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Matto

mattofr@bookwyrm.social

A rejoint ce serveur il y a 3 années, 6 mois

Read fiction as well as non-fiction. Started reading somewhere in the seventies, still enjoying a good book :)

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Stanisław Lem: The Futurological Congress (from the memoirs of Ijon Tichy) (1985, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 4 étoiles

Review of The Futurological Congress (from the memoirs of Ijon Tichy)

4 étoiles

Very weird, but captivating story. Sometimes if fieels like some kind of drug-induced trip... Not like other books I have read from Stanislaw Lem at all. This is possibly not a book for every one, but in my opinion worthwhile to read. It is a short book.

reviewed Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf (Dover thrift editions)

From the book:Whatever hour you woke there was a door shunting. From room to room …

Review of 'Monday or Tuesday' on 'Goodreads'

5 étoiles

A small bundle of short essays/stories, lovely written. Gives us a view inside her head. What a terrific good writer!
A must read!

Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony: The Rediscovery of Man (Paperback, 1999, Gollancz) 5 étoiles

Review of 'The Rediscovery of Man' on 'Goodreads'

5 étoiles

This book contains a number of short stories, that are chronological ordered, content wise.
So stories that play in an earlier time are positioned before stories that play in a later time.

For me, the greater part still reads as a book.

The writer is creates very original ideas and I loved reading it!

Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go (Paperback, 2005, Faber and Faber Ltd) 5 étoiles

Kathy, a clone about to donate all her organs and die, reflects on her past …

Wonderful, must read novel about friendship and human relations

5 étoiles

This dystopian science fiction novel is about the life of three friends, from childhood until adults. it is more about friendship and human relations and less science fiction. But a wonderful book, that you must absolutely read!

Anna Kavan: Ice (Paperback, 1997, Peter Owen) 5 étoiles

Published July 1st 2006 by Peter Owen Publishers (first published 1967)

Ice by Anna Kavan

5 étoiles

This book is about the main character, a woman, constantly referred to as "the girl" and a third person, "the warden". We don't learn their names. It is not a heartwarming story, but very captivating, about life in a world at war, altered by climate change entering an ice age. There are some hints in the book that it could be some kind of nuclear winter.

The story is unsettling, sometimes hallucinogenic, weird. And a total must-read !

Anne Lamott: Bird by bird (1994, Pantheon Books) 3 étoiles

Anne Lamott gives her perspective on the art and work of writing. The title comes …

Review of 'Bird by bird' on 'Goodreads'

4 étoiles

Book about life as a writer with some suggestions on how to write and how to become a writer.

In the book, the writer also explains that being a writer impacts your life and how you experiience it, and that that is far more important than having work published.

The book is written in a fun writing style, but with very USA-kind of humor. It stays barabel, though.