I'm probably one of the older bookwyrms here - I've been reading for quite a few decades now. My local library is my favourite place in town - I often use the bigger bookshop chains to spot books I'd like to borrow. Long live the local bookshop!
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Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remote outposts, studying the …
They call Verity 'the app-whisperer,' and she's just been hired to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice...
Only Eunice has …
The Trojan War as seen by three women: Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Electra.
On a dusty backwater planet, occasional thief Jun Ironway has gotten her hands on the …
Sounded promising, but this kind of distant future but somehow still medieval setting just doesn't work for me.
Sounded promising, but this kind of distant future but somehow still medieval setting just doesn't work for me.
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful …
I tried the book and the graphic novel twice but I just couldn't get into it enough to continue reading.
I tried the book and the graphic novel twice but I just couldn't get into it enough to continue reading.
When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An …
"A magical debut about an enchanted house that offers refuge to women in their time …
Excellent book, really uplifting.
Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent …
I just couldn't connect with the book. Other readers may well love it, though.
I just couldn't connect with the book. Other readers may well love it, though.
In the southwestern country now known as Texoma, this is a world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted. Battered by …
