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tishkova , 6 months ago to bookstodon

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

who knew that a book with such a gorgeous cover and lesbian main characters would be so bad? 😅

i was all yay sea science lesbian rep and maybe even some mysterious monsters, but it's just brooding, depressing and very flat.

(yes, i judge books by the cover – and sometimes get disappointed – the popular saying is just wrong, cover art is important 🤷‍♀️)

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tishkova , 6 months ago to bookstodon

who would you cast as Murderbot from the Murderbot Diaries?
it's an excellent opportunity to cast a non-binary person (like Emma Corrin or Bella Ramsey? - my favs), but they chose Skarsgård 🤦‍♀️ or he rather chose himself, given that he's the exec.producer
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tishkova , 6 months ago to bookstodon

i blame the booker prize for my hit-or-miss ratings lately 😁 i did like some of the books on short/long lists, Pearl and The Bee Sting, though i didn't finish the latter yet. Pearl should have won, but it didn't even make the short list.
i wonder if my local library will stock up on the next year's contestants, i may again feel the need to read all of them (and be disappointed again)
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tishkova , 6 months ago to bookstodon

The Wager: A tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder; by David Grann

i didn't know it was possible to write a history non-fiction that is so captivating that it reads as a thriller/adventure. so good! and all that nautical vocabulary i have none of... i had to google quite a bit 🤓

now i want to read all the books and watch all the films with setting in some seas, big ships, square rigs and, maybe, pirates. ay carramba! 🌊⚓️🦭 (recommendations are very welcome)

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tishkova , 6 months ago to bookstodon

oh, a very norwegian thing happened to me last week! i was going home after a work event, walking by a cafe downtown. and who is sitting by the window casually drinking coffee? none other than this year's literature Nobel prize laureate, Jon Fosse!
i was a bit star struck, but thought it might be bothersome to approach him, after all he's just an elderly man drinking coffee 😌
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tishkova , 7 months ago to bookstodon

City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin

this book is literally mind blowing 🥁🤭

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kimlockhartga , 8 months ago to bookstodon

You know the drill, @bookstodon Whatcha reading this weekend? ❤📚👀

I finished WE ARE THE CRISIS, the excellent second installment of Cadwell Turnbull's Convergence Saga. NO GODS, NO MONSTERS was the first book.

I'm currently reading Ed Park's bizarro SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS.

Next up: THE FUTURE, by Naomi Alderman, author of THE POWER.

tishkova , 10 months ago to random

reading the news about the flood here in Norway and wiki pages on the revolution in Iran converged into a bizarre dream during my nap: i'm a spy fighting the regime and the flood simultaneously, there's danger everywhere and i must save people (from either fanatic theocrats or masses of water, choose your poison), pew-pew 🦸‍♀️

tishkova , 11 months ago to bookstodon

i #AmReading Howards End by E. M. Forster and he's like the meme "but he can hurt you in other ways":

The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde. We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.

ouch!
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tishkova , 11 months ago to bookstodon

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

wow! that is what i call a page turner! i couldn't put this book down, it's so packed with action 🔥

romantic fantasy is not my favourite genre, and i expected more of a YA vibe with he-loves-me he-loves-me-not anxiety. there was some of that but it was hmm tolerable 😁 sex scenes were surprisingly well written (and the way magic works when they are at it – hahaha, so good!)

and dragons! ooh, that was the best part!

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tishkova , 11 months ago to bookstodon

i #AmReading Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, and it's soooo gooood! i usually listen to audiobooks before bed and i get sleepy after 15-30 mins. not with this book, i do not 😁 it's so packed with action and drama and dragons and danger and daggers pew pew pew (why does everything start on a D? 🤔)

i appreciate especially how cool the protagonist is with her sexuality and body, and she has flaws, how refreshing 😁

anyway, check it out, it's fun!

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tishkova , 11 months ago to bookstodon

i #AmReading The Possessed by Elif Batuman now. i thought it was a non fiction about literature, but it turned out to be more of a memoir of an academic, and she got a sense of humour 😁
Elif's luggage was lost on her way to Yasnaya Polyana and she had to attend a Tolstoy conference in loungewear. it would be even funnier if she wore a hoodie instead of a shirt – hoodie is called "tolstovka" in russian, after, you guessed it, Tolstoy 🤓
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