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Andreas Malm, Andreas Malm: How to Blow up a Pipeline (2020, Verso Books) 4 stars

Why resisting climate change means combatting the fossil fuel industry

The science on climate change …

Review of 'How to Blow up a Pipeline' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

Misleading title: The author explains nowhere in the book how to blow up a pipeline.

It is instead a detailed discussion of the pros and cons as well as the implications of using violence fighting the climate catastrophe. The book ends with a passionate argument against despair 

Han Kang, HAN Kang: The Vegetarian (Paperback, 2015, imusti, Granta Books) 3 stars

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions …

Review of 'The Vegetarian' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

About mental illness and abuse. Partially out of the perspective of the abusers.The description on the cover of my edition is grossly misleading. Be aware of the content warnings 

Ute Wieners: Sprengel für alle autobiografische Erzählungen (German language, 2017) 5 stars

Review of 'Sprengel für alle autobiografische Erzählungen' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

Sehr gut geschrieben. Fand ich eher besser als ähnliche  Bücher von Bestsellerlisten. Fand besonders die Beschreibung der internen Dynamiken interessant.


Frustrated by her current relationship, trans lesbian Maria Griffiths decides to change her life by …

Review of 'Nevada' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

Great book about emotional seclusion. I think the most honest “on the road”-novel I ever read.

Some sentences/bits hit like a sledgehammer with regard to my own unresolved flaws

James Ellroy: Blut will fliesen (German language, 2009, Ullstein Buchverlage) 4 stars

Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun …

Review of 'Blut will fliesen' on 'Storygraph'

No rating

English Review at the bottom (read German translation)

Buch über Arschlöcher die Arschlochdinge tun, die ich nicht verstehe. Habe bis S350 nicht verstanden, was das ganze überhaupt soll. Auch langweilig und ohne Spannungsbogen. Eine Aneinanderreihung von belanglosen Gesprächen und Spionagejobs. In dem Buch kommt keine Person vor, der ich jemals begegnen möchte. Habe das Gefühl, dass das Buch nur geschrieben wurde, um möglichst viele racial slurs zu verwenden. Die deutsche Übersetzung versucht jeden existierenden deutschen und amerikanischen racial slur unterzubringen. Keine Ahnung, ob dies irgendwelche realistischen Verhältnisse darstellt. Wenn ja, warum das ganze so dumm und sinnlos darstellen?

Diese App lässt einen keine Sterne vergeben, wenn man angibt das Buch nicht beendet zu haben. Wäre eher niedrig. Habe aber auch nicht verstanden, was das ganze soll.

Book about arseholes doing arsehole things of which I don’t understand the purpose. Kinda boring. Just a sequence of meaningless conversations and spy jobs. …

Hannah Jewell: We Need Snowflakes (2022, Hodder & Stoughton) 4 stars

Review of 'We Need Snowflakes' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Liked the idea of the book. A lot of discussions of tedious culture war stuff. Liked the sections on trauma and workers rights.

Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the Talents (Paperback, 2019, Headline) 4 stars

Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage …

Review of 'Parable of the Talents' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

Follows a small community and mainly their leader how they try to survive and re-establish under religious oppression. Partly pretty brutal, but it shows how a kinder way tries to persist . I cried sometimes. 


Kind of a How to establish an opposing cult under christian nationalism