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Forgot how wonderfully restive Marias' prose is.
In this for the long haul...

A sense something quite unusual is brewing...
Could do without the emails from Jen, she seems rather toxic.

Typical Énard, which means funny, insightful, and well-written.

Interesting...
Hate that this book is retitled for the USofA. It is Greig's Darklands series novella "Columba's Bones".
Why not just list it as an edition of the original?

Skillful writing and a nicely layered beginning.

Beautiful. Mentally challenging but just so beautiful.

Like Margaret's pain levels, my interest has its ebbs and flows. An erratic narrative.

A delirious read, full of ethereal imagery and emotional depth.

I can already see this is going to be a difficult book, but little in life is gained by ease and simplicity, no?
😆☕️🥘🚑

Interesting in ways I had not expected. The writing is beautiful and calm, yet equally forceful and strident.

Best first 77 pages of a horror novel I have read in quite a while. Rather unsettlingly amazing…

Fucking stop with Jeffers, please, Rachel Cusk. We don't need the name on every page.

Gorgeous, sublime writing, which means a fab translator too!

Fun! Random and interesting. Facts and fictions alike.

Fascinating and perfectly balanced. Intriguing without being prurient, smart without being dull, issue-focused without being preachy.

Fraser has mastered the blending of dry facts, sordid details, and ifs-and-possiblys rather fabulously.
AND serial killers? Ha! I'm in.

If I didn't have books right now - OK, and coffee and M&Ms - I'm rather sure I couldn't deal with the world at all.

Fascinating and visceral. Beautiful too.

Arden Shakespeare is so detailed and fascinating. 160 page Introduction for this play.
☕️☕️☕️

Just as amazing as the book#1, already.

Not sure if I am supposed to read this first, but I am. It’s a bit anticlimactic, it seems, but I like the tone.

Still amazing, and yet there is an underlying YA/softness going on... I like my eldritch terror more risky!

incredible world building, and equally immersive plot.

Wow, this just starts right away, all action and concepts and death!

Stupendous. MacInnes is a brilliant and affective storyteller.

Smart-as-fuck and powerfully written. Love it!

Again with the word usage. Sure, author-license and all, but I know no one used the word "fuck" before 1400AD.

A fun read, but I was a bit surprised by the use of the term "sock puppet" in the narrative. First use of the term is from the 1950s...

Beautifully brilliant.

Damn I love learning things, even remembering things I knew but mentally misplaced or shunted aside for newer things! This book is awesome!!!