so-soI‘m glad I read this, for the strangeness of it, the reminder that words are ours for the wielding to shape stories as we wish. Was aware of a theme of distance/observation (fitting for a detective main character I guess) and of recurring motifs, but not perceptive enough to piece together their importance. In that sense, as a reader I was distanced. Separated from the story by its opacity. I looked at words on a page, then closed the cover.
bailedI couldn‘t get into this one so giving myself permission to DNF
1. The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride ⭐⭐⭐
3. I read the lovely The Space We're In by Katya Balen yesterday ⭐⭐⭐⭐
#goodbye2020
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pickI really enjoyed this little book. It allowed me to travel to the remote taiga, with the detective in search of this couple fleeing to the end of the world, as taken by a spell.
I absolutely loved the writing, very poetic, but I was quite lost by the magical realism... I felt like in a dream, with a blurry frontier between reality and the unreal or fantastic.
I'm really glad to have discovered this author, thanks to Dorothy Project.
pickThis was a truly surreal book. I always adored the writing, didn‘t always 100% understand what was happening but the writing and the atmosphere were so flawless I didn‘t really mind not understanding. It wasn‘t as perfect as the iliac crest probably, but i truly recommend it if you want lyrical, unsettling, cerebral, dreamy horror.
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“We all carry a forest inside us, yes, kilometers and kilometers of birch, fir, cedars. A gray sky. Things that never change.”
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