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Post by Liiisa on Apr 29, 2024 13:03:55 GMT -5
In fact all of the books I currently have checked out from the library seem too depressing/abstract for me to cope with right now. I think I’m going to go on a Pratchett reread binge instead.
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Post by Liiisa on May 1, 2024 12:29:33 GMT -5
OK NO
I felt like maybe I should give Helen Oyeyeme's "Parasol Against the Axe" another chance, so I read another 30 pages. But it's a slog. I think it's supposed to be intentionally written in the style of confusing central European literary novels; if so, it's cleverly done. But I don't actually LIKE confusing central European literary novels, so back to the library it goes.
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Post by scrubb on May 6, 2024 13:26:24 GMT -5
I've stalled on 2 books in the last while. "A Fairytale of New York" and "Dogeaters". Just under half way through each and unmotivated to continue.
"AFoNY" I think I will likely abandon. I have the gist of it - aimless young man in NYC in the late '50s, or early'60s, likes to fight and fuck. There's some slapstick humour that sort of falls flat. Feels very '60s in style, theme, and how NYC feels. And that's all fine, but I just. don't. care. There's obviously not going to be a story, just episode after episode, or any character growth.
Dogeaters is based in the Philippines and the US, and so far it's presented a ton of different characters and jumps around between them, but I haven't discerned any kind of plot/story. The scenes and characters are interesting and different so I will likely pick it up again sometime when I'm in the mood.
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Post by sophie on May 6, 2024 22:08:32 GMT -5
I officially gave up on The Future by Catherine Leroux. This won the annual Canada Reads competition but I honestly don’t understand how. It’s dystopian, confusing and difficult to follow. I managed the first third, the middle part is where the main character goes into the forest where the young children have made their own society (overtones of Lord of the flies) and any sense of who is who disappears. The language of the children is their own made up idiomatic dialect which is confusing. Oh.. and it’s set in an alternative universe where Detroit (the setting) is not part of the US but a French speaking region.. maybe part of Quebec but I wasn’t clear on that.
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Post by Liiisa on May 16, 2024 19:31:16 GMT -5
Maybe I'm just having trouble concentrating or something right now, but I am now abandoning "The Island of Missing Trees." It's like Romeo and Juliet in Cyprus but also featuring a sentient tree and I just am not into it.
I'm going to read another Terry Pratchett novel.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 16, 2024 20:52:26 GMT -5
Sentient trees make more sense in Terry Pratchett
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 17, 2024 4:19:15 GMT -5
Or Middle Earth
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