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Yesterday‘s #libraryhaul. No, it wasn‘t deliberate- I didn‘t actually notice til I got them home...
Memory of Water: A Novel | 
I really liked this one with it‘s oppressive but open and a little bit optimistic end.
I haven‘t read many books from Finnish authors but I‘m inclined to call the style “very Finnish†in a positive way. I hope it‘s not the only book I read from her. Her style reminds me a bit of the style I detected in Elisabeth Strout‘s “Das Leben natürlichâ€. ?
#BookishGoal 52.
pickIt‘s oppressive. It‘s impressive.
The book tells its story slowly and takes time – for the characters and the setting about which is told enough to understand the plot but also too few to get all the details between now and the ages back then.
I liked the writing style that connects Asian tea and religious elements with a poor society. Sometimes it was poetic which wonderfully rounded up the water theme that ran through the plot elaborately.
„Der Abstand zwischen unseren Träumen und unseren Worten ist so groß wie der zwischen unseren Worten und unseren Taten, doch wenn wir zuhören, wird er kürzer.“ (Seite 146)
“The distance between our dreams and our words is as big as that between our words and our deeds but if we listen, it becomes shorter.†(p. 146)
Yes, oppressive.
But yes, I like it so far.
It feels a bit like a shame that some of the questions arising in there, I was asking myself as a child or teenager. But then, when I grew up I got used to so much.
And, yes I know – but still spooky how long plastic does not get rotten.
The famous military guest likes to drink green tea but that means that the water needs not be too hot.
»If you count ten little bubbles on the ground of the vessel it‘s time to put the water into the teapot«, my father had told me. »Five is too few and twenty is too much.« (p. 29)
⬆ï¸â¬†ï¸â¬†ï¸ Interesting mnemonic. ?
Starting this one. The blue circle has a meaning in the story. It marks where people live that committed a water offence.
The story is already oppressive to me. The last days I felt water was too insipid for me. Now I sit on my sofa thinking of water – it comes from tap, imagine – and feel thirsty.
Next one, please.
#BookishGoal 56.
A SciFi story of a friendship of two girls out of different society classes – Noria, wealthy and respected, especially with enough water to live – Sanja, poor, living and working at a trash dump. When Noria decides to share a secret with Sanja to save her family from dying of thirst Noria‘s well-known family declares she‘s a pariah and hunts her …
I feel for the water problem. Might get too real in some years.
pickReally good dystopian novel about a future after global warming has destroyed life as we know it.
panUnfortunately everything about this story - characters, plot, world - felt shaky and hardly formed. The different elements were inconsistent and often didn't make sense together and there were far too many things discovered by hugely convenient coincidence. Though the writing was sometimes pretty the story felt very weak overall
Global warming has triggered a worldwide drought and dramatically changed the face of the earth both physically and politically. Scarcity has made water the most valuable commodity and a constant trial. This has been in my Kindle forever! #norain #90sinjuly
"The story tells that water has a consciousness, that it carries in its memory everything that‘s ever happened in this world, from the time before humans until this moment, which draws itself in its memory even as it passes.â€
