pick🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 I'm a little embarrassed to be enjoying such a cliche book series so much, but I admit it's captured my interest. I have to say the second book was even better than the first, and I'm a sucker for the futuristic world building and lore expansion. I'm even more of a sucker for the romantic tension, and this audiobook had me yelling at fictional characters while I did my chores listening to it.
"I wasn't here to win anymore. So how could I go out with a bang?"
This book gives us the reflections of Boualem, a non-religious bookseller in a place run by Islamic fundamentalists, pretty transparently #Algeria. He is isolated & harassed. It was written during the Algerian civil war and the FIS rule. Djaout was murdered by the GIA & the book was published posthumously. I'm not sure it should have been: it's badly written & edited. ⬇
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pickIn a dystopian setting, people are controlled by the government. Emotions are illegal, and faces are masked; it is a dehumanized society. When a young boy dares to defy the authorities, he is sent back to the distant past in an attempt to tame him. But will he come back the same?
An YA novel but important lessons for everyone in our times.
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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"May the odds be ever in your favor." ?
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With as much as I've posted about SK, it's pretty obvious that I'm definitely a Constant Reader, but some of the discourse is just ridiculous. Two of my top 6 favorite movies of the year have been King adaptations. I have yet to watch the new HBO series, one thing I loved when I read the Dark Tower years ago was seeing the connections but recently it's gotten a bit out of hand (see image). Pennywise in the Running Man? Really?! Clickbait!
