Reviews and Comments

Started this yesterday, as the backup book I was carrying when I finished Octavia Butler's "Spinning Silver", and...wow. Just as @verglas@books.theunseen.city warned me it is totally weird! I've read the first three stories so far and...I don't know how to describe them. They kind of take very normal situations, but stretch them till they're not normal anymore, and if you think about it the situations are not normal at all, but when you get dropped into it it all happens so naturally it feels like they are?

Finished reading this yesterday and it's so good! I don't know how much to say without giving spoilers, but it's so much more nuanced than just "good vs evil" because it tells the story from so many different perspectives.

It's all first-person, but the narrators keep changing. It's also interesting how the author writes the narration in such a way that, by reading a bit, you can figure out which character is speaking at the moment.

The book started by referencing a fairytale, and having read all of it I'd say that it's lived up to its initial promise of being a fairytale but also not.

Interesting looking book that I got a good deal for at Blossom's ;)

Finally managed to get my hands on the sequel to Parable of the Sower!

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.

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!

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!

I have to read this at some point and...better late than never? 😛