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actuallym rated The sea, the sea: 5 stars

The sea, the sea by Iris Murdoch, Iris Murdoch (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
actuallym rated The Employees: 5 stars

The Employees by Olga Ravn
Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike complain …
actuallym rated Summer will show: 5 stars

Sylvia Townsend Warner: Summer will show (1987, Penguin Books-Virago Press)
Summer will show by Sylvia Townsend Warner (Virago modern classics)
actuallym rated Uncle Vanya: 5 stars

Uncle Vanya by Annie Baker
"A refreshingly intimate and modern spin on a Chekhovian classic." Devastatingly beautiful. People are going to be talking about this …
actuallym rated Camera Man: 3 stars
actuallym rated Worn: A People's History of Clothing: 3 stars

Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
Tyll Ulenspiegel - Vagant, Schausteller und Provokateur - wird zu Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts als Müllerssohn in einem kleinen Dorf …
actuallym rated Paul Verhoeven: 5 stars
actuallym rated The Guns of August: 5 stars

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (A Dell book -- 3333)
Published to immediate acclaim in 1962 and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1963, The Guns of August is …
actuallym reviewed Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig
actuallym rated Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics): 5 stars
actuallym rated The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: 5 stars

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #1)
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family …
actuallym rated A Court of Thorns and Roses: 4 stars

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged …