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
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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 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 Cinema speculation: 4 stars
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, John Williams (NYRB Classics)
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 David Boyd, Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett
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 reviewed Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Pedro Páramo is a novel written by Juan Rulfo about a man named Juan Preciado …
Review of 'Pedro Páramo' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
4/5. Incredibly atmospheric and haunting (lol). So many layers in so few pages, I think I missed a lot on my first read. To-be reread in 6 months...