The Faculty of Dreams: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 | 
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Hard to review - beautifully written, completely original and I adored the experimental but intuitive structure (I think this will divide opinion but I loved it). My only issue is that I don‘t know if I can really root for a book that disturbed and depressed me this much. I think I can, which is why I went with ‘pick‘ but this was one of the emotionally hardest books I‘ve ever read.
There‘s no such thing as context. Everything has to be wrenched out of its setting. Frames of reference can always explainnaway the most obvious connections.
On to my next #mbi2019 #manbookerinternational2019 book! This is great so far, but I‘m having a bit of a hard time reading at my usual pace atm. The political situation in the UK is really messing with me and even tho I‘m doing better than I have in years just personally with my mental health, every time I get reminded what country I live in I just feel awful and exhausted. :/
so-soThis is the story about Valerie Solanas, intelligent, witty feminist and author of the SCUM Manifesto, but she became famous for shooting at Andy Warhol. The narrative takes place in various timelines and in various narrative techniques, some of the chapters are written even only in dialogues which gives a feeling that you are reading the play or script. Focus is on some of the most important events in Valerie‘s life that brought her to the ... 👇
Trying to get my heart rate down after 1) dealing with Walter, the manic snapping turtle, and 2) believing I had forgotten my favorite cat outside hours and hours ago (he was upstairs, probably wondering why I was outside crying "Conan! Conan!"). This is the only Scandinavian book magazine I've found that I've liked. No pretentiousness, normal articles that people without a degree in literary science can read, and glossy paper with colors ??
