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nightdog_barksSo here are the books I've read recently ...
Foxglove Summer, by Ben Aaronovitch. I liked this, as I've liked every book in Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series, but I didn't like it as much as I've liked the others. I don't know; it just didn't grab me, and I thought the ending was really abrupt. Still put in an order for the next in the series, though. :D
Melmoth, by Sarah Perry. I know this has been getting mixed reviews, but you guys, I loved this. What to say? This is a book of stories within stories, ranging from present-day Prague to the Holocaust to WWI-era Turkey. Everyone has secrets. This is just as good as her previous book, The Essex Serpent. It's definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but I give it two enthusiastic thumbs up and a strong recommendation.
Currently reading Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room, and so far (about 90 pages in) it is quite good.
Also -- not a book, but a movie. Watched Splice the other night, and omg chiclets it was BONKERS. It's actually a lot better than the 5.7 IMDB gives it, but it's still absolutely bananas.
SCIENTISTS: We'll use the latest gene-splicing techniques to create this new life form that looks like a kangaroo rat, and it'll be viable and grow up to look like Delphine Chanéac!
SCIENTISTS: But she'll still have kangaroo legs! And a stingray tail!
ME: I don't think that's the way genes work ...
SCIENTISTS: And she'll fall in love with Adrien Brody, who raised her as his daughter!
ME: what
:DDDD
Foxglove Summer, by Ben Aaronovitch. I liked this, as I've liked every book in Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series, but I didn't like it as much as I've liked the others. I don't know; it just didn't grab me, and I thought the ending was really abrupt. Still put in an order for the next in the series, though. :D
Melmoth, by Sarah Perry. I know this has been getting mixed reviews, but you guys, I loved this. What to say? This is a book of stories within stories, ranging from present-day Prague to the Holocaust to WWI-era Turkey. Everyone has secrets. This is just as good as her previous book, The Essex Serpent. It's definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but I give it two enthusiastic thumbs up and a strong recommendation.
Currently reading Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room, and so far (about 90 pages in) it is quite good.
Also -- not a book, but a movie. Watched Splice the other night, and omg chiclets it was BONKERS. It's actually a lot better than the 5.7 IMDB gives it, but it's still absolutely bananas.
SCIENTISTS: We'll use the latest gene-splicing techniques to create this new life form that looks like a kangaroo rat, and it'll be viable and grow up to look like Delphine Chanéac!
SCIENTISTS: But she'll still have kangaroo legs! And a stingray tail!
ME: I don't think that's the way genes work ...
SCIENTISTS: And she'll fall in love with Adrien Brody, who raised her as his daughter!
ME: what
:DDDD
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Date: 2018-11-01 12:45 am (UTC)