Nick reviewed CANE, CORN and GULLY by KAMARIA KINSHASA
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4 stars
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I enjoy a wide range of books, from non-fiction with a progressive slant, to science fiction, to poetry, to experimental stuff. I read in Spanish sometimes. Recent highlights, to give a flavour: The Half-built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys The Lovesongs of W.E. Du Bois - Honore Fannone Jeffers The Value of Everything - Marian Mazzucatto A Prayer for the Crown Shy - Becky Chambers Post-colonial Love Poems - Natalie Diaz
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Nick reviewed Down the rabbit hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private …
Entertaining...
4 stars
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Nick reviewed The Actual Star by Monica Byrne
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents —telling …
Unapologetic
5 stars
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Nick reviewed The Actual Star by Monica Byrne
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents —telling …
Unapologetic
5 stars
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Nick reviewed Poetics of Work by Noémi Lefebvre
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4 stars
Nick reviewed A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …
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5 stars
Nick reviewed The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato
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5 stars
Nick reviewed Ephemeron by Fiona Benson
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4 stars
Nick reviewed Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera
Falls short
3 stars
As far as it goes it is absorbing, and illuminating, the book is full of anecdotes about the history of Empire, and it goes some way to reassessing the legacy of Empire, but it becomes repetitive, and pulls away sometimes from drawing the conclusions that seem to stand out from the stories he tells. In the end though he shows that imperialism has clearly shaped modern Britain, he doesnt really go deep enough into How it did/does that.
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race …
Rewarding
5 stars
It is hard work at times. There are some very very harrowing parts, but it is a beautiful, absorbing honourable book.
Nick reviewed A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …
Marvellous
5 stars
I am telling everyone about this book at the moment!! Myriad delightful details. And it feels like a future I would want to live in!