Diary 2025

(posts of the year 2025)

Books, lately

I just completed reading The 3 Body’s Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin, which I liked with alternate feelings. The ideas were quite intriguing; however, I found the story overly speculative given its length, and at times it was difficult to connect the different eras and the leaps from one situation to another.. Additionally, the Chinese names were difficult for me to remember and figure.

Before that, during the summer, I enjoyed Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke.

Currently, I am into Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which, based on the first 20%, was probably a wrong choice due the too many spiders and ants, altough the story itself seems quite interesting.

Sci-fi remains my favourite genre, although the last two books I finished did not leave a significant mark on my memory or thoughts.

Pfingstferien 2025

We climbed the Swiss Alps. We made a stop over in Limbiate. We saw the Torre di Pisa. We stayed at Podere dell’Anselmo in Montespertoli. With Anna und Ugo, we enjoyed the swimming pool, the food, the weather, the wine of Chianti. We met Barbara, Giannino, and Alice. We visited Firenze, and found and excellent Neapolitan pizzeria there. We met Misty the dog, so funny that Wanda was thinking of him and laughing all the time, and coloured this picture for me. We stopped in Parma on the way back, and met Gianangelo and Silvia, and it was rewlly great.

We. Guni, Wanda, Diego, and me.