pick“By the time we were ready to cross the border, we knew everything .... and we knew nothing.”
Definitely not my typical read, but once I was finally able to visualize Area X, I was intrigued enough to continue. On to the next one ...
#SouthernReach
I‘m on book one and husband is on book 2. This is a real rarity. We often have very differing tastes. I‘m still not sure if I love or hate #Annihilation, but I need to know wtf is going on so I think #Vandermeer has done his job. #SouthernReach
It‘s time for book two!!
#southernreach #jeffvandermeer #newweird #sff #authority
pickThe final (and weirdest) book of the #SouthernReach trilogy, Acceptance adopts a fractured, multi-perspective narrative to recount both the beginning and end of the story of Area X. The effect is something like the temporal dilation of the quarantine zone itself; timelines run together and echo each other. My least favorite, and the weakest overall—but a worthwhile and fitting conclusion feat. This trilogy was unlike anything I have ever read.
pickThe second installment in VanderMeer‘s unsettling #SouthernReach trilogy was a little bumpy for me at first. Whereas Annihilation was a first-person account (that reads like if Shirley Jackson had written Walden), Authority takes on similar themes—the uncanny; the unconscious and the split subject; being un-at home with oneself—in the generic form of a psychological Le Carréian spy novel. It lagged a bit, but I came to love it in a different way.
Slow night at the store, so i‘m getting quite a bit of reading done! I‘m about 80 pages into the second book in VanderMeer‘s #SouthernReach trilogy, and while I‘m enjoying it, it has yet to grab me quite like Annihilation did (which was all the more gripping for being so absurdly compact). Hoping it‘ll change soon.
"For the director trailed plumes of emerald dust and behind her the nature of the world was changing, filling with a brightness, the rain losing its depth, its darkness. The thickness of the layers of the rain getting lost, taken away, no longer there.
The border was coming to the Southern Reach."
#goosebumps #authority #southernreach #jeffvandermeer #areaX
“That‘s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”
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Oh my GOD. I just started the first installment of VanderMeer‘s eco-horror #SouthernReach trilogy last night, and I‘m hooked. Reminds me of Justin Cronin at his best. #AllEyes #audiobook #libby #nowreading #nowlistening
pickI‘ve literally just put the book down, but I think this may have become one of my favourite books. I absolutely loved the writing style, the pacing of the story, the vividness of the biologist‘s narration. I‘ve seen people hate the ending because of its lack of closure, but I personally think that it served the narrative very well. Can‘t wait to get my hands on the rest of the #southernreach trilogy! #annihilation #jeffvandermeer
I hope this one is better than the last, which didn't live up to the hype, to me, but judging by what I've seen glancing through others' posts just now, I kind of doubt it. Bought all three at once, though, so fingers crossed. #authority #SouthernReach #JeffVandermeer
