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Ast_Arslan

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film "The Imitation Game" | Andrew Hodges

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#HumbleHarvest
Day 4 - Apples

Eggs Great collage 🍏❤️🍎 13mo

Ast_Arslan @Eggs thanks! 13mo

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CatMS

The Cambridge Quintet: A Work Of Scientific Speculation | John L. Casti

Such a fascinating read, wish I had read it when I was younger and had more brain cells. 🥸

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Hooked_on_books

Fall of Man in Wilmslow | David Lagercrantz

bailed

I‘m fine with slow-paced books, but this one is like watching paint dry.

Soubhiville 🤣 that doesn‘t sound fun. 3y

Hooked_on_books @Soubhiville The interesting thing is that this is the writer who picked up the Millennium series books after Steig Larsson died and he‘s done a great job with them. So I know he can craft a good book! Too bad he didn‘t here. It was a wretched experience. 😵‍💫 3y

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TiminCalifornia

Murmur | Will Eaves

so-so

So dense I felt like a dunce. Beautiful but boring. Audiobook format was definitely a poor choice for the material. Eaves‘ talent as a poet is evident but the narrative was unnecessarily obscure. Add to that, the character (based on Alan Turing) is undergoing forced chemical castration; his mental health deteriorates and he‘s not always lucid. Normally meditative, introspective books are my go-to for escapism but this one left me frustrated.

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TiminCalifornia

Murmur | Will Eaves

Read six #queer themed books during pride month plus my current read, tagged. Got 1 bingo but still a number of squares to go!

#LGBTQ2021 #LGBTQBookBingo2021

Poetry or Novel in Verse: The Black Flamingo – Dean Atta

Read During Pride Month: Every Man Wants to Know – Nina Bouraoui

F/F Romance: The Price of Salt – Patricia Highsmith

Trans Author: Little Fish – Casey Plett ⬇️

TiminCalifornia Free Spot: ManBug - George Ilsley

Nonfiction: Lost Prophet, The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

No Love Interest: Trans Medicine - Stef Shuster

M/M Romance: Red, White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

Fantasy: Future Feeling - Joss Lake

Memoir: All Boys Aren‘t Blue - George M. Johnson

YA: Pet - Akwaeke Emezi ⬇️

(edited) 3y

TiminCalifornia Own Voices: Memorial - Bryan Washington

Published in 2021: 100 Boyfriends - Brontez Purnell

Non-binary author: Maia Kobabe‘s Gender Queer

Published before 2020: Larry Kramer‘s The Natural Heart

Coming out story or scene: I Have Something To Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg

Local Author: 99 Erics by Julia Serano

Coming of Age: Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
3y

Kenyazero Great progress and many excellent reads added this week! Congratulations on getting a bingo! 3y

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Ast_Arslan

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film "The Imitation Game" | Andrew Hodges

#MayCharacters
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

The book abouth this #mathematical man is still in my TBR, but the movie is wonderful

Day 24

Eggs Well done 👍🏼 4y

Ast_Arslan @Eggs 🧡🌸 4y

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annamatopoetry

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines | Janna Levin

My favourites in English language fiction, part 2:
A Madman Dreams... is technically two stories, about Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing, two eccentric geniuses who never met, but whose lives are sometimes parallel, sometimes opposite. I love this one mainly because of the absolutely beautiful language, and for how Levin gives a glimpse into how a genius' thought pattern may work, without trying to lay bare the whole thing (you can't, and ⬇️

annamatopoetry if you could they wouldn't be extraordinary). 4y

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bluestocking.book.nerd

The Rose Code | Kate Quinn

I was all ready with a cute post about curling up with a #book when the #GoblinTeen shamed me. "Don't use the dog for your bookstore propaganda!" ??
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I'm settling in to read this for the #mARCupbookclub - a new Kate Quinn #WWII novel. So far we've seen the fiction tied with familiar faces in #AlanTuring and #PrincePhillip, but the story focuses on three female #codebreakers based in #BletchleyPark. So far so good! #booknerdreads

BennettBookworm I loved the Alice Network! So exciting!! 4y

bluestocking.book.nerd @BennettBookworm This was my first Quinn! I really enjoyed it! Enough mystery to keep me hooked, enough glamour of the Jazz Age to envy, and enough real life to be informative. So well done! 4y

BennettBookworm Totally need to read this! 4y

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