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Classic Sci-Fi: Roadside Picnic Book Review

April 26, 2023 by Cate Crafter in Books

Roadside Picnic is a 1972 philosophical science fiction novel by Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It inspired the iconic film from acclaimed director Andrei Tarkovsky and still feels as relevant today as when it was written.

April 26, 2023 /Cate Crafter

Roadside Picnic, Stalker, Tarkovsky, Science Fiction, science fiction books, sci fi books, Sci-fi, Sci-Fi, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, book, Books, Book Review, classic sci-fi

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21 Books I want to Read in 2021

January 07, 2021 by Cate Crafter in Books

Like Byron, I am mad, bad and dangerous to know...why you ask? Because these books will take over your life!

Me and my sister recently re-charged our joint youtube channel and I must say it feels great to be back making videos, there’s just something really fun and creative about it.

January 07, 2021 /Cate Crafter

Doppler, Erlend Loe, Norwegian Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Norsk Bok, Norsk Litteratur, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thích Nhất Hạnh, fear, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm, Zen Buddhism, The Birds, Tarjei Versaas, Fuglane, Nynorsk, Han Kang, 한강, Korean Literature, Korean books, 소년이 온다, Angela Carter, Wise Children, Books, Literature, Franz Kafka, Kafka, The Castle, Das Schloß, Rachel Cusk, Outline, Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R Tolkien, The Dark Forest, CIxin Liu, Remembrance of Earth's Past, 黑暗森林, 刘慈欣, Sci-Fi, Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education, L'Éducation sentimentale, French Literature, The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, Мастер и Маргарита, Russian Literature, Classics, N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season, The Broken Earth, The Woman Destroyed, Simone de Beauvoir, La femme rompue, Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle, A Death in the Family, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, Le Portrait de Dorian Gray, Pachinko, Min Jin Lee, Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey, The Expanse, Kafka on the Shore, Murakami, Haruki Murakami, 海辺のカフカ, 村上春樹, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, American Literature, Booktube, reading list, 2021, Cixin Liu

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