A friend of mine makes a list of books she spots people reading in the London metro - as inspiration to diversify her own reading.
And while I'm on the London metro maybe once every two years, I still want to try something similar.
So here a new thread: #Bookspotting, for books I met in the wild. I don't promise completeness, but I do hope to have fun.
[#]bookstodon
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[#]Bookspotting on the train for Leiden Centraal to Amsterdam Zuid: "The Bridge on the Drina" by Ivo Andrić.
I haven't read the book but seeing it was a good reminder that I wanted and still want to.
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[#]bookspotting today in #Madrid Metro between Moncloa and city centre:
Antón Riveiro Coello "Hotel Carioca" - an author who is not translated in any of the languages I speak...
Alessandro Baricco "Una certa idea di mondo" - yes, in Italian! Another author I don't know, but who does sound interesting and is translated at least into German.
[#]bookstodon
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[#]bookspotting on the late (but not super late) train from Amsterdam to Leiden (then going on to Vlissingen).
A collection of erotic short stories by Alberto Moravia, in Dutch. I can't find the Italian original, so I assume it collects stories from different collections/sources?
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[#]bookspotting on the Hamburg - Munich ICE train in the middle of Christmas travel: a primary school girl reading "Leon der Slalomdribbler", the first book in the
"The Wild Soccer Bunch" children's book series: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Soccer_Bunch
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Boarding the local train from Lake Constance to Stuttgart #bookspotting Angela Merkel's "Freiheit" under the arm of a guy in his early 20ies. He is heading upstairs in the double decker train, and I downstairs.
[#]bookstodon
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Lot's reading going on in my carriage in the ICE from Ulm to Munich. Here is my #bookspotting:
There is also a "Sueddeutsche" on a table, someone is coding on his Mac & kids are discussing board game rules with their parents ... I like this carriage!
[#]bookstodon
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On the way back towards Ulm, two female students in the seats in front of me with a "Thalia" (bookstore chain) discussing how many books they need to take for a long weekend in an alpine hut.
Mention the biography of Angela Merkel that one of them have read. Then get "Gysi gegen Guttenberg: Gespräche über die Zeit, in der wir leben" out of the bag (I did not even know this was a thing, wtf, it sounds like a joke...).
[#]bookspotting
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Meagre #bookspotting on either of my two trains today: a family continuing from Cologne further North, the woman (mother?) with "Adrenalin" (German version of the book) by Zlatan Ibrahimović.
I dutifuly looked the book up (also because I wanted to make sure I got it right) and it does not seem like a person I want to read more by or about - but I'm also not a soccer fan.
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[#]bookspotting on the bus to #ESTEC today morning: a younger colleague engrossed in "Leviathan Wakes", the first book in the expanse series.
Also someone reading an unknown (Portuguese possibly? But I may be wrong - it's not Spanish and not French, I think) book on their phone.
[#]bookstodon
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@vicgrinberg
I suggest "Oceano Mare" by Baricco. Totally unexpected and poetic.
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@pizzaclick oh, thanks! This one seems to also be translated into German 😊 onto my reading list with it!
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@vicgrinberg Whenever I see the tag #Bookspotting I think of #bookcrossing and wonder if they still existed.
So I finally checked. They do.
Do you know them? They are about releasing books into the wild, a bit like the tiny libraries in the streets but without fixed locations…
https://www.bookcrossing.com/
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@photovince I know about them though they somehow never worked well for me, even when they were all over my corner of the Internet 😅 I'm very much a tiny library person...
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@vicgrinberg hi! Can you perhaps help me with some Totemic Tomes from astronomy and astrophysics? To complete this list: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/totemic-books-for-many-fields/ - thanks!
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@bert_hubert uh, I'm really struggling to come up with the book for astro. For physics, however (my degree is physics and I taught in a physics department myself), I want to throw Landau and Lifshitz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau_and_Lifshitz) into the mix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics
For a certain area of astro, "Radiative Processes in Astrophysics", https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9783527618170
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@bert_hubert both older books, but both still current.
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@vicgrinberg After some study, I've added both, thank you! Also, so glorious:
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@bert_hubert the perhaps best intro for astronomy & astrophysics aka Carroll & Ostlie: https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/an-introduction-to-modern-astrophysics/140DDF8A480C3841DCCD76D66984D858#overview
It's a bit out of date in the later chapters, though, since it's from 2007 & lot's of new results happened since, but the basics and theb at to present the knowledge are top. Does require math but so will any good astro book that goes into the actual science. Really hope they'll have a third edition soon since there is nothing else that is neither too mathematical nor too shallow.
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@bert_hubert and sorry for not being clear, but I'd move the radiative processes one into astro - you only ever need that one if you do astrophysics 😊
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I remember reading L&L Mechanics as an M.Sc. student. If Mandalorian “This Is The Way” memes had existed back then, they would have been popping up over my head.
Can’t imagine learning from it though, unless you’re a prodigy! (true for many Great Tomes, there’s much less consensus on pedagogy than on reference works, perhaps because we all learn differently)
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The physics list should include Jackson's E&M book, the bane of every physics grad student for decades:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Electrodynamics_(book)
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@catselbow @bert_hubert as much as I dislike the book (I also had a terrible ED lecture by a condensed matter physicist who only wanted to talk his condensed matter model that was only mentioned in a footnote in Jackson + did everything relativistic in ~90 min taught by his assistant; I only survived that one with Griffith; though look, now most I'm doing is applied relativistic ED ...), you are correct ...
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Hello @vicgrinberg, I believe that the Italian original could be "La cosa e altri racconti" (20 stories). It is mentioned in the English wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Moravia
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@pizzaclick thanks - funnily, someone who knows the editor of the Dutch edition wrote me in the meantime. Turns out, it's not the above but "just" a collection of his stories that were already translated into Dutch!
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@vicgrinberg I’m a soccer fan, but Zlatan is too full of himself, so I would never read a book about or by him.
By the way, thanks for recommending “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow!” Loved it!
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@SooJinL awww yay, thanks for getting back about it 🤩
Haha and yes, it's kinda part of the fun to see people reading books I would never pick up myself 😅
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@vicgrinberg I would never have found the Expanse series without the Fediverse. I love the books and the series.
[#]theexpanse
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@aoe I have to admit that I never got into the series or the books myself, but it's still great to see someone read good science fiction _
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@vicgrinberg The silver lining of this flu-like thing I have is that I’ll probably be able to finish the last two books of the Expanse this week! I absolutely loved the show but it took me a while to get round to the books because it seemed like quite a time investment.
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@sierrakim I have to admit that I never fully got into the books or the show, even though I tried, but it still good to see people read good science fiction on the bus _
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@vicgrinberg
This is a book, I definitely won't read.
But somehow, it's always nice to see people reading physical books.
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@mina if it weren't that thick, I would actually be tempted to read it just to see and understand. But I don't think I'd read a political memoir of that volume even from a politician I voted for...
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@vicgrinberg I'm currently reading the Merkel memoir in English audiobook format, mostly because I was unfamiliar with her time in office, but was always impressed that a European country could elect a woman for so many years. I likewise would not read a similar political memoir from the States. :)
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@Starry1086 having lived through the Merkel years I have a lot of (not-positive) opinions about these 16 years and the mess they left behind. I'd still be interested in an internal view - though not enough to make my way through the suuuper long book 😅 Too many other books.
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@vicgrinberg That's fair. I started it the day after it came out, currently ~80% through, and I'm ready to be done already.
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@vicgrinberg highly recommended. Explains a lot (to me unknown) history which is important to understand the conflicts on the Balcans.
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