Deborah Pickett started reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Need some cosy words.
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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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Deborah Pickett rated Before the Coffee Gets Cold: 3 stars
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more …
Deborah Pickett finished reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving …
This was fine. I didn't really get emotionally attached to any of the characters, and the premise was getting a bit worn by the end.
This was fine. I didn't really get emotionally attached to any of the characters, and the premise was getting a bit worn by the end.
Deborah Pickett finished reading Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Daina Taimina
This richly illustrated book discusses non-Euclidean geometry and the hyperbolic plane in an accessible way. …
This got buried, I have no idea which pile it's in, haven't seen it for months.
This got buried, I have no idea which pile it's in, haven't seen it for months.
Deborah Pickett wants to read Gardens of the sun by Paul J. McAuley
Borrowed from Mum in case I bomb out on Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
Deborah Pickett started reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving …
Another small translated-from-Japanese novel Mum loaned me. It’s a riff on the time travel genre. Not sold on the concept yet, and the writing is merely OK.
Deborah Pickett rated Convenience Store Woman: 2 stars
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …
Deborah Pickett stopped reading Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how …
Content warning Spoilers, plot of Convenience Store Woman
No, I'm done with this book. Yes, it's quirky and the prose of the translation is enjoyable, but the endless plot about Keiko needing to find a husband, and the reappearance of the frankly disgusting Shihara... I bailed as soon as the sham marriage was proposed. I don't care that—according to the synopsis I subsequently read—she dumps him in the end; by that point I'll want to smack them both.
Deborah Pickett started reading Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
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.
Mum stuck this translation of a short Japanese story in her latest care package. That's all I know.
Deborah Pickett rated The Quiet War: 3 stars
Deborah Pickett finished reading The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley
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.
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.
Deborah Pickett rated Kraken: 3 stars
Kraken by China Miéville
Kraken is a 2010 fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in the UK by Macmillan, and …
Deborah Pickett started reading The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley
Last read one of Mcauley’s books 25 years ago in “Pasquale’s Angel”. Suspect this’ll be very different.
Deborah Pickett finished reading Kraken by China Miéville
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.
Deborah Pickett commented on Kraken by China Miéville
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.