Coraline, but considering Gaiman, that’s no challenge.

From what I heard, the Crawdads movie was actually better, but that’s no big challenge either.

I recently downloaded the Kindle app. I like it, my physical Kindle doesn’t. 😅

Though the Kindle menu in general is a bit clumsy at times and could do with a small makeover.

I don’t like much YA, but that one was a good read.

Now, I got it in exchange for a review, and gave it to the library I work for. It’s been sitting on the shelf for several months now, literally zero people read it. It’s frustrating…

I absolutely hate how you only get most of his books second-hand where I live. Palmer Eldritch is one of them.

What even was Ubik? One of the wildest rides in my life, book-wise.

If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino

Another example of a really great idea that got watered down in the second half of the book.

He won’t grow that way, though. I hear so often about people lying in reviews, it’s insane. Why not be honest?

The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Ruiz Zafon features a “quirky” character that I don’t remember being this annoying and smartypants from the other books. DNF’d maybe ten pages in. I have too many books on my to-read shelves for this shit.

That would be a bit too on the nose (and in bad taste).

Anything by Walter Kempowski.

Auf diese Bank von Holz woll’n wir uns setzen.

Most libraries don’t even buy that one, which is weird if you think about all the books with slander they have about him.

For me it’s Blindness by José Saramago, it started off good (…) I was really disappointed because the plot seemed really good and all I ended up with was frustration.

I feel the same about most of his books. The one about the doppelgänger was the best.

I used to, out of a principle, but paying 25€ for a crappy story just isn’t worth it. If it’s a good one, sure.

Neverwhere by Gaiman. It should be sold as a sleeping aid.

Neverwhere by Gaiman. It should be sold as a sleeping aid.

Isn’t that subjective? I read the six big ones, and it was a slog.

Oh, I love, love, LOVE them. :P

The main characters (the “good guys”) being smarter than the antagonists.

Getting all the information in detective stories EXCEPT from the point on when they realise who’s the murderer. Then it’s all shrouded in mystery and “he had to go to some place we won’t tell you right now to do something that we won’t tell you either so you’ll be surprised by the end”.

While we’re at that, the detective giving the murderer a rundown of how everything happened. Like, why do that? Why not tell the police instead of the culprit?

And also while we’re at it, why does it always have to be murder?

Oh, and guessing someone’s password by basically pulling it out of your ass. What, they have a dog? Certainly it will be the dog’s name, without any numbers or special signs. Just a plain name. Yup, that’s how passwords work all of the time.

Reading non-fiction about niche topics or (kind of) niche books (at least for the current generation) isn’t easy, but that’s book biz. Show must go on. ✊🏻

I work at one, but I still don’t understand how they can’t dislike us. Instead of having ten or twenty people buy their books, those people simply borrow them.