awboonstra finished reading The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2022) 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips …
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awboonstra rated Scattered All Over the Earth: 3 stars
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land …
awboonstra rated Firebreak: 3 stars
Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace
One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this all-too-near future science fiction debut that reads like a refreshing …
awboonstra rated The Luminaries: 3 stars
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New …
awboonstra rated Fables: 4 stars
Fables by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham (Fables Compendium #2)
Fables Compendium Two starts with the story “Arabian Nights (and Days)”, when foreigners start showing up in Fabletown–much to the …
awboonstra rated The Prague Cemetery: 3 stars
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
The Prague Cemetery (Italian: Il cimitero di Praga) is a novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It was first published …
awboonstra rated Fables: 4 stars
Fables by Bill Willingham (Fables Compendium #1)
When a savage creature, known only as the Adversary, conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, the famous …
awboonstra rated Five Little Indians: 4 stars
awboonstra rated To Paradise: 5 stars
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions …
awboonstra rated There is No Antimemetics Division: 4 stars
There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from …
awboonstra rated A Visit from the Goon Squad: 5 stars
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and …
awboonstra rated Fugitive Telemetry: 4 stars
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
awboonstra rated Next Time I Die: 4 stars
awboonstra rated Shadow of the Torturer: 3 stars
Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (Book of the New Sun (1))
The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It …