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im easy to please and think life is too short to read books I'm uninterested in. that being said, i have Got to figure out a rating system that makes sense.
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91% complete! Kal has read 11 of 12 books.
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Kal rated The Dragon Republic: 5 stars
The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War)
Rin’s story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War—an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with …
Kal finished reading The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War)
The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War)
Rin’s story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War—an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with …
Kal rated The Poppy War: 4 stars
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War, #1)
A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of …
Kal finished reading The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War, #1)
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War, #1)
A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of …
Kal set a goal to read 30 books in 2025
Kal rated The Illustrated Man: 4 stars
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring …
Kal finished reading The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring …
Kal started reading The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring …
Kal rated Tickets for the Ark: 5 stars
Kal finished reading Tickets for the Ark by Rebecca Nesbit
Kal started reading Gender Euphoria by Laura Kate Dale
Kal started reading Tickets for the Ark by Rebecca Nesbit
I just finished chapter 1, and I already really like this. It immediately gets into why separating humans from the "wild" is illogical, and how that kind of puritanical belief has been used to justify genocide too.
I just finished chapter 1, and I already really like this. It immediately gets into why separating humans from the "wild" is illogical, and how that kind of puritanical belief has been used to justify genocide too.
Kal replied to jam@bookrastinating.com's status
Content warning spoilers for Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop; #HoloReads
@jam@bookrastinating.com omg I missed this notif!
it was Soooo 5 stars for me. not really anything mindblowing, nor did it give me brainrot, but I loved it for being such a cozy, comforting read. I love how all the characters got to develop and grow with the bookshop! I love how all of them are so different, in terms of background, personality, and age, but they all play a part in making their space Work. I love that they all had different struggles. Idk. I got to relate to them about a lot of different things.
One of my favorite parts was that letter Yeongju writes Minjun about how she wants the bookshop to last longer and how important it is that she can pay him well. Smthn about how very anti-capitalist this book is, while also acknowleding that the bookshop exists in a capitalist society, and that getting compensated for his labor is a vital part of the relationships theyre nurturing,, aaaa.
I wish my friends read it, in the same way I wish I was around to give them hugs, yknow?
Hbu!! what are your thoughts?
Kal rated Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop: 5 stars
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan
There was only one thing on her mind.
'I must start a bookshop.'
Yeongju did everything she was …