en-US Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:03:20 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg ReadStatus9352105730 Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:03:20 -0700 /review/show/7518661420 Jean is currently reading Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan
]]> Review7486942904 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:39:45 -0700 /review/show/7486942904 Jean gave 4 stars to The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover) by Ken Liu
The stories in this collection are complex, contemplative, and exercises in truth seeking through storytelling. For me, four stars instead of five because the vivid descriptions of torture and war crimes in three of the stories were emotionally distressing to a surprising degree. I think it’s necessary—and one of the prime purposes of fiction—to confront abhorrent human behavior; but although this will be a book I’ll continue to think about, it won’t be one I’ll reread. ]]> Review6804257393 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:35:17 -0700 /review/show/6804257393 Jean gave 5 stars to Exhalation (ebook) by Ted Chiang
So brilliant—each story a gem worth returning to to more fully appreciate. ]]> Review7486942904 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:31:32 -0700 /review/show/7486942904 Jean gave 4 stars to The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover) by Ken Liu
The stories in this collection are complex, contemplative, and exercises in truth seeking through storytelling. For me, four stars instead of five because the vivid descriptions of torture and war crimes in three of the stories were emotionally distressing to a surprising degree. I think it’s necessary—and one of the prime purposes of fiction—to confront abhorrent human behavior; but although this will be a book I’ll continue to think about, it won’t be one I’ll reread. ]]> Review7468644106 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 20:27:36 -0700 /review/show/7468644106 Jean has read Mantissa (Paperback) by John Fowles
Very intrigued that an author would publish something so embarrassing! ]]> ReadStatus9300963815 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:20:01 -0700 /review/show/7483128614 Jean is currently reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
]]> Review7480009105 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:31:23 -0700 /review/show/7480009105 Jean gave 4 stars to The Fourteenth Goldfish (Hardcover) by Jennifer L. Holm
]]> ReadStatus9296432731 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:49:21 -0700 /review/show/7480009669 Jean is currently reading The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
]]> ReadStatus9296431940 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:49:02 -0700 /review/show/7480009105 Jean is currently reading The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
]]> Review6804257393 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:35:06 -0700 /review/show/6804257393 Jean gave 5 stars to Exhalation (ebook) by Ted Chiang
So brilliant—each story a gem worth returning to to more fully appreciate. ]]>