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We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How …
Once it moved on from accounting I got a lot more interested. Reading about the many uses of notebooks throughout history has given me a lot of inspiration on how to use a few ones that I bought and haven't figured out what to do with them until now.
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How …
I rarely read non fiction, and even less history books, but I love writing on notebooks and it's been 10 years since I started keeping a personal journal, so I picked up this book hoping it might resonate or give me new inspiration and ideas.
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and …
99 Francs is a 2000 novel by French writer Frédéric Beigbeder. The book was released …
the further I went the worse it got. Audiobook narration added an extra layer of cringe to the cliched bad taste jokes.
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
Moscow …
The author's first book, The Mountain in the Sea, led me to read this, and I wasn't disappointed. This light novel, in a short span of under 100 pages, packs quite a punch.
The main events deal with poachers, elephants, and their ancient cousins the mammoths. It speculates on de-extinction and narrates cruel events in a human greed impacted future. I was a bit confused at the start, which always happens to me when there are POV changes or time shifts, but by page 30 I was settled in the story and enjoyed a direct ride until I finished it.
The writing feels very well researched, it brings fictional events to a very near feel of reality –of what is and what could be.
Loved it 🧡
The book opens on Earth, eleven thousand years from now. The Anth met their end …
I feel like summarizing anything might ruin the surprises along the read. It's mostly sci-fi and fantasy —there are castles, "dragons", wizards, a scholars college, talking beavers, a boy on a quest, an adventure— It has lots of weird, fun ideas and turns, with threads of technology and modern culture references that enrich the setting, making it a very interesting world.
It's been a while since I got the tingly feeling of excitment and surprise while reading an adventure, those moments of revelation that surprise you when you thought that you knew where things were going next, or push you into an even more mysterious —don't know what is happening but I'm enjoying this ride— direction.
There is a pulse in this story that pulls me to try mapmaking, to explore, and to creatively experiment. For me it was a spark that ignited some slumbering ideas and made my imagination …
It's very mid in most aspects.
The art looks good but nothing remarkable.
The story starts OK but it falls off the cliff real fast. The conflict is set well in the first part, then we don't get much explanied and suddenly all is solved and it ends. Has a spicy scene in between.
Edition and translation feel well done.
Building Giant Robots? Stopping an Evil A.I.? Saving The World? Just a normal part of …
The story follows Aki and Kai, the only two members of a Robotics Club at their high school. Aki is super optimistic, and her only goal is to finish building a life size robot left behind by her older sister and founder of the club. Kai is mostly there because Aki has been his friend since they were children, he's more into an online robot fighting game, and will only agree to do anything being asked from him if you can beat him in a fighting match.
Having played the original Visual Novel in japanese I can say that the translation is great, at least I have a feeling of consuming the same story. It has character profile pages in between chapters and I always love when they have them. Only weird thing is that some of the onomatopoeia aren't translated, so you see a "Buzz" next to japanese …
Horror is a genre that I haven’t really touched until now. I’m more of a sci-fi and fantasy reader, but I set myself the goal to read outside of my comfort zone for this year, and I’m very glad I did.
Maggie’s Grave is a campy slasher 80’s horror story, and an incredibly fun read at that. It’s gory, has lots of action, and it offers plenty of over the top moments -ritual sacrifice with james blunt soundtrack- that are kind of silly but in a really fun way.
Totally recommend it if slasher horror sounds like something you might enjoy.
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit …
System Collapse is the direct sequel to Network Effect (Book 5), therefore, it is highly recommended to review it prior to diving into this one. There is no introductory summary, and initially there are characters aplenty that would make you feel confused if you've totally forgotten the previous story.
Murderbot is having more feels, even if it doesn't like it. It continues bonding with more humans, and consuming digital media on the side to help it cope with everything going on. We still see it analyzing and overcoming the many situations it gets into (or rather dragged into by its humans), but it is struggling as it bears the weight of the recent events.
This new story has a more introspect and trauma-overcoming tone compared to Fugitive Telemetry's murder mystery and the action-focused Network Effect, but the action scenes are still there and still great.
The series has been really relatable to me so …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
Murderbot has hacked himself out of main control.
The idea of an android, part bot with lingering organics, gives rise to ideas of a machine that sometimes feels human, a very introverted and relatable human; with its increasing independency situations develop more unexpectedly than what I anticipated, and that kept me reading the whole book almost in one sitting.
The secondary characters add enough depth to the story and help the development of Murderbot throughout it, queer characters are also a welcomed presence.
It was a very fun and fast read 😁
In the far future, on an Earth of many-leveled cities, such as Veniss, and man-made …
Fascinatingly disturbing. I arrived at this book with just a vague recommendation. What I found is hard to place. Feels like sci-fi and urban fantasy dipping into grotesque body horror, and I absolutely enjoyed it.
At first I found myself lost, much like when I read the Neuromancer, until it started to unfold. It’s a futuristic setting where bioengineering experiments have found a place in society, a city, and the story of 3 characters struggling in this place and its many floors below ground. The descriptions are very graphical at times, but it’s a gripping journey into strangeness.
”Soon he would bend into a totally new shape altogether. He welcomed that. He wanted that. Maybe the new thing he would become would no longer hurt, would no longer fear, would no longer look back down into the void and wonder what was left of him“
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
My main take from the story is that it gave me a better perspective on what it’s like to grow up as trans. It has a lot of hurt, but it’s also a reminder that kindness can go a long way.
🎻 There is a lot of music interwoven in a beautiful story. The author describes musical performances in a way that I could even imagine the sound, just from words and emotions. I also liked that it has a high geek factor, there are mentions of Star Trek and references to music from games and anime.
Beautiful story worthy of a recommendation 🧡
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and …
