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magije started reading LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin
magije finished reading Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie
Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie
A selection of essays, reviews and speeches by Salman Rushdie from 2003 to 2020.
magije wants to read The warmth of other suns by Isabel Wilkerson
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The warmth of other suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American …
magije wants to read Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
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Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenged the victim-blaming in …
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Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …
magije rated Fifty Sounds: 5 stars
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Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
Fifty Sounds is a personal dictionary of the Japanese language, recounting her life as an outsider in Japan. Irreverent, humane, …
magije rated Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: 5 stars
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo
A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in …
magije rated Not to Read: 5 stars
magije rated Roadside Picnic: 5 stars
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Roadside Picnic by Борис Натанович Стругацкий, Boris Strugatsky (S. F. Masterworks)
A troubled man leads a writer and a scientist into "The Zone", a mysterious area where the laws of physics …
magije rated The Memory Police: 5 stars
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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor …
magije rated The Baron in the Trees: 5 stars
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Zadie Smith: On beauty (2006, Penguin Books)
On beauty by Zadie Smith
"Howard Belsey is an Englishman abroad, an academic teaching in Wellington, a college town in New England. Married young, thirty …
magije rated When Nietzsche wept: 2 stars
magije rated A Little Life: 5 stars
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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and …