Joyce’s Reviews > Conservation of Shadows > Status Update

Despite everything, I would appreciate it if she would take the time to explain the terms.

I love the way she takes your expectations and TWISTS it. "'I can't,' you say, kindly, because it will take him time to understand that you're not the blue woman anymore, that you won't do the things the blue woman did."

This is a work of art. Like all works of art, it is glorious and sophisticated and beautiful to behold. And, like all works of art, I'm not sure I am fully able to appreciate it.

IS THAT A REFERENCE TO 朱元璋?? "a fish whose name changed twice in one year thanks to a princess discovering that something that tasted delicious when you were starving in exile didn't necessarily remain so after you had returned to eating courtly delicacies."

GHOSTWEIGHT: so far, this is reminding me of the beginning of Chronicle of a Death Foretold - in the best way possible, of course. They both hint subtly (well, this book more obviously) at the warpage of truth by inadvertent human hands. "Even the act of remembrance ceases the truth.'