I read a book again, at last! For someone who does this for a living, I seem to be doing awfully little reading at the moment. “How High We Go In The Dark” was absolutely spectacular, if incredibly dark at the same time, all while being hopeful and bright as well.
Follows interlinked stories over a period of 100 years set in a dystopian future – a study on the overwhelm of existing in a dying world. Hard recommend.
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Lieke Marsman – The Opposite of a Person
“Or: fear as something which cannot access your core, but which understands how to surround that core, to brick it in. Bathe it in that wretched yellow light.”
Climate scientist Ida takes an internship at a climate research institute in the Alps. An extraordinary work reflecting on climate grief, senses of self and (un)belonging, and the limits of language. Soft, yet sharp writing in a brilliant translation by Sophie Collins.
Finished Leila Mottley‘s Nightcrawling today. A book like a knife, every sentence a cut straight to the bone.
Blurb: "What begins as a drunken misunderstanding turns into the job Kiara never imagined wanting but now desperately needs: nightcrawling. Her world breaks open even further when her name surfaces in an investigation that exposes her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland PD."
(If you need CNs for a book, feel free to let me know)
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