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bondolo reviewed The famished road by Ben Okri
Shades of 100 Years of Solitude
5 stars
bondolo finished reading The famished road by Ben Okri
bondolo rated The famished road: 5 stars
bondolo reviewed The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday …
Satisfying Fantasy
4 stars
I enjoyed this fantasy and thought it had enough red herrings and surprises to reward. I am somewhat curious about the prior challenges but would think it tedious for this great book to be turned into a series.
bondolo rated The Night Circus: 3 stars
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the …
bondolo reviewed Translation State by Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will …
Worth the wait
4 stars
Not quite as complete and rich a story as the previous Imperial Radch novels but it is a different novel than those.
bondolo rated Translation State: 5 stars
Translation State by Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across …
bondolo rated Translation State: 5 stars
Translation State by Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across …
bondolo finished reading Translation State by Ann Leckie
Translation State by Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across …
bondolo reviewed Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy, #1)
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature …
Moment only
3 stars
This book didn’t really work for me. Neither horror nor science fiction. It didn’t work as a thriller either. It needed more development. Some was there for the lead character but meeting the other characters in training would have provided connection and depth that was wanted.
bondolo finished reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy, #1)
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy, #1)
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
bondolo reviewed Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in …
I may need to read more
4 stars
I enjoyed this novel more than I expected. Dickens writes very impressively, which maybe should not be a surprise but I imagined something more formal and tedious. He writes with a rhythm and some amazing turns of phrases. I am unfamiliar with the speech of the time to understand how much of what seems novel to me is merely the idiom of the time.
bondolo reviewed Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in …
I may
bondolo reviewed Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in …