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1. You’re completely against judging a book by its cover, but you will absolutely judge a person by their favorite book, without hesitation.

2. The main reason you fear death is because there are just so many books to read and you have to read them all and damn it if death doesn’t understand that! Heaven better be a giant library, that’s all I’m saying.

3. “Just one more chapter” is the most valid argument you’ve ever heard.

4. One of the greatest joys is reorganizing your bookshelf. And by “reorganizing,” we mean taking all the books off the shelf, cleaning the shelf, and putting all of the books back exactly where they were before, but taking the time to individually reminisce on each book as it’s lovingly placed back on the shelf. You’re basically Scrooge McDuck counting and recounting all of his gold.

5. You need a minimum of a week to recover from a truly fantastic book.

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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

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Happy Fat Thursday!

We wish you a lovely reading time by a cup of hot tea and a plate full of donuts! If you don't like sweets, we have an alternative recipe perfect for book lovers. 

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At the end of the video in the previous step, Jon suggested that there are roughly the same number of microbes in a 100 litre bathtub of surface water as there are stars in our galaxy.

According to calculations, the global ocean contains approximately 4.4 x 10²⁸ living microbial cells. Find out more.

(For anyone not familiar with notation such as 10²⁸, 4.4. x 10²⁸ means 44000000000000000000000000000 living microbial cells, or forty-four octillion if you prefer!).

How do you think that compares with the numbers of stars in the observable universe (that is to say in the multitude of galaxies that can be detected from Earth)?

Try to find the most reliable internet source you can that states a figure for the number of stars in the observable Universe or, if you are really confident, work out how you could calculate or estimate that number.

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Attention - Might contain Minor Spoilers

Written in First-person narrative.

We have a Main Cast of 14 Characters.
The Rabbi Kappelmacher and his assistant Rabbi Steinnmetz. The victim, its immediate and extended family. Two of the family's lawyer. The family physician. And the neighbour of the Victim.

Almost right at the start of the book we find out, that an elder unmarried Spinster of jewish extraction has died.
A former Rabbi, now turned lawyer, visits the Rabbi to ask for his help about the circumstances of the death of one of his clients, aforementioned Spinster.
The Rabbi, known for his interest in puzzles, his quick wit and 'rabbinic reasoning', accepts the challenge to find out if it was in fact an age and health related death or, as the lawyer suggests, a murder.

In the course of the book the Rabbi drags his assistant Rabbi around the Town all the while smoking cigars. Impersonates, among other things, an FBI Agent and almost single-handedly solves the Case, thanks to his often cited Rabbinic Reasoning.
Alas, not before another murder happens in the family.


It is written in informal style and a clear language. (not taking the yiddish words into account)

The characters were all written in a well balanced way.
There was the young, money-lusting woman. A vain, old hag as a relative and an ignorant, white racist. Not to mention... there were homosexual characters, too, which was a surprise to me.
The lack of pining, two-dimensional people was refreshing. (Otherwise you find them somehow a lot in Murder/Mystery stories)


I enjoyed reading the book, except for two things.

I was not happy about the way Rabbi Kappelmacher was behaving towards Rabbi Steinmetz. It felt at times mean, even a bit obnoxious and too condescending coming from an old man of faith, who should behave wiser than that.

Often I felt let down, too, by Kappelmacher as a reader. I didn't mind it per se, whenever he left Steinmetz to think over every step for himself, or advised him to try using his rabbinic reasoning.
But since the reader relies on Steinmetz's knowledge, it makes it hard to follow the story and thereby takes away some of the reading fun.