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isabel

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gay disaster. in possession of several opinions. i will post about books in the language i read them in, which is either english or german. mastodon / blog

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2024 Reading Goal

40% complete! isabel has read 2 of 5 books.

Paula Hawkins, Paula Hawkins: A Slow Fire Burning (Paperback, 2021, Random House Large Print) 4 stars

When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions …

reading this for a book club. i'm at chapter ten and it's just such absolute misery porn. feels like the characters never had a good time. ever. like they could smell a flower and take in the nice smell and suddenly they have an allergic reaction. and then somebody shoots their loved ones, kind of misery.

quoted Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune Chronicles, #1)

Frank Herbert: Dune (Paperback, 1990, Ace Books) 4 stars

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, …

"But every report on Salusa Secundus says S.S. is a hell world!"

Dune by  (Dune Chronicles, #1) (7%)

ohhh okay i get it. it's the nazis. the sardaukar is the nazis. and the emperor is hitler. i get it. because, you see, "s.s." is a nazi thing. and the sardaukar, they're the s.s. because they're from Salusa Secundus. it's... they're the: the sardaukar. it's nazis, you see. very subtle. yeah.

commented on Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune Chronicles, #1)

Frank Herbert: Dune (Paperback, 1990, Ace Books) 4 stars

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, …

four percent might seem like nothing - and it is - but i have to say: i went into the book expecting to get some clarity where the movie left me with question marks. instead i'm more confused. it's herbert's world, and i'm barely living in it.

commented on Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune Chronicles, #1)

Frank Herbert: Dune (Paperback, 1990, Ace Books) 4 stars

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, …

thought i'd catch up on this after seeing the movie because it's a classic and i've barely read any sci-fi so why not start here?

it's an epic for sure. probably gonna take me a month at least. also, i curse the movie for existing because the original cover for this book is gorgeous, while the one i got is a movie poster with an "as seen in cinemas" sticker. blegh.

@IngaLovinde@embracing.space to be honest, i thought the descriptions of hong kong were rather anonymous. the setting was mostly window dressing. both heaven and the demonic inbetween world had way more identity. contrast this to the way chloe gong described shanghai in these violent delights -- it really couldn't have been anywhere else. but i think at least some of that is due to the length of the work. when you have three entirely different settings in less than a hundred pages, one of them is bound to fall by the way side and with how vibrant the supernatural ones are it seems reasonable that the "ordinary" one has the least identity

Benjanun Sriduangkaew: Scale-bright (2014) 4 stars

"Julienne's aunts are the archer who shot down the suns and the woman who lives …

shallow but promising

3 stars

this book is short and sweet. it tells the story of julienne, the niece of two immortals, finding cautious love to a serpent within a short adventure to heaven. and while the premise is intriguing, the book falters due to its length: many scenes could have, should have, been given a bit more time to breathe. introductions of characters feel rushed and by the end we are left with what is a story arc about finding courage in love, but just barely. especially disappointing since the wlw dynamic (pretty much everyone in this book is lesbian) is lovely and could've benefitted from some more depth.

the appendices, which consist of three short story that serve as a kind of prequel to the main story, provide context and a lot of verbose language, perhaps due to its rooting in chinese folklore. especially the second one, woman of the sun, woman of …

Tupoka Ogette: exit RACISM (German language, 2018, UNRAST Verlag) 4 stars

Obwohl Rassismus in allen Bereichen der deutschen Gesellschaft wirkt, ist es nicht leicht, über ihn …

guter einstieg in antirassismus

4 stars

exit racism ist strukturiert wie ein workshop - weil es einer ist. tupoka ogette bringt seit einigen jahren weißen menschen bei, dass antirassismus mehr heißt, als grüne zu wählen. ihr konzept des "happyland", aus dem man als weißer mensch erst entkommen muss, erinnert mich ein wenig an meine verhaltenstherapie.

der inhalt des buches ist alles in allem gut, ich habe mir viel unterstrichen und hatte auch den ein oder anderen "aha"-moment, allerdings ist hier wenig dabei, was man nicht schon weiß, wenn man sich ein wenig mit der rassistischen geschichte deutschlands auseinandersetzt. dieses buch richtet sich wirklich an die leute, die darüber noch nie nachgedacht haben.

Isabel Allende: Das Geisterhaus. (German language, 1998, Suhrkamp) 4 stars

Primera novela de Isabel Allende.

La casa de los espíritus narra la saga de una …

magisch, aber von seiner eigenen schwere heruntergezogen

4 stars

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