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Pienen hauen pyydystys by Juhani Karila

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Toinen kerta tän teoksen parissa ja se oli just niin hyvä kuin muistelinkin!! Ekalla kerralla luin fyysisen kirjan, tällä kertaa kuuntelin Anna Saksmanin lukeman äänikirjan ja hänen äänensä toi vielä oman ihanan lisämausteensa tälle kaikelle. Ei tätä lukukokemusta voi verrata mihinkään muuhun kirjaan tai aiemmin koettuun, pitää vaan uskaltaa sukeltaa suohon ja luottaa siihen ettei päädy hauen suoleen. Ehdottomasti parasta tässä on hahmojen välinen vuorovaikutus; huumori, ihmissuhdekiemurat, kipeät tunteet ja välittävä vittuilu ja kaikki se, mikä kommunikaatiossa ja kirjoittamisessa on kaunista. 
Paljon melua tyhjästä by William Shakespeare

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funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Muurahaisia ja dinosauruksia by Cixin Liu

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challenging dark funny reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

A solid satire — the critique was accurate, but the story itself wasn't that creative. Other Liu's works and the beginning of this story (the ant medicine!!) gave me high expectations, but unfortunately the level of creativity didn't stay that way. The world of ants and dinosaurs was nearly identical to our human one, which made the satire blatantly obvious and boring to read as there was nothing new or original to read about.
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Tuulen puolella by Leena Lehtolainen

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

This was not necessarily bad, but the thing with series is that the story needs to improve in order for the reader to continue the series... and in many ways this book just felt like a filler episode that relied on shock effects. I won't stop my Maria Kallio audiobook marathon because of this, but I'm seriously hoping that she gets a hold of herself in the upcoming books. It bothered me that underlying alcoholism is related to many male characters, yet Maria's habit of drinking whiskey after every inconvenience is completely ignored?? And why does she fantasize about every conventionally attractive man she meets and takes her husband for granted? Also she is STILL the epitome of "not like other girls" despite being over 30 years old, and her feminism is sooooo white it irks me that she's being called 'feminist' in every other sentence. She gets brownie points by condemning Ström's blatant racism, yet she makes so many subtly racist comments about Anu Wang.. "she was very tall for her race",, well,
1) at 170cm she's tall for Finns as well and
2) you could just say "tall"? :) :) :)

it unfortunately shows that these were written in the 90s. The stories aren't even bad, but Maria Kallio's personality is a huge turn off.
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Kaikki mitä jäljelle jää: Oikeusantropologin elämä kuoleman parissa by Sue Black

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dark funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

So interesting!! Sue Black just made me regret dropping my biology major... :') The only thing I would change about this book would be the sections about her personal life, honestly I only cared about the aspects of the job and I wish there had been even more scientific stuff in this.
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Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman

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emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Soooo wholesome once again (and relatable, both for when I was 16 and now at 21). I could never not like this series or anything Oseman writes, but this volume was a bit bland regarding the plot? My favourite parts were the snippets of Tori and Michael <3
Kirjallisuuden kiihottava historia by Silvia Hosseini

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funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

En varsinaisesti lähtisi vaihtamaan mitään, mutta minun puolestani teos olisi saanut olla laajempi. Ainakin näin kirjallisuuden opiskelijana tunsin tyylisuuntausten peruspiirteet ja monet Hosseinin käsittelemät teokset jo ennestään, jolloin en päässyt nauttimaan uuden oppimisesta niin paljoa kuin olisin halunnut :(
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Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam by Trần Ngọc Tuấn, Bảo Ninh, Linh Dinh, Nguyễn Huy Thiệp, Thế Giang, Phạm Thị Hoài, Lê Minh Khuê, Đức Ban, Nguyễn Thị Ấm, Đỗ Phước Tiến, Mai Kim Ngọc, Trần Vũ, Nguyễn Minh Châu, Đỗ Kh., Dương Thu Hương

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dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Komtuurin surma by Haruki Murakami, Juha Mylläri

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mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Not necessarily bad, but boring and wayyyy too long. The magical realism was good as always, too bad there was so little of it.

If I took a shot every time Murakami mentions breasts, I would have died of alcohol poisoning only a couple of chapters in. It also disgusted me that Akikawa Marie existed as a character only so that he could sexualize a 13-year-old🫠
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These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Secret Shanghai is officially one of my favourite world's I've ever visited, and I'm glad to know the story doesn't end here. I enjoyed almost everything — the monster plotline could have been executed a little better — but I'm only taking 0.5 stars off for that. My absolute favourite thing in addition to the dynamic between Juliette and Roma was
everything about the brain-infesting insects (I'm a biology student...), though I must say the science stuff also felt a bit off and/or too modern for the time, for example the term 'viral' wasn't really used until the 1940s, and what were those machines in Lourens's lab, how did they work?
I need more specific answers, I'm curious — in all seriousness, I'm just a nitpicking nerd. Nevertheless, Gong has done an excellent job researching and creating all this, big kudos to her <3
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