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Rated Razorblade Tears 8/10

this thing leaps off the page

Rated Een vreselijk land: de mooiste journalistieke verhalen van Nederland 6/10

Rated Babel 8/10

mostly enjoyed this with some moments of reservation. It’s a clever concept and well-fleshed-out.

Rated The Payback 8/10

a fun, breezy crime caper with a lot of personality and some clever satirical-dystopian touches

Rated Magic Breaks 10/10

Wants to read The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

Rated On the Road 10/10

Finished reading Foundation

Rated Tikkop 4/10

Wants to read The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

Added The Battle of Corrin

Added The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Wants to read Guardian

Added Nightwood

Added Junky

Added Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Added Haunting Christmas Tales

Added Spiral

Added The Eyes of the Dragon

Added The Drawing of the Three

Rated 1984 10/10

Re-read this for obvious reasons. Striking things in this go-round: the frequent references to machine-made music, novels and even pornography; the preponderance of ugly little weirdos among Party members; the divestment in science that isn't weaponry- or surveillance-related.

Added The Dark Tower

Added Song of Susannah

Wants to read Rose/House

Rated How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World 10/10

love this. very thoughtfully done and lays out a theory of infrastructure as both care and freedom. Practical and informative, but with ideas, too.