Simply incredible book. You don't have to be interested in Albania or Europe specifically to find this story of a young girl in an isolated country absolutely fascinating. Ypi invests her coming-of-age story with so much humor and empathy for her family and neighbors, I was sincerely sorry when it was over and I couldn't follow along with them up to the modern day.
The author is interested in investigating the role of biography, freedom and community in society, but leaves the reader with plenty to turn around and contemplate in her stories and doesn't leave any easy answers.
Haven't loved a memoir this much in ages, am gonna buy plenty of copies for Christmas presents.
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cibertina rated Something That May Shock and Discredit You: 3 stars
Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery
Daniel M. Lavery is known for blending genres, forms, and sources to develop fascinating new hybrids—from lyric rants to horror …
cibertina rated Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain: 3 stars
cibertina rated The Echo Wife: 3 stars
The Maid by Nita Prose
I am your maid. I know about your secrets. Your dirty laundry. But what do you know about me?
Molly …
cibertina rated High Conflict: 3 stars
cibertina rated Blindsight: 2 stars
Blindsight by Peter Watts (Firefall, #1)
It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens …
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, …
Review of 'Free' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R. F. Kuang
The city of dreaming spires.
It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.
And at its …
cibertina rated The Hollow Places: 4 stars
The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher, .
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new …
cibertina rated The Twisted Ones: 4 stars
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a …
cibertina reviewed What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (Sworn Solider, #1)
From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, …
Review of 'What Moves the Dead' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Fun, fast, spooky read that made me immediately get more books by this author. Only complaint is that I could have read a much longer book featuring the charming and funny protagonist, the constraints of being a Poe homage probably makes this unlikely. Too bad.
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Fun, fast, spooky read that made me immediately get more books by this author. Only complaint is that I could have read a much longer book featuring the charming and funny protagonist, the constraints of being a Poe homage probably makes this unlikely. Too bad.
cibertina rated Tomorrow Never Knows: 4 stars
cibertina reviewed The Nutmeg's Curse by Amitav Ghosh
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins …
Review of "The Nutmeg's Curse" on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Earth-shakingly incredible, a delight to read, absolutely genius. So good I wish I could buy dozens of copies to hand out whenever it comes up in conversation, or maybe go door-to-door handing out copies to spread the gospel.
