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apžvelgė autoriaus R.F. Kuang knygą Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

R.F. Kuang: Babel (2022, Harper Voyager) 5 žvaigždutės

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, …

Babel

5 žvaigždutės

Įspėjimas dėl turinio I don't think I can review this without some vague spoilers

pacitavo R.F. Kuang knygą Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

R.F. Kuang: Babel (2022, Harper Voyager) 5 žvaigždutės

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, …

apžvelgė autoriaus Sequoia Nagamatsu knygą How High We Go in the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu: How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover, 2022, William Morrow) 4 žvaigždutės

Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work …

How High We Go in the Dark

4 žvaigždutės

A series of bleak, gritty glimpses of what's in store for us over the next few decades.

The tone is lightened a bit here and there with injections of optimism, but I think it works against itself a little when the optimism feels unwarranted.

The way that the characters from the different stories are linked reminds me a bit of Cloud Atlas (although I only saw the movie (sorry)).

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apžvelgė autoriaus Sonia Nimr knygą Wondrous Journeys In Strange Lands

Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey: Wondrous Journeys In Strange Lands (Paperback, 2020, Interlink) 3 žvaigždutės

Award-winning historical fantasy and literary folktale. Winner of the presigious Etisalat award.

In a tent …

Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands

3 žvaigždutės

I enjoyed the setting, and some of the substories were compelling, but as a whole it was too rambling and incohesive for me.

I feel like it would have worked better as a series of stories about different people from the same village or whatever instead of repeatedly being like "despite being in the middle of this incredibly urgent life crisis, the main character decides to spend six months teaching an older woman to fold laundry" or "despite having a very bad outcome two chapters ago, the main character decides to engage in exactly the same dangerous behavior with no additional precautions"

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