6/30/2023 0 Comments Den femte årstiden by N.K. JemisinI can't wait to jump right back in and explore more of the Stillness. I'm glad I already had the second book on hand or I would have made a mad dash to buy it. There is occasional upsetting content so check triggers. Don't make my mistake: there IS an appendix in the back that I discovered once I finished the book. I wanted to give this a 5 but people are correct in that the world building, while a fantastic world that does take on being a character of its own, there are some confusing terms that either don't get fully explained or take a long time to make sense. The characters are all bad asses in a unique way and the growth is immaculate. It takes some getting used to, if only because I think this may be the second time ever I read a book in that POV. The book pivots between the point of view of three women, one of which being in second person. Jemisin with Jan Risheden (Translator) 473 pages first pub 2015 ISBN/UID: 9789113089805. Nu råder Femte Årstiden återigen - kommer världen att gå under eller kan någon rädda den Den femte årstiden är första delen i trilogin 'Den. There isn't too much detail I can into it as it's very twist and turny from the beginning and saying anything more than the blurb will take away from the experience. Jemisin is masterful and poetic in her writing and there are so many beautiful passages. I picked this up years ago on a recommendation for fans of the game Horizon: Zero Dawn and I am MAD at myself for taking so long to actually read this. “Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall Death is the Fifth, and Master of All.”
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I was intensely suspicious of people who claimed a poem or a painting or piece of music ‘changed their life’, especially since I had often known these people before and after their experience and could register no change.Īdam trails the man, who continues to ‘lose his shit’ in front of various paintings, through the gallery. Was he, I wondered … having a profound experience of art? I had long worried that I was incapable of having a profound experience of art, and I had trouble believing that anyone had, at least anyone I knew. Adam gets irritated, waits for him to leave, then suddenly the man bursts into tears. He has been standing in front of it every morning since he arrived in Madrid, but today he finds a man in his place, facing the painting – or maybe the wall. At the start of Leaving the Atocha Station, Adam Gordon, a young American in Spain for a year on a fellowship, purportedly to write ‘a long, research-driven poem’ about the Spanish Civil War’s ‘literary legacy’, goes into the Prado and heads for Rogier Van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Francine prose the vixenThe gift of her work to a reader is to create for us what she creates for her protagonist: the subtle unfolding, the moment-by-moment process of discovery as we read and change, from not knowing and even not wanting to know or care, to seeing what we had not seen and finding our way to the light of the ending.”-Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review "Depending on the light, it’s either a very funny serious story or a very serious funny story. “No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose. 6/30/2023 0 Comments War by laura thalassaAnd so she must make the ultimate choice: surrender to War and watch humankind fall, or sacrifice everything and stop him. However, if there’s one thing Miriam has learned, it’s that love and war cannot coexist. But there’s another side to him, one that’s gentle and loving and dead set on winning her over, and she might not be strong enough to resist. Now Miriam faces a terrifying future, one where she watches her world burn town by town, and the one man responsible for it all is her seemingly indestructible “husband”. But when the massive and terrifying horseman corners Miriam, he calls her his wife, and instead of killing her, he takes her back to his camp. There is no surviving this, especially not once Miriam catches the eye of War himself. Houses are burning, the streets run red with blood, and a traitorous army is massacring every last resident. The day Jerusalem falls, Miriam Elmahdy knows her life is over. They came to earth, and they came to end us all. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth-Pestilence, War, Famine, Death-four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. |