ju finished reading The Lost City of Z by David Grann

The Lost City of Z by David Grann
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration …
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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After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration …
Dans une grande ville d'un pays en guerre, un spécialiste de l'interrogatoire accomplit chaque jour son implacable office. La nuit, …
Dans une grande ville d'un pays en guerre, un spécialiste de l'interrogatoire accomplit chaque jour son implacable office. La nuit, …
The international publishing sensation now available in paperback: an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in …
The international publishing sensation now available in paperback: an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in …
I picked this book because I'd just photographed the author -- who is super nice -- on the very island where the action is happening. Maybe brutal crime novels aren't too much my thing anymore, all the POV characters withhold information, in one case it works really well, in the others, not so much...
Le coeur battant, Emma Lindahl cogne à la porte du manoir dressé sur une petite île au large de Stockholm. …
A really good read, the main character is nuanced and the plot strong -- even though the trope "I have a really dark secret, let me tell you about it much later" is a bit overused in novels, it still works, as the story is more than just that.
One secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…
Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a …
One secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…
Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a …
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Good beginning and plenty of interesting ideas throughout the book, but the pacing falls apart, and the characters lack of depth and real evolution.
(Also, by the middle of the book, it become apparent that one of the main POV character isn't very smart, and by the end, she's obviously dumb as rocks. And then, like that, the book ends.)