#adventrecommends, @emilyrose_x
I loved the concept of this book even though the story wasn't as engrossing as I hoped. But look at the typography! 😍 Just a stunning design.
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#adventrecommends, @emilyrose_x
I loved the concept of this book even though the story wasn't as engrossing as I hoped. But look at the typography! 😍 Just a stunning design.
I never posted my collage I made for October all these months are flying by since I started work. I read 36 books that month and some great standouts were:
Miss Quinces
Swim Team
The Last Cuentista
White Smoke
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
so-soAnother book that leaves me on the fence, Moon of the Crusted Snow is a slow burn post-apocalyptic novel. There‘s quiet menace and a great building of tension, but it all fell a little flat for me. I appreciated the hopeful, if still sad, tone at the end, but I‘m clearly not ready for apocalypse fiction. Pandemic panic is still too raw. #canada for both #booked2022 and #readingtheamericas2023
pickCloud Atlas, a multi-genre multi-story novel, intersects each story with the thread of a single soul surmising the self-imposed human conditions in different time periods. This award-winning novel delves deep into the human psyche to explore six characters. I enjoyed his Mitchell's uses of third-person internal dialogue.
Books I read for November.
Today's library sale book haul. I've actually already read Oryx and Crake, and the rest of that trilogy, and I loved it. I've never read any Manga but this one looked interesting.
pickJust as good as I‘d hoped it would be. Rice expertly builds the tension. Once I started I didn‘t want to stop. Makes for a perfect snowy day read (preferably next to a crackling fire). It‘s a short one, but raises some interesting questions about human/community survival in the face of societal collapse. Some striking nature writing as well.
"Now I see that if I do not carry my past with me, it will wrap itself around my ankles and drag me down. There is no living without it. There is no pretending I am not the sum of all these things."
“A crack echoed through the boreal landscape, a momentary chaos in the still afternoon air.”
#FirstLineFridays
#adventrecommends, @emilyrose_x
It's a clever blend of dystopia, absurdism and Kafka, but it is mostly conveyed dispassionately. While this wasn't a favorite book of 2022, it is one I am glad to have read and one I would not have read without Litsy's #FoodandLit challenge.
