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Uncomfortable and difficult to get through, but a worthwhile and thought provoking journey.
I really enjoyed this novel in the same world as one my favorite podcasts, within the wires. It started a little slow but then started to come together. This novel is for people who enjoy fractured stories that slowly come together and also don’t explain everything. At the end there is mystery remaining. If you read this,don’t ignore the footnotes. I’m also not sure how someone who has not heard the podcast would react to the book. The two are not directly related, but I think it helped me under
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While it was slow at times, this was so interesting, in terms of subject, and it really did show the slippery slope of letting society decide for humanity what "is best" for it. Yikes. Love is messy, and memories hurt--but they are worth the pain. I'd not last long in that new world.
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This has a VERY slow burn, the autobiography of a sort of founder of a world society's approach to managing people. The footnotes increasingly indicate she's unreliable as the book progresses. It wasn't the most compelling writing but the story has a pull.
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Dystopian fiction but more about Miriam's learning about how to access what she calls the Watercolor Quiet, a meditative technique. Except in Miri's hands, it becomes much, much more. The greater question is very similar to one that may/should have bothered Nazi doctors: is what I've created good? or bad? or horrifically dangerous? As she takes us through her journey from the Great Reckoning through the New Society to possible traitor, her view of the Quiet changes. As will reader's.
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Popsugar 2022 #47 - A book featuring a parallel reality
Feb 07, 2022
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