wow books, amirite? trying to replace lethargic social media usage with slothful reading
(only accepts follow requests from other bookwyrms)
Ce lien ouvre une nouvelle fenêtre
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!
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
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
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few Steersmen, are members of an …
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 …
Nick Harkaway: The Gone-Away World (2009, Vintage Contemporaries)
A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an …
Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he’s called in to …
finished reading kallocain during lunch, it has such luscious sentences
it feels like a poem wearing the guise of a novel. the first time i tried to read it, i read like i would any other novel. but for me, it only revealed itself, and was frankly only understandable, when taking the pace down a few notches
i don't know what translation keeps the dreamy poetry of its sentences intact; you could always learn swedish
The international publishing sensation now available in paperback: an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, …
Superb book, absolutely addictive, and wonderfully written. For other readers of a similar specious worry: it does not take place on a spacestation, but very much so on planet Earth.
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of …
started this a while back, bounced hard. saw rave reviews on bookwyrm and went "wait a minute... maybe it's Actually Good?" so i took another go at it. it was indeed actually good!!
"Two decades ago the U.S. Government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to a desert prison, far …
Life for Sale (Japanese: 命売ります, Hepburn: Inochi Urimasu) is a 1968 novel by Yukio Mishima. …
read about half and felt "yup! i'm done with this book"
not bad, not great. very much wears its serializiation origins on its cuffs so to speak
BEFORE: In Bristol’s centre lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, …
felt like a re-read of this for some reason :~
absolute banger, hard to believe this was written before the first world war because god dang it describes many facets of modern society exceedingly well