Skip to content

bookskeptic.com

  • About
  • Reading History
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
  • To Be Read
    • 2017
    • 2016
  • Projects and Challenges
    • 12 Museums for 2022
    • 12 Plays for 2022
    • #20BooksofSummer 2021
    • #20booksofsummer 2020
    • #20booksofsummer 2019
    • 12 bookshops for 12 months
    • #20booksofsummer 2018
    • #20booksofsummer 2017
    • #20booksofsummer 2016
    • Reading Ireland Month 2016

Tag: China

The Dark Forest – Cixin Liu

On May 22, 2021October 16, 2021 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

The second part of the trilogy opened with The Three-Body Problem is even more impressive in its sheer scale. Cixin Liu slowly but firmly divorces himself from the confines of current times and takes us deftly into the future. That is anything but bright. As with the previous one I got this book from my …

Continue reading The Dark Forest – Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu

On May 19, 2021May 21, 2021 By bookskepticIn Reviews5 Comments

I’m no expert on sci-fi, but for me, this was one of the eeriest reads recently. Pushing me out of my comfort zone and making me consider other, foreign to me perspectives. I always believed that good sci-fi asks the question about what does it mean to be human. This one asks many even bigger …

Continue reading The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu

Enter your email address to follow my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 494 other subscribers

Present

  • A Pause
  • The Shark is Broken – Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, dir. Guy Masterson
  • The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
  • A Long Way Off/ Daleko, dalej – Pascal Garnier
  • Charles Dickens Museum – 12 Museums for 2022

Past

Categories

  • Quotes
  • Reviews
  • Thoughts
  • Uncategorized

Tags

#12bookshopsfor12months #20boksofsummer #20booksofsummer #20booksofsummer20 #20BooksofSummer21 #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks Andrzej Sapkowski book book haul book review book reviews books Canada Crime crime fiction Elena Ferrante Elizabeth Strout fiction Ian McEwan Ian Rankin Ireland Jeanette Winterson John Grisham Jo Nesbo Julian Barnes Kapka Kassabova Kate Atkinson Kazuo Ishiguro London Margaret Atwood Neil Gaiman New York non-fiction Olga Tokarczuk Poland quotes Rebecca Solnit review round up Shirley Jackson short stories Stephen King The United Kingdom Thoughts Thriller Toni Morisson travel United Kingdom United States warsaw
  • View bookskeptic’s profile on Facebook
  • View @booksceptic’s profile on Twitter

Blogroll

  • Disco Demolition Night
  • bookskeptic.com
  • Tea & Paperbacks
  • Duchess Reading
  • Damn Ugly Photography
  • Adventures in reading, writing and working from home
  • the blue bore
  • Cameron Book Reviews
  • The WordPress.com Blog
  • The Bookworm Bistro
  • Book Haunt
  • The Reading Bug
  • Cleopatra Loves Books
  • Fig and Thistle
  • Leaping Life
  • The Hungry Monster Book Review
  • Simoneteffect – Pure Black & White
  • sunroseclear
  • The Critiquing Chemist
  • A reader's footprints
  • cupandpaper.
  • 746 Books
  • middle, beginning & end – The Book Review
  • Read Diverse Books
  • Dream by Day
  • Donovan Reads
  • The 100 Greatest Books Challenge
  • Shoshi's Book Blog
  • inkyspells
  • Penguin Blog
  • ireadnovels
  • Iconic Photos
  • Feminist Texican Reads
  • the knitted footballer
  • London In Photos
  • Kate Beth Heywood
  • A Note From Abroad
  • Portobello Book Blog
  • Thinking in Fragments
  • booksaremyfavouriteandbest
  • Show This Book Some Love
  • Tony's Reading List
  • http://bookowly.wordpress.com
  • bookssavetheworld
  • Reading To Remember
  • Spiral Spun
  • Travels Food
  • heavenali
  • The Daily Dosage
  • findingtimetowrite
  • Words And Peace
  • madame bibi lophile recommends
  • Simonet – Pure Black & White
  • The Bookish Badger
  • Lotus Book Blog
  • Lizzy's Literary Life
  • Brontë's Page Turners
  • Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
  • theliterarysisters
  • Asylum
  • The Writes of Woman
  • FictionFan's Book Reviews
  • BaileyBee
  • Happily Ever Bookish
  • RELATING TO HUMANS
  • WordPress.com News
  • 101 Books
  • Beyond Eden Rock
  • CANVAS & QUILL
  • Book Snob
  • thebookshelfblog
  • My Book Strings
  • The Perks of Being a Bookworm
  • Consumed by Ink
  • thelibrarylizard.wordpress.com/
  • RatherTooFondofBooks
  • Big Reading Life
  • Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
  • Fleeting Brook
  • Novels & Teacups
  • The Bookshelf of Emily J.
  • Laura Broadberry
  • Sorry Television
  • Hard Book Habit
  • She Reads Novels
  • Real Life Reading
  • JacquiWine's Journal
  • The Novel Eater
  • rants and raves of a bibliophile
  • BeeOrdiway
  • Savidge Reads
  • WOCreads
  • bhaktimotta
  • Lady Fancifull
  • Bits & Books
  • Dysfunctional Literacy
  • Tincture of Museum
  • The Bibliophile Struggle
  • If You Can Read This
  • British Museum blog
  • Mike Finn's Fiction
  • Distant Drumlin
  • Reading Turtle Duck
  • The London Particular
  • JacquiWine's Journal
  • If Books Could Blog
  • Tales from the Reading Room
  • cup of tea with that book, please
  • Ranty Runt of a Reader
  • BookerTalk
  • Worn Corners
  • The Daily Post
  • Franklenstein
  • mirabile dictu
  • ReadandReview2016
  • Reading the End
  • Drunk Off Rhetoric
  • Tara Sparling writes
  • photospace violetta kaszubowska
  • Lisa Tiller
  • KURTBRINDLEY.COM
  • The Book Satchel
  • 120secondbookreviews
  • bookowly
  • CIMPLE – A Curious Introvert's Musings & Photos about Life and Enjoyment

Meta

  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • bookskeptic.com
    • Join 494 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • bookskeptic.com
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy