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pickTrading freedom for peace & well-being. Echoes of Huxley & Zamyatin. Politely overprotective society organized to prevent anxiety, conflict & exclusion. Impulse=taboo, selfhood repressed. Breaking conformism. Beautiful graphic play with text as The Sensor picks up dangerous words & colorizes them in The Graph. Guitarist Agustín Barrios. “The tuning fork is in your heart.” 2017
P9 “Push it away, Mira A. This moment. This feeling. The frustration.”
pickI‘m really not sure how to review this book. I don‘t know that I quite understand what happened or what it‘s supposed to mean, but at the same time I enjoyed the reading experience and seeing the world from Mira A‘s perspective. The color and typography added a truly interesting layer to the story that kept me invested even when I was confused.
#Reading1001 #1001books #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Paraguay
I‘m still enjoying this unique book. There‘s more variety to the fonts now as well as blue and green text. I‘ve also reached the part that specifically mentions Paraguay.
#Reading1001 #1001books #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Paraguay
I‘m not quite sure what the heck I‘m reading but I‘m definitely intrigued and enjoying it!
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pickI got completely lost in this book but in a good way. In a post-apocalyptic world there is an all-controlling system that monitors citizens‘ emotions (shown by colored typography) forcing stability and calm. Mira A can‘t keep calm. She has weird visions of the Guaraní people in #Paraguay.
The narrative is literally consuming her by ways of fantastic typographic design.
#1001books #ReadingTheAmericas2023 ??
#WeeklyForecast 50/22
I am reading Cult Classic, not sure what to think of it yet. If possible I want to read a #ToB23 shortlisted book a week. This week that will be Dinosaurs. The tagged one is a #1001books, recommended by @Liz_M
#adventrecommends, @emilyrose_x
I loved the concept of this book even though the story wasn't as engrossing as I hoped. But look at the typography! 😍 Just a stunning design.
Just a visually fun book.
After they banded together and saved us from the Floods and the Fires and the Plagues and the Death Cults, the Altruistic Powers actively discouraged The Young from thinking about God.
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
pickDefinitely the weirdest novel I‘ve ever read - approach with care if you aren‘t a fan of experimental prose!! Blindingly original, almost incomprehensible towards the end, and I was never 100% sure what the message I was meant to be taking away was, but every single page I found myself thinking ‘oh fuck a novel can do THAT‘. So it gets a pick for that as I prize originality so highly but I‘m not sure I ‘get‘ it yet.
Spending my lunch break reading on a bench by the South Bank in lovely dappled sunlight. I think my favourite thing about warmer weather is that you can just exist in public, on a bench or in a park without having to buy things - like coffees or snacks in cafes - to have the right to sit and enjoy being in public. Bench sitting weather is my favourite weather
Next up from my glorious queue of library books. Have I mentioned library ebook loans have changed my life enough yet??? I saw this around when it came out and wanted to read it but not pay for a hardback, then I realised recently it was a #1001books book too and was available in the library so those things all seems like signs from the universe to make me read it.
pickBook 18: Frenetic and disorientating, the story and the way it is told is a mirror of the world in which our protaganist is living. Typography, lyricism and design all play their part as dystopian / utopian technology is given the analogue treatment on these pages. Stick with it for the few few chapters and then enjoy the extra narratives that emerge between the lines through colour, font and pagination.
pickA gorgeous, perplexing, ergodic phantasm of a novel. In the far future everything is balanced because everything is visible to everyone: thoughts, dreams, emotions. This is a brilliant, visionary work and all the textual trickery is an essential part of the narrative. A very worthy winner of the Goldsmiths Prize.
Oh, look! I love it. I love this book. I can see why it won the Goldsmiths this year
This is definitely intriguing so far and I love a book that plays arrive with text
pickThis book is blurbed as a post-post-apocalyptic Alice in Wonderland and I can't find a better way to describe this read. And if you're willing to go down the rabbit hole and just enjoy the story I think you'll like it as much as I did.
I have two of her previous novels and they are jumping up my tbr after this read.
Nicola Barker's new novel is wild even by her standards. A post-post apocalyptic novel which bends narrative where the text leaps off the page, changes font, inflates, overlaps, fizzles, twists backward and shades into different colours. But it also says something powerful about our online lives today.
