sifuCJC started reading The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is …
I read only nonfiction for years. Now, I'm getting back into fiction. (he/him)
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Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is …
@mollymay5000 I suppose it might be for a person in a certain place. She's a caring writer though, so it is told with warmth. Good luck!
This was definitely an interesting book; I flew through it. The unfolding story was very compelling. The psychological investigations were pretty intense, much more than I had expected.
But, although I don't know much about the profession, the characters didn't seem to act like therapists to me. And the ending didn't work for me, though it was well thought out, so I can see where it might land for others.
Return to the cozy fantasy world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with a new …
For as intensely emotional this book is, it wasn't 'heavy'. It definitely isn't 'light' either, but I attribute the lighter feel to the clarity of the writing. You are never in doubt about where the characters are and what they're thinking (even if it's confusion). This way you as a reader are free to process the emotions, which includes grief, trauma, and PTSD anxieties. I highly recommend.
One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in …
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Edie Walker’s life is not going as planned. At thirty-five, she feels stuck: in her career, in her love life, …
@SallyStrange Ha! Yeah. Heck, any writing about the climate will be dated in months.
It feels kind of weird to suggest that a book about how history has kind of invented this period in time called the Renaissance is relatable, but this book ended up being extremely relatable. I ended up listening to the audiobook (a whopping 30-hour beast) and regularly found myself smiling and chuckling along as I did my daily commute even though I knew and still mostly nothing about the time period or really anything about Italy. I genuinely had never heard of most of the people who were talked about in this book, which I think is a pretty clear indication about how interestingly the information is laid out--though it would certainly be a nightmare for anyone who requires events in time to be explained in chronological order.
More than that though, I think what was really great about this book and something I wasn't expecting was about how hopeful …
It feels kind of weird to suggest that a book about how history has kind of invented this period in time called the Renaissance is relatable, but this book ended up being extremely relatable. I ended up listening to the audiobook (a whopping 30-hour beast) and regularly found myself smiling and chuckling along as I did my daily commute even though I knew and still mostly nothing about the time period or really anything about Italy. I genuinely had never heard of most of the people who were talked about in this book, which I think is a pretty clear indication about how interestingly the information is laid out--though it would certainly be a nightmare for anyone who requires events in time to be explained in chronological order.
More than that though, I think what was really great about this book and something I wasn't expecting was about how hopeful it is for our now. Many of the things the author brought up are struggles that we continue to have in different ways. Palmer spends a lot of time actually telling us not to push our own current values into time periods where those values didn't exist. At the same time though, we're also reminded that time isn't static. The people living then struggled just as we do now. We have progressed, but that doesn't necessarily guarantee that everything is improved and superior. But the hopeful bit is that progress is an ongoing and never ending thing. The scary of our now doesn't have to be forever and in fact almost certainly will not be.
I'd thought this one might be solarpunk. It most definitely is not that style, much more old-school, hard-SF. And it is full-on dystopian in the beginning. (The first chapter is traumatically good.)
But the rest of the book was like an economics lecture to me. Never hit emotionally. Plus, some of the solutions didn't seem plausible, so it was hard to see the characters as experts.
I'm not sure what to say about this one.
I had heard about it from a list of mysteries. This isn't written like a mystery though.
I couldn't understand what the author was going for in the beginning, but the writing was clear. About half-way through, it dives into the psyche of all the characters; which was interesting. Then it ends like a mystery with a sum-up.
Maybe I was just in the wrong frame of mind to see the themes. I'd be interested to see what others think of the writing and characters.