Into queer scifi fantasy tragicomical fiction with complex and not classically happy endings. Uhm, or something like that.
Sometimes I can read books, sometimes I can't. So I read a lot while I can.
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In »Der Name des Windes« erzählt Patrick Rothfuss die Geschichte von Kvothe, dem berühmtesten Zauberer …
Well written, funny sometimes, like someone telling a story at a fireplace. Felt cozy to me.
Contains a few not-so-constructive patterns (like "I need to make my heart of stone to control emotions"), but for me it was Ok, definitely better than in "Consider Phlebas".
In »Der Name des Windes« erzählt Patrick Rothfuss die Geschichte von Kvothe, dem berühmtesten Zauberer seiner Zeit. Damit ist ihm …
Convenience Store Woman (Japanese: コンビニ人間, Hepburn: Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata. It captures the …
Convenience Store Woman (Japanese: コンビニ人間, Hepburn: Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata. It captures the …
he Star Diaries is a series of short stories of the adventures of space traveller …
Some stories felt like the black mirror museum episode, some are a bit boring. (And Ijon can be annoying. He gets angry quickly.) I read it in German, maybe some chapters are funnier in Polish?
Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes out of the warrior’s life …
he Star Diaries is a series of short stories of the adventures of space traveller …
The smell of the book was one of the best parts of it (but also the last stories)
The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from …
Real life isn’t a fairytale.
But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he …
With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress …
“I know the signs for your name. You’ve written them too many times for mere accounting.”
“You know the signs for my name?” Baru leaned back, to project insouciance, to escape those eyes. Why had Tain Hu come? Why hadn’t Unuxekome announced her arrival? Surely the conflagration swallowing Aurdwynn would have called her elsewhere.… “What a curious place to begin an education.”
For a moment only the candle fire moved.
Then Tain Hu came around the chair, her hobnailed boots clattering on the hardwood. Baru began to rise, and the duchess took her by the throat and hooked a heel behind the leg of her chair and threw her down thunderously on her back. The chair splintered beneath her.
Tain Hu drew her sword.
— The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade Book 1) by Seth Dickinson (Page 222)
Exciting, feels realistic, war strategy, a lot of innuendo (and smugness? — everyone feels very clever). Passages of feeling powerful, passages of feeling completely powerless. I would recommend it with a content warning: "Cruel and depressing".
