Rating: 4.5 stars The short: A quick, fun adventure with time travel. It goes by fast and keeps the reader’s interest with good writing. The long: I enjoyed the book with a few hitches. I don’t think the quality and pacing can be understated. It kept me reading and could…
Rating: 4 stars To begin this review, I want to say that I'll be including a number of spoilers. It's a nearly 50-year-old book, and you should have read it by now (or before reading such a review). You have your warning. To start, I will list off the negatives,…
Rating: 5+ stars Before I read One Hundred Years of Solitude, I read somewhere that it was about the history of humanity. As I was going through it, I thought it was the history of a city or a family or an individual, but in fact it’s much more than…
Rating: 4 stars The short: The story is unconventional in some ways and good for that. I enjoyed it and recommend it as long as you go in with an open mind. The long: This book is about women and written by a woman, so I believe that there are…
Rating: 4 stars Here's a brief of my review: a cool high concept sci-fi that sometimes did too much tell and not enough show. Now, for my longer review: I didn’t realize this was the first book in a series until the end, so if any of my problems get…
It took me a long time to come to the conclusion that I’ve definitively become a grumpy old man. The revelation came when I was thinking about a conversation I had way back when, during my undergrad, almost a decade ago. I was talking about a movie I didn’t like,…
Rating: 4 stars I found Annihilation to be shorter than I expected, but that wasn’t a bad thing. The book starts off reading as a lab report in some ways, but as the story progresses the stilted narration becomes more fluid, which matches the thematic elements of the story very…
Rating: 5 stars This book is only in Italian, so buyer beware. However, I’m writing my review in Italian and English. English: This is one of my first gialli/crime story, so I may not know many of the tropes. However, I would judge that Sechi goes out of his way…
Rating: 5 stars I read Foucault's Pendulum because it seems with every day that conspiracy theories enter our lives ever more. I thought that well, a book by that big famous author might give me some insights and be an interesting read. The story is a little bit of this…
Hello everyone, I haven't written on here for a long time, it turns out. Most of my life is just reading, writing and doing all the other stuff in my life (like eating), so I don't have much time to ruminate on this (that pun was entirely intended). Claudia and…
