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Carnivalesque

Carnivalesque@wyrmsign.org

Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

Things I like to read - saxophone * black lit * sci-fi * comics * pomo * theory

Languages I read in - English * Français

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Carnivalesque's books

To Read (View all 5)

Jacqueline Harpman: Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes (French language, 1995, Stock)

Simon Critchley: Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Hardcover, 2019, Pantheon)

Sam C. Tenorio: Jump (2024, New York University Press)

Currently Reading

S. A. Chakraborty: City of Brass (2017, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)

Ada Palmer: Too Like the Lightning (Hardcover, 2016, Tor Books)

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Victor LaValle: Lone Women (2023, Random House Publishing Group)

Percival Everett: Walk Me To The Distance (Paperback, english language, 2025, Vintage Books)

Colson Whitehead: Harlem Shuffle (Hardcover, 2021, Doubleday)

2025 Reading Goal

58% complete! Carnivalesque has read 7 of 12 books.

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Carnivalesque rated Children of Ruin: 4 stars

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Ruin (Paperback, 2020, Pan Macmillan)

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Adrian Tchaikovsky

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

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Carnivalesque finished reading Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Ruin (Paperback, 2020, Pan Macmillan)

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Adrian Tchaikovsky

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

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Carnivalesque finished reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke: Piranesi (2020, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)

Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls …

I kept bouncing off this novel. I was intrigued but not gripped until the story truly started to click about a third of the way through and I could not put it down! Susanna Clarke publishes books very infrequently but 2 of her 3 are just fantastic accomplishments (I haven't read the third).

I kept bouncing off this novel. I was intrigued but not gripped until the story truly started to click about a third of the way through and I could not put it down! Susanna Clarke publishes books very infrequently but 2 of her 3 are just fantastic accomplishments (I haven't read the third).

Carnivalesque finished reading Valide by Chris Bergeron

Chris Bergeron: Valide (Paperback, French language, 2022, Philippe Rey)

Valide by Chris Bergeron

Roman autobiographique de science-fiction aux accents cyber-punk, Valide défie les genres de plus d'une façon. Chris Bergeron nous propose avec …

Carnivalesque finished reading Le Marabout by Ayavi Lake

Ayavi Lake: Le Marabout (VLB)

Le Marabout by Ayavi Lake

Marianne Potvin multiplie les escapades dans Parc-Extension, à Montréal. Émoustillée par cet étrange quartier rempli d'« étranges », la bourgeoise …

Carnivalesque finished reading Calamities by Renee Gladman

Renee Gladman: Calamities (2016)

Calamities by Renee Gladman

A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original …

Carnivalesque wants to read Day of Ascension by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Day of Ascension (EBook, 2021, Black Library)

Day of Ascension by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Carnivalesque finished reading Event Factory by Renee Gladman

Renee Gladman: Event Factory (2010, Dorothy, a publishing project, Distributed by Small Press Distribution)

Event Factory by Renee Gladman

A "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the …

Carnivalesque finished reading Bread Out of Stone by Dionne Brand

Bread Out of Stone by Dionne Brand

Bread Out of Stone is an original and forceful study of race, sex and politics in contemporary culture. Personal and …

Carnivalesque finished reading The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza: The Taiga Syndrome (2019)

The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza

Fairy tale meets detective drama in this David Lynch–like novel by a writer Jonathan Lethem calls “one of Mexico’s greatest …

Carnivalesque finished reading Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada

Yōko Tawada: Scattered All Over the Earth

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land …

Carnivalesque finished reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (2016)

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)

Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The work was praised by the Financial …

Carnivalesque finished reading Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

Izumi Suzuki: Terminal Boredom (2021, Verso Books)

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

"Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese underground, these stories borrow themes …

Carnivalesque finished reading Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor: Lagoon (Paperback, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd)

Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous and legendary city, three …

Carnivalesque started reading City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

S. A. Chakraborty: City of Brass (2017, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)

City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the …

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