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OriginalBarbas

OriginalBarbas@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 2 years, 5 months ago

He/Him. A wandering Spanish physicist who reads too much of everything that is not related to my work. I enjoy reading books (mostly #SciFi, #fantasy or #mystery), comics (mainly #EuropeanBD but I just devour anything that looks interesting to me) and from time to time #TTRPG manuals, #nonfiction (#physics and #anarchism) and whatever else I find that might be cool. Glad to join Bookwyrm and I'm loooking forward to see what everyone is reading!

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Roberta Mazza: Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts (Stanford University Press)
Nghi Vo, Nghi Vo: The Chosen and the Beautiful (Hardcover, 2021, Tordotcom)
Rob J. Hayes: Never Die (2019, Hayes, Rob J)

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Seishi Yokomizo: The Village of Eight Graves (Paperback, 2021, Pushkin Press, Limited)
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William William Strunk Jr., E. B. E.B. White: Elements of Style : (Annotated Edition) (2021, Independently Published)
Stuart Boon: Shadows Over Scotland Cthulhu Britannica (2011, Cubicle 7 Entertainment)

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Boris Akunin: The Winter Queen (Paperback, 2004, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ))
Guy Delisle: Pour une fraction de seconde (French language, 2024)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince : Le Petit Prince (2015)

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reviewed The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin

Boris Akunin: The Winter Queen (Paperback, 2004, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ))

The Winter Queen (Russian: Азазель, Azazel) is the first novel from the Erast Fandorin series …

A brilliant mix of historical fiction, crime novel and spy fiction

It is the first book in the series, but the second one I read from the author and I have to say that I was expecting something more in line with what I have read from his other book (a political and mystery novel, with a very experienced detective).

This one tells the tale of a novice detective on his first case and it evolves into a daring tale of espionage and conspiracy, spanning continents. Good pacing, good character developments and very entertaining. I am definitely looking forward to reading more!

reviewed Pour une fraction de seconde by Guy Delisle

Guy Delisle: Pour une fraction de seconde (French language, 2024)

Eadweard Muybridge, pionnier de la photographie, pionnier du cinéma, meurtrier...

Edweard Muybridge. Great name, interesting life, cool science

Once again, Guy Delisle has brought us a very interesting read, with very good pacing and showcasing not only Edweard Muybridge's life but also how his photographies and discoveries impacted other fields.

reviewed Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi

Alex Pavesi: Eight Detectives (2020, Penguin Books, Limited)

There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. …

An exceedingly original murder mistery

When I picked up this novel as "documentation" for a locked room mystery TTRPG that I am (very slowly) developing, I definitely didn´t know that it was going to be so fitting to it and that it was going to provide me with a mathematical ruleset for designing murder mysteries.

All in all, this is a collection of several stories, with an overarching theme and a plot that links the whole story. The general idea revolves around providing a mathematical definition for a murder mystery and the possible permutations within it.

This has been the happiest I've been studying a mathematical definition ever (and, as a physicist I've had my more than fair share of theorems, definitions and other mathematical fauna to study) and it has been a joyful ride, at least for me (unlike for the characters involved). I highly recommend it and I am looking forward to further …