cblgh@bookwyrm.social a commencé la lecture de Jagannath par Karin Tidbeck
An award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, …
so far, so outstanding *_*
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cblgh@bookwyrm.social a publié une critique de Fungi par Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Fungi
Entertaining anthology of fungi-related short stories often (but not always) with a horror-bent.
My favourites (with particulary outstanding shorts marked as †)
- Last Bloom on the Sage by Andrew Penn Romine
- The Pilgrims of Parthen† by Kristopher Reisz
- Kum, Raúl (The Unknown Terror) by Steve Berman
- Tubby McMungus, Fat From Fungus† by Molly Tanzer and Jesse Bullington
- Wild Mushrooms† by Jane Hertenstein
- Where Dead Men Go to Dream by A.C. Wise
- Dust From a Dark Flower† by Daniel Mills
- A Monster in the Midst by Julio Toro San Martin
- The Pearl in the Oyster and the Oyster under Glass† by Lisa M. Bradley
- Letters to a Fungus by Polenth Blake
- The Shaft Through The Middle of It All by Nick Mamatas
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a noté Fungi : 4 étoiles
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a noté The Blacktongue Thief : 4 étoiles
The Blacktongue Thief de Christopher Buehlman (Blacktongue, #1)
Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a noté Old Man of the Moon : 5 étoiles
Old Man of the Moon de Shen Fu
The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's, (born c. 1763), intimate and moving account of his marriage - …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a terminé la lecture de Farewell to Arms par Ernest Hemingway
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel …
finished this last night. the ending unexpectedly and absolutely wrecked me
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a commencé la lecture de Farewell to Arms par Ernest Hemingway
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel …
found this in my bookshelf: one of those rescue specimens from a recycling station that i was gifted among a set of three years ago. a pleasant surprise!
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a publié une critique de Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow par Gabrielle Zevin
to morrow
structurally flexible. engaging characters. lightly nostalgic (but not too much!). devoured in 4 days: it was enjoyable!
it was sad, at times. i think i enjoyed all characters? except for probably dov. the rendition of relationships over such a span of time is something i don't recall ever reading. the internal monologues and renditions of conflicts from different points of view were something special, i feel
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a terminé la lecture de The Tainted Cup par Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
oopf so GOOD. i loved the world-building and the narrative was well constructed!
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a commencé la lecture de At the Café par Errico Malatesta
Malatesta began writing the series of dialogues that make up At the Café: Conversations on …
started reading this last night as i was scouring my ereader for a new book, and stumbled across it already on there, waiting
it's freely (and afaik legally, being authored 1920) available online from multiple sources, just give the title a search. i find the dialogue format excellent reading, it's probably one of my favourite devices next to the epistolary novel format
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a commenté The Eden Paradox par Barry Kirwan
i liked how this started (right in the middle of the action! a very different world to the one i inhabit! that 2011 sci-fi novel feel) but around 2/5ths in it started going really crap with the plot
i'm not sure if i fooled myself by the promising start but i also feel like the writing worsened in the last half?
do not recommend lol, just dutifully finishing this rn
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a noté The Steerswoman : 4 étoiles
The Steerswoman de Rosemary Kirstein
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few Steersmen, are members of an …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a noté Pinball, 1973 (The Rat, #2) : 3 étoiles
Pinball, 1973 (The Rat, #2) de Haruki Murakami, Kh. Murakami
Pinball, 1973 (1973年のピンボール, Sen-Kyūhyaku-Nanajū-San-Nen no Pinbōru) is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The second book …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a noté The Gone-Away World : 5 étoiles
Nick Harkaway: The Gone-Away World (2009, Vintage Contemporaries)
The Gone-Away World de Nick Harkaway
A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an …