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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: 5 stars

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters 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.