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Circe by Madeline Miller
Circe is a 2018 novel by American writer Madeline Miller. Set during the Greek Heroic Age, it is an adaptation …
Reading this one by obligation, but might as well count it!
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roxdub finished reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its oritinal publication …
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its oritinal publication …
roxdub finished reading Bourinot's Rules of Order by Geoffrey Stanford
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roxdub quoted Fight Night by Miriam Toews
"We need tragedy, which is the need to love and the need…not just the need, the imperative, the human imperative…to experience joy. To find joy and to create joy. All through the night. The fight night."
— Fight Night by Miriam Toews
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roxdub finished reading S'adater by Clara Dupont-Monod
S'adater (french language, Stock)
S'adater by Clara Dupont-Monod
C’est l’histoire d’un enfant aux yeux noirs qui flottent, et s’échappent dans le vague, un enfant toujours allongé, aux joues …
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roxdub started reading S'adater by Clara Dupont-Monod
S'adater (french language, Stock)
S'adater by Clara Dupont-Monod
C’est l’histoire d’un enfant aux yeux noirs qui flottent, et s’échappent dans le vague, un enfant toujours allongé, aux joues …
roxdub reviewed The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember …
Wild ride
4 stars
This story will make such a great movie one day. Clearly cinematographic writing takes the reader through a fast-paced urban adventure. The main characters, city avatars, have been transformed into boroughs of New York. In other words, the City comes alive through the lives and bodies of Manny (Manhattan), Bronca (The Bronx), Brooklyn (Brooklyn), Padmini (Queens) and the primary avatar. They have to work together to defend the city against the invasion of a foreign being aiming to halt the growth and spirit of the city, and consequently cause conflict, pain and suffering. Aislyn (Staten Island), will find herself at a crossroads and have to choose which side she's on.
New York is the main character of this book, which is a complete whilrwind tour of a city under attack, but fighting back. Special appearances by avatars Sao Paulo and Hong Kong bring even more diversity to this urban mix …
This story will make such a great movie one day. Clearly cinematographic writing takes the reader through a fast-paced urban adventure. The main characters, city avatars, have been transformed into boroughs of New York. In other words, the City comes alive through the lives and bodies of Manny (Manhattan), Bronca (The Bronx), Brooklyn (Brooklyn), Padmini (Queens) and the primary avatar. They have to work together to defend the city against the invasion of a foreign being aiming to halt the growth and spirit of the city, and consequently cause conflict, pain and suffering. Aislyn (Staten Island), will find herself at a crossroads and have to choose which side she's on.
New York is the main character of this book, which is a complete whilrwind tour of a city under attack, but fighting back. Special appearances by avatars Sao Paulo and Hong Kong bring even more diversity to this urban mix of people, cultures and space. A wonderful urban fantasy to read!
roxdub finished reading The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …
roxdub quoted The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember …
"When he stares at the strange empty streets, the damage (mostly healed now, because they are growing stronger), the wavering beautiful light, it suddenly strikes him that this is the equivalent of looking at his own navel. And in the instant that he makes this connection, his perception reels and rises and pulls back until suddenly he sees the whole of himself: he is Manhattan."
roxdub quoted The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember …
"Manhattan rolled up on top of a taxi and introduced himself to me, quite boldly; typical. Brooklyn, full of attitude and arrogance, came to his rescue when I tried to introduce myself back. "