Waiting by Ha Jin or the story of a guy who couldn’t commit to his wife
The winner of the 1999 US National Book Award for Fiction, set in China during and after the Cultural Revolution. For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in his traditional home village lives the humble, loyal…
The Forge of God * Greg Bear (1987)
A stunning novel of alien invasion from a master of the genre Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1988)Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1988)Nominee: Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1988) The disappearance of one of Jupiter’s moons, the appearance of “little green men” in Australia and the American…
La Danza de la Muerte: Seven Stories
We expend every effort to wilfully ignore the fact that each and every last one of us is dying at the rate of one day per day. Some of us faster. The cultures of othertimes and places do not share this ignorance. Medieval Europe had a long tradition of contemplating death, summarized by the Latin…
Joe Hill – King Sorrow or the Long Dark breathing fire again
Fuck. Stephen King’s son is a beast. He’s writing mega novels every 6-7 years or so and they are all brilliant. No need to churn one every year or so like daddy dearest where you complain about Covid and Trump and rake in the dollars. We long for dragons—if only everything we hate could be…
Emily Henry * The Happy Place or how hard it is to keep a three girl friendship going past college
OK, I think I finally reached my limit of how much Emily Henry I can stomach. Second book I read that I completely disliked, even though I previously liked 2 others. Let’s call it even. Two exes. One pact.Could this holiday change everything? Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple – they go together like…
People we meet on Vacation * Emily Henry or the story of the 12 year friendzone
Apparently it also got made into a movie! Not sure if I wanna watch it since I was pretty disapointed in the book. Meet free-spirited Poppy, quirky, outgoing, social. And her BFF Alex, quiet, introverted, teacher material. They form an unlikely friendship which is made stronger by annual summer vacations in different corners of the…
The Hours * Michael Cunningham
Seen the movie, wanted to read the book. What a load of posh suicidal ideation and Virginia Woolf boot licking… I can’t understand why people liked this book! The movie was better (gave it a 3/10) Blurb: The Hours is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.…
Dean Koontz Books adapted into movies
1977 – “The Passengers” aka “The Intruder” (1979 video release) This was adapted from the novel “Shattered,” which Koontz wrote under the name of K.R. Dwyer. It was filmed in France and Italy and released in French. The original title was “Les Passagers,” and it was also released on video in the US as “The…
Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of ‘Tribes of the Pacific Coast’ Neil Stephenson
Neal Stephenson was born on October 31, 1959. https://epdf.tips/excerpt-from-the-third-and-last-volume-of-tribes-of-the-pacific-coast.html Stephenson won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996 for The Diamond Age and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2004 for Quicksilver. His novel Snow Crash won the Prix Ozone, the Ignotus Award, and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. Stephenson’s novel Seveneves won the Kurd Lasswitz Preis and the Prometheus Award.…
Atmosphere – Taylor Jenkins Reid – or the story of the gay woman in space
From the same author as The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a poetic approach of a woman’s struggle to reach the stars she loves so much while navigating family drama and coming out. I loved the fact that the book was not solely about coming out as a gay woman and the difficulty this…
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