Alexander started reading Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen (The Shadow, #1)
well, this was not expected: thought in lines of a horror b.movie but got a kind of Meyrink mixed with sf. a fantasy about the human potential of becoming super human.
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Alexander started reading L'Ami D'enfance de Maigret by Georges Simenon
L'Ami D'enfance de Maigret by Georges Simenon
De moord op een jonge vrouw confronteert commissaris Maigret met een vroegere klasgenoot.
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Alexander wants to read New World by C. Spike Trotman
Alexander wants to read The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories by Frédéric Boutet
Alexander wants to read Red Star by Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Bogdanov
Red Star by Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Bogdanov
A communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets is the subject of this arresting …
Alexander rated The mind parasites: 3 stars
Alexander reviewed The mind parasites by Colin Wilson
the mind parasites
Monatelang brandete 1945 eine Selbstmordwelle durch Deutschland, die Tausende, Frauen, Männer, Kinder, in den Untergang …
rezension kind, versprich mir ...
4 stars
ein Sachbuch, das versucht, in die gedankenwelt der 'kleinen leute' in deutschland zwischen 1920 und 1970 vorzudringen und das weniger in den üblichen kategorien der geschichtserzählung funktioniert. im grunde werden die gesellschaftlichen gegebenheiten für selbstbild und persönlichkeit in einer diktatur ausgeleuchtet, die fast unumgänglich in eine selbstmordepidemie und anhaltendes schweigen führen. eine große stärke ist das show don't tell durch auszüge aus tagebüchern, briefen und so weiter. leider tritt dabei oder dafür die diskussion der these des buches manchmal zu sehr in den hintergrund.
Alexander finished reading Kind, versprich mir, dass du dich erschießt by Florian Huber
Kind, versprich mir, dass du dich erschießt by Florian Huber
Monatelang brandete 1945 eine Selbstmordwelle durch Deutschland, die Tausende, Frauen, Männer, Kinder, in den Untergang riss. In welchen Abgrund hatten …
Alexander started reading Kind, versprich mir, dass du dich erschießt by Florian Huber
Kind, versprich mir, dass du dich erschießt by Florian Huber
Monatelang brandete 1945 eine Selbstmordwelle durch Deutschland, die Tausende, Frauen, Männer, Kinder, in den Untergang riss. In welchen Abgrund hatten …
Alexander finished reading The mind parasites by Colin Wilson
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enne📚 reviewed A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …
A Memory Called Empire
5 stars
This book follows Mahit, sent as ambassador from the small space station Lsel to a large empire, in order to investigate what happened to her predecessor and to try to prevent the Teixcalaanli Empire from inevitably absorbing that home station.
As you might expect, it's a story about empires (being terrible), but what I like about this book is that it gets at reasons why empires can be dangerously appealing apart from just raw power. Mahit simultaneously wants to protect her homeland but also wishes to be part of larger Teixcalaanli culture that is eating her own. But also, no matter how much poetry she's memorized, she will never truly be a part of this culture.
The reader quickly learns that Lsel secretly has machines that implant the memories of their predecessors, and has sent Mahit off with one of these devices. The extra internal perspective of Yskander commenting or …
This book follows Mahit, sent as ambassador from the small space station Lsel to a large empire, in order to investigate what happened to her predecessor and to try to prevent the Teixcalaanli Empire from inevitably absorbing that home station.
As you might expect, it's a story about empires (being terrible), but what I like about this book is that it gets at reasons why empires can be dangerously appealing apart from just raw power. Mahit simultaneously wants to protect her homeland but also wishes to be part of larger Teixcalaanli culture that is eating her own. But also, no matter how much poetry she's memorized, she will never truly be a part of this culture.
The reader quickly learns that Lsel secretly has machines that implant the memories of their predecessors, and has sent Mahit off with one of these devices. The extra internal perspective of Yskander commenting or just providing emotional memory on Mahit's experiences adds a fun additional layer to all of the events.
I love the politics; I love the writing; I love the characters. Highly recommended.
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