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Love After the End (June 2023) Buddy Read Discussion - Bopeep & Laurel
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Looking forward to starting this bad boy!
I've read the introduction!And I have to say that I despised how there is a little synopsis of each story... comparing them to other series/book.
Also I don't know if it's just me, but the writing was kind of weird?
I think I have to get used to inidigenous writing style (also there's a lot of words I have zero idea of their meaning haha ^^')
Abacus: this was... weird? I kept thinking it was a romance between a rat and a boy and I always re-thought "it's an AI, not a rat". But it was kinda cute at the end~
The story of the new worldI was annoyed with Em for not fighting back to stay on Earth instead of going to the New World. But maybe their daughter's custody was only of the white woman? But as the little one said: it wasn't fair that she was the one to fight back.
"Only a white girl could step into a completely unknown universe with the blind faith that everything was going to work out".
After reading Babel I have to say that this sentence is so true.
The ark of the turtle's back
This was hard forme to fully understand.
I didn't understand about the child, apart that they were nb (they and xe), but it didn't say more... I didn't know for what one of them had surgery.
But I was super happy that in that world there's a good surgery for trans people that applies uterus and all <3
After reading these two stories together, I think that the main characters were indifferent to romantic love, somehow?
How to survive the apocalypse for native girlsThis one was too vague for me. I don't know what more to say lol
Andwànikàdjigan
This one was beautiful. I loved that a village had new markings every time they listened and "remembered" a story, and how that magic was gone with them... and after that Winu marked those memorizers. This is my favorite so far.
I've read wrong the introduction where it said this were utopias? Because I don't see any utopia after all O_o
But I like all the stories that see the apocalypses as human's fault... And that's what I think too.
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Story for a bottle
Wow, I really liked this one! A lonely IA that wants company to run a ship it's so new to me. I wonder how much time did the girl stayed there, and how worried her family was.
Seed children
Ooh I liked this one too! I loved the existence of human-synths, and that they're different to robots somehow -the have synth blood and flesh. It was short, but at leas it was one that claimed hope!
NamelessI liked the idea of dreams joining worlds (the paste and present it seems?). But the real question here is... Is Jennifer K'e's mother or just a random ancestor? Hmmm...
(the *they was super annoying, the * kept me going to the footnotes as if something was clarified there lol)
Eloise
This one feels so poetic, and I can see the text as vivid images <3
It also feels sad and, somehow, real.
But I don't think I undesrtood the ending. What was reality and what was virtual?
AbacusOkay, this was weird but beautifully written. I liked the way it played with taboo, with transness, and with love.
The story of the new world
Omg I so agree with you on that quote. This one made me cry.
The ark of the turtle's backOoof, this was another hard one. I didn't really like that they left earth? And that in leaving, they destroyed it, and the moon, and Mars, leaving only themselves to move onward into a new world that sounds too good to be true. And I didn't like that Dakib tricked them all into going too soon, and bribed them with surgery (although I also loved that surgery could give them the chance to have children).
How to survive the apocalypse for native girls
So I liked this one a lot! It was very non-linear, which took a second to figure out.
I think I liked that instead of the world being "perfect" with the Nation in charge, there's the idea that people are people, and wherever people have power you have to keep them in check so that they don't exclude or cause harm. And that the harmful actions of your past inform your present but that there are often so many layers of nuance that can't be scraped away with bone to create a black and white world.
I just finished!They were all really great in different ways, and I liked that the seeds in all of them were sprinkled with hope despite the world ending (ending again).
My favorite is still "The story of the new world."
Yeah, they were all great somehow, though I didn't understand them at 100%. I think my favorite is Andwanikadjigan ^^
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Each day we will be reading by chapters or page numbers. Page numbers are an approximation based on the hardcover or paperback that is the default on Goodreads. The suggested Buddy Read discussion schedule is as follows:
June 19th: Introduction, Abaccus, History of the World,
June 20th: The Ark of the Turtle's Back, How to Survive the Apocalypse for Native Girls, Andwànikàdigan
June 21st: Story for a Bottle, Seed Children
June 22nd: Nameless, Eloise
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~ Bopeep
~ Laurel