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A mythmaker of the highest order, China Mieville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh …
As expected some "weird fiction" but... I'm vibing it! Some similarities to Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series. #Bookstodon
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among …
Guilty: this is my first romantasy. I devoured this book, however, not a fan of the landing... Felt shallow and underdeveloped. Neat worldbuild.
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among …
It has been a very long time since I've read a romance novel... Evident from the first chapter. It's not that my standard SciFi and Fantasy don't have any flings, but this is a totally different ball game...
Finished this a few days ago:
Not a lot to say at the moment. Although I enjoyed it quite a bit, it really felt like the second half or so lost much of the momentum and intrigue that was built up in the first half?
Which in terms of the story itself, actually makes sense. Much of the novel pivots on the complicated friendship ()? of two young girls. That relationship, far from a simple friendship, injects the book with a great deal of uncertainty and curiosity early on. It also inspires the sort of koan-esque aphorisms that Agnes shares.
But as the novel proceeds and distance comes between the two girls - geographic, but also figurative - so it makes sense that the tone shifts, as does the tension.
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Leila Slimani, *In the Country of Others*
Forty pages in and already an interesting read to pair with the Amos Oz story cycle I finished a few weeks ago. In *Scenes from Village Life*, the town Oz writes of lives in the shadow of its pioneering settlers - not always comfortably - as well as the tense present of Israeli politics lurks in the background.
Here, Slimani writes of Mathilde, who moves to Morocco, where her husband is from, to live on his family's untamed land, and the uncomfortable life she finds as a foreigner who is always reminded of her foreignness. 1/n
Yiyun Li's *The Book of Goose* is quite wonderful so far! The relationship between the two main characters is just mysterious enough, unsettling enough, to keep you unsure of where things are headed. The narrator (Agnes) speaks in aphoristic language that doubles that sense of mystery and uncertainty.
The Sierra Adventure tells the story of legendary computer game company Sierra On-Line, developers of …
I finished this recently and I want to pass it on to someone else who loved/loves #Sierra On-line games. Let me know if that's you!
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful …
Adapting & building community during social collapse. Prophetic for its time, remains unsettling. God as Change could be a genuinely useful belief system. Only half a book, with ending sudden & too convenient (there is a sequel).
Reading time 5 days, 62 pages/day
