I like big books and I cannot lie
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19% complete! Eivind (like the Terrible) has read 19 of 100 books.
Moskva, 2027: En eneveldig monark er kommet til makten. Russland har bygget en høy mur mot Vest-Europa; bare gassledninger slipper …
A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know spans the …
Many reasons have been given for the decline of the climate-change movement in the twenty-first century. I would propose Derangement itself. The planet, with almost 200 jostling nations, was already tense. Some historians have marked the beginning of the new dark age with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and that is where quite a few history books begin or end. I would propose the first climate war in 2036, one in a sequence, between two nuclear states, India and Pakistan, traditional enemies. One issue was water, once plentiful in the form of Himalayan glacier-fed ice-melt. Now, as long predicted, drying up. The two states were prepared to obliterate one another. The world, as the cliché ran, held its breath, and it is not easy to organise or attend mass protests in favour of decarbonising civilisation or write books about it when you are holding your breath.
How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human
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The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping …
The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping …
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, …
A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to …
Boom times came to the forgotten little southwestern town of Chamisaville just as the rest …
Another masterpiece. Very different in tone from The Milagro Beanfield War, not as haha funny, but at least as good, imo.
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, …
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America is a 2017 book by Richard Rothstein …
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America is a 2017 book by Richard Rothstein …
A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better …
A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary …
The Shenzhen girls had much more mature tastes than the twelve-year-olds in Siyue’s village. They laughed at Siyue’s Mickey Mouse backpack. They picked their own clothes, which changed frequently. They wore their hair in asymmetrical cuts, and went out to bars at the weekends.
— Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang, Crystal Yu (Narrator), Gabby Wong (Narrator), and 2 others
A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary …
Might as well read up a bit on our near-future overlords.
