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1572 BOOKS

Currently reading

The Story of Kullervo
J.R.R. Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger
Progress: 5/192 pages
Top 10 Berin 2018
Jürgen Scheunemann
Progress: 139/192 pages
The Hundred Days (Aubrey/Maturin, #19)
Patrick O'Brian
Progress: 132/281 pages
Ack-Ack Macaque
Gareth L. Powell
Progress: 249/792 pages
Introduction to Topology
Bert Mendelson
Progress: 10/224 pages
Four Revenge Tragedies: (The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, and The Atheist's Tragedy) (Oxford World's Classics)
Katharine Eisaman Maus
Progress: 93/464 pages
Basics of Plasma Astrophysics
Claudio Chiuderi, Marco Velli
Progress: 58/250 pages
A Student's Guide to Lagrangians and Hamiltonians
Patrick Hamill
Progress: 7/180 pages
Complete Poems, 1904-1962
E.E. Cummings
Progress: 392/1102 pages
The Complete Plays and Poems
E.D. Pendry, J.C. Maxwell, Christopher Marlowe

Recently added

The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection Berlin - Melanie Franke, Silke Krohn, Dieter Scholz, Robert McInnes
The Story of Kullervo - J.R.R. Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger
The Story of the Stone, Vol. 5: The Dreamer Wakes - Cao Xueqin, John Minford, Gao E

Reading progress update: I've read 129 out of 192 pages.

8:41 pm 15 September 2018
Top 10 Berin 2018 - Jürgen Scheunemann
It's been an eventful day!
 
I vomited on the plane...while it was still refuelling, before we moved a centimetre. For no clear reason.
 
I was so fed up of being covered in my own vomit that - hang the cost - I'd get a taxi straight to my hotel.
 
But the Berlin Marathon had closed numerous streets and I got dumped who knows where? Well, probably the taxi driver, but between his English and my German, all I understood was the cause, not where we were or how to get to the hotel.
 
I briefly admired the in-line skater marathoners - the runners go tomorrow - then using impressive (?) adulting and map-reading skills got to the hotel, observing that there was a LEGO shop only one block away.
 
Said shop was impressive, with a model Brandenburg gate taller than me and a "life-size" R2D2 model. Also several built displays of actually purchasable sets, the most impressive (to me) being the gigantic UCS Millenium Falcon. Also the famous Brick Wall of pick-a-brick loose pieces for purchase and much else besides in a not very big by local standards shop.
 
On the other hand, i need a new pair of trousers due to previously mentioned vomitous experience. Berlin men's fashion appears to consist of:
 
Jeansjeansjeansjeansjeansjeansjeansjeans running gear, more jeans and formal wear.
 
Now I'm back in the hotel, telling you that this book (and it's pull-out map) saved my bacon. Never before have I truly desired a smartphone.
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