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Written by Dr. Victoria Grinberg on 2024-10-12 at 13:49

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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Written by Dr. Victoria Grinberg on 2024-10-12 at 13:50

[#]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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Written by Dr. Victoria Grinberg on 2024-10-25 at 18:56

[#]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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Written by Dr. Victoria Grinberg on 2024-11-30 at 21:04

[#]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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Written by Dr. Victoria Grinberg on 2024-12-21 at 13:23

[#]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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Written by Dr. Victoria Grinberg on 2024-12-30 at 07:14

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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Written by Dr. Victoria Grinberg on 2024-12-30 at 08:49

Lot's reading going on in my carriage in the ICE from Ulm to Munich. Here is my #bookspotting:

• Ken Follett "Die Säulen der Erde" (the pillars of Earth")
• Susanna Clarke "Piranesi" (the English edition; have the book home but haven't read it)
• "Spanish in 30 Tagen" (the reader is doing the exercises!)
• "Die Kultur Japans"

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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Written by Dr. Victoria Grinberg on 2024-12-30 at 15:50

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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Toot

Written by Dr. Victoria Grinberg on 2025-01-19 at 13:09

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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Descendants

Written by SooJinL ⚽️🐈🫖🚲🧶🪡😷 on 2025-01-19 at 16:16

@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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Written by Dr. Victoria Grinberg on 2025-01-19 at 16:32

@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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