The 2018 Reading Challenge - #36 - A Book set in the Decade you were born
Hello bookworms :)
Hope you all are alright and having a nice week so far!
Today category is - A Book set in the Decade you were born and it was quite hard to choose one for this again ;) My first thought was oh I´ll read Harry Potter again since its the major 90s book...oh btw I´m a ninety´s kid just so you know ;)
I also were very very close to actually reading one of the HP book then I wanted something else and then I came back to it and all that over and over and over again ;) in the end I went for
Today category is - A Book set in the Decade you were born and it was quite hard to choose one for this again ;) My first thought was oh I´ll read Harry Potter again since its the major 90s book...oh btw I´m a ninety´s kid just so you know ;)
I also were very very close to actually reading one of the HP book then I wanted something else and then I came back to it and all that over and over and over again ;) in the end I went for
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder
by Jostein Gaarder
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Sophie's World (Norwegian: Sofies verden) is a 1991 novel by Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder.
It follows the events of Sophie Amundsen, a teenage girl living in Norway, and Alberto Knox, a middle-aged philosopher who introduces her to philosophical thinking and the history of philosophy. Sophie's World was originally written in Norwegian and became a best seller in Norway. It won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1994. The English version of the novel was published in 1995, and the book was reported to be the best-selling book in the world in that year. By 2011 the novel had been translated into fifty-nine languages, with over forty million print copies sold. It is one of the most commercially successful Norwegian novels outside of Norway, and has been adapted into a film and a PC game. ¹
Again a little summary from goodreads:
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"One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined."
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I´ve always been a huge fan of everything philosophy and I have this book now for the longest time sitting there and waiting for the time it´d would finally be read ;) I actually considered studying philosophy for some time after school ;)
Whilst reading this I remembered all the things I loved so much about this topic, all the thoughts I once had and the ideas from all the different philosophers through time and space ;)
Its an amazing book to get an overview over the history of philosophy and of cause so much more ;) I kind of stick a bit too much with the whole philosophy theme do I ;) and all the different thoughts. It gives you amazing examples to think about the ideas and thoughts, also in comparison with everyday life...it kind of translates the sometimes hard to understand principles and everything into a language for everybody and the whole story enframeing the philosophy, religion and the whole development throughout time makes it interesting even for those who never have been to much into it ^^
I have to admit tho that it gets a bit wordy maybe in some sections but that´s just a thing that comes with philosophy, isn´t it ;)
Whilst reading this I remembered all the things I loved so much about this topic, all the thoughts I once had and the ideas from all the different philosophers through time and space ;)
Its an amazing book to get an overview over the history of philosophy and of cause so much more ;) I kind of stick a bit too much with the whole philosophy theme do I ;) and all the different thoughts. It gives you amazing examples to think about the ideas and thoughts, also in comparison with everyday life...it kind of translates the sometimes hard to understand principles and everything into a language for everybody and the whole story enframeing the philosophy, religion and the whole development throughout time makes it interesting even for those who never have been to much into it ^^
I have to admit tho that it gets a bit wordy maybe in some sections but that´s just a thing that comes with philosophy, isn´t it ;)
For a little more inspiration and some alternatives ^^
(all summaries are from goodreads):
Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one your suns start to set, gradually leading you into Darkness for the first time ever. Image the terror of such a Nightfall. Scientists on the planet Kalgash discover that an eclipse - an event that occurs only every 2049 years - is imminent, and that a society unfamiliar with Darkness will be plunged into madness and chaos. They realize that their civilization will end, for the people of Kalgash have a proven fear of Darkness, but they are unable to predict the insanity and destruction that will accompany the awesome splendor of Nightfall.
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . .
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront.
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . .
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront.
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family. Their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu, (who loves by night the man her children love by day), fled an abusive marriage to live with their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), and their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt). When Chacko's English ex-wife brings their daughter for a Christmas visit, the twins learn that things can change in a day, that lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river...
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family. Their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu, (who loves by night the man her children love by day), fled an abusive marriage to live with their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), and their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt). When Chacko's English ex-wife brings their daughter for a Christmas visit, the twins learn that things can change in a day, that lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river...
Some more inspiration?
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
and oh my...thee are so many more ;) For more click -here- to go to the goodreads listopia about the 90s and other decades.
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
and oh my...thee are so many more ;) For more click -here- to go to the goodreads listopia about the 90s and other decades.
Which book did you choose for this category?
Did you read Sophie´s World yet? What did you think about it or are you still planing on reading it?
With lots of love
♥♥♥
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