Status Updates From City of Saints and Madmen (...

So far, quite interesting and definitely a little different from some of the other work I’ve read from Vandermeer.

fun way to add character to the writing but also a strange way to literally punish your readers for being bored by your writing and burdening them with an overload of world building which is exactly what you stated you didn’t want to do

his enormous opera singer of a mother (tall and big-boned) stuffed into the kitchen… She would sing to herself as she worked, in an unrestrained and husky voice (it seemed she never spoke to Dradin, but only sang) so that he could hear, conducted through the various pipes, air, ducts, and passage ways, the words of Voss Bender’s greatest opera: …

CW: rape, knife violence, infidelity, downbad narrator, ableism, fire

impossible to gauge how much i’m reading now that vandermeer has eschewed the pedestrian concept of “page numbers”