A nice premise - strangers in lockdown in the same apartment building, gathering on the roof and exchanging stories. Each character written by a different (unknown until the end) author. I'm a huge Margaret Atwood fan so I was really looking forward to this one. But the stories were too disjointed and mostly uninteresting. I only started enjoying it in the last two chapters, where there is a little development in the plot and a twist.
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Outlive by Peter Attia, Bill Gifford
A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new …
Tania finished reading Normal People by Sally Rooney
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Two friends struggle against themselves and each other to move past friendship.
Tania reviewed Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood
Tania rated Fourteen Days: 3 stars
Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a surprising …
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Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a surprising …
Tania reviewed Achtsam morden im Hier und Jetzt by Karsten Dusse (Achtsam Morden, #4)
Tania started reading Clinical Text Mining by Hercules Dalianis
Clinical Text Mining by Hercules Dalianis
This open access book describes the results of natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from …
Tania reviewed Monster by Nele Neuhaus
Tania finished reading Monster by Nele Neuhaus
Monster by Nele Neuhaus
Wer schuldig ist, entkommt nicht
Im Feld wird die Leiche eines jungen Mädchens gefunden. Die 16-Jährige Larissa wurde erdrosselt. Durch …
Tania started reading Monster by Nele Neuhaus
Monster by Nele Neuhaus
Wer schuldig ist, entkommt nicht
Im Feld wird die Leiche eines jungen Mädchens gefunden. Die 16-Jährige Larissa wurde erdrosselt. Durch …
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Tania quoted An Immense World by Ed Yong
The convoluted history of the electric sense also hints at something special about electroreceptors. The language of the brain is electricity, and as we’ve seen, animals have had to evolve weird ways of converting light, sound, odorants, and other stimuli into electrical signals. But electroreceptors are just translating electricity into electricity. They’re the only sense organs that detect the very entity that powers our thoughts. Perhaps it’s not that difficult to evolve an electroreceptor, and that’s why they repeatedly blink in and out of the vertebrate evolutionary tree.
— An Immense World by Ed Yong
Tania quoted An Immense World by Ed Yong
To date, “the only sonar that the Navy has that can detect buried mines in harbors is a dolphin,”
— An Immense World by Ed Yong
Tania quoted An Immense World by Ed Yong
The scale of a whale’s hearing is hard to grapple with. There’s the spatial vastness, of course, but also an expanse of time. Underwater, sound waves take just under a minute to cover 50 miles. If a whale hears the song of another whale from a distance of 1,500 miles, it’s really listening back in time by about half an hour, like an astronomer gazing upon the ancient light of a distant star.
— An Immense World by Ed Yong