City of Saints and Madmen | 
First three books of the year.
[COSAM] As a work of world-building, this book was awesome. The interactions and written histories, itineraries and other pieces of writing that build off the first three stories made it worth pushing through the first tale.
Ever since I read the tagged book, I think of it every time I see a mushroom. Normally I don‘t get mushrooms in my lawn, but this June my city went from historic drought conditions to double the average monthly precipitation. My very neglected lawn is jumping for joy. Or just growing mushrooms for joy 🍄
pickAaaaaand finished! Took me long enough, but I certainly was in no hurry.
A really tangled, complicated book, City is in exercise in how much fun VanderMeer can have writing.
Ambergris is both a believable and an incredible setting, the world has been so solidly built that I find myself confusing Ambergrisian history with real history.
Overall, excellent.
The idea of a book so rigidly formatted is just....so mystifying to me. I want to read it. What‘s that like.
I‘m reeeally enjoying the format of fake history book, complete with rambling footnotes. Brings me back to when I would read Terry Pratchett novels in high school...
Aaaaand with that I move onto this book which I‘ve been meaning to read for a while. I have another shipment of books coming in so I‘m hoping I can make a dent in this before they arrive.
I have to admit, I started my #freakyfriday stack early. I'm a slooow reader and there are so many good books on @kait.corum 's list. And this one is 700 tree-book pages!
But, I'm 75% done with this and I just love how Jeff VanderMeer's mind works. There are so many layers.
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pickIt took a few restarts and my head in the right place and focused but I finally go to enjoy it. This book is complicated but deep and it's a rabbit hole that I surely enjoyed
