Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
An award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft.
A …
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An award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft.
A …
Entertaining anthology of fungi-related short stories often (but not always) with a horror-bent.
My favourites (with particulary outstanding shorts marked as †)
Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is …
The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's, (born c. 1763), intimate and moving account of his marriage - …
structurally flexible. engaging characters. lightly nostalgic (but not too much!). devoured in 4 days: it was enjoyable!
it was sad, at times. i think i enjoyed all characters? except for probably dov. the rendition of relationships over such a span of time is something i don't recall ever reading. the internal monologues and renditions of conflicts from different points of view were something special, i feel
started reading this last night as i was scouring my ereader for a new book, and stumbled across it already on there, waiting
it's freely (and afaik legally, being authored 1920) available online from multiple sources, just give the title a search. i find the dialogue format excellent reading, it's probably one of my favourite devices next to the epistolary novel format
i liked how this started (right in the middle of the action! a very different world to the one i inhabit! that 2011 sci-fi novel feel) but around 2/5ths in it started going really crap with the plot
i'm not sure if i fooled myself by the promising start but i also feel like the writing worsened in the last half?
do not recommend lol, just dutifully finishing this rn
book 3 maintains the essence of the series but manages to stray away enough from what kept me captivated in 1 and 2 such that i feel satiated to stop here. for now, anyway (and thank the guidestars for that!)
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few Steersmen, are members of an …
Pinball, 1973 (1973年のピンボール, Sen-Kyūhyaku-Nanajū-San-Nen no Pinbōru) is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The second book …