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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
by James Tiptree Jr.
by James Tiptree Jr.
Kerry's review
bookshelves: dnf, 2012, anthology, sf
Sep 09, 12
bookshelves: dnf, 2012, anthology, sf
Read from January 25, 2011 to September 10, 2012
I'm reading this a story or two a month as part of the Women of SF 2011 Book Club, so it'll be sitting here in "currently reading" for most of the year. I'll try to add a few comments on the stories as I read them, but I can't make any promises.
10 September, 2012: I’m officially giving up on James Tiptree Jr’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. This is not because it’s a bad book, but because at this point in my life I simply can’t take the depressing-ness of it. I’m going to put it away on the bookcase, but leave a bookmark in that, so that when I (hopefully) go back to it in the future I’ll know what I’ve read and what I haven’t.
I’m very glad to have read some Tiptree, but the book is just taunting me from my bedroom bookshelf at the moment. “Ha! You’re scared of me and I’m still here with a bookmark in me, which means you should finish me!”.
Maybe one day, but this is just not the right point in my life.
10 September, 2012: I’m officially giving up on James Tiptree Jr’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. This is not because it’s a bad book, but because at this point in my life I simply can’t take the depressing-ness of it. I’m going to put it away on the bookcase, but leave a bookmark in that, so that when I (hopefully) go back to it in the future I’ll know what I’ve read and what I haven’t.
I’m very glad to have read some Tiptree, but the book is just taunting me from my bedroom bookshelf at the moment. “Ha! You’re scared of me and I’m still here with a bookmark in me, which means you should finish me!”.
Maybe one day, but this is just not the right point in my life.
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Reading Progress
| 01/26/2011 | page 33 |
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6.0% | "The first two stories are read for January, and the next will be for February. I like what I've read so far." |
| 03/15/2011 | page 95 |
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19.0% | "I'm enjoying these, but I think I might be a bit too dumb for all the nuances. Hopefully the book club discussion will help me "get" them." |
| 04/16/2011 | page 114 |
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22.0% | "April's story read. Very interesting. Deliberately annoying ending I think. I wonder what it was." |
| 05/13/2011 | page 114 |
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22.0% | "Nearly time for May's story/stories." |
| 06/18/2011 | page 145 |
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29.0% | "Just read "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" which I thought was a fantastic story." |
| 08/31/2011 | page 360 |
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71.0% | "Just read "A Momentary Taste of Being" and feeling rather slapped around the head by it. What a concept to start with and then turn into a detailed, complicated story." |
| 05/27/2012 | page 360 |
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71.0% | "This one, I really just need to get my butt into gear and pick it back up!" |
| 05/28/2012 | page 385 |
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76.0% | "My goodness, but Tiptree tends to write depressing stories. Good, make-you-think stories, but you certainly can't expect a happy ending." |
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Sep 10, 2012 12:42am
I do that, too. I often use my reading as a change of pace from real life stress, so when my mood isn't open toward ruminating about big, important questions and criticisms or depressing turns of events I just don't finish.
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