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OragePika

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Books will be reviewed in the language read. (More like I wish but my monotasking brain speaks in whatever language it pleases shrug

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OragePika rated How to Write Anything: A Complete Guide: 5 stars

How to Write Anything: A Complete Guide (2014, W. W. Norton & Company)

How to Write Anything: A Complete Guide by Laura Brown

OragePika finished reading How to Write Anything: A Complete Guide by Laura Brown

A life saver. Thank you author. With your book I am now able to pretend having great communication skills when writing emails and letters

OragePika rated Grokking Machine Learning: 3 stars

Grokking Machine Learning (2021, Manning Publications Co. LLC)

Grokking Machine Learning by Luis Serrano

OragePika finished reading Grokking Machine Learning by Luis Serrano

Meh

The "Grokking" bit in the title is deceiving. A boring read.

OragePika rated Grokking Algorithms: 5 stars

Grokking Algorithms (2016, Manning Publications)

Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Bhargava

OragePika commented on Mort by Pu lai qi (Pratchett, Terry)

Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.

Content warning Spoiler (maybe?)

The part when Mort reading Alberto Malich’s life got me a bit scared

OragePika rated Maus I, My Father Bleeds History: 5 stars

Maus I, My Father Bleeds History (1987, Deutsch)

Maus I, My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms …

OragePika commented on Mort (Discworld) by Pu lai qi (Pratchett, Terry)

Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.

Just started

Mort reminds me of Passe-partout from 80 days somehow

OragePika rated Squad: 4 stars

Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Lisa Sterle

When Becca transfers to a high school in an elite San Francisco suburb, she’s worried she’s not going to fit …

OragePika commented on The Promised Neverland by Demizu Posuka

The Promised Neverland (Paperback, 2016, Shueisha, SHUEISHA)

Content warning Spoiler

In the anime when the kids have escaped, mama puts down her hairs. This pulling down her hairs was not depicted in the manga.

I personally really like this extra detail. When all is set and the escape an inevitable fact, she is finally free to feel.

OragePika commented on The Promised Neverland by Demizu Posuka

I don’t know if it’s my brain being fucked up or if the family structure described here is supposed to be interpreted as a metaphor to that of the real world.

Mama gives birth to children for survival. She loves her kids but for survival and pushed by the monsters governing all the farms she has no choice but to participate in all the lying and murdering of her children.