@maruey@pouet.chapril.org I've read all four of their novels so far. None truly captivated me, but my favourite was their first about the generation ship, An Unkindness of Ghosts. Which was the one you read? Incidentally I'm someone who abandons books easily (I abandoned seven just yesterday) so there's still something there for me that I keep going :)
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(she/her) I've started a lifelong phase focusing on books written by women of colour
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38% of the authors I read were women of colour 40% was nonfiction 49% of the fiction was SFFH 33% were published in 2023 76% were published in the last 10 years From 130 abandoned books I read approximately 1094 pages over 37h
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85% complete! kab has read 85 of 100 books.
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kab rated Someplace Generous: 4 stars
kab rated All the Lovers in the Night: 3 stars
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, David Boyd
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone in an overwhelming city and unable to form meaningful …
kab rated Model Home: 3 stars
kab rated The Unseen World: 3 stars
kab rated English / Wish You Were Here: 4 stars
kab rated Beastie Boys Book: 4 stars
kab reviewed Sinophagia by Xueting Christine Ni
Sinophagia
3 stars
"The Girl in the Rain" by Hong Niangzi DNF "The Waking Dream" by Fan Zhou ★★★¼ "Immortal Beauty" by Chu Xidao DNF "Those Who Walk at Night, Walk with Ghosts" by She Cong Ge ★★¾ "The Yin Yang Pot" by Chuan Ge ★★¾ "The Shaxiao" by Xiao Qing DNF "Have You Heard of ‘Ancient Glory’?" by Zhou Dedong ★★★½ "Records of Xiangxi" by Nanpai Sanshu DNF "The Ghost Wedding" by Yimei Tangguo DNF "Night Climb" by Chi Hui ★★★½ "Forbidden Rooms" by Zhou Haohui ★★★ "Ti’naang" by Su Min ★★★½ "Huangcun" by Cai Jun ★★★½ "The Death of Nala" ★★
kab rated A View from the Stars: 3 stars
A View from the Stars by Cixin Liu
A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times …
kab rated 100 Boyfriends: 4 stars
kab rated How to Write One Song: 4 stars
kab rated Displeasure Island: 3 stars
kab reviewed Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie
Absent in the Spring: Stranded between trains, Joan Scudamore finds herself reflecting upon her life, …
Absent in the Spring
3 stars
Racist and colonialist right out of the gate. The author tells us in clumsy, halting self-revelations that the protagonist is smug, controlling, and unable to think outside of conventions, that a man's vision of life ought to be prime, while her unloving and dishonest family is portrayed as hard done by. The premise was compelling and the epilogue befitting, true to life.