This has to be one of the best novels, I've ever read. True, it's a big commitment, but the sprawling storyline and the character development give this story an unprecedented depth.
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Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 rated Uncomfortable Labels: 4 stars
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 rated Gender Euphoria: 5 stars
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” …
Review of 'East of Eden' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
This has to be one of the best novels, I've ever read. True, it's a big commitment, but the sprawling storyline and the character development give this story an unprecedented depth.
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 reviewed Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, #1)
Dante can swim. Ari can't. Dante is articulate and self-assured. Ari has a hard time …
Review of 'Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
This is quite the view into the life of adolescence, queerness, trauma, mexican-american life, and much more, narrated with a lot of joy, anger, grief, and sorrow in a beautiful book
This is quite the view into the life of adolescence, queerness, trauma, mexican-american life, and much more, narrated with a lot of joy, anger, grief, and sorrow in a beautiful book
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 rated Die Revolution von 1918/19: 4 stars
Review of 'Gewitter über Pluto' on 'Storygraph'
1 star
this book, while presenting a mildly interesting crime plot just had too many slips of homophobic, transphobic, racist and misogynistic language for my enjoyment. And while the narrator of this book is a dick, this is at leat in the first half of the book never framed as something bad. I kinda enjoyed some flourishes of language but this was just too much
this book, while presenting a mildly interesting crime plot just had too many slips of homophobic, transphobic, racist and misogynistic language for my enjoyment. And while the narrator of this book is a dick, this is at leat in the first half of the book never framed as something bad. I kinda enjoyed some flourishes of language but this was just too much
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 rated The Complete Maus: 5 stars
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 rated Bloom: 5 stars
Bloom by Kevin Panetta
Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band―if he …
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
In Hank Green's sweeping, cinematic debut novel, a young woman becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something …
The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks
In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts …
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in …
Review of 'Penguin English Library Great Expectations' on 'Storygraph'
The book has just been a drag to read... and never hooked me enough on its premise
The book has just been a drag to read... and never hooked me enough on its premise
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 rated Prisoners of Geography: 2 stars
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of …
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 reviewed Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the …
Review of 'Homegoing' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
For me, this debut novel is without a doubt worth a recommendation. While its sprawling nature and largely unremarkable writing might make it fall flat for some readers, it presented an interesting, captivating story for me. Of course, this book isn’t worthy of a Nobel prize in literature, but that is an overly pretentious expectation for a writer. This book has its special pull for me, even if that didn’t come from the plot itself, but from my expectations and a collection of great characters.
As a whole, I enjoyed the depth, the unique structure of this book gave its characters, especially the strand of the family that remained in Ghana. And I enjoyed the look into Ghanaian history, that gave me the appetite to look into it more. The same unfortunately can’t be said for the view into US history. Though it certainly offers a unique perspective of slavery …
For me, this debut novel is without a doubt worth a recommendation. While its sprawling nature and largely unremarkable writing might make it fall flat for some readers, it presented an interesting, captivating story for me. Of course, this book isn’t worthy of a Nobel prize in literature, but that is an overly pretentious expectation for a writer. This book has its special pull for me, even if that didn’t come from the plot itself, but from my expectations and a collection of great characters.
As a whole, I enjoyed the depth, the unique structure of this book gave its characters, especially the strand of the family that remained in Ghana. And I enjoyed the look into Ghanaian history, that gave me the appetite to look into it more. The same unfortunately can’t be said for the view into US history. Though it certainly offers a unique perspective of slavery founded in the loss of family history, that is stark in contrast to the other strand of the family.
more on chwiggys-world.de/2020/07/15/gyasiyaa-homegoing/
As a whole, I enjoyed the depth, the unique structure of this book gave its characters, especially the strand of the family that remained in Ghana. And I enjoyed the look into Ghanaian history, that gave me the appetite to look into it more. The same unfortunately can’t be said for the view into US history. Though it certainly offers a unique perspective of slavery founded in the loss of family history, that is stark in contrast to the other strand of the family.
more on chwiggys-world.de/2020/07/15/gyasiyaa-homegoing/
The Long War is a science fiction novel by British writers Terry Pratchett and Stephen …
Review of 'The Long War' on 'Storygraph'
1 star
Now, would I recommend this book? Hell no! I know a few people who really were engrossed by the world-building and who really enjoy the whole series of books, but to me, with hindsight, even the first book had some of the issues of this book.
If you really like world-building this book might be a pretty enjoyable and rompy read, but don’t expect a good story. I think you can read it for the vignettes of worlds, but the book is absolutely bereft of growth. For the most part, it’s characters in vague search of a plot and the titular long war that never comes.
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https://chwiggys-world.de/2020/05/14/pratchettterry-thelongwar/