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Joined 1 year, 8 months ago

So many books - so little time. Spooky stuff, fantasy, romance, adventure, travel, dystopia, classics, Chaos 🦐

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William Gibson, William F. Gibson: Neuromancer (2017, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)
DisCO: If I Only had a Heart: a DisCO manifesto (EBook, 2019, DisCO.coop; the Transnational Institute; Guerrilla Media Collective)
Susanna Clarke: Piranesi (2020, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)

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Gabriel García Márquez: Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit (Hardcover, German language, 1997, Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
Daniel Defoe: A General History of the Pyrates, from Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present Time. (Hardcover, 1724, Andesite Press)
S. A. Chakraborty: The City of Brass (2017)

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Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain: Please Kill Me (2016, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated)
Paul Kidby, Terry Pratchett: Wahre Helden (Hardcover, German language, 2001, Goldmann)
E. M. Forster: La Machine s'arrête (French language, 2020)

2024 Reading Goal

86% complete! velvet_shrimp has read 43 of 50 books.

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reviewed Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

R. F. Kuang: Yellowface (Hardcover, 2023, HarperCollins Publishers Limited) 4 stars

What's the harm in a pseudonym? New York Times bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not …

What a wild ride

4 stars

This got more shocking with every page and in the end I couldn't put it down. There is so many other turns this could have taken as well. The reader can really step inside the protagonists head and see how she is justifying her actions to herself. We also see that basically evey character is flawed and acts for their own benefit. This was also an interesting insight into the publishing industry and how authors and books are picked and Bestsellers are made.