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Courts

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Joined 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Mostly Sci-fi and Fantasy, with a dash of "classic" literature sprinkled through.

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Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (Hardcover, 2022, Beacon Press)
Matt Haig: The Midnight Library (Paperback, 2021, Canongate Books Ltd.)
Sibylle Berg: RCE (2022, Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

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Keine Macht für Niemand. Die Geschichte der Ton Steine Scherben (Paperback)
Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism
qntm: There Is No Antimemetics Division (Hardcover, 2021, Independently Published)

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David Wong, Jason Pargin: This Book Is Full of Spiders (2012)
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback, Dell Publishing Co.)
Brandon Sanderson: Oathbringer (Hardcover, 2017, Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC)

2024 Reading Goal

61% complete! Courts has read 26 of 42 books.

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reviewed The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback, 2001, Back Bay Books) 4 stars

Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He …

Classic Book About The Woes of Adolescence

5 stars

Im not sure if I would've liked this book 25 years ago. But now, I can appreciate the feelings Holden talks about, with nothing making sense and everything being depressing at his age and current path in life. He doesn't know where he belongs yet. His life goes to pieces.

Yes, the language is dated and yes, there are parts that are highly controversial today, so you need to take into account the time it was written, as trite as it sounds. I'm glad I read it at an older age. Things get better.

reviewed The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #4)

Becky Chambers: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (2021, Hodder & Stoughton) 4 stars

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The …

Social Commentary

5 stars

Again, a typical Wayfarers book. Not much plot but a lot of social commentary. A group of sapients from different species that is forced to live together for a couple of days. More or less a thinly veiled wrap around societal problems and challenges we are facing here on earth.

reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Tamsyn Muir: Nona the Ninth (2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 stars

No One Expected Nona To Exist

5 stars

...is what the back of the book says. And Tamsyn Muir again successfully makes you guess what the everlasting fuck is happening, excuse my language. I was prepared after Harrow, but it's still such a mindfuck. You think you're getting new information about the Locked Tomb universe and how it happened, but at no point are you certain that things are what they are. I absolutely love it. Can't wait for Alecto to be published.

reviewed The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle)

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback, 2010, Ace Books) 4 stars

On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female …

Not Sure About this One

4 stars

I have mixed feelings about this book. I think it was the best of the three Hainish novels I've read so far, and I can appreciate the fact that the theme of a gender-changing alien race was somewhat revolutionary at the time.

However, I have to admit that I had to push through this book. I've read another review that likened it to homework, and that sums it up quite well for me, too. Maybe my expectations were too high and I have read it at the wrong point in time, just like in school when you have to read something that you cannot appreciate at the moment, but strikes you as profound at a different time.

So yeah, this novel leaves me a bit stumped about what to say. I liked it well enough to not stop reading, but have to admit that it could have been half as …