tricia started reading High Wizardry by Diane Duane (Young Wizards, #3)
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Today is a Sunday. On Saturday, I read Nevada. Tomorrow I have some major surgery. I'm still reeling from Nevada, and maybe that's bad timing on my part.
It feels cliché to type, but I felt seen in the pages of Nevada. Not a good, glorious and joyous seen; but an uncomfortable seen- a doctor poking at an open wound "seen". A butterfly pinned to a velvet board.
I count myself lucky that I don't get too emotional thinking about "what if"- I've made a lot of mistakes, big and small, suffered misfortunes (mostly small), there's a lot of what-if fodder in my life.
That's maybe why I can set it all aside- if it was one big what-if, I might dwell more, after all.
Then, through a certain lens, there is a single big what-if, and Nevada is an acutely painful and compelling rendition of that …
Today is a Sunday. On Saturday, I read Nevada. Tomorrow I have some major surgery. I'm still reeling from Nevada, and maybe that's bad timing on my part.
It feels cliché to type, but I felt seen in the pages of Nevada. Not a good, glorious and joyous seen; but an uncomfortable seen- a doctor poking at an open wound "seen". A butterfly pinned to a velvet board.
I count myself lucky that I don't get too emotional thinking about "what if"- I've made a lot of mistakes, big and small, suffered misfortunes (mostly small), there's a lot of what-if fodder in my life.
That's maybe why I can set it all aside- if it was one big what-if, I might dwell more, after all.
Then, through a certain lens, there is a single big what-if, and Nevada is an acutely painful and compelling rendition of that lens.
It was published in 2013, which is ten years ago this year.
What if I'd read this book 10 years ago? Only the smallest tweak is needed to imagine it happening. 10 years ago I still walked into bookstores and picked out something interesting based on cover design.
Perhaps the saving grace is that ten years ago was still far enough along in my life that I'd still be angst-ridden over the same question.
Nevada reads like the road map that my life might/would have followed if I'd read it ten years ago, aside from I'd be impossibly pining even then, "what if I had read this ten years ago?"
The book itself, ironically, paradoxically, answers that question. This fact doesn't make me feel less exposed.
It's a really weird thing to read a book and have all the characters be you, every possible Schrödinger wish fulfillment alternate reality version of you.
Being Seen(tm) doesn't feel great, but it feels a lot, and immensely, and there's definitely something good in that.
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@marvinfreeman@ramblingreaders.org I hadn't! Just read it; very delightful. Thanks!
A really enjoyable book. It's not high art, sure, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable read, and while we might be inclined to make assumptions just based on the romance genre and the publisher, I still felt that the plot was uncertain and surprising.
@jmccyoung thank you! I haven't fully back-filled my bookwyrm, but I read The House In The Cerulean Sea a few months ago. I enjoyed it, though I felt it skewed just a little more YA than Very Secret Society did. I think TJ Klune had just come off of writing a series of YA novels, so this would track..
The follow-up(?) to House, Under The Whispering Door (which btw contains an easter egg referencing House) is also very excellent in a similar vein, but a little more grown up as well. The themes in Under The Whispering Door had me absolutely sobbing, though.
Content warning Minor/vague plot spoilers
Themes of loss, grief, and sacrifice, with a pretty telegraphed twist.
Following directly on from the first book, it's easy to see that the overall plot follows many of the same beats as So You Want To Be A Wizard, though differing a lot in the details.
I enjoyed the read but it didn't feel as ground breaking as #1. Still, excited to move on to #3!