pickThe Haddesleys are an old family that has a compact with the bog they live on: they take care of the land and the bog will provide the eldest male nd heir with a wife. But now the family home is in disrepair and the heir, well, he isn't so into the bog.
I felt a general sense of unease and uncomfortableness while reading and I mean that in the best way. Plus bog. We know how I feel about bogs.
pickI like dystopian fiction. Like please give me all of it right now. This one has an interesting concept. Basically all of the white people have drowned themselves in a mass event. The ones left behind are a mix of joyful and lost. It reminded me weirdly of Underground Airlines.
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
Went to pick up a bunch of holds from the library (research for some BR end of the year lists) and couldn't help snagging one bonus book and checking out the gorgeous new art they've added in a recent (and on-going) remodel
October wrap up from StoryGraph.
November is going to be much slower. I am travelling a lot and just came back from a conference really sick 🤒 it sucks. I can‘t concentrate to read.
Rapid tested for both Covid and flu, because this feels like the flu (although I did get my vaccine), I was wondering if this was a different strain. Negative for both. Day off today to Veterans Day but I‘ll have to take more time off this week I think.
so-soGoing to try to come back to reviews. Of course, I‘m starting with a hard book I didn‘t understand. I just couldn‘t grasp the why of this book. The Blake Crouch-ish aspects started way too late to pack a punch.
A woman moves back to Florida with her husband to care for her parents. She flashes back to times in an asylum there and works on her relationship for her sister but is flummoxed when the sister goes missing.
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Great debut novel set in a slightly dystopian world where you get another shadow if you are convicted of a crime or hurt someone. Shadesters have reduced rights, wish extra time for healthcare and pay more for everything.
Kris (a shadester) and Beau (a NoShad), a lesbian couple, have a baby with a sperm donor and Beau dies during the birth. Kris and is left to raise the baby, who has a second shadow, on her own.
#lgbtbookbingo2024
“Had she been paying attention, she would have known it hadn‘t happened overnight, that it took a million tiny stabs to bleed democracy dry.”
That hit home a little too hard.
US friends, please VOTE!! I cannot as I‘m here on a visa but I‘m very concerned about the future of the country.
so-soThe fact that this book sent me into a reading slump kind of says it all. Of the 19 'stories' included in this anthology, 13 of them are excerpts from larger works, not full short stories or even chapters, just moments. Each entries prefaced by a page and a half discussing and introducing the material, and the overall structure is divided into themes discussed further in the introduction. 1/?
pickA lush And deeply idiosyncratic book, State of Paradise is a post-Florida pandemic world, but feels so intimate that you can be in this quirky and mournful book. A ghost(writer), pet ghosts, cats, VR meditations (portals?), and family. The observational diary prose is what sold me; I was already hooked on what bizarre Florida story this would be…but bizarre is a beautiful way. A must read!
#hyggehourreadathon (from last night!).
I started this book about grief. It was on my StoryGraph recommendations and I plowed through about a third of it yesterday.
Beautifully written and devastating depiction of losing your wife at a vulnerable time, during childbirth. The main character struggles as a new mother, alone.
It‘s got a dystopian flavour, and is lgbtqia. Definitely up my alley, thanks StoryGraph algorithm.
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