This book is lovely and gentle. Translated from Korean, it fills me with something like nostalgia, but for a place and time I've never actually experienced.
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pwinn rated The Changeling: 5 stars
The Changeling by Victor D. LaValle (duplicate), Victor LaValle
About The Changeling “If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle.”—Anthony …
pwinn reviewed Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
There was only one thing on her mind.
'I must start a bookshop.'
…
Warm and Delightful
5 stars
This book is lovely and gentle. Translated from Korean, it fills me with something like nostalgia, but for a place and time I've never actually experienced.
pwinn finished reading Blue Shift by J. N. Chaney (Backyard Starship, #5)
When Van gains rank as a Peacemaker, he becomes a bigger target for the criminals …
A travel day listen.
pwinn rated Keepers of the Kalachakra: 2 stars
pwinn rated The Employees: 4 stars
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike complain …
pwinn rated The Freeze-Frame Revolution: 5 stars
The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
"How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when …
pwinn rated A Matter of Chance: 4 stars
A Matter of Chance by Julie Maloney
"When eight-year-old Vinni Stewart disappears from a Jersey shore town, Maddy, her distraught single mother, begins a desperate search for …
pwinn rated The Truants: 5 stars
Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a …
The "black box of doom" isn't the obvious one
5 stars
Sure, there's a roadie case, but the book is a commentary on what divides us, and those who benefit. Rarely have I heard a more direct and fair expression of unpleasant views, and they're met with the only response I think can ever work. Angry people aren't always wrong on the facts, per se, just in where they choose to focus.
Unrelated to the "John Dies" series or the "Zoey Ashe" series, this book still moves with the energy of both, but is even more relatable than both for being entirely plausible here today.
Sure, there's a roadie case, but the book is a commentary on what divides us, and those who benefit. Rarely have I heard a more direct and fair expression of unpleasant views, and they're met with the only response I think can ever work. Angry people aren't always wrong on the facts, per se, just in where they choose to focus.
Unrelated to the "John Dies" series or the "Zoey Ashe" series, this book still moves with the energy of both, but is even more relatable than both for being entirely plausible here today.
pwinn rated Girlfriend on Mars: 5 stars
pwinn rated Apostles of Mercy: 5 stars
Apostles of Mercy by Lindsay Ellis
First Contact has not been going well. The nations of Earth are rapidly militarizing against the arrival of the Superorganism, …
pwinn rated The Starved God: 5 stars
pwinn finished reading Space Station Down by Ben Bova
Stayed up way too late, couldn’t put this down!
pwinn rated Extremely Online: 5 stars
Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators …