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commented on Time Shelter by Angela Rodel

Angela Rodel, Georgi Gospodinov: Time Shelter (2022, Liveright Publishing Corporation) No rating

A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …

Ok, I think I'm putting this down now - it has become a slog. I took a little break, thinking maybe I just needed a change of pace, but I'm just not into it.

I'm reminded a bit of when, having loved The Historian, I picked up The Shadow Land, also by Elizabeth Kostova. I spent much of the novel anticipating how the surreal elements were going to be introduced, only to eventually realize that it was just a "normal" mystery story (coincidentally also set in / revolving around Bulgaria).

Some of the concepts are intriguing, but they don't seem to be going anywhere (so far).

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reviewed Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami

Hiromi Kawakami: Under the Eye of the Big Bird (GraphicNovel) 3 stars

From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions …

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

3 stars

This felt to me like a much more surreal variant of North Continent Ribbon. Each story/chapter was a continuation or a tangent of a previous one, but I don't feel like the whole contributed much to a more coherent understanding of the whole picture. Overall, the vibe was very vague, and I'm not sure how much I took away from the experience.

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