Gliff: A Novel | 
Love this section of the book and brings me back the wonder I had upon being introduced to the library as a kid.
“Books everywhere.
So many books, more books than I'd ever seen all in one place. The backs of books, in rows that reached up to the ceiling, books and books and books, at every level, high and low, piles of them, shelf after shelf of them.
Wherever my eye went, books.
Oh! I said.“
A dystopian novel that‘s light on details but heavy on word play.
bailedThis might be a wonderful book, but the audio is crap. The reader uses a monotone which doesn‘t even vary for characters speaking. I made it just over halfway through before I‘d had enough.
pickGood dystopian book and I‘m curious about book #2. Lots of connections, innuendos, and main characters were believable and engaging. Good twists and turns, some felt overdone. Overall, good quick read.
panI am all for dystopian, even in times like these, but I‘m not even sure if this book is dystopian or post apocalyptic- in fact I didn‘t get it at all.
Two sisters, a horse, left by themselves. But why and what happened and what‘s going on?
Beautiful dialogue between the sisters but again I am clueless about the world they‘re living in. If they‘re still alive. There‘ll be a sequel but not for me.
📷 Las Lagunas, Tenerife
panBook 14📚 2.5⭐️
I‘m not really sure I “got” this one😂🤷🏼♀️
Almost DNF but I stuck it out!
I saw this framed photo while I was travelling recently and thought immediately of the horse in Gliff.
Doesn't the sticker mark make you want to weep? Monsters.
pickTwo children are left by themselves in a house with no furniture and enough hermetic for some days. Their mum‘s boyfriend promises to return. As the days go by he only doesn‘t return, but as readers we realize that the world Smith has created is a little different from ours, and her world scars me. I hope we never end up living in that world.
I can‘t wait to read the second book in this duology when it‘s published in May
#DoubleSpin January
A Taylor Swift reference in an Ali Smith novel. Never thought this would happen
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A wonderful book mail surprise Gliff by Ali Smith.Really dark day this brought joy ,thanks Pantheon books📕
