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Wants to read El oficio de vivir

Wants to read Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition

Rated The Age of Miracles 8/10

really liked this - i ended up reading it all in a few sittings over about a day and a half. fascinating, creepy, sad. <br/><br/>not quite as cripplingly depressing as [b:Never Let Me Go|6334|Never Let Me Go|Kazuo Ishiguro|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165592008s/6334.jpg|1499998], but has that same kind of otherworldly, calm sadness. the sci-fi concept isn't over-analyzed; really it's a slice of life of the concept as seen through a teenage girl's experiences.<br/><br/>very affecting.

Wants to read Homage to Catalonia

Wants to read Cómo estar solo

Rated Arrancad las semillas, fusilad a los niños 6/10

Finished reading Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Wants to read Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

Wants to read Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

Wants to read O lapis do carpinteiro

Rated El niño con el pijama de rayas 8/10

Rated So Sad Today: Ensayos íntimos 6/10

Rated Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe 8/10

Loved this! Freewheeling, dry-witted, not-especially-comprehensive history of the very weird Hapsburg Empire. He's a really digressive writer, sometimes to the point of being rambly, but he makes up for it with an eye for the strange and a way of conveying just how arbitrary and contingent the borders of modern Europe are. I read this in preparation for a trip to Vienna, Budapest and Prague - the imperial cities of this no-longer-existing empire - and it gave me a lot of great guidance on where to go and what to look for.<br/><br/>Highly recommend to history buffs, though not if you're looking for something crisply academic. Delightful and sad.

Rated Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 10/10

Rated Batman: White Knight 8/10

Wants to read Escrito en cafeterías

Wants to read Como agua para chocolate

Wants to read La escala de Mohs

Wants to read Las correcciones

Wants to read Toda la verdad sobre las mentiras

Wants to read Règne animal

Wants to read Dos crímenes

Wants to read Interaction of Color

Wants to read The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain

Wants to read Un día más con vida