My thing with Jeff VanderMeer is like, if you‘re gonna hang your career on hallucinogenic horrors then…get really good at descriptions and settings? I didn‘t want to read more of him after the annihilation trilogy but was convinced by a good friend of mine to give him another shot and he did disappoint

I‘m officially a T. Kingfisher fan after this one

This trilogy was such a joy- one of those series where you can see the author really grow into a fantastic writer over the course of the books.

The first two books of the series were SO good, and then ???? The third one just took a hard left into something unrecognizable. More fantasy than sci fi. As tedious as the day is long.

Really fascinating story, not so great writing

Absolutely terrifying. 10/10

“the witch hunts were a step back…not only for the lower-class people who lost so many of their traditional healers. Instead, what could have been a proud occupation for women and a field for lively intellectual inquiry was discredited when not actually obliterated, so that later, when…the educated elite sought to recapture some of the lost knowledge of the natural world, they had to turn to fairly marginal remnants of the old healing tradition.”

I don‘t know if I‘m gonna be able to finish this one. It‘s very confusing and somewhat dull but I‘m trying to stick it out!

Went to the library today and got some quickies to read on top of Pandoras Star (it‘s slow going due to the fact that a lot of the book is a recap of Hamiltons Void series). I‘m pretty excited to read my first Alastair Reynolds though, if I like it then I definitely plan on reading more of him!

This book could be condensed into about 50 pages of actual story, the rest is exhausting details such as this which do not contribute to any world building or storytelling.

So frickin dope. Very enriching for a sci-fi fan.

“One story leads to the generous embrace of the living world, the other to banishment. One woman is our ancestral gardener, a cocreator of the good green world that would be the home of her descendants. The other was an exile, just passing through an alien world on a rough road to her real home in heaven. And then they met-the offspring of Skywoman and the children of Eve-and the land around us bears the scars of that meeting”

The universe is an event, not a place.
Don‘t seek to own.
Witness.

Wow. Stayed up almost all night last night to finish this one, it‘s absolutely incredible

This is, I think, the best book I‘ve read this year. I absolutely loved it!

1) the dreaming void, book 2 in the series by Peter Hamilton 2) into the wild. Everyone is so inspired by it so I feel obligated to give it a shot. 3) the evolutionary void (Peter Hamilton never ceases to amaze me). 4) lord of the rings.... shit is dense! I can be satisfied with the movies

COVID really threw a wrench in my daily reading routine. I had originally planned to read one or two books a week in 2020 and I thought with COVID I would be able to read so much more! But in actuality the opposite happened. that‘s not necessarily a bad thing because I have made progress in other areas of my life re: quilting. So....anyone else not meeting their reading goals, in lieu of other achievements?