I've mostly read sci-fi, but am trying to branch out. I really like to think and talk about books, hope to find people here to chat with!
I sometimes write longer stuff here: a-blog-with.relevant-information.com/posts/
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Reaper's Gale is the seventh volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen. …
Ce sont trois longues nouvelles encadrées par deux contes. Melancolia est un livre sur l’expérience …
I have to many books that I'm currently reading, so I'm shelving this one for now.
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short …
I wrote a short review here: a-blog-with.relevant-information.com/weblog/2024-01-11-life_ceremony_by_sayaka_murata/
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short …
Uh, so the titular story of this short story collection made me slightly nauseous, but it also made me feel warm inside in the good way. But also nauseous.
For generations, a family has lived with Death in their library. An old lighthouse keeper picks through the Beach, where …
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet
Matsutake …
mushroom book
Ce sont trois longues nouvelles encadrées par deux contes. Melancolia est un livre sur l’expérience …
Cărtărescu writes in this strange way that occasionally goes into very detailed descriptions that is weirdly compelling.
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short …
This one is a bit weird.
「普通」とは何か? 現代の実存を軽やかに問う第155回芥川賞受賞作
Finished reading my first book in Japanese!
Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can …
I have invented countless things that would prove of great value to many people. And that presents me with a dilemma. I must ask myself, with each invention, what possible abuses await such an object? More often than not, I conclude those abuses outweigh the value of the invention. I call this Dev's First Law of invention.
— The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #6)
Sequel to "House of chains" in the author's acclaimed fantasy cycle. Erikson lives in Winnipeg.
'All failures are temporary, flawed in the particular. Correct the particular and victory will be won next time around.'
'Until a situation arises where there is no second opportunity.'
'And future scholars will dissect every moment of these days, assembling their lists of the particulars, the specifics from which no generalization threatening the prime assumptions can ever be derived. It is, in truth, an exquisite paradigm, the perfect mechanism ensuring the persistent survival of an entire host of terrible, brutal beliefs.
— Midnight tides : a tale of the Malazan book of the fallen by Steven Erikson
Sequel to "House of chains" in the author's acclaimed fantasy cycle. Erikson lives in Winnipeg.
Content warning philosophical passages, no plot
'We are the fallen, Feather Witch. You, me, the ghosts. All of us. We're the dust swirling around the ankles of the conquerors as they stride into glory. In time, we may rise in their ceaseless scuffling, and so choke them, but it is a paltry vengeance, don't you think?' [...]
He thought back to his own words earlier. /Fallen. Who tracks our footsteps I wonder? We who are the forgotten, the discounted and the ignored. When the path is failure, it is never willingly taken. The fallen. Why does my heart weep for them? Not them but us, for most assuredly I am counted among them. Slaves, serfs, nameless peasants and labourers, the blurred faces of the crowd — just a smear on memory, a scuffling of feet down the passages of history.
Can one stop, can one turn and force one's eyes to pierce the gloom? And see the fallen? Can one ever see the fallen? And if so, what emotion is born in that moment?/
There were years on his cheeks, dripping down onto his chafed hands. He knew the answer to that question, knife-sharp and driven deep, and that answer was ... recognition.
— Midnight tides : a tale of the Malazan book of the fallen by Steven Erikson (Page 269 - 271)
This seems to be another comment on what "the book of the fallen" means. I recall that there were something mentioned in Deadhouse Gates as well, does anyone remember that?
Also, I think I'm confused by the emotion hr is describing, why recognition?
