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Joined 3 years, 9 months ago

Also @Sissas@wandering.shop

I have been discovering the world beyond The Classics, mostly modern SF&F. I do love (some) older romances and novels, and have been making an effort to read more non-fiction and books in my native language 😄

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Ryka Aoki: Light From Uncommon Stars (Hardcover, 2021, Tor Books)

Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …

For someone other than me

I don't think I'm the target audience but that's OK. I found the comparison with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to be quite shallow: there's aliens and that's kind of it. I was constantly miffed by the materialism and waxing lyrical over cars which I think contributed hugely for my disliking of the book. But it's definitely an interesting voice that I appreciated listening to!

Ryka Aoki: Light From Uncommon Stars (Hardcover, 2021, Tor Books)

Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …

Pfff I'm barely enjoying this anymore. It feels too YA, like I'm watching a TV show made for teenagers. There's some sincerely interesting bits here and there but overall this is a little too grating for me. Especially references to things and cars and brands, ugh. Powering through because I'm almost there and might as well, right?

Ryka Aoki: Light From Uncommon Stars (Hardcover, 2021, Tor Books)

Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …

For some reason I went into this expecting unkindness of ghosts adjacency? And it is definitely not that lol. But! I'm enjoying it a lot. Quite a few different tones are being balanced in a good way; it feels like it will be heartwarming and optimistic and that's probably the kind of book I should be reading to get myself through winter.

Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Hardcover, 2021, Tordotcom)

It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …

A softness

It was the first book of this kind I read so it may benefit from that; I just loved Dex and Mosscap and the world they're in. Their "big" conversation about having a purpose was very touching to me. I'm super interested in following them and getting to know this world a little bit more!

Ocean Vuong, Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (2020, Penguin Random House)

Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a …

It took me a while; as I mentioned a few times, the style was a little too much for me, and it detracted from the depiction of persons and events. It's an honestly very interesting story, but the metaphor-inside-metaphor stream-of-consciousness style may not agree with everyone (it certainly didn't with me).

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Ocean Vuong, Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (2020, Penguin Random House)

Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a …

I'm really having a hard time with this; at this point the style is just so distracting and got so far under my skin that I can barely focus on anything else. I'm close to the end though and some parts of it I found worth reading so I think I'll stick through it..

finished reading The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

Nghi Vo, Nghi Vo: The Empress of Salt and Fortune (EBook, 2020, Tom Doherty Associates)

With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period …

Really liked this book. It made me feel a little like "Analogue: a Hate Story", by finding out what happened in the past via stories that showed ripples of the main events, making you connect the dots (although I wouldn't say there was a mystery to solve; it all flowed quite naturally). Really loved the writing style and the descriptions! I wish it were slightly longer, so that the culmination of the story would be doled out a little slower.