🏳️🌈 Originally from Cape Town 🇿🇦 but now living in Oslo 🇳🇴
I typically enjoy speculative fiction, fantasy, sci-fi and programming books 📚
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As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry …
A relatively short read but really entertaining. The story is very different from the first book which made the idea of the trilogy a lot more captivating for me.
Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a …
Easy to read, exciting and fun adventure.
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. …
I feel it’s written in a boring way, I didn’t care about any of the characters and I didn’t learn anything about them aside from them being generic archetypes. While it could be argued that the blatant racism in the book was a way to subvert the ideas of British racial superiority that was prevalent when the book was published, there are still many undertones of racism.
Perhaps the concept of the book was original in the 50s? The book got slightly more interesting near the end.
Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (2021, Independently Published)
Stevenson’s famous gothic novella, first published in 1886, and filmed countless times is better known simply as Jekyll and Hyde. …
The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.
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L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans …
Camus helps to depict the machine of and our belief in society from a point of view that makes it seem completely alien. This in turn seems to be something that is created based by humans trying to find meaning in something that inherently has none.
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when …
The great Norse myths, which have inspired so much of modern fiction, are dazzlingly retold by Neil Gaiman. Tales of …
Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge …
After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training in …
While exploring the forest, 15-year-old Eragon discovers an odd blue gemstone—a dragon egg, fated to hatch in his care. According …
