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My rating scale: ★ = I didn't care for it and probably didn't finish it; ★★ = It didn't inspire but I might have finished it anyway; ★★★ = It was fine; ★★★★ = I enjoyed it; ★★★★★ = I couldn't put it down.
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Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how …
Mum stuck this translation of a short Japanese story in her latest care package. That's all I know.
It was fine. I didn't particularly love any of the characters, and I'm struggling to recall much of the plot now. I see it's the first in a series of four, and I can borrow the second, so maybe I will check it out at some point.
Kraken is a 2010 fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in the UK by Macmillan, and …
Last read one of Mcauley’s books 25 years ago in “Pasquale’s Angel”. Suspect this’ll be very different.
Kraken is a 2010 fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in …
Slogged through it, finally. I think I have to accept that the default for China Miéville is “it’s fine”, with the occasional rare masterpiece.
Kraken is a 2010 fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in …
Oh, this is getting very weird in a kind of horror-adjacent way that I am disliking. Book, you are on notice.
Kraken is a 2010 fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in …
Recommended to me on Mastodon when I mentioned I was reading The City and the City.
Oh yes, so satisfying. The whole crosshatched city premise pervades the whole story and makes for a thrilling read. One of my top five books of all time.
Had insomnia, this was the only recently-unread book on my ereader.
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.
The Moon will soon …
It was … fine, I guess? I feel like this was a different story than what I’d started in book 1. Maybe I’ll write a longer review later.
The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster …
Content warning Spoilers The Broken Earth trilogy
It’s taken me one and a half books to figure out what the derogatory word “rogga” is supposed to correspond to in our world. I’m slow sometimes.
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.
The Moon will soon …
Book three, here we go.
The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster …
The difficult second novel. Didn’t excite as much as The Fifth Season but I’ll plough on.
The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster …
Straight onto book two.
