Alex rated Station Eleven: 4 stars
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Dans un monde où la civilisation s’est effondrée suite à une pandémie foudroyante, une troupe d’acteurs et de musiciens nomadise …
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Sono Americano e il mio Italiano é molto fuori di pratica. Studiavo per un anno al'Universitá di Bologna più di venti cinque anni fa. Italo Calvino é il mio autore Italiano favorito. Oh, wait, seems like a fairly international crowd here.
Over on Mastodon, I'm: @alex_galt@mas.to I'm not sure how to connect this thing to that thing.
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Alex rated Life: A User's Manual: 4 stars
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Life A User's Manual (the original title is La Vie mode d'emploi) is Georges Perec's most famous novel, published in …
Alex rated The museum of innocence: 4 stars
The museum of innocence by Orhan Pamuk
"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his first …
Identity by Milan Kundera
Identity (French: L'Identité) is a novel by Franco-Czech writer Milan Kundera, published in 1998. Kundera moved to France in 1975. …
Solaris by Stanisław Lem, Stanislaw Lem
The cult-classic by Stanislaw Lem that spawned the movie is now available for your Kindle! Until now the only English …
Alex rated Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: 3 stars
Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (2001, Oldcastle Books, Limited)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all "bursting with dimples and hormones"--and …
Alex rated The Da Vinci Code: 2 stars
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include …
A void by Georges Perec
A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition (lit. "The Disappearance"), is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in …
Alex rated James and the Giant Peach: 4 stars
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and …
Alex rated Mason & Dixon: 4 stars
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and …
Alex rated Farewell to Arms: 3 stars
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War …
Alex rated The general in his labyrinth: 4 stars
The general in his labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez (Everyman's library ;)
The General in His Labyrinth (original Spanish title: El general en su laberinto) is a 1989 dictator novel by Colombian …
Alex rated Reading Lolita in Tehran: 4 stars
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Prof. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to …
Alex rated The Green Mile: 3 stars
The Green Mile by Stephen King
The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row …
Alex rated What's the matter with Kansas?: 4 stars
What's the matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker …