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Checking this out! I don't read fast but I am consistent :D

For work I read a lot of scientific papers so sadly I don't have too much energy to come home and read much of the political stuff that is still on my wish list. So there will probably be quite a lot of (science) fiction ...

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Makana Yamamoto: Hammajang Luck (2025, Harper Voyager)

Edie is done with crime. Eight years behind bars changes a person—costs them too much …

Picked this up together with another book. Queer Hawaiʻian authorship peaked my interest plus it's been a while since I sat and read some scifi. So far I am enjoying the book.

Alison Watts, 青山美智子, Michiko Aoyama: What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (Paperback, 2024, Penguin Books, Limited)

What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo''s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. But she …

Wholesome

Just a very nice and easy to read short interwoven story collection.. No real hard edges. Recommending as a good read in these increasingly dark times.

Ishi Robinson: Sweetness in the Skin (2025, Penguin Books, Limited) No rating

Great book, really enjoyed it. Would love to hear from someone who actually knows Jamaica how they perceive it though. Of course since I have not been there I don't know the neighbourhoods described in the book or the culture it describes.

Definitely recommend this!

Kang Han: The Vegetarian (Paperback, 2018, Granta Publications)

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions …

Finished it. Not really my cup of tea. It reads like exploitation (as in the movie genre). I think I understand where the author is going in terms of the central point of the book, I just tend to think that using certain forms of shock and gore to get there is too easy, especially when much of it centres around sexual violence toward women (irrespective of the gender of the author).