiner Träume, Reif Larsen

[rockofcalifa]

Ellen’s 2018 Book Recs

we’re going to have a bit more low-key reclist this year. five titles this time. let’s go.

5. An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori

coming of age in a made-up interwar east european city. but don’t be fooled - it’s not really about the child growing up, it’s about the juicy gossip

4. The Seas by Sam Hunt

what can I say... I love mermaids (real or imagined) and I love Sam Hunt

3. Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi (as well as Subtly Worded)

I adore Teffi. so did czar nicholas ii and so did lenin and so will you

2. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

classics students... and murder!

1. I Am Radar by Reif Larsen

did someone say scandanavian quantum-physicist-puppeteers? no? no one said that? this book is full of diagrams. i love diagrams...

[oxymoron0-o]

I tried to take my camera out of my bag and snap a picture of the continental divide sign for my scrapbook, but, as with most pictures, the image was gone before I could get ready for it. I feared that my scrapbook would only be populated by shots taken just after the fact. How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never capture; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples. And because the photos were all that remained, because now I could only look at pictures of Layton and not at Layton himself, gradually these echoes of the moment replaced the intended moment itself in my mind. I did not remember Layton balanced precariously on the red Flyer wagon on our roof, but the resulting fall, the bent wagon, and Layton on all fours trying to hide his pain by resting his forehead on the ground, because he never ever cried as long as I knew him.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen

[oxymoron0-o]

Why do we always group things in threes? (The answer was probably deeply neuro-cognitive and could be traced to a part of the cerebrum that had three loading docks for big ideas.)

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen