@neveralways whoa! Really curious how these hold up. I was super obsessed with these when they came out in English, which also coincided with my extremely into 1970s italian shit/Marxist-feminism phase
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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
people like books started reading A fairly good time, with green water, green sky by Mavis Gallant (New York Review Books Classics)
A fairly good time, with green water, green sky by Mavis Gallant (New York Review Books Classics)
"An NYRB Classics Original Mavis Gallant's two novels are as memorable as her many short stories. Full of wit, whim, …
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@Leaving_Marx lol I feel like the actual things I got from this book could also be gotten from watching the Pixar movie "inside out"
people like books quoted Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
Do you think you might have a tendency to divest yourself of the things in your life that actually sustain you?
I suppose this is psychology. I dont know the answer to your question. What? Do I? Do we? How would such a predeliction stack up against the world's own desire to divest one of just those things. I think I understand your question. We've been there before. And it may be a superstition with us that if we will just give up those things that we are fond of then the world will not take from us what we truly love. Which of course is folly. The world knows what you love.
— Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy (Page 62)
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.
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The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2022) 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips …
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)
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.
people like books finished reading The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by Kaneko, Fumiko (Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)
The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by Kaneko, Fumiko (Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)
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The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by Kaneko, Fumiko (Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)
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.