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.
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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
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.
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!
Found in The Dark (issue 50): Who Will Clean Our Spirits When We‘re Gone?, a short story by the same author as the tagged book. A ghost (or spirit) story set in a university campus in #Botswana. Lacks polish but poetic & has potential.
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pic of Environmental Science Building at the University of Botswana in Gaborone by Iulus Ascanius, via Wikimedia Commons
pick☄️☄️☄️☄️
This was lots of fun. Short and sweet, and almost cozy. Definitely want to read the next in the series.
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Points: 5hours(50)+tbr(25)+1=76
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pickAmazing! Unclear what was reality and what was virtual reality, but it didn‘t matter. It was quirky and tender and interesting. Recommend and would like to read more
pickA really fun, fast space adventure that I enjoyed thoroughly. Our narrator is spunky, funny and independent and is definitely hiding something. It‘s fun trying to work out what and then how it‘s all going to play out. I loved the cast of side characters also and the banter with our main man.
Fantastic novella. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the digital arc!
pan25 Sep-6 Oct 24 (audiobook)
Such a chore, but I felt I could not be too critical without pursuing it to the end. I wish I hadn‘t.
I quite liked magical realism at uni - Rushdie in particular but others also. Maybe I have lost my patience for it with age.
This book needed a brutal editor. It was repetitive to the point that it could have been a good short story or novella. But as is, was a bloated 700+ pages. I do not understand the acclaim.
