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I am permanently moving my book reviewing to Storygraph
A heartfelt thanks for the book discussions, friendship and camaraderie, I will miss you all.

The Camouflage section is my favourite, especially the walking leaf insect and pygmy seahorse.

Têt! 🧧 Lion dance

" Ghosts never die. Their windows are always lit, like the windows in all the ochre and white buildings around me, their façades half hidden by the umbrella pines on the square."
Translator Damion Searls.

Challenging

Started reading this after finishing Netflix's Asura, adapted from this author's Ashura no Gotoku (阿修羅のごとく). Many similar themes here.

"Survey the landscape using a “melanometer.” (Those not issued a melanometer at birth,as most Bajans are,have to develop one through practice.)..measures the collective melanin content of a crowd and calculates the average tonal factor(ATF).This ATF can be any point along the spectrum of complexion from barley-water white to coal-cinder black,a spectrum encompassing such permutations as light,fair,clear,clammy cherry

Metatextual

Anita Desai's writing prowess is evident here but something about this novelette is not as compelling

This comparative value of lives again yeesh
Save the river hag, save the unicorn instead of the unworthy human me thinks

Getting eco-anxiety from reading first 2 stories. Would pair well with Landscapes by Christine Lai. Disintegrating environment, infrastructure, social landscape and knowledge.