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'All the Light We Cannot See'
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Here come #rebsReadings in April - not many but overall pretty good books!

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Justament beendet.
Was für eine phantasievoll verwobene Geschichte und was für eine tolle Sprache. Meine klare Leseempfehlung

#buchtipp #AnthonyDoerr

I mostly keep track of books on #StoryGraph so I was a little surprised after finishing All The Light We Cannot See by #AnthonyDoerr that of all the people who answered ‘Flaws of characters a main focus’ only 38% said Yes 🤔 I mean Werner is a complex sympathetic character but the ways he is complicit in Nazism is a major driver of the plot. If that ain’t a character flaw I don’t know what is! Nevertheless that complexity is part of why it’s a great book that avoids cliche @bookstodon

#FinishedReading this rather large novel of interlocking stories, set in 15th century Constantinople, 20th-21st century Idaho, and aboard a spaceship fleeing a ruined Earth, bound together by the characters' fascination with a half-preseved Ancient Greek comedy. I didn't love the whole book - the character of Seymour never rang true to me - but it does wrap together beautifully in the end. #Bookstodon @bookstodon #AnthonyDoerr

The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in a number of categories, which are worth exploring. Here, I’ll only be sharing the fiction and non fiction winners.

Fiction Winner

All The Light We Cannot See is a beautiful book and it was a highlight of my 2014 reading. You can read my review. 

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

‘Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When Marie-Laure is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.  In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.‘ GoodReads

Non Fiction Winner

There’s been a lot of buzz around this book and it’s easy to see why…this time it’s not an asteroid’s fault, it’s ours.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

‘Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us.‘ GoodReads

To see the rest of the Pulitzer Prize winners head on over to the official Pulitzer website.

https://lilolia.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/the-2015-pulitzer-prize-winners/

#AnthonyDoerr #ElizabethKolbert #Fiction #HistoricalFiction #LiteraryFiction #NonFiction #PulitzerPrize #PulitzerPrizeWinners #ReadingList #Science

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I’m listening to the #AllTheLightWeCannotSee #AudioBook by #AnthonyDoerr on #Audible now, and it’s fantastic. This’ll give you an idea of how much more detailed the book is. There’s a memorable scene about 14mins into the first episode of the series. The show so far basically follows the outline in the book. That same moment doesn’t occur in the audio version until almost 4hrs in. #AudibleBooks

All the Light We Cannot See (2023) is NOW REVIEWED and available on #mackansfilm.org |

#AlltheLightWeCannotSee #Netflix
#AnthonyDoerr #MarkRuffalo #HughLaurie

https://mackansfilm.org/2023/11/all-the-light-we-cannot-see-2023/05/21/33/

All the Light We Cannot See: outstanding television. Aria Mia Loberti, a first time actress, is terrific. https://oldaintdead.com/all-the-light-we-cannot-see-outstanding-television/ #AllTheLightWeCannotSee, #AnthonyDoerr, #AriaMiaLoberti, #HughLaurie, #LarsEidinger, #LouisHofmann, #LunaWedler, #MarionBailey, #MarkRuffalo, #NellSutton, #ShawnLevy

The Vanishing Act
"All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough when things go well, the world around me dwindles: the sky out the window, the furious calm of the big umbrella pine ten feet away, the smell of dust falling into the hot bulb of the lamp. That's the miracle of writing—when the room, your body, and even time itself cooperate in a vanishin
https://alexandersmap.com/2023/10/30/the-vanishing-act/
#Writing #Art #Habits #Productivity #AnthonyDoerr

El 27 de octubre de 1973
nace en Cleveland,
el escritor estadounidense,
🖊️#AnthonyDoerr
Hoy, cumple 50 años, 🎂
Tras la novela
📖La luz que no puedes ver
deslumbrante #PremioPulitzer 2015
En 2021 publicó
📖Ciudad de las nubes
Leer esta RESEÑA 👇de @mangrii
https://t.co/HP3tBMANnE

Break Up the Habitual
"We need habit to get through a day, to get to work, to feed our children. But habit is dangerous too. The act of seeing can quickly become unconscious and automatic. The eyes see something—gray-brown bark, say, fissured into broad, vertical plates—and the brain
https://alexandersmap.com/2023/10/24/break-up-the-habitual/
#Habits #Art #Exploration #Learning #Lifestyle #PersonalGrowth #Travel #Writing #AnthonyDoerr #CarpeDiem #HenryDavidThoreau #Seneca #TempusFugit

Novo trailer Toda Luz Que Não Podemos Ver trás imagens emocionantes e gera expectativa nos fãs!

#todaluzquenãopodemosver #netflix #markruffalo #louishoffman #anthonydoerr

https://geekpopnews.com.br/toda-luz-que-nao-podemos-ver-serie-com-louis-hofmann-ganha-trailer/

Recently finished #cloudcuckooland #anthonydoerr Three-and-a-half out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "A fourteen-year-old girl sits cross-legged on the floor of a circular vault." In progress: #thediaryofanobody #georgeandweedongrossmith

Recently finished. #thewoodlanders #thomashardy Three out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "The rambler who, for old association's sake, should trace the forsaken coach-road running almost in a meridional line from Bristol to the south shore of England, would find himself during the latter half of his journey in the vicinity of some extensive woodlands, interspersed with apple-orchards." In progress: #cloudcuckoolandbook #anthonydoerr

@Natoo #markhelprin #anthonydoerr #stephenrdonaldson #rfkuang #susannaclarke

Wanting to get back into reading, so I charged up my #kindle #paperwhite and have been adding #books to it over the last few days.

Currently re-reading (for about the 5th or 6th time) Another Roadside Attraction by #TomRobbins. I’ve also downloaded most of the rest of his books and will be rereading those soon, too.

I’ve got Daisy Jones and the Six by #TaylorJenkinsReid, Lessons in Chemistry by #BonnieGarmus, and All the Light We Cannot See by #AnthonyDoerr.

My reading tastes are a bit all over the place, and I’m never sure what I may or may not like. But if you’ve any #recommendations for books you think are particularly good, I’m all ears!

Score at the Loveland Library. I have waited more than a month for the Meacham book on Lincoln, and the other two books cost me $5 each.#read #books #LovelandColorado #Library #JohnMeacham #Authors #AnthonyDoerr #JojoMoyes

I am usually up-to-date on my entertainment news, so I'm not sure how this snuck by me, but it looks like Netflix is producing a four-part mini-series adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See? This is amazing, I'm really excited to see this story play out on TV, it's one of the most memorable novels I've read in the last 10 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Light_We_Cannot_See_(TV_series) #netflix #television #anthonydoerr #markruffalo