My reads in 2023.
2023 Public
Created by Frecklemaid
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Elle et son chat by Naruki Nakagawa, Makoto Shinkai (新津誠)
3 stars
C’était au début du printemps, par un jour de pluie. Ce jour-là, elle m’a recueilli. Depuis, je suis son chat …
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Berlin stories by Robert Walser (New York review books classics)
In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important …
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Le livre noir de la mode by Audrey Millet
La mondialisation a radicalement modifié l’industrie de l’habillement et le rapport au corps. Le contenu de nos garde-robes révèle les …
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The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
4 stars
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That …
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
5 stars
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
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Out of the Ruins by China Miéville, Emily St. John Mandel, Charlie Jane Anders
WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE FROM THE FIRE?
In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value …
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Esperanto and its rivals by Roberto Garvía Soto (Haney foundation series)
4 stars
The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate …
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine by Kurt Vonnegut (Henry Holt Classic)
4 stars
Eliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human …
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
4 stars
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her …
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The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
3 stars
Norman Spinrad's 1972 alternate history, gives us both a metafictional what-if novel and a cutting satire of one of the …
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The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski
As the twentieth century draws to a close, the United States has emerged as the world's only superpower: no other …
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Western Philosophy in Simple Spanish by Olly Richards
Improve your Spanish and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter.
When it comes to mastering a foreign language, reading …
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A time of changes by Robert Silverberg (Panther science fiction)
3 stars
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began …
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