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54% complete! Hippo has read 13 of 24 books.
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social still on my to-read list, but I will let you know when I end up reading it! (We're talking about me wanting to read The Gutenberg Parenthesis the moment I saw the cover, in case that's the context you missed)
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring …
Okay, so I've finished this book and the best way I can describe it is that it's like the book version of Love, Death + Robots for those who've watched that show. Which is weird, because the way I would otherwise describe Love, Death + Robots to someone is "the show version of a short-story collection"!
All the stories are weird, but I'd say the later ones are maybe...slightly less weird? And they all leave something to think about. Also, for a few of them I noticed the endings aren't explicitly stated; they're left to your imagination but at the end of the story there's only one plausible conclusion that your imagination will be able to come up with.
Finished this on the bus on the way to Tabletop Thursdays/Board Game Night at Lahe Lahe in Indiranagar! It helped me not feel frustrated when the bus stopped in the traffic, …
Okay, so I've finished this book and the best way I can describe it is that it's like the book version of Love, Death + Robots for those who've watched that show. Which is weird, because the way I would otherwise describe Love, Death + Robots to someone is "the show version of a short-story collection"!
All the stories are weird, but I'd say the later ones are maybe...slightly less weird? And they all leave something to think about. Also, for a few of them I noticed the endings aren't explicitly stated; they're left to your imagination but at the end of the story there's only one plausible conclusion that your imagination will be able to come up with.
Finished this on the bus on the way to Tabletop Thursdays/Board Game Night at Lahe Lahe in Indiranagar! It helped me not feel frustrated when the bus stopped in the traffic, instead taking those breaks as an opportunity to pull out my book ;)
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring …
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.
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, …
Just picked this up from the bookstore last week. I knew I'd heard of it somewhere but wasn't sure where...but now I know! 😁
Interesting looking book that I got a good deal for at Blossom's ;)
Collection of short stories.
Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage …
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.
"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 😉
The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day worked on me, as well as the slope of the road which eliminated any possibility of weariness. The afternoon was intimate, infinite. The road descended and forked among the now confused meadows. A high-pitched, almost syllabic music approached and receded in the shifting of the wind, dimmed by leaves and distance. I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words gardens streams of water, sunsets.
— Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (14%)
The last sentence!
