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ju

ju@lire.boitam.eu

Joined 3 years, 5 months ago

Photojournalist and many other things in -ist.

I read a lot of SFF, obscure LGBT, travel, photography theory and women authors, in French and English.

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51% complete! ju has read 27 of 52 books.

reviewed The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui

A. D. Sui: The Dragonfly Gambit (Paperback, 2024, Neon Hemlock Press)

Nearly ten years after Inez Kato sustained a career-ending injury during a military exercise gone …

Not perfect but entertaining

Unreliable narrators are really tricky to pull off, but it works pretty well in this case. The worldbuilding and protagonists lack a bit of depth, and okay, it doesn't always makes sense all the time, but it is entertaining.

Daniel Pennac: Au bonheur des ogres (French language, 1997)

Côté famille, maman s'est tirée une fois de plus en m'abandonnant les mômes, et le …

Une relecture assez plaisante

Je les avais lus ado (d'ailleurs, est-ce qu'on les fait toujours lire aux ados ?), et le fait d'avoir vécu dans l'est de Paris depuis y a ajouté une touche assez savoureuse.

Vicki Jarrett: Always North (Paperback, 2019, Unsung Stories Limited)

We all have to work to live, even if it is an illegal survey for …

Very well written climate change novel

A climate thriller and anticipation novel, Always North is really well written, with enough poetry, vivid action and complex characters to embark the reader and take them wherever the story goes. And it never goes where it would be predictable -- only the climate catastrophe is.

Catherine Lacey: Biography of X (Paperback, Picador)

Brilliant work of fiction non-fiction

This novel has pretty much everything: an alternate history setting that is at times omnipresent and a detail at others ; a mysterious contemporary artist ; many LGBTQ+ characters ; drama and love. It weaves brilliantly facts and fiction, real artists and writers (oh hello David Bowie & Susan Sontag) and completely imaginary characters (or are they?), and manages to be serious with obvious satirical elements. Very enjoyable.