Tak! commented on Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s …
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Tak! commented on Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
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).
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Dying has gotten to be quite expensive.
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
So tell me, he started in . . . is Denmark still a prison?
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Death, you’ll say, yes, of course, death is his brother, but old age is the monster.
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Without being able to formulate it clearly, he senses that if no one remembers, then everything is permissible.
this is a statement about the current geopolitical landscape
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
There is no time machine except the human being.
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Boredom is the emblem of this city. Here Canetti, Joyce, Dürrenmatt, Frisch, and even Thomas Mann have been bored.
savage
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created.
Tak! reviewed A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions
3 stars
An interesting mix of victorian(?) midwifery and eldritch mysticism. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't as groundbreaking as Our Lady of Endless Worlds.
Tak! quoted A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
Content warning infant death
the proprietor's wife brewed a mediocre ale, but roasted very good hog on her spit
Tak! quoted A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
Content warning infant death
Sarah knew Rebecca's babe was dead as soon as the head slid free, from the look on Mistress June's face.
Tak! commented on Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
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Tak! commented on A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
The #SFFBookClub pick for September 2025
Tak! reviewed Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami
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.