What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[Incal]

Oumuamua encourages me to read this classic one more time:

[The Lawspeaker]

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

[Batavia]

"Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist" by Richard Dawkins.



and

"SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome" by Mary Beard.

[The Lawspeaker]

My latest acquisition. I'll start tonight and with 730 pages or so, it will keep me occupied. I'll see you lot next week !

[♥ Lily ♥]

My latest acquisition. I'll start tonight and with 730 pages or so, it will keep me occupied. I'll see you lot next week !

It sounds like an interesting book.

In Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland vertellen meer dan honderd aanstormende en gevestigde Nederlandse onderzoekers op het gebied van geschiedenis en cultuur het wereldwijde verhaal van onze geschiedenis, onder wie Martine Gosselink, Beatrice de Graaf, Lotte Jensen, Gert Oostindie, Lodewijk Petram en Suze Zijlstra. In dit verhelderende en prikkelende boek laten zij zien hoe Nederland de wereld door de eeuwen heen mede heeft vormgegeven, en andersom: hoe Nederland zich onder invloed van verre en nabije buren heeft ontwikkeld. Van de vondst van oermens Krijn in de Noordzee tot orkaan Irma op Sint Maarten en van Bonifatius tot Pim Fortuyn – aan de hand van talloze grote en kleine historische ontwikkelingen en gebeurtenissen laat Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland zien hoezeer Nederland verbonden is met de wereld, en de wereld met Nederland. Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland is een uitgave van het Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, een knaw-onderzoeksinstituut op het gebied van geschiedenis en literatuur.

In World History of the Netherlands, more than a hundred up-and-coming Dutch researchers in the field of history and culture tell the world story of our history, including Martine Gosselink, Beatrice de Graaf, Lotte Jensen, Gert Oostindie, Lodewijk Petram and Suze Zijlstra. In this illuminating and stimulating book they show how the Netherlands has helped shape the world through the centuries, and vice versa: how the Netherlands has developed under the influence of distant and near neighbors. From the discovery of prehistoric Krijn in the North Sea to hurricane Irma on Sint Maarten and Boniface to Pim Fortuyn - on the basis of countless large and small historical developments and events, World History of the Netherlands shows how much the Netherlands is connected to the world, and the world with the Netherlands. World history of the Netherlands is a publication of the Huygens Institute for Dutch History, a knaw research institute in the field of history and literature.

[The Lawspeaker]

It sounds like an interesting book.

I guess I'm about to find out. The Huygens Instituut has a solid reputation so I'm expecting a new standaardwerk (as we could it here: a work that will set a standard for years to come).

[♥ Lily ♥]

I guess I'm about to find out. The Huygens Instituut has a solid reputation so I'm expecting a new standaardwerk (as we could it here: a work that will set a standard for years to come).

I find it impressive that you can write and understand two languages so fluently. Like many Dutch people, your English is excellent.

[Teutone]

Sunzi Art of War

[The Lawspeaker]

I find it impressive that you can write and understand two languages so fluently. Like many Dutch people, your English is excellent.

Well. English is a compulsory exam subject here so if I would have flunked my English exams, the rest would have been invalid as well. That is bound to put some pressure on you.

[Teutone]

Well. English is a compulsory exam subject here so if I would have flunked my English exams, the rest would have been invalid as well. That is bound to put some pressure on you.

If your German is also good, I advice you to read "Finis Germania"