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Unbelievably good. This is a book you can fall right through. Cascading, careening, and what a blunt and brutal end to the opening arc. Didn’t lend Fosse enough credit after “A Shining,” but will be moving on to the second section now (Books 3-5) with my expectations properly set. Strange to be two books in and still only partway through the first sentence, but I have full faith a period is coming any time now.
0Piranesi commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I follow this creator on instagram, Steven J. Reese, who is currently reading a book set in each of the 50 U.S. states. I love this project and have been really inspired by it. Personally, I've been trying to expand the scope of what books I read, particularly trying to read from different parts of the world (shoutout to women in translation!) I majored in English in college and the texts we read were largely from the States or Europe, particularly Britain. I've recently read a few books by Korean authors, Tender is the Flesh (Argentinian), amongst others. To keep track of my progress I'm thinking of both creating a few lists on Pagebound and also getting a physical map to check off the places where I've 'read from.' If you have any recommendations or want to follow along let me know!
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hiii everyone! I just finished this book by Jacqueline Harpman and it kept me hooked which hadn't happened to me for a long time so now I want to read more books like that. I loved Never Let Me Go, The Handmaid's Tale previously so I think its the same genre (idk what this genre is called). So I am looking for books that focus on all or few of these topics/themes: female protagonists (ideally), speculative fiction, dystopian, searching for humanity in inhumane places, makes me question life and existence and the meaning of it all (and not necessarily in a bad way though I dont mind stories of despair either) No series and no YA books.
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A life of eternal inquiry. Again, beautiful and gentle, even if slightly more tedious than the first installment. Took a while for me in the first book to reconcile to our main character’s (admittedly very tame) misanthropy and isolation, so it was nice to finally see her attempt community, and to find new environments. Also to obsess over a new interest — several Groundhog Day tropes checked off the list in rapid succession. Hate that I will likely be waiting for a year or two at minimum to complete this series, but thankful to Jon Fosse for providing another Norwegian septology to tide me over in the interim. This also concludes my weeklong streak of book completion (a streak that is unfortunately not corroborated by Pagebound’s possibly EST dating default? but should nonetheless be trusted as genuine if you care about me even a bit). A good time and a heavy time and it’s lovely to get be able to read at all.
0Piranesi commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
When I open a book, my brain's interpretation of my corner of the world mostly shuts off. I take the author at their word, and it takes a sudden snap (i.e. what do you mean that character didn't feel pain when that happened, why didn't they just ask the question and solve this problem 120 pages ago, etc etc) to break me from my belief and at that point it puts a bit of a foul taste in my mouth about the rest of the book. It got me thinking, and not just in terms of fantasy, sci-fi, etc where you're going in expecting the author to meet you with their world building to create something worth believing. In any form of fiction, how do you treat your suspension of disbelief? And if your suspense is broken, do you keep reading/does it affect your rating?
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Suzanne Collins
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Not as confusing as I remember it being when I was 13 (shockingly), but still pretty dumb. Even putting aside the insanity of the Capitol Home Alone-ing their entire city, we have to acknowledge the sheer number of atrocious titles and jargon that fill this series: - Tracker Jacker - Muttation - Morphling - The Nut - The Seam - The Hob - Propos - Pods - Dark Days - Little Duck - Brainless - Leeg 1 - Greasy Sae - Peeta, Panem, and all the other breads There is better — tribute is good, career is good, the Transfer acceptable — but we are not putting up a great percentage here. One thing I will acknowledge as a compliment — not a lot of pulled punches. Obviously, we have our Happily Ever After, but there is a fairly grisly Before to contend with, too. Not exactly a common YA trope, the hero who uses the last few pages of her book to contemplate multiple possible avenues for suicide — and hers is hardly the worst fate, so respect where respect is due Ms. Collins. Still, too many people in this book, too many dumb conversations and insane attempts at romance. Maybe more a demand of the editor, but even Suzanne Marie Collins, world-renowned contributor to “Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!,” must to some extent be held responsible for her crimes.
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Suzanne Collins
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“… when I paint it’s always as if I’m trying to paint away the pictures stuck inside me… I have to paint a picture in a way that dissolves the picture lodged inside me and makes it go away, so that it becomes an invisible forgotten part of myself, of my own innermost picture, the picture I am and have, because there’s one thing I know for sure, I have only one picture, one single picture, and all the other pictures, both the ones I see and the ones I can’t forget that get stuck in me, have something about them that resembles the one picture I have inside me and that isn’t something anyone can see but I do see some of what’s in it, some of what’s lodged inside me…” I’ll cry, even! The picture that we are and have. What I for years have grown used to thinking of as an impossible shape suspended inside a dark room, and I would express it as I can one angle at a time. How to view it whole! How to write it away and know it and leave it! What we have and are! Beautiful!
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Jon Fosse
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