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On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing …
One of those books you pick up and you can't put down again until you're done. Absolutely amazing 🤯
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind …
Riveting. I've read the short story, so I knew the plot. But I still couldn't help but cry. The premise is a stroke of genius and the execution excellent. You can't help but love the Charlie. Definite recommendation.
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is …
This is the first thing I've read from Dickens. His prose is unbearable. But the writing overall is surprisingly good. The characters are interesting, the plot is well constructed, the themes are well represented. Probably shouldn't be as surprised, given how successful he was, but yes, well deserved.
Catch 22, also Falle 22 oder Trick 22- das ist die ebenso irrsinnige wie ausweglose …
Jeez, this one's depressing…
A very frank and open first-person account of the kinds of pressure the patriarchy puts on men and the damages this can do to them and others. If you heard and are irritated by the term "toxic masculinity", this is an absolute reading recommendation - because what the author talks about in this book is exactly what is meant by it.
I think this book can serve as an important first step in building a positive male identity, by first deconstructing the existing damaging one.
I might read mostly speculative fiction, but YA still has a special place in my heart for making me feel all the feelings ♥ Great book, I love the protagonist.
Das Kapital, also known as Capital: A Critique of Political Economy or sometimes simply Capital …
Not finishing this, I think. Might try again at another time, but right now, I'm not really getting anything out of it.
1 New York Times Bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us deeper into the Cosmere universe …
Extremely unlike any other Brandon Sanderson book, but very enjoyable. Sanderson writes from the perspective of Hoid, which ends in a whimsical, fairy tale like novel.
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few …
The premise of this series (which I don't want to say, as it is kind of a spoiler) is incredibly fun. If you are a scientifically minded person and/or interested in fantasy, this book is going to tickle you in all the right spots.
This Is How You Lose the Time War is a 2019 science fiction epistolary novel …
Hauntingly beautiful. A love-letter to the written word.
I've read over 70 books in 2022 and this one is my favorite. Can't recommend it highly enough, go read it.
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien …
This is the first time I read a book translated from Chinese. So this might be an artifact from the translation, it might be a cultural difference or it might be a property of the book: I found this pretty hard to interpret.
The book uses a style that is very direct and doesn't use a lot of adjectives. Meanwhile, it is extremely allegorical. The Sci-Fi is "hard" (closely related to theories from real Physics), but at the same time understood very metaphorical.
Ultimately, I'm just not sure what the story is trying to tell me. I can tell that there is something there - in many places, the story rhymes with itself, in a way that is too obvious to be accidental. But figuring out what that is would likely require a second read and a lot of thought, at least. And I'm not sure I liked the book …
This is the first time I read a book translated from Chinese. So this might be an artifact from the translation, it might be a cultural difference or it might be a property of the book: I found this pretty hard to interpret.
The book uses a style that is very direct and doesn't use a lot of adjectives. Meanwhile, it is extremely allegorical. The Sci-Fi is "hard" (closely related to theories from real Physics), but at the same time understood very metaphorical.
Ultimately, I'm just not sure what the story is trying to tell me. I can tell that there is something there - in many places, the story rhymes with itself, in a way that is too obvious to be accidental. But figuring out what that is would likely require a second read and a lot of thought, at least. And I'm not sure I liked the book enough for that investment.
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, …
Trying another audiobook
Continuing to work my way through the Hainish Cycle…
The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the …
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
Hauntingly beautiful. A love-letter to the written word.