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Här får vi åter möta paret Nylander, nu i nya hembygget Cantella II, med sikte på Medelhavet. En annorlunda färd …
An award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft.
A …
An award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, …
so far, so outstanding *_*
Entertaining anthology of fungi-related short stories often (but not always) with a horror-bent.
My favourites (with particulary outstanding shorts marked as †)
Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is …
The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's, (born c. 1763), intimate and moving account of his marriage - …
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel …
finished this last night. the ending unexpectedly and absolutely wrecked me
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel …
found this in my bookshelf: one of those rescue specimens from a recycling station that i was gifted among a set of three years ago. a pleasant surprise!
structurally flexible. engaging characters. lightly nostalgic (but not too much!). devoured in 4 days: it was enjoyable!
it was sad, at times. i think i enjoyed all characters? except for probably dov. the rendition of relationships over such a span of time is something i don't recall ever reading. the internal monologues and renditions of conflicts from different points of view were something special, i feel
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
oopf so GOOD. i loved the world-building and the narrative was well constructed!
Malatesta began writing the series of dialogues that make up At the Café: Conversations on …
started reading this last night as i was scouring my ereader for a new book, and stumbled across it already on there, waiting
it's freely (and afaik legally, being authored 1920) available online from multiple sources, just give the title a search. i find the dialogue format excellent reading, it's probably one of my favourite devices next to the epistolary novel format
i liked how this started (right in the middle of the action! a very different world to the one i inhabit! that 2011 sci-fi novel feel) but around 2/5ths in it started going really crap with the plot
i'm not sure if i fooled myself by the promising start but i also feel like the writing worsened in the last half?
do not recommend lol, just dutifully finishing this rn
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few Steersmen, are members of an …
Pinball, 1973 (1973年のピンボール, Sen-Kyūhyaku-Nanajū-San-Nen no Pinbōru) is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The second book …
