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Skitter rated The Time Machine: 2 stars
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, …
Skitter rated An Instance of the Fingerpost: 4 stars
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
This book is set in the 1660's, and tells the story of Sarah Blundy who is accused of murder. The …
Skitter rated Solutions and Other Problems: 4 stars
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
Allie Brosh returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays.
Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories …
Skitter rated Wishful Drinking: 4 stars
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity …
Skitter rated Assassin's Apprentice: 4 stars
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb (The Realm of the Elderlings Series, #1)
Assassin's Apprentice is a fantasy novel by American writer Robin Hobb, the first book in The Farseer Trilogy. It was …
Skitter rated In the Shadow of Man: 4 stars
Skitter rated Children of Time: 4 stars
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when …
Skitter rated Set this house in order: 5 stars
Set this house in order by Matt Ruff
Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather... It was no ordinary murder. Though …
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them …
Skitter rated The Bridge on the Drina: 3 stars
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to …
Skitter rated The man who planted trees: 4 stars
Jean Giono: The man who planted trees (2000, Shambhala)
The man who planted trees by Jean Giono
A French widower, who plants 100 acorns each day and restores the landscape over the 30 years of his work.
Skitter rated All Systems Red: 4 stars
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
Skitter rated Seven Surrenders: 4 stars
Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #2)
From 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner, Ada Palmer, the second book of Terra Ignota, a political science fiction epic …
Skitter rated Too Like the Lightning: 4 stars
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …