My reads in 2023.
2023 Public
Created by Frecklemaid
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Elle et son chat by Naruki Nakagawa, Makoto Shinkai
4 stars
C’était au début du printemps, par un jour de pluie. Ce jour-là, elle m’a recueilli. Depuis, je suis son chat …
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Berlin stories by Robert Walser (New York review books classics)
In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important …
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Le livre noir de la mode by Audrey Millet
La mondialisation a radicalement modifié l’industrie de l’habillement et le rapport au corps. Le contenu de nos garde-robes révèle les …
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The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
4 stars
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That …
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
5 stars
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
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Out of the Ruins by Charlie Jane Anders, Emily St. John Mandel, China Miéville
4 stars
WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE FROM THE FIRE?
In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value …
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Esperanto and its rivals by Roberto Garvía Soto (Haney foundation series)
4 stars
The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate …
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine by Kurt Vonnegut (Henry Holt Classic)
4 stars
Eliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human …
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
4 stars
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her …
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Iron Dream,the by Disch, Thomas M.
Norman Spinrad's 1972 alternate history, gives us both a metafictional what-if novel and a cutting satire of one of the …
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The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski
As the twentieth century draws to a close, the United States has emerged as the world's only superpower: no other …
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Western Philosophy in Simple Spanish by Olly Richards
Improve your Spanish and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter.
When it comes to mastering a foreign language, reading …
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A time of changes by Robert Silverberg (Panther science fiction)
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began …
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