pickBlinking loved it ! Now need to find the tv series somewhere …. Yes it did drag alittle in the middle & I found the surveillance of Oswald a dull bit but necessary for the plot. Read it on the beach in Greece 🇬🇷 and a bloody perfect beach read to get lost in !
Aliette de Bodard is one of those authors I really, really want to love, but I‘ve never clicked with her longer work. (I‘ve enjoyed some of her short fiction.) Going by this book‘s opening, I think maybe her prose is precise in a way that shuts me out of the story‘s emotional side. Hopefully the rest of the thing‘ll win me over and change my mind.
Also, you‘ll appreciate why I had to buy and immediately assemble this diorama kit. #audiocrafting
so-soTakes a lot to get a so-so out of me but when you put a famous person in a fictional book it hits wrong… unless that person was a jerk-face in real life and still not right but I‘m sure this is a good read for others … I just want my fiction- fiction and not with real world characters 👀 unless it‘s not fiction… like an autobiographical or true crime 👀 sorry… not sorry really but sorry
pickThis was a reread but I enjoyed it as much as I did previously.
I'm going to a book signing for this author in a couple of weeks so I started flipping through this book and got sucked right into the story again. Temeraire is one of my favorite characters! 🐲
pickGraudin imagines a world where the Axis powers won WWII and continued expanding territory. Yael, survivor of concentration camp medical experiments, has a unique opportunity to serve the resistance by racing in the Axis Tour, a motorcycle race from Germany to Japan, the victor of which will meet Hitler himself. Action packed, filled with moral quandaries and a near romance, this is excellent alternate history. Getting right into #2 in the duology!
so-soThis was my first Lionel Shriver, although I did enjoy the film adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin. The premise and concept of this book is very original and intriguing. In what is obviously a critique by Shriver of ‘woke-culture‘, she envisions a world where ‘perceived‘ intelligence is seen as the last great civil rights battle and divider of people, the last great fight to reach equality. (Continued in comments 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻)
Umm... Swindon, Haworth, Socialist Republic of Wales, Thornfield House - its a roller-coaster read!
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I‘m not sure this counts as a spooky read, but I‘ve been told it‘s scary and it‘s been on my TBR for a while.
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