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Luce reviewed Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) by Octavia E. Butler

Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last …

Can't get it out of my head

5 stars

Exciting read, one of the books I couldn't put down. It's a very interesting analysis of humans and how they live together, and thoughts about if a kind of "benevolent dictator" would make it better or worse. I feel like the book doesn't come to a conclusion on its own, but let's readers think about it and opens some really interesting questions I hadn't really thought about before. The characters and development are great, and the story is well written and very entertaining besides making me think.

Luce reviewed Mein Name ist Luz by Elsa Osorio

No cover — Mein Name ist Luz (Paperback, 2006, Suhrkamp)

Awesome and very emotional, but in a quiet way

5 stars

Luce finished reading Mein Name ist Luz by Elsa Osorio

I loved the style of this very touching book. I have some family relations to Argentina and the military dictatorship and this book really helped me to learn more about this time and certain tendencies in Argentinian culture. But I can also very much recommend it for the story and emotional development of the characters and their relationships, and how they are also formed by the political circumstances and trauma, and how people can work on it and for a better society if they want. It's one of those books that you keep thinking about. The original version in Spanish is called "A veinte años, Luz" which translates to "At twenty years, light", but Luz is also the name of the main character. There's quite a few scenes I would add CWs to (violence, torture, rape/sexual assault, forced adoption), so be careful if you're not in a headspace to read …

I loved the style of this very touching book. I have some family relations to Argentina and the military dictatorship and this book really helped me to learn more about this time and certain tendencies in Argentinian culture. But I can also very much recommend it for the story and emotional development of the characters and their relationships, and how they are also formed by the political circumstances and trauma, and how people can work on it and for a better society if they want. It's one of those books that you keep thinking about. The original version in Spanish is called "A veinte años, Luz" which translates to "At twenty years, light", but Luz is also the name of the main character. There's quite a few scenes I would add CWs to (violence, torture, rape/sexual assault, forced adoption), so be careful if you're not in a headspace to read about heavy topics.

Luce started reading Mein Name ist Luz by Elsa Osorio

I found this book by chance in a cute little bookstore, and I hope I'll learn something about this dark chapter of Argentinian history. I'm a bit afraid of what I'll find.

Luce finished reading Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You (Hardcover, 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d …

I listened to the audiobook in German.

Luce started reading Perry Rhodan: Andromeda by Uwe Anton

Perry Rhodan: Andromeda (EBook, Deutsch language, 2012, Perry Rhodan digital)

Man schreibt das Jahr 1312 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung: Ein geheimnisvoller Notruf bringt Perry Rhodan dazu, …

The book was recommended in the fediverse so I thought I'd give it a try, I quite like it so far. It has a few slightly stereotyped descriptions/tropes so far (love at first sight, ugh), but nothing that bothered me personally or that made me enjoy it any less.