I'm so charmed by this novella. Keiko Furukura & the convenience store is my new OTP

Loved this collection. My favorite stories were The Fish of Lijiang, Tongtong's Summer, The City of Silence, Folding Beijing, and Taking Care of God. I also really appreciated the essays. Definitely check this collection out!

This is an odd interesting book. I enjoyed? reading it but I'm still not sure what to make of it.

I immensely enjoyed reading this book, and love the contemplative, humble and honest tone. I will say I found if somewhat emotionally fraught to read a book about a hobby that I share by someone who's level far surpasses my wildest dreams. Inspiring and discouraging and motivating all at once, I'd recommend this book to other runners, and I'd love to talk about all the things it made me think about.

This collection of "fables for the cybernetic era" is witty and entertaining. I was glad that the characters were reoccurring, making the volume feel very cohesive.

I really enjoyed this graphic memoir, and Paola's expressive art style.

One of those books I'm going to think about a lot I would guess. I'm no good at allegories, and I definitely don't know enough about Korea for this book to come closer than completely over my head. That said, it was a highly interesting but intensely uncomfortable book, dealing with a lot of heavy topics.

Clocking in just over 24 hours, this audiobook is 30% longer than the longest audiobook I've listened to previously, yet I've been happily spending runs listening to Press Director Mikami's story since the beginning of October without ever growing bored. I wonder whether I would have enjoyed this book as much if I'd read it myself, and for that I have to give a great deal of credit to the narrator. Yokoyama has woven together a complex tale, and Burnip brings it to life in this audio production with vibrant and varying voices. There were so many characters and plot points to keep track of that I'm very surprised how rarely I felt missing a needed detail, Yokoyama seems to grasp brilliantly how much information to remind the reader without feeling repetitive. This is something I especially appreciated as I was unable to flip back and re-read passages.

My main qualm with this book was in the portrayal of it's few female characters, and especially Mikami's missing daughter. Her disappearance is a source of great anguish to him, but she otherwise feels like quite an unrealistic caricature and even just a plot device. However, I think that some of the dynamics in this novel are out of my reach because of its Japanese setting and characters, so I hesitate to make too strong of a value judgement.

Liu Cixin writes beautifully, with a deft hand for predicting our future, and a thoughtful handling of our humanity. His story never ceased to surprise and delight me, even in incredibly dark times for humanity.

This book made my heart happy to read. I found it to be a wildly interesting and intelligent epic story that weaves together history and all sorts of math and science while asking the big questions that science fiction is meant to go after. My biggest complaint is that I have to wait for the next two books of the trilogy to be translated into English, making me seriously question why I didn't spend the time required to learn Chinese at some point in my life? I highly recommend this fantastic book to all science fiction fans. I'm still relatively un-read in the genre but I really enjoyed the opportunity to read a book written from the framework of Chinese cultural influences. As Liu Cixin discusses in his afterword, science and technology and conflicts as a result of sci fi topics are globalizing forces. We are enriched when we see these stories told from global perspectives.