This was a really fast, easy and fun read, and there was a lot to like about it - the stories were good-weird and slightly surreal and I definitely just fell into it and chomped through it quickly. The author is a really talented writer and I appreciated their perspective. However, it just sorta hit me at a bad time - most of the stories take place in Montreal (where I live) and it's the middle of winter and I'm just really sick of being here and I need my reading to be more of an escape. Which is totally not the book's fault, it's just where I'm at right now.
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peoplelikedogs started reading How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
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4 stars
peoplelikedogs started reading On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, …
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peoplelikedogs reviewed Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed …
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5 stars
This was extremely good. Dunno why it took me a really long time to read... i kinda stalled out really hard halfway through but I suspect it was unrelated to the book itself and more just me. The end was really fun. I wasn't planning to read the sequel but I think I will now?
peoplelikedogs finished reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Who will inherit this …
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peoplelikedogs reviewed Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of …
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4 stars
Listened to this over a weekend where I REALLY needed to escape, it was fun and engaging and I definitely got really wrapped up in the world. I didn't know very much going into it but I'd read another short story by this author that I really liked and I saw it recommend a bunch / nominated for hugo, etc. I thought the setting was extremely sick and want to learn more about how the author built the world. Lots of fantasy elements which is unfortunately not totally my jam, but I enjoyed it a lot nonetheless.
peoplelikedogs finished reading Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven …
peoplelikedogs started reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
For generations, our remote …
peoplelikedogs reviewed Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches …
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3 stars
Read this mostly as a bedtime read, which it was good for - pretty easy and not too creepy (although slightly unsettling at times). It nodded to a few things that piqued my interest (AI, eco-sabotage, transhumanism?) But didn't really flesh out any of them, they were mostly just a vibe/backdrop for the story of the characters, which was fine. Ive really enjoyed some books that explore human-robot interactions - marge piercey's body of glass comes to mind - but this didn't quite do it for me in terms of making my brain stretch around those questions of how we relate to machines. Which I don't think was the point of the book, I think the point was to build the world up from the perceptions of the narrator (an android) and that part was done quite well.
Overall a totally fine read and well-written but just didn't scratch anything …
Read this mostly as a bedtime read, which it was good for - pretty easy and not too creepy (although slightly unsettling at times). It nodded to a few things that piqued my interest (AI, eco-sabotage, transhumanism?) But didn't really flesh out any of them, they were mostly just a vibe/backdrop for the story of the characters, which was fine. Ive really enjoyed some books that explore human-robot interactions - marge piercey's body of glass comes to mind - but this didn't quite do it for me in terms of making my brain stretch around those questions of how we relate to machines. Which I don't think was the point of the book, I think the point was to build the world up from the perceptions of the narrator (an android) and that part was done quite well.
Overall a totally fine read and well-written but just didn't scratch anything super interesting in my brain.
peoplelikedogs started reading The elements of typographic style by Robert Bringhurst
The Elements of Typographic Style is the authoritative book on typography and style by Canadian …
Rereading to brush up for a big design project :) One of the best books
peoplelikedogs started reading Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those …