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Annihilation was by far my favorite of the trilogy

My first Mieville in English! I was a bit scared to read this chunkster, but I think I managed pretty well. I had to fight sometimes to make it through, but as always, Mieville is worth it.
The world-building is just amazing, and I got sucked into this special world. We deal with a lot during this story. Politics, betrayal, death, but also friendship, honesty and making things right.

#roll100 @PuddleJumper
#BacklistReadathon @@Clwojick

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. The worldbuilding is weird in a good way. But the ending was a mess and it could have used a little bit more editing. Recommend the audio as well.

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView 💕

1) Stuart Turton, but you're probably all fed up of me plugging his books by now, so I'm gonna give a shout out to Jeff Vandermeer, Emily St John Mandel, Helen Oyeyemi, Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami, Brian K. Vaughan, Patricia Lockwood, Blake Crouch, David Mitchell, Alison Rumfitt, Patrick DeWitt, Stephen King, N.K. Jemison, Claire North, and Bernadine Evaristo.

2) Jeff Vandermeer's fungalpunk Finch was decent.

I just got The Broken Binding signed special edition in the mail. Love it! ♥️The spredges are fabulous.

I am posting one book per day from my extensive, and ever growing, TBR shelves. Some are old and some are new, some were gifts and some I don't remember why I bought them
Day 43
#ABookADay2024

Starting this next 🎧

Finally finally finished this trilogy. Definitely struggled to hold me at many points but I powered through all three. Gd I want to like sci fi more than I do. The final book was cool jumping between characters' perspectives. No satisfying explanation of course but not that mad at it.

Should have put a ring holder on my Kindle sooner! So much more comfortable when reading in bed.
I made these stickers and am happy with how they turned out 😊

A short story.

A man gets “stolen” by a literal “story monster” then—like a Sleeping Beauty—wakes to an unfamiliar world one hundred years later.

Reminiscent of the Annihilation lighthouse keeper, especially through the MC's connection with language. Prettily written. But it‘s too vague and metaphorically disconnected to truly enjoy.

A story flows somewhere under there, but the waters are muddy.

3/5