Recent reading
Sep. 28th, 2019 03:23 pmThis Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (2019, audiobook)
Everyone has been reading this, and yes, I liked it too. I think it was a good choice to listen to it as an audiobook--it's got a sort of dreamy and poetic quality that made it kind of float by as I listened. I might possibly have become frustrated by these same qualities if I had read it as a book instead, because there's a lot about the worldbuilding that isn't really filled in.
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun (1932)
Original in German; I read it in English. I read about this in![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
skygiants' journal and was intrigued. The main character (Doris) is both naive and aware of the material conditions of her world. She's cynical, but also has empathy for the people around her. She's funny, but she's also sometimes starving on street corners and also fascism is on the rise, but she doesn't really pay attention to that. Or on the occasions when she tries, men try to pick her up instead.
Everyone has been reading this, and yes, I liked it too. I think it was a good choice to listen to it as an audiobook--it's got a sort of dreamy and poetic quality that made it kind of float by as I listened. I might possibly have become frustrated by these same qualities if I had read it as a book instead, because there's a lot about the worldbuilding that isn't really filled in.
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun (1932)
Original in German; I read it in English. I read about this in
skygiants' journal and was intrigued. The main character (Doris) is both naive and aware of the material conditions of her world. She's cynical, but also has empathy for the people around her. She's funny, but she's also sometimes starving on street corners and also fascism is on the rise, but she doesn't really pay attention to that. Or on the occasions when she tries, men try to pick her up instead.
