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I've tried and this library refuses to read itself.
I like / am trying to read more of: Sci Fi; Women writers; POC authors; Global South / subaltern perspectives; socialist and ecological stories; History; British literature; Russian, Central & Eastern European literature.
I'd like to get to the point where I'm regularly reading new stuff but we'll see.
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PlaySomethingAwful rated The Fire Next Time: 5 stars

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice …
PlaySomethingAwful rated Stardust: 4 stars

Stardust by Neil Gaiman
E-book extra: Neil Gaiman's "Writing and the Imagination."In the tranquil fields and meadows of long-ago England, there is a small …
PlaySomethingAwful rated Dune Messiah: 4 stars

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (Dune Chronicles, #2)
The extraordinary sequel to Dune, the greatest science fiction novel of all time. Twelve years after his victory over House …

Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 by Zadie Smith
"An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth …
PlaySomethingAwful rated Roadside Picnic: 4 stars

Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture …
PlaySomethingAwful reviewed At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop
PlaySomethingAwful reviewed Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, #1-8)
PlaySomethingAwful rated My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book One: 5 stars

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book One by Emil Ferris
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary …
PlaySomethingAwful rated No God but God: 4 stars
PlaySomethingAwful reviewed The Vegetarian by Han Kang
PlaySomethingAwful reviewed Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Penguin books -- 1699)
Review of 'The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Classics)' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Slow start, gets better. The racism is very unpleasant. When you finally get to what Welles is thinking about in the last 40 pages it picks up.