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Book Review: Babel by R.F. Kuang
★★★★☆ "You have such a great fear of freedom, brother. It's shackling you." Few books have left me with as many conflicting thoughts as Babel. On the one hand, it is a remarkably ambitious novel: part fantasy, part dark academia, part historical fiction, and part political commentary. On the other, it is a book so deeply invested in its ideas that it occasionally loses sight of the story it is trying to tell. And yet, despite its flaws, I found the experience unforgettable. A
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Joana .
Dec 30, 20224 min read


Manga Review: DoroHeDoro by Q. Hayashida
DoroHeDoro, a comic series set in a dystopian world ruled by magic-users, pushed the humans to a filthy, poverty-stricken place known as...
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Joana .
May 2, 20213 min read


Arcs on my 2021 Radar!
I have been away from fantasy reading long enough. And with my current growing interest in classics, poetry and 19th-century literature,...
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Joana .
Feb 28, 20214 min read


Book Review: The Arabian Nights Translated by Sir Richard Burton
A loss that can be repaired by money is not of such very great importance. Having this leatherbound edition on my bookshelf is threefold:...
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Joana .
Feb 20, 20216 min read


Book Review: Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco (DNF 40%)
Twin sisters, born to a family of magic in the late 1800s choose to hide their identities as witches in fear of the witch hunters and the...
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Joana .
Feb 12, 20214 min read


Book Review: Son of a Witch (The Wicked Years #2) by Gregory Maguire
Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory...
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Joana .
Jan 10, 20216 min read


Book Review: Wicked (The Wicked Years #1) by Gregory Maguire
People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better...
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Joana .
Jan 23, 20135 min read
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