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Thought this would be a refreshing casual encounter with death as I am grieving a loved one, but the gruesome descriptions of animal deaths in this kinda caught me off guard.
The repetitiveness took away from the beauty and strength of this message. It reads like an essay that got stretched out into a book, not like a manifesto. Shame, cause it's such an important message. Though the language was a little too religious for me personally.
(4,5) How is it that even with a plot line that doesn't interest me, a setting that tests the limits of my empathy, and relationships that make me this uncomfortable, Jemisin still manages to get me completely invested?! True magic, if you ask me, is her penmanship.
I absolutely needed this book, and I am so thankful it exists! Wish more people read it so I could have more people to talk to about it ❤️🩹
This was brilliant. It made me want to create, made me want to love, and made me want to do gay crime. I highlighted so much, and hope to actually write something about this later.
Giving two stars out of generosity.
This book was such a huge let down for me.
A fantastic concept, but terrible execution.
There were some wonderful quotes in there, but the way the story developed feels very much like a decolonial story for people who know about decolonial struggles only conceptually.
Also, this book had too many repetitions for how long it is, and felt generally like it should have gone through a few more rounds of editing.
(4,5) Not big into Sci-Fi, but this book might have changed this for me. Both the writing and the story were wonderful. Will definitely be picking up more of Le Guin's books!
This was cute! Though I wish there were more Halloween books that were not centered around American colonial culture though... Kinda ruins it a little for me if the worship of some old Dutch colonial family is uncontested.
Read until p.97. Could not get any further. What a horrible book.
The writing felt very belittling, and was missing a lot of the information I feel was important for the context, i e. the political ideas, and motivations of the artists portrayed.
On top of that the translation was a mess. How dare you publish “Seurat was er dus niet de man naar om naar buiten te rennen[...]”?
This is gonna sound psychotic, but with everything I heard about this book I was expecting it to be more gross, and I was a little disappointed that it wasn't.
(4,5) A story about decay, life, and consciousness. Loved how this takes all the space it needs to tell its story, invites the reader along, but doesn't pander to them. An amazing sunny autumn day read.
My only wish would be for the “humans” to get their dues more violently, though I don't think it would serve the story. It would make me feel good though.
Particularly enjoyed “Walk in My Shoes” by Kirrin Medcalf and “Banana” by Harry Mizumoto.
Un roman graphique comme je les aime, mignon ! Ce livre ne m'a pas apporté de réponses à mes propres doutes sur une potentielle opération, mais au moins en lisant l'histoire d'Emilia, je me sens sûre de mon identité de genre.
