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4.44 excuse-me-while-I-preen-my-feathers stars
Now that was something else. What an imagination! While reading I kept thinking of how some artists use very fine brushes to try and capture as realistic a representation as possible, while other artists use large brushes and palette knives to merely suggest a form. Sometimes the work of the former creates portals into new worlds...
Forest Interior with Bird by Franz Marc - 1912
Anders is like an abstract expressionist of SFF. A bevy of colourful id ...more
Now that was something else. What an imagination! While reading I kept thinking of how some artists use very fine brushes to try and capture as realistic a representation as possible, while other artists use large brushes and palette knives to merely suggest a form. Sometimes the work of the former creates portals into new worlds...
Forest Interior with Bird by Franz Marc - 1912
Anders is like an abstract expressionist of SFF. A bevy of colourful id ...more
So my plan to meet Charlie Jane in the next WorldCon is not likely to happen due to the You-know-what but I am so glad I could I say I really liked this book. First time I read her work was Six Months, Three Days Hugo-winning short story and it bored me. Her latest book, The City in the Middle of the Night while started out strong, gave me a disappointing ending and a frustrating character. This one, oh this one will stay with me for a long time.
It is beautiful without being pretentious, it is m ...more
It is beautiful without being pretentious, it is m ...more
For the first third of this book, I was very much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I couldn't get into it at all. Little by little, I became engrossed - if still not entirely convinced. And then, suddenly, I was a sniffling mess who just gave it a five star rating. I'm contrary like that. The slow beginning, which didn't quite sit right with me personally (perhaps just a taste thing), is necessary for the wonderful whole I guess. I ended up liking this a lot.
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I normally have a tough time focusing on books with the printed word lately. I have been listening to audio books more than reading lately. This book made me want to change all that!
The characters were very relatable. I felt engaged in the story mostly all the time. I really enjoyed Charlie Anders writing style. It is conversational. Sometimes, I read it aloud to my cat. It felt so natural and flowed extremely well.
I normally don't like a lot of sex, violence or foul language. I would say that ...more
The characters were very relatable. I felt engaged in the story mostly all the time. I really enjoyed Charlie Anders writing style. It is conversational. Sometimes, I read it aloud to my cat. It felt so natural and flowed extremely well.
I normally don't like a lot of sex, violence or foul language. I would say that ...more
I didn't really expect this to be great--I'm kind of sick of science vs. magic stories--but the reviews were so good that I read it anyway. This was kind of great, from the creation of the AI early on to the poor choices that the characters made that felt so much like poor choices everyone makes on a regular basis to the surprises at the end.
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I'm gonna have to come back to this one tomorrow. Lots to absorb.
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Just try it. You might lose a day to the story, like I did.
Feb 13, 2016
Eden
marked it as to-read
Apr 15, 2018
Julianna Peres
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Sep 11, 2018
Efreak
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Sep 25, 2018
Amanda at Bookish Brews
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