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science fiction reader & writer English / Deutsch fave authors: Bujold, Le Guin, Cherryh, Terry Pratchett, Tolkien
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Conni rated Communicative Language Teaching in Action: 3 stars
Communicative Language Teaching in Action by Klaus Brandl
Communicative Language Teaching in Action: Putting Principles to Work is designed as a basic text that intends to demonstrate principles …
Conni rated An introduction to contact linguistics: 4 stars
An introduction to contact linguistics by Donald Winford (Language in society ;)
Velvet by Ed Brubaker
When the world's greatest secret agent is killed, all evidence points to Velvet Templeton, the personal secretary to the Director …
Conni rated The Obelisk Gate: 5 stars
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #2)
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization …
Conni rated Am Beispiel meines Bruders: 4 stars
Conni rated Im Krebsgang: 4 stars
Conni rated Der Verlorene: 3 stars
Der Verlorene by Hans Ulrich Treichel (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch -- 3061)
Conni rated Black Widow Tome 1: 5 stars
Conni rated League of dragons: 5 stars
League of dragons by Naomi Novik (Temeraire series -- 9)
"With the acclaimed Temeraire novels, New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik has created a fantasy series like no other, …
Dawn by Yoshiki Tanaka, Yoshiki Tanaka (Legend of the Galactic Heroes, #01)
“The Golden Brat” Reinhard von Lohengramm, a military prodigy and admiral of the Galactic Empire, has ambitions beyond protecting the …
Review of 'The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
The story is exactly the kind of thing I like, though I would prefer less crapsack. Every few hundred years there's a natural disaster and the world goes all mad max. And the people who can do earth magic are slaves, basically.
The thing keeping me from giving 5 stars is that I hated the narration style in the second person chapters.
Lightless by C. A. Higgins
"Serving aboard the Ananke, an experimental military spacecraft launched by the ruthless organization that rules Earth and its solar system, …