Kerim (books) started reading An Immense World by Ed Yong
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and …
Lots of fun already. Let your dogs smell things!
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Kerim (books) finished reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were …
While the book works well at both the level of human relationships and at the level of metaphor, there is a level in the middle where everything falls apart. They can read, read the papers, talk to other people, etc. it just isn't plausible that they remain so naive and so ignorant for so long after leaving the school. Even if we can accept it of the main characters, it isn't plausible that everyone is like that. I loved the book, but found it frustratingly claustrophobic in the way the main characters relate to the wider world in which they live.
Kerim (books) started reading Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan
Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle.
Located …
Reading this in Chinese, but finding the writing style much harder than the last Chinese SF book I read 《三體》so it is taking me a long time to get through it. I have to get back into it.
Kerim (books) started reading Being You by Anil Seth
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 …