“How strange space is, and how capricious the laws of optics and perspective, that they should permit even the smallest child to cover the sun with one of his fingers." -- Karl Schwarzschild, quoted in When we Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut.
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Karl Schwarzschild - Wikipedia
The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis: Solid characters, interesting story with some surprise, correct Spanish inserts! (I guess the Japanese too). Enjoyable.
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The First Sister (The First Sister Trilogy, #1)
First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess o…
GoodreadsFinished a remarkable book about a failed coup during a transition of power. And, no, it wasn't the Jan 6 Report. The Anatomy of A Moment about thee 1981 attempted coup in Spain. Full review here:
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Adam Davids's review of The Anatomy of a Moment
4/5: A moment of formality during the peaceful transition power was suddenly, violently, interrupted by an attempted coup. But this wasn't January 6 in Washington DC at the Capitol Building. It was in Madrid, at Spain's Cortes on February 23, 1981. In its first few hours, there were several events that sealed the fate of the coup. But the moment of all other moments that doomed the coup was when the three least likely defenders of the democratic process refused to be cowed by the golpistas (the "coupists") and stayed sitting in their seats as bullets flew. This book is a study of that moment, wh...