Tournament of Books discussion

Open Rd 5: No One Is Talking About This vs. Several People Are Typing
Open Rd 6: The Book of Form and Emptiness vs. When We Cease to Understand the World
Open Rd 7: Klara and the Sun vs. Nervous System
Open Rd 8: play-in winner vs. The Echo Wife

We have begun! "No One" vs. "Several":
https://themorningnews.org/tob/2022/n...

As the morningnews.org homepage says "comfort vs. perversion" a.k.a. "When We Cease to Understand the World" vs. "The Book of Form and Emptiness"
https://themorningnews.org/tob/2022/t...

Well, I'm happy for No One and When We Cease, but didn't get my hands on Nervous System. In fact, so far, the three I didn't read all moved on to the next round - though I did finally grab Copeland Cane from the library.

First judgment of the tourney that I did not exactly care for. Maybe I am in the minority as I am not seeing other commenters complain, BUT it kinda felt like she didn't like Klara because it kept not telling the story she wanted it to tell. I enjoyed it immensely and didn't read Nervous System but also think that Klara pales in comparison to other books in the tourney so its not the result of the judgement that has me bothered, more the angle of the criticism. It read like a refusal to meet the book at what it wanted to do and instead forcing the book into a shape you determined.

Nervous System vs. Klara and the Sun: https://themorningnews.org/tob/2022/k...

The Confessions of Copeland Cane vs. The Echo Wife:
https://themorningnews.org/tob/2022/t...