If it is written, it's supposed to be read. I love reading. Mastodon
This link opens in a pop-up window
Andy Weir, Rosario Dawson: Artemis (EBook, 2017)
JASMINE BASHARA never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.
Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, …
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice …
O Exército perdido narra a épica aventura dos Dez Mil e, simultaneamente, a história de um amor incondicional que nunca …
I took a while to catch me up, but eventually it did. Portuguese translation is sub-par.
A good ending, but the style of storytelling drove me off the book several times. Too many cliff-hangers told exactly the same way, like those movies that try to build suspense by slowing the action or going to another story-line. That's why it took me so long to finish. I thought I would never do it, sometimes.
A good ending, but the style of storytelling drove me off the book several times. Too many cliff-hangers told exactly the same way, like those movies that try to build suspense by slowing the action or going to another story-line. That's why it took me so long to finish. I thought I would never do it, sometimes.
When the small community of Beartown learns their amateur ice hockey team may be disbanded, …
Not as good as Bear Town. The constant cliffhangers, always built in a very similar way, make it a little difficult to read and, at times, even somewhat boring.
418 pages ; 24 cm
Some may categorize this book as "hockey literature". Or they may say it's about sport, gender, homosexuality, power, rape, class, violence, because it's all in there. For me it's about people, their emotions, thoughts, decisions, love and hate, the bonds they make with one another and those they don't. This is the first of a trilogy, I'm ready to start the second.
Some may categorize this book as "hockey literature". Or they may say it's about sport, gender, homosexuality, power, rape, class, violence, because it's all in there. For me it's about people, their emotions, thoughts, decisions, love and hate, the bonds they make with one another and those they don't. This is the first of a trilogy, I'm ready to start the second.
418 pages ; 24 cm
Very intense emotionally. I sometimes had to pause reading and do something else to not be overwhelmed. Not many books are able to do this to me. "Britt-Marie Was Here", from the same author, was close but not quite the same. The one I remember from the top of my head that made me feel like this is "Cat's Eye", by Margaret Atwood.
Very intense emotionally. I sometimes had to pause reading and do something else to not be overwhelmed. Not many books are able to do this to me. "Britt-Marie Was Here", from the same author, was close but not quite the same. The one I remember from the top of my head that made me feel like this is "Cat's Eye", by Margaret Atwood.
After having read and loved, years ago, her two prehistoric trilogies, I was surprised to find a book in a totally different era, mid-19th century USA. However, her carefully researched writing is still the same and this story is as vivid and interesting as her previous works. I loved it.
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age …
I did not have much expectations for this book, as I only wanted something light for starting Summer. But this was surprisingly good, funny, a page-turner like I haven't read in a while, but also with some insights into race, gender and class differences in modern USA.
I did not have much expectations for this book, as I only wanted something light for starting Summer. But this was surprisingly good, funny, a page-turner like I haven't read in a while, but also with some insights into race, gender and class differences in modern USA.
A young sea apprentice finds himself in charge of a ship, which is led astray …
Content warning Spoilers ahead
It's a typical travel adventure by Jules Verne, but not as good as usual. It is sometimes almost boring with lots of descriptions of the accomplishments of the European explorers of Africa. It is, nevertheless, a good example of the evolution of western morals -- a progressive and humanist work when it was written, most of it would be considered racist and misogynist today.
The plot has a flaw [SPOILER]: placing a piece of metal in the compass of the ship wouldn't have the effect described. The compass would have a fixed azimuth and one of two situations would happen: either it was the desired azimuth and the ship would continue its way as if nothing happened, or it wasn't and the ship would go in circles as the pilot tried to adjust (and would soon find out that something was wrong with the compass).
After five years alone on a rocky island not knowing if anyone else survived the holocaust, a seventeen-year-old boy is …
