velvet_shrimp rated James: A Novel: 4 stars
James: A Novel by Percival Everett
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife …
Meh
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velvet_shrimp rated Count Zero: 3 stars
Count Zero by William Gibson
Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for …
velvet_shrimp rated Dune (Dune Chronicles (Berkley Paperback)): 4 stars
Dune (Dune Chronicles (Berkley Paperback)) by Frank Herbert (Dune (1))
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …
velvet_shrimp rated Silo: 5 stars
Silo by Hugh Howey
velvet_shrimp stopped reading The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy …
velvet_shrimp commented on Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration …
Well this was so heartwarming that I cried. Multiple times.
velvet_shrimp rated Remarkably Bright Creatures: 5 stars
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, …
velvet_shrimp commented on Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit by Gabriel García Márquez
It´s the best work of García Márquez. A novel that narrates the vicisitudes of Aureliano …
I am struggling so much with this book. People apparently love it, it's a classic and all that. I am trying my best to see why. And some stuff is really good and all that. But I am now at the third child-adult sexual relationship and I really really hate it. And then there was some forced prostitution in it as well. Symbolism here symbolism everywhere - ok. But why why with the pedophilia all the time. 😭 I need to read a book explaining why this book is good I think.
velvet_shrimp rated Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: 5 stars
velvet_shrimp rated Outlive: 4 stars
Outlive by Peter Attia, Bill Gifford
A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new …
velvet_shrimp finished reading Outlive by Peter Attia
A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on …
Random pick off Libby but turned out to be pretty interesting.
velvet_shrimp rated My Sister, the Serial Killer: 3 stars
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, Oyinkan Braithwaite
When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of …
velvet_shrimp rated Anatomy: 4 stars
velvet_shrimp rated Bride: 3 stars
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth …
velvet_shrimp rated Hunger eats a man: 3 stars
Hunger eats a man by Nkosinathi Sithole
"When Father Gumede, known as Priest, loses his job as a farmhand, he realises he can't afford to love his …