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@realityasylumreads how are her other books?? i have only read The Memory Police but it's definitely one of my favourite books i've read in the last ~5 years, seems like you've read a bunch of them!
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Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe.
Avice is an immerser, …
This was a really fantastic novel and I think you should read it. With a heavy hand in world building and exploration of linguistics and translation this novel gave so many hints and tidbits of the world without creating a complete picture which left you will so many paintings of these worlds with just enough to have you pondering the world just outside the frame.
It is really impressive the amount of world building that was built into a standalone novel, I would read anything, including fan fiction, created in the universe after finishing it.
The story itself and it's interactions were fantastic. There was many times I was left feeling so alien from the valleys that divided characters that I truly believed that there was alien consciousnesses so different than ours, rather than a metaphor for human struggles.
The plot was very hard to predict and kept my rapt …
This was a really fantastic novel and I think you should read it. With a heavy hand in world building and exploration of linguistics and translation this novel gave so many hints and tidbits of the world without creating a complete picture which left you will so many paintings of these worlds with just enough to have you pondering the world just outside the frame.
It is really impressive the amount of world building that was built into a standalone novel, I would read anything, including fan fiction, created in the universe after finishing it.
The story itself and it's interactions were fantastic. There was many times I was left feeling so alien from the valleys that divided characters that I truly believed that there was alien consciousnesses so different than ours, rather than a metaphor for human struggles.
The plot was very hard to predict and kept my rapt attention as it twisted and turned building and referencing with clues and surprises that I honestly didn't know where we were going including the conclusion.
China mieville is one of my favourite contemporary authors because his writings bring in politics, class and revolution in such honest and contextual ways that I am left feeling like through the story I am newly a revolutionary within a different world and power dynamics.
I think everyone should read it. And talk about it with friends.
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman …
Death. Dogs. Dogs and humans. Writing. Writers love to write about writing.
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.
When a …
En quelques pages, à la première personne, Annie Ernaux raconte une relation vécue avec un …
First book I've finished in French (I picked the shortest one possible, its like barely a novella lol).
An unhappy Irish family plumbs the depths of their unhappiness, each in their own way.
The small town nuclear family setting made me feel so claustrophobic and a few hundred pages in, right when I was starting to wonder why I was still reading this weird family book, all the characters and the story started blowing open. Really well crafted, nothing revolutionary but a solid book to get wrapped into for a few weeks.
An unhappy Irish family plumbs the depths of their unhappiness, each in their own way.
When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops …
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives …
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives …
Who tampered with the elevator?
The mundane job of elevator inspection becomes a mysterious tale of intrigue. Whitehead weaves a …
Roman autobiographique de science-fiction aux accents cyber-punk, Valide défie les genres de plus d'une façon. Chris Bergeron nous propose avec …
@astralstreeting yeah, I've been recommended him a few times, I'm very stoked to be reading this finally. I'm only ~70 pages in but I already get the feeling like it's gonna be incredible (albeit challenging)
A Brief History of Seven Killings is the third novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. It was published in 2014 …
"Two best friends share an aversion to 'the human shackles' of motherhood, only to discover …
Really simple prose and a kind of overdone premise made me feel like I knew what I was getting into, but the story sucked me in really quickly and I ended up finishing it in one sitting. Really appreciated the steady, almost omnicient presence of the narrator through lots of turmoil in the lives of the women around her.
