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ju

ju@lire.boitam.eu

A rejoint ce serveur il y a 4 années, 2 mois

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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26% terminé ! ju a lu 14 sur 52 livres.

Bethany Jacobs: These Burning Stars (2023, Orbit)

On a dusty backwater planet, occasional thief Jun Ironway has gotten her hands on the …

Intriguing space opera

Not a perfect debut novel, but a solid and intriguing space opera, full of cruel, coward and calculating characters, even though one important part felt deja vu (a powerful family controls the production of the substance that enables space travel...). All in all, it was an enjoyable read.

a publié une critique de When the Tiger Came down the Mountain par Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

Nghi Vo: When the Tiger Came down the Mountain (EBook, 2020, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of …

Another wonderful novella

A perfect read for an automn evening with a cup of tea. Nghi Vo is an incredible storyteller, who never loses the reader in her stories of stories told by storytellers as well as tigers. In her world, tigers fall in love in young humans, or sometimes eat them, and sit around the fire listening and re-telling their side of the old stories... It is quite magic.

a publié une critique de The Apparitional Lesbian par Terry Castle (Gender & Culture S)

Terry Castle: The Apparitional Lesbian (Paperback, 1995, Columbia University Press)

In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and …

Full of wit and knowledge

Finally got my hands on this book and it didn't disappoint. Full of wit and knowledge, the author always keeps her essays accessible and entertaining.

a publié une critique de En Amérique par Laurent Chalumeau

Laurent Chalumeau: En Amérique (French language, 2009, Grasset)

Voici près de vingt ans, Laurent Chalumeau laissait l'Amérique dans un drôle d'état. Le livre …

Une bonne tranche de pop-culture

Un recueil de chroniques et d'interviews qui fourmille d'informations et baigne tout entier dans l'amour de la musique.

a publié une critique de The Priory of the Orange Tree par Samantha Shannon

Samantha Shannon: The Priory of the Orange Tree (Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)

A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.

The House …

Many nice ideas

Many interesting ideas and some strong leading female characters, but the plot felt contrived at times or needlessly confusing, with inconsistencies (like distance and travel time), and some parts of the worldbuilding felt too simplistic -- also I wasn't too impressed with the quests for magic objects. Edit : also worth mentionning is that in the 800 pages, there really isn't much happening at the Priory of the title.

a publié une critique de Tentacle par Rita Indiana

Rita Indiana, Achy Obejas: Tentacle (2019, And Other Stories)

Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa …

Addictive

Hard to describe, but a must-read. You won't know exactly where and when you landed at first, but you'll get on a great trip nevertheless.