2.75 An excess of ancient superstitions, ill-chosen analogies, and needless asides alongside fine facts
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(she/her) I've started a lifelong phase focusing on books written by women of colour
=============== 2023 stats ===============
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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2024 Reading Goal
33% complete! kab has read 33 of 100 books.
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kab rated Patty Lyons' Knitting Bag of Tricks: 4 stars
kab rated Lies of the Ajungo: 3 stars
Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi
They say there is no water in the City of Lies. They say there are no heroes in the City …
kab rated Nie mehr leise: 3 stars
kab rated Ivy, Angelica, Bay: 4 stars
kab rated A Visit from the Goon Squad: 3 stars
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and …
kab rated Come and get it: 4 stars
kab rated Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption: 3 stars
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria
A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights.
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded …
kab rated There There: 4 stars
There There by Tommy Orange
Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a …
kab reviewed The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In …
The Golden Mole
3 stars
kab replied to krrksch@kirja.casa's status
@krrksch@kirja.casa Maybe Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology by Vandana Shiva
kab reviewed The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt (Storybook ND)
Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned …
The English Understand Wool
4 stars
Can't help but try my hand at adding to the collection of maltranslations.
As much as I would like to convey small-town life to you across two hundred pages, I wouldn't have the barbarity to make you suffer through the garrulousness and sly barbs of provincial conversation. Me, 2024
kab rated The English Understand Wool: 4 stars
The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt (Storybook ND)
Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais …
Description INFINITY. HERE. NOW.
What if every decision you’ve ever made created a new reality. …
Multiverses
3 stars
Favourites: "Cracks" by Chana Porter "Thirty-six Alternate Views of Mount Fuji" by Rumi Kaneko "#Selfcare" by Annalee Newitz
kab rated Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation: 3 stars
