Joachim Nuyttens rated Sea of Tranquility: 5 stars
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
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Joachim Nuyttens rated Grand Hotel Europa: 5 stars
Joachim Nuyttens rated La Superba: 5 stars
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: La Superba (Dutch language, 2013, De Arbeiderspers)
La Superba by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
A writer does a letter to a friend report of his lavish life in the Italian city of Genoa.
Joachim Nuyttens rated Dark Earth: 5 stars
Joachim Nuyttens rated How High We Go in the Dark: 2 stars
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter …
Joachim Nuyttens rated Anna Karenina: 2 stars
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. …
Joachim Nuyttens rated Valley of the dolls: 2 stars
Joachim Nuyttens rated Station Eleven: 5 stars
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Dans un monde où la civilisation s’est effondrée suite à une pandémie foudroyante, une troupe d’acteurs et de musiciens nomadise …
Joachim Nuyttens rated Sunny Nihilist: 4 stars
Joachim Nuyttens rated War and Peace: 5 stars
War and Peace by Coralie Bickford-Smith, Orlando Figes, Anthony Briggs, and 1 other
Joachim Nuyttens rated The Master and Margarita: 4 stars
The Master and Margarita by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.
An audacious revision of the stories of Faust …
Joachim Nuyttens rated Dune Messiah: 4 stars
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (Dune, #2)
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known …
Joachim Nuyttens rated Children of Dune: 3 stars
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #3)
The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the …
Joachim Nuyttens rated A Gentleman in Moscow: 5 stars
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to …
Joachim Nuyttens rated The Spell of the Sensuous: 2 stars
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
[In this book, the author] draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and …