thymudi rated Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: 3 stars
Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial …
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thymudi rated Wedding People: 3 stars
Butter by Polly Barton, Asako Yuzuki
There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine.
Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in …
thymudi rated The Secret History: 4 stars
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college …
thymudi rated Es ist immer so schön mit dir: 4 stars
Es ist immer so schön mit dir by Heinz Strunk
Er ist Musiker, Mitte vierzig und mit seinem glanzlosen Leben eigentlich nicht unzufrieden. Da lernt er Vanessa kennen, Schauspielerin, jung …
New wave by Christian Kracht
Über die Buchinger-Klinik, Tschernobyl und die ägyptische Buchmesse, über asiatische Suppen und Bienen auf dem Kuchen, über Afghanistan, Ukraine, Paraguay, …
thymudi rated Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: 3 stars
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
thymudi rated Death's End: 5 stars
Death's End by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #3)
Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. …
thymudi rated Death's End: 5 stars
Death's End by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #3)
Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. …
thymudi rated Zauberberg 2: 4 stars
Zauberberg 2 by Heinz Strunk
Jonas Heidbrink, ein Erfolgsmensch. Schon vor dem dreißigsten hat er sein Start-up versilbert; arbeiten muss er sein Leben lang nicht …
thymudi rated You Dreamed of Empires: 5 stars
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer
In 1519, Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his troops ride into the floating city of Tenoxtitlan – today’s Mexico City – …
thymudi rated Family Meal: 5 stars
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
Growing up, TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents - Mae and Jin - …
thymudi rated A Leopard-Skin Hat: 5 stars
A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre, Mark Hutchinson
A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a …
thymudi rated No One Is Talking About This: 4 stars
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts …