Some SF, fantasy, and obscure LGBT, mixed with travel, photography theory and women authors, in French and English.
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We all have to work to live, even if it is an illegal survey for …
A climate thriller and anticipation novel, Always North is really well written, with enough poetry, vivid action and complex characters to embark the reader and take them wherever the story goes. And it never goes where it would be predictable -- only the climate catastrophe is.
Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction …
It's not just that the title of this anthology is genius, these are stories of ghosts, encounters, lost lands, resistance and connexion, and they are heartbreaking in a million ways.
It's not just that the title of this anthology is genius, these are stories of ghosts, encounters, lost lands, resistance and connexion, and they are heartbreaking in a million ways.
Dans une grande ville d'un pays en guerre, un spécialiste de l'interrogatoire accomplit chaque jour …
It's a short read, but subtly tense and very well written.
It's a short read, but subtly tense and very well written.
Le coeur battant, Emma Lindahl cogne à la porte du manoir dressé sur une petite …
I picked this book because I'd just photographed the author -- who is super nice -- on the very island where the action is happening. Maybe brutal crime novels aren't too much my thing anymore, all the POV characters withhold information, in one case it works really well, in the others, not so much...
I picked this book because I'd just photographed the author -- who is super nice -- on the very island where the action is happening. Maybe brutal crime novels aren't too much my thing anymore, all the POV characters withhold information, in one case it works really well, in the others, not so much...
One secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…
Renata Ghali believed …
A really good read, the main character is nuanced and the plot strong -- even though the trope "I have a really dark secret, let me tell you about it much later" is a bit overused in novels, it still works, as the story is more than just that.
A really good read, the main character is nuanced and the plot strong -- even though the trope "I have a really dark secret, let me tell you about it much later" is a bit overused in novels, it still works, as the story is more than just that.
A fun and gripping book, full of mystery.
Would you give up everything to change the world?
Humanity clings to life on …
Content warning Spoilers ahead!
Good beginning and plenty of interesting ideas throughout the book, but the pacing falls apart, and the characters lack of depth and real evolution.
(Also, by the middle of the book, it become apparent that one of the main POV character isn't very smart, and by the end, she's obviously dumb as rocks. And then, like that, the book ends.)
With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period …
Great storytelling, I was enchanted by the world Nghi Vo has created.
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth …
Good story and pleasant read, but I wasn't really taken by the writing.
Good story and pleasant read, but I wasn't really taken by the writing.
Un livre court mais rempli d'informations et de sources qui met en perspective les relations entre l'Ukraine et la Russie.
Un livre court mais rempli d'informations et de sources qui met en perspective les relations entre l'Ukraine et la Russie.