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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19% complete! Alex has read 7 of 36 books.
Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in …
"It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed …
Jeff VanderMeer: Hummingbird Salamander (Paperback, 2022, HarperCollins)
'Jane Smith' receives an unexplained envelope containing the key to a storage unit. And inside that storage unit is a …
The Wright Brothers is a 2015 non-fiction book written by the popular historian David McCullough and published by Simon & …
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …
Enero Demico es una joven curiosa que vive en una extensa mansión llena de objetos …
It's well written, but not strikingly original. I liked it, but clearly sort of a YA kind of thing.
Enero Demico es una joven curiosa que vive en una extensa mansión llena de objetos y tesoros peculiares. Como la …
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything
Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in …
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That …
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver …
You know, just this thing to be consumed between real books... Having read it, I feel eager to tackle something better, richer, more sublime. The premise warrants the three stars. The characters are interchangeable and the plot's completely predicable. The fun is in seeing how he fleshes out the premise. Occasionally the dialogue is funny, though it has that quality that writers who were too influenced by Douglas Adams has. But does anyone read Scalzi for the quality of his prose? It feels a little beside the point.
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents —telling …
I feel like the less I describe this the better. This gets my most enthusiastic recommendation.
