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To these scientists the most unthinkable thing that could happen is harm to a living alien being

Becky Chambers how have I not known u till now?

“I’m being asked to understand that with some people you love they just won’t end up being part of your life. I’m being asked a question that it seems I can answer only by living.”

First book reading in Portuguese, lent by a beloved friend

Orange's meandering sentences continue to delight and devastate me

People are born and die and they struggle and live v hard lives. They are somehow caught in these cycles of addiction and pain yet they're not even aware of them because violence has often dispossessed them of their family, land, or their histories.

The perspectives I've most enjoyed are Opal's chapter directed to her unborn baby Victoria, and Victoria's to herself? and her unborn babies

Tommy Orange has this delightful, wandering writing style. Though I never seem to get lost. I have never seen so many commas and semi colons in a sentence and I love it.

stunning and cold so far. heady and relentless. i’ve been reading a lot of translations lately. wondering how much of this writing i love is the work of the translator, and how much is the author herself but content with knowing it’s a mix

Only 1/2 Japanese to English translations I’ve read completely. So far it’s phenomenal. Reminds me of I Who Have Never Known Men (not Japanese).

I'm finally reading the Russian guy(s?) The writing is interesting so far. I'm enjoying Sharik's pov. Getting used to the floaty, removed kind of writing style.

I started reading this one a few years ago, but dnf-ed it because it has this dreamlike quality that reminds me of Paulo Coelho's writing style. It felt too abstract and predestined, though somehow I always gravitate to stories like this. Note to self: reread Lets Kill the Sun?

I'm enjoying it a lot more on the second try. I pushed through the parts that made me give up last time. Very queer lots of gender fuckery

favs so far by
- Yasnaya E Gil (queen)

rereading

i hate arturo so far and he gives me such creepy vibes like he wants to seduce his cousin so he can control the family

idk what page i am on or how many i have completed but i finished all of the strone retelling section and let me just say wow.

This book is so intoxicating but unforch I do this thing where I binge half a book or read so much to a point (where I think the book is most exciting) that I need a long break to mentally prepare myself and I think that’s what’s happening rn