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Bike tour book number three. I'm in the emotional phase of having a cold and thinking about how much I need to spend some quality time with our sofa before I have to go back to work. Oh god, do I relate to the wish to just sleep, sleep all day.

I can see that this is a good book, and I cried a lot to it. Just, it's not the kind of book I was hoping to read. I was too annoyed by the tales from the internet, and then it got even more real life, which I was trying to avoid.

I.... I don't know how to feel about this yet.

I was at a bookstore in Maribor, where we are taking a little break from cycling, and trying to find anything in English that's even remotely weird scifi. I'm not sure if that's what I found, but this was the one book that spoke to me, soooo. I have mixed feelings about starting this, but I have a cold and will be trying to get rid of that so a lot of reading will probably be happening today and tomorrow. Oh no, I hope I don't run out of this book, too.

It's.... it took me a long time to get into this one. Then there were some things that I thought were super good, for example the descriptions of manipulation and guilt. And other things.... idk. And that "idk" includes a lot of different stuff. Some political stuff, and some world building stuff, and other... things. I really liked the calm way that not being able to know what is true is handled. I also like that there's some small bits of kinda cute plural-ish stuff.

So this is my (first) bike tour book. I took it from a public bookcase and intend to leave it at one. I'm a little sad it's not something that I love or am invested in... but it still felt better to take this one.

I'm reading this in German because my grandparents gave it to me for my birthday, after I said I watched the movie or smth and they said they've read the books. So far good cat and human content.

Ich hab irgendwie nur darauf gewartet, dass da etwas passiert, was mich richtig nervt, das ist aber nicht passiert. Also, bis auf das Ende, aber das mag ich auch – mir ist nur das Gefühl von "aber da geht die Geschichte doch erst richtig los??" schwer gefallen.

Dystopie mit viel Überwachung und Patriarchat. Vom Fokus her eher so cis-feministisch, aber tatsächlich, naja, war ich dann von etwas auch diesbezüglich positiv überrascht.

Also... ich mag es.

Hab ich vor Monaten im offenen Bücherschrank gefunden, war begeistert vom Cover, überrumpelt vom Klappentext und insgesamt recht vorfreudig. Und jetzt, jetzt les ich es.

I love Hopkinson's stories, and while this collection as a whole didn't blow me away as much as "Falling in Love with Hominids" did, it is still wonderful.

Two stories in this one that I am very fond of are "Slow Cold Chick" and "Fisherman".