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#Bookreport

📚Currently reading:

📕A Feast for Crows
📕The Goblin Emperor
📙The Drowned World

Progress:

Finished a novel and novella this week. I have 30% left on The Drowned World but my brain is fried for today so I will have to finish it on Monday, on top of other things. I feel pretty good about the upcoming week and hopefully jump back into TGE (I keep stalling with it and it's frustrating)

As a story it's convoluted, but there is plenty of nuance to it. The themes of colonialism and imperialism, exploitation of people and land, and deeply rooted racism are horrific.

The Price family follows their fanatical father on a religious mission to Congo during a time of political and emotional upheaval.

Post Colonial ✨ Hardened ✨ Absolution

A heavy family saga that is incredibly well written. A cross between Heart of Darkness and Hello Beautiful.

Reading about the Congo whilst in -23 temps in Finland is peculiar!

A disturbing but honest book

Although I enjoyed this book, I might have expected too much. Overall I felt the book lacked some historical significance in terms of the atrocities that took place in the Congo.
It is still a very enjoyable read.

My next read. This book comes very highly recommended 📚🤞

Book #26 of the year: “Everfair” by Nisi Shawl

I didn‘t like it 😕 I really wanted to, but it was hard to get into the story, the timeline was weird, and there wasn‘t much character development. I‘d say skip this one.

This was such a wild ride (as the authors books usually are). The evidence was pointed at so many people. So many twists and turns.

@NataliePatalie

#OnThisDay #Nov13