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.
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António Manuel Dias reviewed Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age …
Surprisingly good
4 stars
António Manuel Dias started reading Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted …
António Manuel Dias finished reading TYPEE by Herman Melville
A young sea apprentice finds himself in charge of a ship, which is led astray …
Not the best of Jules Verne
3 stars
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).
António Manuel Dias started reading Dick Sands, the Boy Captain by Jules Verne
Dick Sands, the Boy Captain by Jules Verne
A young sea apprentice finds himself in charge of a ship, which is led astray to a land where the …
António Manuel Dias rated The incredible tide.: 4 stars
The incredible tide. by Alexander Key
After five years alone on a rocky island not knowing if anyone else survived the holocaust, a seventeen-year-old boy is …
António Manuel Dias rated For the Win: 3 stars
António Manuel Dias rated Little Brother: 3 stars
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on …
António Manuel Dias rated Homeland: 3 stars
Homeland by Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, #2)
In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the …
António Manuel Dias rated Tao Te Ching: 3 stars
Ursula K. Le Guin, Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (2019, Shambhala)
Tao Te Ching by Ursula K. Le Guin, Lao Tzu
No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le Guin's striking new version. Le …
António Manuel Dias rated The Man From St. Petersburg: 4 stars
The Man From St. Petersburg by Ken Follett
Feliks came to London to commit a murder that would change history. He had many weapons at his command, but …
