Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too.
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23% complete! Barbarius has read 12 of 52 books.
‘My mother used to say I was born reaching, which is true. She also used to say it would get …
A young girl's disastrous first foray through the multiverse cleaves her from her family and abandons her in a homeless …
There was only one thing on her mind.
'I must start a bookshop.'
Yeongju did everything she was …
There was only one thing on her mind.
'I must start a bookshop.'
…
Dissonance before moments of harmony makes the harmony sound beautiful. Just as harmony and dissonance exist side by side in music, life is the same. Because harmony is preceded by dissonance, that's why we think life is beautiful.
— Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan (Page 104)
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There was only one thing on her mind.
'I must start a bookshop.'
Yeongju did everything she was …
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and …
A little bit like if The Restaurant At the End of the Universe were a hotel instead (but less fantastical/absurd), and with just a touch of The Communist Manifesto thrown in.
I really enjoyed the style of writing, where each chapter is from a different character's point of view. It meant it read a little bit like a collection of short stories, which I felt made it easier to read.
A little bit like if The Restaurant At the End of the Universe were a hotel instead (but less fantastical/absurd), and with just a touch of The Communist Manifesto thrown in.
I really enjoyed the style of writing, where each chapter is from a different character's point of view. It meant it read a little bit like a collection of short stories, which I felt made it easier to read.
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and …
Really nice and wholesome. A wonderful read.
Really nice and wholesome. A wonderful read.
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and …
...but she was also panicked in case the good tables were full, forcing her to spend two weeks making small talk with a bunch of bug-eyed, slack-jawed, mouth-breathing professors of the Humanities.
— Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis (Page 85)
😂 Me, at any staff event.
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the …
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur …
But I didn't enjoy it. Though I can understand why people might like it, I won't be recommending it to anyone.
Overall I think I just found Sam and Sadie unlikeable as characters. I feel like they were pretty jerky to everyone around them, and each other, and themselves, for pretty much of the time.
I also didn't like how some elements of the story were "ret-con'd" in several chapters later: "oh hey, I never mentioned he's had a dog this whole time, well he has, and now I'll detail those past events, even though we're five chapters beyond that point."
Finally, I found the ending completely unsatisfying. I know this is a subjective point, but the last page kind of just happened and then I realised that the next bit of text was acknowledgements and not another chapter.
But I didn't enjoy it. Though I can understand why people might like it, I won't be recommending it to anyone.
Overall I think I just found Sam and Sadie unlikeable as characters. I feel like they were pretty jerky to everyone around them, and each other, and themselves, for pretty much of the time.
I also didn't like how some elements of the story were "ret-con'd" in several chapters later: "oh hey, I never mentioned he's had a dog this whole time, well he has, and now I'll detail those past events, even though we're five chapters beyond that point."
Finally, I found the ending completely unsatisfying. I know this is a subjective point, but the last page kind of just happened and then I realised that the next bit of text was acknowledgements and not another chapter.
Move Over, Monopoly!
Find your new favorite board game with this incredible curated guide …
I had to return it to the library before I finished it...
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur …
I did not enjoy that.
Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father …
"But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals. So went my mother's patron, in a spectacular display of Science." "That's very sad," sighed September. "Terribly sad! But grief is wasted on the very roasted."
— The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente, Ana Juan (Fairyland, #1) (Page 42)
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur …
There's something about this I can't quite put my finger on that's stopping me from really getting into this. Which is weird, because its subject matter is right up my alley.
Maybe it's the ambling timelines; the constant past, present, future being narrated concurrently?
I'm going to persist, because I might also be struggling for other not-book-related reasons... Life, that's it!
There's something about this I can't quite put my finger on that's stopping me from really getting into this. Which is weird, because its subject matter is right up my alley.
Maybe it's the ambling timelines; the constant past, present, future being narrated concurrently?
I'm going to persist, because I might also be struggling for other not-book-related reasons... Life, that's it!
