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Wants to read Crónicas marcianas

Wants to read Una vida violenta

Rated Dept. of Speculation 6/10

Very prose-poemy and MFAish, really pretty and compelling story of a marriage undergoing a crisis. Brief and affecting.

Rated The Wallcreeper 6/10

I had a hard time getting my head around this book. It's sort of less than the sum of its parts, though many of its parts are quite good and I'm definitely glad I read it. There are some beautiful images and clever, devastating turns of phrase, but it's also kind of a bummer - the narrator is very frustrating and the story she tells ends up being wishy-washy in a way I think is intended but doesn't quite work. I compare it unfavorably to After Birth, which is also about a brief slice of the life of a woman who feels very isolated and lonely, but manages to cohere and sell it even though it has less "plot" than the Wallcreeper.

Wants to read El poder del perro

Wants to read Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life

Rated La sorprendente verdad sobre qué nos motiva 6/10

Wants to read Paul Rand: A Designer's Art

Rated Manual para mujeres de la limpieza 6/10

Wants to read Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

Wants to read Orixe

Wants to read Less Than Zero

Wants to read Mientras haya bares

Rated Historia económica mundial: una breve introducción 8/10

Wants to read La señorita Cristina

Rated Dispara, yo ya estoy muerto 4/10

Rated Arms of Nemesis 4/10

Wants to read Languages of Art

Wants to read Elizabeth Costello

Rated Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds 4/10

Wants to read Maldito karma

Rated The Last Samurai 6/10

Wants to read All the Light We Cannot See

Wants to read Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition

Rated The Age of Miracles 8/10

really liked this - i ended up reading it all in a few sittings over about a day and a half. fascinating, creepy, sad. <br/><br/>not quite as cripplingly depressing as [b:Never Let Me Go|6334|Never Let Me Go|Kazuo Ishiguro|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165592008s/6334.jpg|1499998], but has that same kind of otherworldly, calm sadness. the sci-fi concept isn't over-analyzed; really it's a slice of life of the concept as seen through a teenage girl's experiences.<br/><br/>very affecting.