4.5, rounded down. read in one sitting.
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lipalipalipa rated A Tale for the Time Being: 3 stars
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying, but before …
lipalipalipa rated The Fire Next Time: 5 stars
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice …
lipalipalipa rated Blockchain Chicken Farm: 5 stars
Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang
From FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized world
In …
Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of …
Review of 'The last days of Judas Iscariot' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
lipalipalipa rated Asleep: 3 stars
Banana Yoshimoto: Asleep (2001, Faber and Faber)
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
Already an international bestseller, "Asleep" comprises three novellas of women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, …
lipalipalipa rated Cinema speculation: 4 stars
lipalipalipa reviewed Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Review of 'Deaf Republic' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
finished it and immediately started over. intimate and visceral. if there was ever a perfect book, this is it.
lipalipalipa rated Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories: 4 stars
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly …
lipalipalipa rated Stoner: 5 stars
Stoner by John Williams
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the …
lipalipalipa rated Breasts and Eggs: 4 stars
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, David Boyd
On a sweltering summer day, Makiko travels from Osaka to Tokyo, where her sister Natsu lives. She is in the …
lipalipalipa rated Kalpa imperial: 3 stars
Kalpa imperial by Angélica Gorodischer, Angélica Gorodischer
«Oh, sí, mis buenas gentes, sí, ya lo creo que sí. Se puede vivir en el sur. Y morir también. …
lipalipalipa rated The tunnel: 5 stars
The tunnel by Ernesto Sabato, Margaret Sayers Peden
Juan Pablo Castel is a tormented and insane painter who falls for Maria, a woman he meets at an art …
lipalipalipa rated Cixin Liu's the Wandering Earth: 4 stars
Cixin Liu's the Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu, Christophe Bec, Stefano Raffaele
Collection of short stories.
lipalipalipa rated Chess Story: 5 stars
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (New York Review Books Classics)
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile …