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I primarily listen to audiobooks using Libby, and sometimes Audible. Feel free to ask me about how I have 11 cards on Libby.

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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.

Ada Hoffmann: The Infinite (The Outside #3) (2023)

I like how much backstory we get in the fallen and the infinite, it doesn't feel as harsh as some other books with flash backs and feels evenly distributed