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bupu

bupu@bookrastinating.com

Joined 2 years ago

I'm a queer PhD student in Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal. I do co-design & community-based research in mental health, emotion regulation & tangible/wearable electronics.

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Currently Reading

Gareth Brown: Book of Doors (2024, Transworld Publishers Limited)

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?

In New …

Terrible story and writing

I had to stop reading it after a few chapters, which I rarely do. This seems like it was written with the intent on pitching it as a teen TV show. I think it would make a fun TV show for kids and teens but it isn't a very good book...

reviewed The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Three-Body Trilogy, #1)

Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem (Hardcover, 2014, Tor Books)

Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien …

Spectacular view at human history

This book exceeded my expectations. An excellent science fiction book that has an interesting and realistic perspective on human history and our potential future.

reviewed Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy)

Jeff VanderMeer: Acceptance (2014, Macmillan)

Acceptance is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the last in a series …

True to the title!

In what was meant to be the final book in the Southern Reach series, acceptance acts as the difficult lesson and a feeling that the characters need to learn to be friends. As I read the final book, I learned about the new, surprise, fourth book and that is a very good thing because Acceptance is a book that will definitely leave you wanting more!