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75% complete! Hippo has read 18 of 24 books.
This was recommended to me as a book which talks about the author's career in programming, but treating programming languages as languages and examining them from that angle. I've read a bit, and it already mentions Sanskrit, tech culture, language learning, and more!
Persuasion tells the love story of Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, whose sister rents Miss Elliot's father's house, after …
Persuasion tells the love story of Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, whose sister rents …
I have to read this at some point and...better late than never? 😛
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
Content warning Mild spoilers for all of Babel
Okay, that was a great read! Right up till the end. I love how there's so many layers; at one level it's just a story about the trials of college and friendships, but there's also this cool subtle fantasy, and then there's the whole rampant colonialism happening in the outside world and Hermes and everything!
And somehow she managed to keep the whole "college story" vibe in the forefront for the entire first half of the book, with everything else just happening on a layer underneath (of course, after that things turned dRaMaTiC 😮)
@dosch@bookwyrm.social this is one book that I read recently but feel like I need to re-read already. The crazy thing is that it was written before the actual pandemic that we experienced!
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Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. It takes …
If not for food-, sleep- and toilet breaks I almost read this in one go. Harrowing and layered story that gives a surprising entanglement of characters.
Even days after finishing I still had ah-ha moments when I suddenly understood how and why some things happened and who was connected to whom.
Wish there was a sequel where you learn more about the characters. Some parts are eerily recognizable now we had a real pandemic.
Mind you; the book is not sci-fi! It is our world after a pandemic; no fancy, crazy tech is used or invented in the book.
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
@smileybone has been sitting on my head to read this so I decided to give it a go :P
Also, the introduction makes me very aware of Oxford as a place; I think I wasn't so aware back when I was reading His Dark Materials (also partly set in Oxford). Maybe another series to revisit?
The first book of a vast fantasy as rich and strange as Tolkien's "Lord of …
Okay, so I've finally managed to plough through this book (not the book's fault; just that I've spent too long not reading literary fantasy)! Felt good to be steeped in that olde language of yesteryears; in fact I think the author purposely made the language more ancient/arcane for quotes and speeches to give the feeling of being old; ironic that the entire book is like that now for us!
On a personal note, it also feels good to have got through this book because my reading is now on its way to being back on track :P
I, Robot is a fixup collection made up of science fiction short stories by American …
I was trying to pick a good starting Asimov story for @rhea@snipetteville.in but ended up (re)reading the whole book 😅
The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its controversial beginnings to our digital …
They say one shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but when I came across @chrismessina@mastodon.xyz's post about this it sounded too interesting
Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. It takes place in the Great Lakes …
The first book of a vast fantasy as rich and strange as Tolkien's "Lord of …
Just discovered a cheap secondhand copy of this at Book Home! I didn't know about this series or author but I read the introductions and it sounds really interesting! Hoping to start on the story itself next (if I don't get distracted by "The Dawn of Everything"!)
A man is about to kill a cow. He discusses life and death and his …
I want to read this because @verglas@books.theunseen.city recommended it and it's always interesting to observe humans from an outside perspective!
Long time since I read a book in one sitting! :D
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
Recommended by @smileybone@todon.eu as a book that's great for readers and...(I forgot what the other things were? But I hear it's a must-read!). Hoping to get my hands on a physical copy, but maybe I'll just end up reading it on my new Kobo Elipsa
