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Started reading this on my Kobo on the metro ride home from Blossom's (where I unfortunately didn't get around to buying any books 🙁 mainly because I already had The Parable of the Sower, from my last Blossom's visit, still on my to-read stack)! It starts very fairy-tale-y but in a gritty, "this is what life is actually like, child" way. The only reason I'm not more hooked is that I'm half-hoping to lay my hands on a physical copy.
"We are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.
America …
Finished it last night. Well that was intense 😳 it's quite disturbing but it's also got a lot of stuff (all her ideas) developing which don't come to fruition, so it looks like there's more coming? Now I need to read the second part, which I just realised exists!
"We are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.
America …
Took an illness to finally make me start reading this >.< I've been wanting to for so long though, so I'm glad I finally did!!
Carried this to my cousin's house to finish reading 😉
A few years ago, @wickertongue@writing.exchange compared my writing to that of Borges, so I thought I'd better read at least some of the latter's work 😅️
Definitely worth it. The first story, with a title that I cannot remember, is really cool and thought-provoking! I'm looking forward to dipping into more 🪣
Whoa, this went much deeper into languages than I expected! In a good way. This is probably something I'd want to come back and re-read; there's a lot of material that I haven't fully absorbed in the first round :P
Came across this because the author used to edit a cool literary magazine which unfortunately folded, which sounds a lot like my situation. So I read some articles about her, which led me to this book, which has now ended up on my "to read" list!
Picked this up from the library because I had a free book slot and wanted something I could finish quickly without it lying on my "to read" pile :P
It's actually quite thoughtfully written; in the same "accessible to everyone" style as his fiction but (depending on your opinion of that) less cheesy. This guy really wants to improve the country but he's also sensible about it and not militantly nationalistic or anything.
This was recommended to me as a book which talks about the author's career in programming, but treating programming languages as languages and examining them from that angle. I've read a bit, and it already mentions Sanskrit, tech culture, language learning, and more!
Persuasion tells the love story of Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, whose sister rents …
I have to read this at some point and...better late than never? 😛
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
Content warning Mild spoilers for all of Babel
Okay, that was a great read! Right up till the end. I love how there's so many layers; at one level it's just a story about the trials of college and friendships, but there's also this cool subtle fantasy, and then there's the whole rampant colonialism happening in the outside world and Hermes and everything!
And somehow she managed to keep the whole "college story" vibe in the forefront for the entire first half of the book, with everything else just happening on a layer underneath (of course, after that things turned dRaMaTiC 😮)
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
@smileybone has been sitting on my head to read this so I decided to give it a go :P
Also, the introduction makes me very aware of Oxford as a place; I think I wasn't so aware back when I was reading His Dark Materials (also partly set in Oxford). Maybe another series to revisit?
The first book of a vast fantasy as rich and strange as Tolkien's "Lord of …
Okay, so I've finally managed to plough through this book (not the book's fault; just that I've spent too long not reading literary fantasy)! Felt good to be steeped in that olde language of yesteryears; in fact I think the author purposely made the language more ancient/arcane for quotes and speeches to give the feeling of being old; ironic that the entire book is like that now for us!
On a personal note, it also feels good to have got through this book because my reading is now on its way to being back on track :P
I, Robot is a fixup collection made up of science fiction short stories by American …
I was trying to pick a good starting Asimov story for @rhea@snipetteville.in but ended up (re)reading the whole book 😅
The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its controversial beginnings to our digital …
They say one shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but when I came across @chrismessina@mastodon.xyz's post about this it sounded too interesting