Weekly Filet Book Club, Chapter 1
Welcome to the Weekly Filet Book Club. I'm currently travelling until the end of May, so I've prepared something for you. Every other week, you'll get five book recommendations, a selection of the dozens of recommendations submitted by subscribers of the Weekly Filet (thanks everyone!). The Weekly Filet will be back to normal in June.
So long, happy reading. -- David
«Tender Bar» by J.R. Moehringer
A bar is a good place to grow old – but is it a place to grow up? In «Tender Bar», little J.R. lives along the many stories that happen in the bar around the corner. This beautiful memoir is something between The Great Gatsby and Huckleberry Finn: A little American story with a big scope. – Julian Schmidli
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«Death with Interruptions» by José Saramago
Beautifully absurd in the first half, beautifully dramatic in the second. Saramago's portrayal of a society in which Death «stops working» only to later fall in love with an artist she (yes, she) is meant to kill is in its symbolism wonderfully refreshing from today's storytelling egocentrism. – Livio Marc Stöckli
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«The Invention of Nature» by Andrea Wulf
It made me reconsider how I view the doings and dealings on this fine earth of ours. Men is everywhere. So nature is everywhere. And vice versa. Acknowleding this has huge implications. Nobody understood that better than the curious and farsighted Alexander von Humboldt. – Rico Grimm
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«Leviathan Wakes » by James S. A. Corey
The authors spin a slick, fast-paced, old-fashioned yarn featuring political intrigue, an interesting debate about freedom of information and alien biotechnology. Great fun. – Ines Hungerbühler
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«Swing Time» by Zadie Smith
As always with Zadie Smith there are many complex stories about society woven into the actual story arch and yet it's a really pleasent and compelling read. – Johanna
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