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ookiimarukochan

malcolm@bookwyrm.internationalotaku.com

Joined 1 year, 6 months ago

My non-Japanese library lives here (Japanese books are at booklog.jp/users/ookiimarukochan/profile)

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Timothy Clark: Shunga (Hardcover, 2013, British Museum Press) 4 stars

You can discover Japanese art like no other. Originally created by the artists of the …

An educational read

4 stars

An educational read, if nothing else for the realisation that the experts who've provided monographs have no knowledge of the world outside Japan or its' history (in particular suggesting that art world in the UK in the 18th/19th centuries avoided topics as they would upset the pope)

William C. Dietz: Mass Effect: Deception (Paperback, 2011, Orbit) 1 star

Genuinely offensive

1 star

Even when you exclude the way that no one involved in this book appears to have played the games or read previous novels in the series, the way that a severely autistic non-verbal girl turns into a neurotypical teen over the course of a few weeks "because she felt like it" is one of the most offensive things I've ever read in a book.

Jean-Claude Mézières, Pierre Christin: Valerian The Complete Collection Vol. 7 (Hardcover, 2018, CineBook) 2 stars

Mézières and Christin have done something that almost no one had done before: after 43 …

Valerian The Complete Collection Vol 7 Review

2 stars

Content warning Spoilers for the end of the series!