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I primarily listen to audiobooks using Libby, and sometimes Audible. Feel free to ask me about how I have 15 cards on Libby.

Check out my book lists about things like Asian authors, or Autistic characters!

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Lola Milholland: Group Living and Other Recipes (Hardcover, 2024, Spiegel & Grau LLC)

A spirited and timely exploration of group living that encourages readers to reconsider the meaning …

I don't remember the exact part so maybe I'll grab it later. there's a point where her mom declares that she didn't disinherit enough from her family! i really liked that.

Adam Greenfield: Lifehouse (Paperback, Verso) No rating

We are living through a long emergency - a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, droughts, …

Didn't find it compelling enough at the start maybe will come back to it not really new concepts for me at the start at least

Aldous Huxley: Schone neue Welt (Paperback, 2014, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, FISCHER Taschenbuch)

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today …

I admit it's written in a fairly entertaining way but the story still sucks

commented on Schone neue Welt by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley: Schone neue Welt (Paperback, 2014, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, FISCHER Taschenbuch)

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today …

I don't really like this book. It feels like Translation State but maybe a little less juvenile and also just worse overall. I like the audiobook narrator though.

commented on Green mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars (2))

Kim Stanley Robinson: Green mars (Paperback, 1995, Bantam Books)

In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic …

As the series goes on, I'm able to follow what is happening less and less

Yan Ge, Jeremy Tiang: Strange Beasts of China (Hardcover, 2021, Melville House)

In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the …

My partner finally read it after I had mentioned it as a book I really liked. He agreed it's a little confusing but has some good spooky bits.