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Reading Wednesday
Nov. 30th, 2022 07:27 amJust finished: Assassin of Reality by Marina and Serhiy Dyachenko
A few notes:
1. The spelling of the late Serhiy's name is different across various places and on the cover, and the title is different in Russian, so if you speak Russian and can't wait, just search for "Marina Dyachenko Vita Nostra book 2" and you'll find i.
2. I very seldom just copy-and-paste my Goodreads reviews but I wrote an essay on it and Amazon won't even let me review it yet, so in an attempt to drum up the hype that this book deserves, I'm pasting the entire thing behind a cut in hopes that my little audience here will go out and read it when it comes out in March.
3. Don't start with this one—read Vita Nostra first or it'll make no sense. You can read it now if you haven't already! The review doesn't have any major spoilers for Vita Nostra though.
( on to the squee )
Currently reading: A Snake Falls To Earth by Darcie Little Badger. I am almost done this but people keep interrupting me.
Melancholic Parables by Dale Stromberg. You know when you read a book and you think, "oh wow, I am the highly specific target audience for this thing?" This is one of those books for me and I realized it while reading the copyright page. It's a collection of dark, whimsical microstories, centred around the various incarnations of a woman named Bellatrix Sakakino. She dampens electricity. She dies and relives the best moment of her life, and when that doesn't work out for her, returns to her infant body with her adult memories intact. She is radioactive. She dreams, wistfully, of a fruit that went extinct before she was born. Interspersed with these stories are clever scenes and observations that read half as Twitter shitposts, half as magic realism. It's awesome.
A few notes:
1. The spelling of the late Serhiy's name is different across various places and on the cover, and the title is different in Russian, so if you speak Russian and can't wait, just search for "Marina Dyachenko Vita Nostra book 2" and you'll find i.
2. I very seldom just copy-and-paste my Goodreads reviews but I wrote an essay on it and Amazon won't even let me review it yet, so in an attempt to drum up the hype that this book deserves, I'm pasting the entire thing behind a cut in hopes that my little audience here will go out and read it when it comes out in March.
3. Don't start with this one—read Vita Nostra first or it'll make no sense. You can read it now if you haven't already! The review doesn't have any major spoilers for Vita Nostra though.
( on to the squee )
Currently reading: A Snake Falls To Earth by Darcie Little Badger. I am almost done this but people keep interrupting me.
Melancholic Parables by Dale Stromberg. You know when you read a book and you think, "oh wow, I am the highly specific target audience for this thing?" This is one of those books for me and I realized it while reading the copyright page. It's a collection of dark, whimsical microstories, centred around the various incarnations of a woman named Bellatrix Sakakino. She dampens electricity. She dies and relives the best moment of her life, and when that doesn't work out for her, returns to her infant body with her adult memories intact. She is radioactive. She dreams, wistfully, of a fruit that went extinct before she was born. Interspersed with these stories are clever scenes and observations that read half as Twitter shitposts, half as magic realism. It's awesome.
