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Mar. 9th, 2015 10:21 pmEmbassytown by China Miéville
For my fannish bookclub. This book was a bit al dente in the beginning--I had to slow down and chew properly, because of the density of the language/worldbuilding. But it paid off. This book is idea-driven science fiction, and its strengths are: great worldbuilding with aliens who feel alien, good writing, good what's-gonna-happen-next plotting. Weaknesses: I didn't connect with the characters much. As discussed in the book club meeting, it's possible to poke holes in the worldbuilding, but we didn't really want to, because it was cool. This is not my favorite Miéville, though--I enjoyed both The City & the City and Railsea more than this one.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
I feel like everyone else has already read this, but yeah, everyone who recced it was right: I really enjoyed it. Yeah. Read it if you haven't already. Great writing, and I felt the emotional impact of it, too.
For my fannish bookclub. This book was a bit al dente in the beginning--I had to slow down and chew properly, because of the density of the language/worldbuilding. But it paid off. This book is idea-driven science fiction, and its strengths are: great worldbuilding with aliens who feel alien, good writing, good what's-gonna-happen-next plotting. Weaknesses: I didn't connect with the characters much. As discussed in the book club meeting, it's possible to poke holes in the worldbuilding, but we didn't really want to, because it was cool. This is not my favorite Miéville, though--I enjoyed both The City & the City and Railsea more than this one.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
I feel like everyone else has already read this, but yeah, everyone who recced it was right: I really enjoyed it. Yeah. Read it if you haven't already. Great writing, and I felt the emotional impact of it, too.
