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Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …
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reading crustacean started reading Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy …
started reading this in french, wish me luck 😬
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gwenprime reviewed My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's …
its bad but i liked it anyway?
3 stars
It's a book about nothing but sort of a fun mesmerizing read anyway. It feels like discount millenial Willa Cather.
The book is also full of wierd anachronisms. all the characters have cellphones in the 2000, there are drugs mentioned which wouldn't be released for several years. It really feels like she shohorned in the 9/11 thing at the last minute
That said I did enjoy the read.
It's a book about nothing but sort of a fun mesmerizing read anyway. It feels like discount millenial Willa Cather.
The book is also full of wierd anachronisms. all the characters have cellphones in the 2000, there are drugs mentioned which wouldn't be released for several years. It really feels like she shohorned in the 9/11 thing at the last minute
That said I did enjoy the read.
reading crustacean finished reading My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh: My year of rest and relaxation (2018)
My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others …
reading crustacean wants to read Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman
Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman
An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith’s lover, Julia, …
reading crustacean started reading How to Meditate With Pema Chodron by Pema Chödrön
reading crustacean wants to read I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in …
reading crustacean started reading Witch King by Martha Wells
Witch King by Martha Wells
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always been Kai-Enna!
After being …
reading crustacean wants to read Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s …
reading crustacean wants to read Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
Lucky Day is the latest from Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays, …
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Jensi 🏴🚩 • he/him quoted Die Insel der Tausend Leuchttürme by Walter Moers (Zamonien, #10)
Das Buchereignis des Jahres 2023: Ein neues, reich illustriertes Abenteuer aus dem phantastischen Kontinent Zamonien …
Am Fuße des Leuchtturms herrscht die Finsternis, aber darüber strahlt das Licht der Weisheit in die Ferne. Es sendet seine Botschaft von Einsamkeit zu Einsamkeit. Und diese Botschaft lautet: Du bist nicht allein.
— Die Insel der Tausend Leuchttürme by Walter Moers (Zamonien, #10) (Page 609)
reading crustacean reviewed Antichristie by Mithu Sanyal
London 2022, die Königin ist tot! An den Trauernden vorbei rennt Durga: internationale Drehbuchautorin, Tochter …
ok cool
4 stars
hab viel über den indischen unabhängigkeitskampf gelernt. witzig geschrieben (mag mithu sanyals humor sehr), aber etwas langatmig und von der krimi-handlung war ich nicht so überzeugt.
reading crustacean finished reading Antichristie by Mithu Sanyal
Antichristie by Mithu Sanyal
London 2022, die Königin ist tot! An den Trauernden vorbei rennt Durga: internationale Drehbuchautorin, Tochter eines Inders und einer Deutschen, …
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pdotb reviewed Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
I loved it, but...
5 stars
I can't remember the last time I read a novel that I felt so much. I love the characters, particularly the three central women, I love the story, wild though it is, I love the descriptions, and I love the ending. I felt invested in the characters' lives, particularly Katrina's, in a way I rarely do.
I'm not sure I can unequivocally recommend it, though. Ryka Aoki doesn't shy away from showing how hard Katrina's life is. The first few chapters are particularly tough going, but even when things pick up for her, it's still not all beer and skittles. Not sure I could provide a definitive list of CWs, but transphobia and sexual assault would have to be in there.
I can't remember the last time I read a novel that I felt so much. I love the characters, particularly the three central women, I love the story, wild though it is, I love the descriptions, and I love the ending. I felt invested in the characters' lives, particularly Katrina's, in a way I rarely do.
I'm not sure I can unequivocally recommend it, though. Ryka Aoki doesn't shy away from showing how hard Katrina's life is. The first few chapters are particularly tough going, but even when things pick up for her, it's still not all beer and skittles. Not sure I could provide a definitive list of CWs, but transphobia and sexual assault would have to be in there.
reading crustacean started reading Antichristie by Mithu Sanyal
Antichristie by Mithu Sanyal
London 2022, die Königin ist tot! An den Trauernden vorbei rennt Durga: internationale Drehbuchautorin, Tochter eines Inders und einer Deutschen, …