Category: books
Bookshop at Teatro Niccolini, Florence
Continuing with our exploration of Florence… We stumbled into this small bookshop in the neighborhood of our hotel (see our earlier post) in the heart of Florence. The bookshop is a part of Teatro Niccolini which is apparently the oldest theatre in Florence. If you like to join us on this epic road trip from…
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Network Effect (2020) is the fifth book in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells. The science fiction series had since 2018 won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Alex awards. Network Effect was an enjoyable read. The story is fast moving and action-packed. I (Chris) found the prose a bit clunky in the beginning chapters…
The Millennium series – The Girl Who Lived Twice
Apart from travel-related topics, we occasionally talk about books on the blog. I(Chris) just finished “The Girl Who Lived Twice” (original title in Swedish: Det som inte dödar oss, or ’She Who Must Die’) in audiobook format. This book is the sixth in the Millennium series that was started by Stieg Larsson. The English translation of…
Page One Bookstore 叶一堂, Beijing
This post is based on one of two very different bookstores in Beijing which I(Chris) visited before the pandemic. First, Page One is a bookstore chain and publisher founded in Singapore in 1983 by Mark Tan (陈家强), which has retail shops built in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand, and in China (since the…