ansate finished reading Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase …
Super good! Put the next book on hold immediately
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ansate commented on Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase …
I am hit or miss with her books, but this is a Good one
ansate finished reading Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by American writer …
Wow. I didn’t love every story, but they were all interesting and gave me feelings. Recommended
ansate commented on Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by American writer …
The story “The Story of Your Life” is much better than the movie Arrival
I’m not just saying that to be contrary
ansate commented on Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by American writer …
Content warning Suicide attempt
Division by Zero is a good story, but the suicide attempt bits hit me a little hard
ansate finished reading Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when …
I need a special rating for “good, but not a good time”
ansate commented on Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by American writer …
Whoa, i liked the second story - Understand- a lot
ansate commented on The Scent of Desire by Rachel Herz
Shakespeare wrote that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But if …
Content warning Suicide mention
The book kicks off with a famous suicide and ties it to loss of smell. Lot heavier than i was expecting
ansate finished reading The Five Daughters of the Moon (The Waning Moon, #1) by Leena Likitalo
Beware the cliffhanger ending. Hopefully i can get book two!
Recommended if you like fantasy with a different magic, and i like the shifting point of view
ansate commented on The Five Daughters of the Moon (The Waning Moon, #1) by Leena Likitalo
The conceit is that we get each daughter ‘s point of view, and they are adorably interested in very different things (the story moves forward with everypoint of view shift, it’s not a five way retelling)
ansate stopped reading Whiskey & ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith
Whiskey & ribbons (2018)
"Evi--a classically-trained ballerina--was nine months pregnant when her husband Eamon was killed in the line …
Whoops, i read this before and only gave it 3.5 stars. Not worth reading again
ansate commented on We Know It When We See It by Richard Masland
We elected as a book club to not bother finishing this.
I hadn’t quite gotten to the point where he was going to say a lot of things about computer vision and how it is like our brains, but i am pretty sure that is false and i would have been annoyed
ansate finished reading Last Suspicious Holdout by Ladee Hubbard
The twelve stories in The Last Suspicious Holdout and Other Stories capture powerful and poignant …
This was really good. I’m glad i got to it finally, and I’m glad Call Number sent it to me.
ansate finished reading A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan
Abrupt ending on this one!
ansate finished reading Légende by David A. Gemmell
Legend is a fantasy novel by British writer David Gemmell, published in 1984. It established …
Three stars. I am not mad, but I don’t recommend it. It is old, so it’s more okthat it’s cheesy, but… i will not be reading more