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I just got The Broken Binding signed special edition in the mail. Love it! ♥️The spredges are fabulous.

I am posting one book per day from my extensive, and ever growing, TBR shelves. Some are old and some are new, some were gifts and some I don't remember why I bought them
Day 43
#ABookADay2024

Starting this next 🎧

Finally finally finished this trilogy. Definitely struggled to hold me at many points but I powered through all three. Gd I want to like sci fi more than I do. The final book was cool jumping between characters' perspectives. No satisfying explanation of course but not that mad at it.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. Perdido Street Station
2. No (I only read two books in May, but at least I finished them both 😁).

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Miéville writes a mini-masterpiece that is densely packed with thrills and art history. The book‘s description doesn‘t mislead as much as it can‘t encompass the dream-like read that, if you want to enjoy this book, you as a reader need to give yourself over to. I find this with many of his books, that once you‘ve crossed into a Miéville world you‘re pretty much a goner; soaking in whatever strange essence he has concocted.

This book was my companion on our many shinkansen rides while in Japan, and I finally finished it up today. Right up there with the best world-building novels I've read. New Crobuzon is a rotting, festering, open-sore of a city, a sprawling slum where both futuristic and primitive, steampunk-like technology rub shoulders with surreal scientific disciplines that border on magic. Reminds me a little of Gene Wolfe, esoteric vocabulary included.

🎧 I read this based on a recommendation. It‘s well written! The world is realllly interesting & well defined!

The narrator was good but I think reading the book might have given me a better experience as I never connected or loved/hated any of the characters.

The world is fantastically strange! Don‘t investigate. Read it for that!!

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#manicmonday #letterX @CBee @The_Penniless_Author

📖 Area X (Southern Reach Trilogy) - I've not finished this yet, but it started well
✒ I've got the autobiography of Malcolm X on my TBR
🎬 xXx 📺 Xena
🎤 The XX 💕💕💕💕💕💕
🎶 XO (Beyoncé)