We're a plural system who loves queer & anarchist scifi.
But recently we just read a few randomly picked up mystery books in a row, in German, and we tend to review books in the language we read them in. That or similar may happen again, be warned.
No reading goals, just feelings.
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It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen …
Two species of humans — one technologically advanced and one living in nature — have coexisted peacefully on their home …
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom …
Read it for the second time. I had forgotten how much violence of various kinds there was. I had also forgotten about some of the fantastical elements. There's a lot of relationships being negotiated under marginalisation and repression. The plot is pretty cool, the whole story is just very intense, with all that interpersonal stuff. I fell asleep for the last half hour or so, and it felt super absurd, waking up to that story having finished, and instead my flatmates talking about the cats.
Read it for the second time. I had forgotten how much violence of various kinds there was. I had also forgotten about some of the fantastical elements. There's a lot of relationships being negotiated under marginalisation and repression. The plot is pretty cool, the whole story is just very intense, with all that interpersonal stuff. I fell asleep for the last half hour or so, and it felt super absurd, waking up to that story having finished, and instead my flatmates talking about the cats.
Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at …
Oooh. It's. Uhmmm. It started with a complicated military scifi vibe and I thought "oof that's a bit hard to follow in my current thinkiness level" but now it's closer to my space-opera-ish preferences but still hard to follow. Also some very cool things though. Including ones thatiI'm not thinky enough though. Copying consciousnesses, creating diverging timelines of yourself, yay. One downside so far is that it feels very straight. Also the audiobook is read so fast that I double-checked if I had accidentally set the speed to 1.5x or smth. I hadn't.
Oooh. It's. Uhmmm. It started with a complicated military scifi vibe and I thought "oof that's a bit hard to follow in my current thinkiness level" but now it's closer to my space-opera-ish preferences but still hard to follow. Also some very cool things though. Including ones thatiI'm not thinky enough though. Copying consciousnesses, creating diverging timelines of yourself, yay. One downside so far is that it feels very straight. Also the audiobook is read so fast that I double-checked if I had accidentally set the speed to 1.5x or smth. I hadn't.
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. …
I'm not enjoying this as deeply as the first time and I'm getting distracted a lot, but it's rly nice still. I love ART.
I'm not enjoying this as deeply as the first time and I'm getting distracted a lot, but it's rly nice still. I love ART.
Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. But suddenly they are together for …
I was a little more annoyed by it than by the first book, but it's still nice
I was a little more annoyed by it than by the first book, but it's still nice
Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for Girls, and all she has of …
So I really enjoyed this, just, the plot seemed super confusing to me at some points and I thought that the style it was told in was surprisingly achronological buuuuut I think the reasons for that are a) that I was pretty distracted and b) that I must have accidentally skipped at least an hour, managing to listen to 5 hours of the book in what was at most 4 hours in my world, at normal speed. Well, either way, I liked it.
Lu ist ziemlich angenervt – von ihrer Mutter, von den Jungs in ihrer Klasse, von …
Ich hab es recht gern mögen: zwei komplizierte Leute lassen sich auf eine Freundinnenschaft ein, und es gibt auch einen imaginären Freund. Das Ende find ich jetzt nicht so super, aber passt schon.
Lu ist ziemlich angenervt – von ihrer Mutter, von den Jungs in ihrer Klasse, von der Schule. Nicht mal beim …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be …
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a …
»Zwischen zwei Sternen« ist Becky Chambers zweiter Science-Fiction-Roman aus dem Wayfarer-Universum - eine optimistische Space Opera mit High-Tech-Städten auf fremden …
A fast-paced fantasy adventure set in a broken, future England, following the further exploits of the outlaws Scarlett and Browne.
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"Die Galaxie und das Licht darin" ist der vierte und letzte Band des legendären Wayfarer-Zyklus von Becky Chambers.
Das …
Witty, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times. TJ Klune brings us a warm …
