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Book Meme, Day 10 & 11
Jun. 13th, 2018 03:07 pm10. Reminds me of someone I love.
I had a younger brother who died when he was 16. We were in some regards quite different, including books - I was always trying to get him to read, with tactics including reading books he liked and stopping at a cliffhanger, for example. And in the year he died, he discovered for the first time books on his own, which I hadn't read first, and which he loved and wanted to share with me, instead of the other way around. Since he'd also just discovered fantasy role playing, these books were the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. This is why I can't think of them objectively; I can't not associate them with him, and his excited "you must read these" ramble.
11. Secondhand bookshop gem.
Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson volumes had been recced to me as some of the best political biographies ever by various sources. Each volume weighs a ton, but it just so happened that one of the two English language bookstores in Munich, the one only offering second hand books, had the set pretty cheaply. They were as great as advertised.
( The other days )
I had a younger brother who died when he was 16. We were in some regards quite different, including books - I was always trying to get him to read, with tactics including reading books he liked and stopping at a cliffhanger, for example. And in the year he died, he discovered for the first time books on his own, which I hadn't read first, and which he loved and wanted to share with me, instead of the other way around. Since he'd also just discovered fantasy role playing, these books were the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. This is why I can't think of them objectively; I can't not associate them with him, and his excited "you must read these" ramble.
11. Secondhand bookshop gem.
Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson volumes had been recced to me as some of the best political biographies ever by various sources. Each volume weighs a ton, but it just so happened that one of the two English language bookstores in Munich, the one only offering second hand books, had the set pretty cheaply. They were as great as advertised.
( The other days )
