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cape_taun ha recensito Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1 (Yotsuba&! #1) di Kiyohiko Azuma (Yotsubato! (English) (1))

Kiyohiko Azuma, あずまきよひこ, Azuma Kiyohiko: Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1 (Yotsuba&! #1) (Paperback, 2005, ADV Manga)

Koiwai and his four-year-old daughter Yotsuba have just moved into the neighborhood, but is the …

Review of 'Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1 (Yotsuba&! #1)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stelle

This is so wholesome. I cry everytime I read a chapter, bc of the cuteness of Yotsuba. Sometimes I want to laugh so hard but I have to keep it quiet, so I cry in return. My dream is to be able to read a chapter a day for the rest of my life. I'm crying rn I swear

cape_taun ha valutato After hours. 1: 2 stelle

After hours. 1 di Yuhta Nishio

cape_taun ha valutato My Brilliant Friend: 4 stelle

Elena Ferrante: My Brilliant Friend (2012, Europa Editions)

My Brilliant Friend di Elena Ferrante

From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. …

cape_taun ha recensito The Legend of Korra Turf Wars Part Two di Michael Dante DiMartino

Michael Dante DiMartino, Irene Koh: The Legend of Korra Turf Wars Part Two

Review of 'The Legend of Korra Turf Wars Part Two' on 'Goodreads'

2 stelle

Fuck this. All of this trouble just to an Hollywoodian ending in which the two of them share the first “I love u”. Fuck this. So predictable and so sloppy. Meh

cape_taun ha recensito Still stuck di Shinsuke Yoshitake

Nessuna copertina — Shinsuke Yoshitake: Still stuck (2017, Abrams, Inc.)

Getting dressed and undressed can be difficult, especially for little ones. While getting ready for …

Review of 'Still stuck' on 'Goodreads'

5 stelle

An honest description of what it feels like to be a mess since childhood. I can relate

cape_taun ha recensito Okutāvu. v.1 di Haru Akiyama

Haru Akiyama: Okutāvu. v.1 (Japanese language)

Review of 'Okutāvu. v.1' on 'Goodreads'

4 stelle

So nice and heart-warming, sensual without being sloppy. Too bad that side characters slowly disappear from the story

cape_taun ha valutato Emil and Bad Tooth Lindgren: 4 stelle

Emil and Bad Tooth Lindgren di Astrid Lindgren

cape_taun ha valutato Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet: 4 stelle

Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet di Frontier Electronic Frontier Foundation

cape_taun ha recensito The breast di Philip Roth

Philip Roth: The breast (1994, Vintage International)

Review of 'The breast' on 'Goodreads'

3 stelle

“Is it homophobic if I don't want this male nurse to lick the nipple of the giant female breast I have become?”

cape_taun ha valutato Mooncop: 4 stelle

Tom Gauld: Mooncop (Hardcover, 2016, Drawn and Quarterly Books)

Mooncop di Tom Gauld

From back cover: The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. …

cape_taun ha valutato Swallowing the earth: 3 stelle

Osamu Tezuka: Swallowing the earth (Paperback, 2009, Digital Manga Publishing)

Swallowing the earth di Osamu Tezuka

cape_taun ha recensito Altri libertini di Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Pier Vittorio Tondelli: Altri libertini (Italian language, 1995)

Altri Libertini is the first book by the Italian writer, Pier Vittorio Tondelli. It was …

Review of 'Altri libertini' on 'Goodreads'

5 stelle

Una delle migliori lingue che abbia mai letto in un libro, forse insieme a Arancia Meccanica che non a caso viene citato da Tondelli. Italiano, emiliano, latino, inglese tutto mischiato in un nuovo linguaggio densissimo.
A 17 anni stavo per mettermi a leggere questo libro; sono felice di averlo fatto solo ora perché tempo fai lo avrei rigettato come pornografia e turpiloquio alla prima pagina

cape_taun ha valutato Crash: 3 stelle

J. G. Ballard: Crash (Italian language, 2015)

Crash di J. G. Ballard

Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973 with cover designed by Bill Botten. …

cape_taun ha valutato Cinquemila chilometri al secondo: 4 stelle

Manuele Fior: Cinquemila chilometri al secondo (Paperback, 2010, Coconino Press)

Cinquemila chilometri al secondo di Manuele Fior

cape_taun ha recensito The Handmaid's Tale di Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (Paperback, 1998, Anchor Books)

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of …

Review of "The Handmaid's Tale" on 'Goodreads'

5 stelle

The TV show was about freedom and the willpower of people who want to gain back their loved ones at all costs, confined in a theocratic dystopia. I was expecting the same here.
Instead. The book does not talk about freedom in an oppressive society, it talks about seeking desires in a world where they are prevented. Offred wants sex, love, a child. She is haunted by memories of the time when she was independent, but she doesn't believe it is possible to escape from Gilead. Even Ofglen isn't able to make a dissident out of her, Offred just turns her back to politics innuendo once she is satisfied with staying with Nick. Even when she is arrested at the end, it is clear that it has nothing to do with politics and subversives.
I probably prefer the Offred shown in the series, committed to find her daughter and to …

The TV show was about freedom and the willpower of people who want to gain back their loved ones at all costs, confined in a theocratic dystopia. I was expecting the same here.
Instead. The book does not talk about freedom in an oppressive society, it talks about seeking desires in a world where they are prevented. Offred wants sex, love, a child. She is haunted by memories of the time when she was independent, but she doesn't believe it is possible to escape from Gilead. Even Ofglen isn't able to make a dissident out of her, Offred just turns her back to politics innuendo once she is satisfied with staying with Nick. Even when she is arrested at the end, it is clear that it has nothing to do with politics and subversives.
I probably prefer the Offred shown in the series, committed to find her daughter and to save her more than to find pleasure, which still I find perfectly justifiable.

The historical notes are just genius, a self-analysis by the book, utterly consistent.

People complaining about the absence of quotation marks: fuck you.