I mostly read sci-fi and spec fiction but also dig poetry good fiction and the occasional non-fiction
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From the back cover:
Frank Herbert, author of the world-famous Dune, is one of today's …
I hated this book. Took me 3 weeks to get through it because I couldn't care less about it. I should have stopped reading it 2 weeks ago.
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It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing …
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity’s …
Unsurprisingly, poems about someones time in the Vietnam war are crushingly dark
A masterwork novella of foam and rain.
A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation …
An easy read but this didn't live up the hype for me. Also, the way in which she describes the experiments on mice is done so coldly and without an ounce of empathy that I'm pretty sure she hates animals. A very small part of the book but I could not shake it.
Ill be honest, I don't think I followed this at all
@peoplelikebooks Yeah I feel the same way about it as you did. I love Yoko Ogawa and have read most of her books that have been translated in English (I think). I loved the housekeeper and the professor. Hotel Iris is a little intense and Diving Pool are three anxiety inducing short stories but it was great.
@peoplelikebooks Did you like this? Have you read any of her other novels?
In the 29th century, the Hegemony of Man comprises hundreds of planets connected by farcaster …
Honestly, this was mid
In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, …
Najeeba knows.
She has had The Call. But how can a 13-year-old girl have the Call? Only men and boys …
@throatmuppet@ramblingreaders.org A Country of Ghost is my favorite of hers!
