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Bewilderment

Richard Powers

Start date: December 1, 2021

Finish date: February 28, 2022

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Sep 18, 2021 ☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣ rated it it was amazing

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Everything about her felt familiar, as if I’d been briefed on the local customs in advance. Her mouth puckered in permanent near-interruption, halfway between a- and be-mused. (c)
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She felt like a prediction, a thing on its way here. Compact but planetary. (c)
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Maybe there’s a planet out there where amphibians are as good as it gets. (c)
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... no one ever lost an audience with charismatic megafauna. (c)
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It takes a certain kind of strangeness to hear the cosmic symphony and to realize that it w ...more

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Sep 09, 2021 GONZA rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Very beautiful book and equally sad. Although Powers has already accustomed us with The Overstory to the issues of environmental protection, in this latest novel he goes down very hard on the topic and it was very difficult to deal with some parts of the story. I find, however, that his description of Robin was definitely very accurate.

Libro molto bello e altrettanto triste. Per quanto Powers ci abbia giá abituato con The Overstory alle tematiche della salvaguardia dell'ambiente, in questo suo u ...more

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Nov 18, 2022 Helen Bungert rated it liked it

The book club had mixed reactions to this book, but some us are ardent Powers fans and loved it. Some found the science too far fetched. All admired the language.

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