Disclaimer: Spoilers! This is a review, what do you expect? After I read The Devotion of Suspect X and liked it so much, my friend and her mom immediately recommended to me the Detective Kaga series from the same author. According to her, the two series from the author – Detective Kaga and Detective Galileo, […]
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A review of Lighthouse Coffee in Blacksburg, VA
Lighthouse Coffee is a coffee shop in Blacksburg operating on the pay-as-much-you-want model. I’ve been coming here multiple times each week now, and the barista, Madchen, surprised me today by remembering my order (large matcha latte, half-and-half, no syrup and an espresso, double-shot). Their espressos are always perfectly dialed in and sweet, I even got […]
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Weird, but compelling: A review of Uketsu’s Strange Houses
I read Uketsu’s Strange Houses. Why, you ask, did I read the second book in a series that I knew nothing about? Because I had a flat tyre, and I was waiting for it to be fixed, and this was the only book my friend had at hand. And I had a good time reading […]
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Scary and Enthralling: There is no Antimemetics Division
Preface: I’m not sure if this will turn out to be a long review, because I kind of want to keep this short. If you haven’t read the book, please stop reading here and read the book. Spoilers will ruin your experience of reading this, even if you do not usually mind them. This is the […]
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A Review of Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
Note: This review contains spoilers. Please turn away now. We have a phone for complaints regarding spoilers, but we deliberately do not man it. Nor give out the number. As a male from a famously male-dominated society, where many women are sold into slavery in the name of marriage, it’s easy for me to look […]
Do Good and Be Good: My (short) review of Fugitive Telemetry
I have figured out why I like Murderbot so much. He/it affirms my faith in humanity. Here’s someone who’s superpowered, augmented, thinks and strategises at the speed of light, has so much potential to do harm; but he chooses to be good, to do good, to watch cheesy and boring TV shows; and is inevitably […]
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The Asian self-sacrificial urge: A review of The Devotion of Suspect X
I have a friend who reads just mysteries and thrillers – every time she talks about books, it’s either Frieda McFadden (who she hates, but loves to read – in order to hate), or Riley Sager, or many of the usual suspects whose names are thrown around in the mystery/thriller sphere. After she came to […]
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