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ju

ju@lire.boitam.eu

A rejoint ce serveur il y a 3 années, 6 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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55% terminé ! ju a lu 29 sur 52 livres.

a publié une critique de Nona the Ninth par Tamsyn Muir

Tamsyn Muir: Nona the Ninth (Hardcover, 2022)

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is …

Good but frustrating

It's a bit of a disappointment that, yet again, the reader is left to try to make sense of the characters, plot and wtf is going on. I wish I didn't have to go on forums to find out important information that was only very, very slightly hinted at in the book. It's one thing to want revelations and plot-twists and ah-ah-moments, it's another to leave the reader completely in the fog for 500 pages. If the writing wasn't that good and the characters that compelling, I would've left it a while ago.

Sven Lindqvist: "Exterminate all the brutes" (2007, The New Press)

A must-read that should be taught in schools

The writing is so clear and precise, it slices through decades of obfuscation and excuses about colonialism and genocide.

"And when what had been done in the heart of darkness was repeated in the heart of Europe, no one recognized it. No one wished to admit what everyone knew. [...] You already know that. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know."