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"Just over twenty-five years ago, on the day after Labor Day, a chicken processing factory in Hamlet, North Carolina, burst …
Edited with afterword by Sunyoung Park. Translated by Sora Kim-Russell, Joungmin Lee Comfort.
'I am sorry, Mr. Merry,' said Hob, 'but it isn't allowed' 'What isn't allowed?' 'Taking in folk off-hand like, and eating extra food, and all that,' said Hob.
— Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Page 973)
Border policy in the Shire during the Sharkey administration.
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and …
It's impossible to understand how millions and millions of people all obey a sickly collection of gentlemen that call themselves 'governement'! The word, I expect, frightens people. It is a form of planetary hypnosis, and very unhealthy.
— The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, Pablo Weisz-Carrington (Page 157)
Leonora Carrington, anarchist.
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Exact Change launched a …
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@loppear thanks, i'm glad i'm not the only one. I liked Sea of Tranquility ok; I had some issues but nothing major. I wonder if I would hate it now. I have a theory that Mandel is writing just for TV, knowing that they'll just rework the plot and count on the acting to fill out these hollow characters. in this theory I'm annoyed because i was duped into reading a first draft tv script.
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost …
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I gave up on this once but decided to finish it because of supposed easter eggs that connected this to Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility. It turns out there were common elements, but they seemed more like recycled incidental characters and situations than some kind of connective thread. we get a quick peek at the author of the Station Eleven graphic novel, working on it, maybe.
I think Mandel is a very good writer; her descriptions are compelling and she creates characters that have the potential to become interesting. but they don't. She tries to give minor events dramatic significance that doesn't really play but the central event of the story falls flat. Pages and pages are devoted to bland, amoral mediocrities while the few sympathetic characters get a few short passages. oh, and ghosts ()?
For years, Teresa has passed from one job to the next, settling into long stretches of time, struggling to build …
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories, published in October 2006, is a collection …
This made me think of fan fiction, but with writing as good as the original. I really like the way Clarke approximates the style of 19th Century English literature. It doesn't have the scope of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, but to me that's a good thing. it's like a purer distillation of that world.
I liked this book a lot, but not in the way that it seems other people do; there are so many rave reviews that i almost feel like i'm missing something. maybe it was over-hyped.
TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Haňťa - a man …
Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel
— Too loud a solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (Harvest in translation)
Is it different, like with a tootsie pop, if you suck it and let it dissolve until you get to the chocolate at the center or if you're impatient bite through the candy. I always try to be patient, like there's some greater reward to letting the sentence dissolve slowly but it makes me a slow reader. sometimes when you bite through the hard candy, you get a new flavor of mixed hard and soft candy. food for thought.
