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Joerg

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Joined 6 months, 4 weeks ago

Data scientist, avid book reader, elderly puppy herder

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36% complete! Joerg has read 29 of 80 books.

Kay Chronister: Desert Creatures (2022, Erewhon Books) 4 stars

In a world that has become treacherous and desiccated, Magdala has always had to fight …

That's a nope from me...

2 stars

That's a nope from me. Don't get me wrong, it's really well written. But I feel like it's just a grab bag of themes pandering towards the NY Times bestseller list: Vague heavy-handed climate change message (that would have still been a nuclear bomb 35 years ago), Cormac McCarthy Western/desert dystopia, some magic thrown in, plenty of gratuitous violence and misogyny that stays gratuitous despite a strong woman lead character, three narratives set apart by some years with one change of narrator.