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112 reviews

A Gentle Creature and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.0

I started it to read white nights and be mind blows and just couldn’t finish it cuz story after study I’m just reading about sad men who want to be with your girls and it just doesn’t sit right with me… also Dostoevsky is a yapper

How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything by Mike Berners-Lee

medium-paced

4.5

One thing Mike did splendidly was the delivery of hard information that can be perceived as boring. I quite enjoyed the structure of the book and the language used.

At times it felt very opinionated but that could be partially out of slept guilt and partially due to the author being sick of the climate crisis and people’s ignorance of the matter.

I really appreciated the links made between the different little chapters, the comparisons that could help me understand how good or how bad something is and the references at back. I’m also a big back on the very end which helps you get an understanding of how you can take action towards changing you personal habits + working towards creating change at a bigger scale.

I shall keep the book in close proximities for whenever I want a reminder or a reference.

Foster by Claire Keegan

fast-paced

4.0

This book has left me wanting to read more out of Clair Keegan’s literature. It was short, prosaic and full of emotion. I think I’d ideally re-read it in a couple of weeks just to give the whole delivery of the books another go - probably should’ve read it in one sitting rather than on the road.

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

5.0

I don’t know how but I somehow loved this book even more than its predecessor. It’s a little odd because sequels are never better.

I just got more attached to the characters and I started to care more about their ideologues and struggles. I’m quite happy with the development of their relationship and decision of what matter and what doesn’t or more specific how much things do or don’t matter.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.75

I quite enjoyed this book. It’s easy to read and it’s full of very relatable content. It was pointed out to me that the storyline developed quite quickly and abruptly but to be frank, this is so not the point of this book. It feels like Becky has created this utopian world and this story just so she can put her thoughts and opinions in an easy transferable setting and it works. I won’t lie, the start kind of lost me - it has a lot of content and world building in a couple of pages which could’ve been maybe done in an easier way but again, I get why it was snore jumbled than not - the point of the book is elsewhere.

Ps.: I relate to the big rant Dex had A LOT and this made me feel less alone which was nice to experience 

Fall Girl by Richard Deming

fast-paced

4.0

This was honestly so much fun to read. I’m sure back in the day it used to be a cool and mysterious but reading in 2024 it’s nothing but ridiculous 

Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

fast-paced

2.0

I’m so ready to be done with this series 🫠. Ik there’s another book coming out and I might listen to it but honestly… it gets sooooo repetitive the more you read; the constant re-explanation of the rules and the unnecessary explanation of emotions, it kinda felt like the author was writing just to meet a word count rather than for the story itself 

Letters to Milena by Aarno Peromies, Philip Boehm, Franz Kafka, Milena Jesenská
Did not finish book. Stopped at 29%.

boring :/

Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, 川口 俊和

fast-paced

4.0

It’s a really good book on its own which is why I’m giving it 4 stars but it starts to get a little repetitive especially since it’s the 3rd book of a series of stories set in the same format.

I won’t lie, I got a little lost with this one cuz we changed location and then we had new characters which were somehow related to the old ones and so on and so forth.

It also feels like the different stories belong to a newspaper storytelling page rather than a book especially with all of the repeated rules.

Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

fast-paced

4.0

I listened to the book rather than reading it and while I love the concept of it all and some of the stories made me tear and and all I couldn’t get over how annoying the little girl was. Omg, the singing and the French??? I could’ve very well done with a shy child in this book.

But yeah, other than that it tracks with the first book and it’s quite nice.