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From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
Travel sounds fun until you realize what you really want is to stay at home with a cup of tea and a stack of books by a warm fire.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
my father says we were aristocrats in the Mughal court, or something like that. But not anymore.’
‘What happened?’
Ramy gave him a long look. ‘The British, Birdie. Keep up.’
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
@Tak@reading.taks.garden The line right after that plays along nicely. "For a country that profited so well from trading in spices, its citizens were violently averse to actually using them"
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …
@ansate You and I are often in agreement on books, but we will differ here. It is very rare that I set a book aside without finishing, but this one of of the few.
Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night …
Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night …
@ansate I always seem to take less away from Klune's books than most people. It sounds like you may be the same.
In the town of Night Vale, there’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in …
This book was pleasant enough, but it lost all of its momentum before it ran out of pages, so the ending just felt weak. I was personally at a place that I wasn't wanting a very challenging read, and this worked very nicely.
Viv’s career with the renowned mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during …
A stunning collection of novellas and short fiction from the award-winning, critically acclaimed and best-selling author of the Quantum Evolution …
@ansate Is this another you are reading because of me? I love this series. It just keeps getting better.
@picklish@books.theunseen.city This series has sat forever on my TBR, but I seem to always want to read something else first.
