people like books stopped reading Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one …
Unfortunately I think I fizzled out on this one even though I had been enjoying it.
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people like books commented on Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
I'm really trying to finish this book this weekend (after starting last winter, fizzling out, and restarting around Christmas). My project last month of mostly reading dozens of zines and being overworked has subsided; my ability to focus is high and I have a lot more time, so I feel dedicated to this task. After crushing about 100 pages this morning I needed a little push so I was digging around for meta analysis and found this article by Olga Tokarczuk about her process and motivation for writing the book, i really enjoyed it and she is such a freak. www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/13404/olga-tokarczuk-how-i-wrote-the-books-of-jacob
I'm really trying to finish this book this weekend (after starting last winter, fizzling out, and restarting around Christmas). My project last month of mostly reading dozens of zines and being overworked has subsided; my ability to focus is high and I have a lot more time, so I feel dedicated to this task. After crushing about 100 pages this morning I needed a little push so I was digging around for meta analysis and found this article by Olga Tokarczuk about her process and motivation for writing the book, i really enjoyed it and she is such a freak. www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/13404/olga-tokarczuk-how-i-wrote-the-books-of-jacob
people like books reviewed The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2022) 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the …
the old guy... he can write
5 stars
This was really quite good, although super strange and disorienting, enhanced by reading it at bedtime and falling asleep in the middle of chapters most nights. Innumerable sentences and paragraphs highlighted just because of good arrangement of words. Definitely gave my whole life a melancholy tinge these last few weeks. I think I'd like to reread it when I'm older or if death feels more imminent.
This was really quite good, although super strange and disorienting, enhanced by reading it at bedtime and falling asleep in the middle of chapters most nights. Innumerable sentences and paragraphs highlighted just because of good arrangement of words. Definitely gave my whole life a melancholy tinge these last few weeks. I think I'd like to reread it when I'm older or if death feels more imminent.
people like books commented on Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
(The pages go backwards, but still, this means I'm like 1/3 done)
(The pages go backwards, but still, this means I'm like 1/3 done)
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had …
you can have a little bit of prefigurative politics (as a treat)
4 stars
This was super fun. I thought the oral history format was a really clever format choice, like looking into a giant construction site through little windows cut in the scaffolding and only kind of being able to grasp the depth of the pit. I kept thinking about KSR's New York 2140 and how it couldve been the same world almost, but with more grittiness and trauma and explanations about how we get from here to fully automated gay luxury space communism. I'm pretty sure I have big political differences with the authors, but I seriously enjoyed it nonetheless. I'd really appreciate seeing more of this kind of fantastic dreaming from those who want a drastically different world.
This was super fun. I thought the oral history format was a really clever format choice, like looking into a giant construction site through little windows cut in the scaffolding and only kind of being able to grasp the depth of the pit. I kept thinking about KSR's New York 2140 and how it couldve been the same world almost, but with more grittiness and trauma and explanations about how we get from here to fully automated gay luxury space communism. I'm pretty sure I have big political differences with the authors, but I seriously enjoyed it nonetheless. I'd really appreciate seeing more of this kind of fantastic dreaming from those who want a drastically different world.
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
fun anti-colonial fantasy-lite
4 stars
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The only thing I can hold against it is it's a tiiinnnny bit heavy handed with the metaphors, otherwise this is a super fun and satisfyingly anticolonial take on kid-gets-whisked-off-to-another-life genre. For the fantasy-adverse, there's a small amount of magic but it doesn't go off the rails in that regard.
people like books commented on Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
I'm off for a week and I just finished what I'd been reading, I think I'm gonna give this another shot.
I'm off for a week and I just finished what I'd been reading, I think I'm gonna give this another shot.
Early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side. The alienation of an unnamed young …
sleepy
4 stars
Moshfegh is a reliably good writer, this was the only one of her books I've read that I wasnt extremely upset by, ha. Excellent bedtime read because its mostly about sleeping and it made me very sleepy.
Moshfegh is a reliably good writer, this was the only one of her books I've read that I wasnt extremely upset by, ha. Excellent bedtime read because its mostly about sleeping and it made me very sleepy.
people like books reviewed The Employees by Olga Ravn
Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and …
a vibey time in corp. space
4 stars
I liked the idea of this book a bit more than actually reading it–still, it was extremely strange and beautiful, and was nice to read while digesting some grief/death related feelings. Would recommend reading a synopsis beforehand.
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
A friend I trust a lot just STRONGLY recommended this, looks great.