DE/EN*; lots of fanfiction, some books and sheet music.
Experimenting with Bookwyrm, to get away from Goodreads and a manually kept text file with things I read.
I mostly keep to the Goodreads rating scale (2 = it was okay, 3 = I liked it, 4 = I really liked it, 5 = top), where I also hand out a 2/3 for a 1/2 when my reason to dislike is more personal than caused by the book. Bad spelling tends to get a downgrade.
*) and bits of Latin, NL, ES, …
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Broken Angels (2003) is a military science fiction novel by British writer Richard Morgan. It is the sequel to Altered …
Etwas flach, aber immerhin wurden Umweltthemen mitangesprochen, und Justus lernt, wie scheiße Rauchen ist.
Das Buch soll aber besser als das Hörspiel sein.
Harry Potter #2
Throughout the summer holidays after his first year at Hogwarts School of …
The second book in this series is still written in present tense. It gets slightly worse though, as sentences dealing with the relative past are formed incorrectly.
The author’s A/Ns get worse, too.
Harry has some successes and otherwise keeps being his oblivious self.
And then, in the midst of a chapter, without this being recognisable, the author explodes the fourth wall, and the fifth to go with it, and switches to their PoV and basically deals with the rest of the year (which is just most of it) in a short bullet-point list and ends it. Just like that.
This is utterly insulting.
The only saving grace might be that the author hates Year 2 and might recover a bit for Year 3… might. But nothing of that is published yet.
Woah, going from five stars to one in just 10½ rather short chapters. (Even less, considering most …
The second book in this series is still written in present tense. It gets slightly worse though, as sentences dealing with the relative past are formed incorrectly.
The author’s A/Ns get worse, too.
Harry has some successes and otherwise keeps being his oblivious self.
And then, in the midst of a chapter, without this being recognisable, the author explodes the fourth wall, and the fifth to go with it, and switches to their PoV and basically deals with the rest of the year (which is just most of it) in a short bullet-point list and ends it. Just like that.
This is utterly insulting.
The only saving grace might be that the author hates Year 2 and might recover a bit for Year 3… might. But nothing of that is published yet.
Woah, going from five stars to one in just 10½ rather short chapters. (Even less, considering most of the story was still good enough.) This has to be some kind of record.
Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don …
Better cover image (here until I finally become a Librarian and can add it myself):
This essay from one of Ireland's leading barristers explores the nature of evil and the …
archiveofourown.org/works/1379752
Alternative edition of: www.goodreads.com/book/show/43790134-scales-of-change
2½ stars, but tonight’s Brexit is kinda fitting. Not the best writing, but overall made me smile. Also, Luna.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by …
2½ stars, rounding up for story length (and even then, I’m generous)
At times hard to follow. Way too much romance. Tons of OCs, and a rather OOC Harry. Family Magic as a panacea, inconsistent enemies and inconsequent dealing with traitors in various kinds. I never understood where Bill stands in all this, till the ending (which wasn’t all that satisfying either), and other loose threads exist.
No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le …
Commentary by Ursula K. Le Guin herself on this book: web.archive.org/web/20191125013821/https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/21/lao-tzu-tao-te-ching-ursula-k-le-guin/
Meitantei Konan (Japanese language, 2013, Shōgakkan)
A high school boy, who is an excellent detective, is poisoned and shrunk to the size of a six-year old …
Meitantei Konan (Japanese language, 2012, Shōgakkan)
A high school boy, who is an excellent detective, is poisoned and shrunk to the size of a six-year old …
