I listened to this one on Scribd, and I can confirm, again and again, that Neil Gaiman is the best narrator ever and will always be. That said, I love the spooky traits, say the dancing mice, the speaking cat, the Other mother and the Other father, the dolls and the wardrobe scene.
I just expected it to be scarier

This might be the biggest disappointment of the year, by my very favourite writer I'm heartbroken. Most of the dialogues are still gold, but the general set and scenes are sparse to the point of being pointless. It felt like an old man complaining about technology and I'll go pretending I haven't read it.

Whatever have I just read?

Ho apprezzato molto le parti dedicate alle filosofie orientali, sia dal punto di vista storico che comparativo con la fisica contemporanea. Le parti esclusivamente sulla fisica ieri mi hanno o annoiato, o stancato, o smarrito del tutto.

#OctaviaEButler unfinished trilogy: #ParableOfTheSower and #ParableOfTheTalents will be one of my top 2020 reads, in all its glorious violence, presidency folly, addicts and extreme poverty, rawness and hope.
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God is change.
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A few words: meet 18yo Lauren Olamina, daughter of a minister, living with her family in a compound outside which everything's burning and roads are for addicts, who set fire to the world, and miserable ppl who try to flee North. She knows everything is bound to change and has plans. So when things do change for the worse, she takes the road and builds her own community and her own cult.
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I read the first when California was burning, and riots seemed to be everywhere, so the book being set in 2025 seemed only to mirror current times. I got the true picture of it, though, when I started the second. Only then did I realize, it's all about the birth of a cult, a cult I'd be eager to be part of. A cult where the only true power is change, and the only thing one can do to survive and thrive is embrace change. Hence: God is change, quite literally, and the future of humanity (Earthseed) is "to take root among the stars", as this young girl, a sharer/shaper whose condition makes her physically feel others pain, foresees.
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It's hyper violent, as in endless TW: rape, murders, kids murders, torture, camps as in death camps, slavery and sexual slavery, cannibalism.
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But it's more about struggling and find the strength in others, in the community, and in oneself to survive, and then live love and grow and thrive. (In an unrealistic turn near the end of the second but whatever). It's a epic marvelous read. Not for the faint of heart

#OctaviaEButler unfinished trilogy: #ParableOfTheSower and #ParableOfTheTalents will be one of my top 2020 reads, in all its glorious violence, presidency folly, addicts and extreme poverty, rawness and hope.
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God is change.
.
A few words: meet 18yo Lauren Olamina, daughter of a minister, living with her family in a compound outside which everything's burning and roads are for addicts, who set fire to the world, and miserable ppl who try to flee North. She knows everything is bound to change and has plans. So when things do change for the worse, she takes the road and builds her own community and her own cult.
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I read the first when California was burning, and riots seemed to be everywhere, so the book being set in 2025 seemed only to mirror current times. I got the true picture of it, though, when I started the second. Only then did I realize, it's all about the birth of a cult, a cult I'd be eager to be part of. A cult where the only true power is change, and the only thing one can do to survive and thrive is embrace change. Hence: God is change, quite literally, and the future of humanity (Earthseed) is "to take root among the stars", as this young girl, a sharer/shaper whose condition makes her physically feel others pain, foresees.
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It's hyper violent, as in endless TW: rape, murders, kids murders, torture, camps as in death camps, slavery and sexual slavery, cannibalism.
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But it's more about struggling and find the strength in others, in the community, and in oneself to survive, and then live love and grow and thrive. (In an unrealistic turn near the end of the second but whatever). It's a epic marvelous read. Not for the faint of heart

Definitely the hottest book I've read this year, probably one of the hottest in a while, and wooah to the characters (if only both a bit of overthinkers).
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For not romance readers (the only ones not to know about this book): the #WickedVillans series is about taking Disney villans and turn them all hot AF. In this one you meet Jafar and Jasmine as you've never imagined them, in a wicked city of gambling and BDSM clubs.
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Jafar is all domineering and always into consent (from the very start), while Jasmine is the feisty one, into a path of self discovery where she gets rid of all the "a good girl should and shouldn't do" to embrace her sexuality in all nuances
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Hot from the very beginning, there are two especially steamy scenes: one FMF and one extremely voyeuristic. Besides, THAT FINALE