Palimpsest | 
#TemptingTitles #WithATown This is one of my favorite novels. Such an out there concept. There is a city that tattoos itself onto your skin. You can only visit it in your dreams. You gain access by sleeping with someone who‘s been there… Also where I learned the word palimpsest, which in subsequent years has become one of those things that crops up everywhere in my life. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
bailedJuly #doublespin @thearomaofbooks
Confession: I bought this book knowing nothing about it other than the fact that I adore the author.
Like any Cat Valente book, the writing is MAGNIFICENT, but this plot isn't for me. At all.
pickThis book is extremely weird & cool & also kind of terrifying. Rarely have I read something that so accurately captures dream geography - in this case a beautiful, opulent, pitiless & terrifying city of sex and dread - the eponymous Palimpsest. If that sounds appealing to you, it is definitely worth checking out. I guess I've been sleeping on Valente - her imagination is 🔥 I'm excited to read more of her work. Let me know if you have any recs!
New ink, inspired by Cat Valente (quote via The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland... and compass from the cover of Palimpsest.) Who else has literary ink?
Spent my Sunday morning with this one. Valente sure has a way with words! I'm a big fan. ❤️
Waiting in line for Shakespeare in the Park tickets, but I have my book to keep me company!
so-soFull of lush, hypnotic prose and imagery both beautiful and discomforting, Valente makes no allowances for her readers; she hits hard and makes no apology. But while I adored Deathless in all its complexity, Palimpsest dragged after the first half and felt much longer than it was. Valente is a superb writer but the balance of this one wasn't right for me. #TacklingTheTBR #LRC21 #litsyteadingchallenge
I forgot to post this yesterday for #ReadJanuary. #page24ofcurrentread. You can see an apostrophe on this page which is word because latest on in the book they just disappeared!
"I missed you, Olezhka," said the dead mouth of the other Lyudmila, her red dress far too small now, the weeds of the Volkhov still throttling her neck.
This was such a magical read. And within this wondrous, very sexy story, is the book The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland. #bookwithinabook #readjanuary
They could not bear each other, in the end, and perhaps a thing begun in blood and death and salt must end that way.
#seasonsreadings2016 day 30: #bestofdecember
I'm playing catch up today after spending most of yesterday lying down, resting and napping (woke up with a migraine and a cold kind of day - but much better today!). These were the best books I read in Dec. To be fair I read most of Do Not Say We Have Nothing in Nov but did finish it in Dec (it's a gorgeous book but it took a while to get through). Palimpsest recently blew me away w its strange world
"There had been such a smell in the place of her dream, of sassafras and the sea, bay leaves and dandelion seeds blowing wild, of coffee plants, of sweat. The smell burned into her; she had striven after it in the way of dreams until she could hear the starry surf on a bright shore."
This is 1.99 on Amazon. Amazing, erotic and gives you the seeds of where Fairyland came from. I strongly recommend this one.
bailedI don't often bail on books and I really liked the premise of this one. The writing is quite good, but I've hit the one third mark and the plot still feels as aimless as the main character's lives. I might pick it up again later, but for now there are just so many other books I'd rather be reading.
