Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Dying has gotten to be quite expensive.
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Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
So tell me, he started in . . . is Denmark still a prison?
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Death, you’ll say, yes, of course, death is his brother, but old age is the monster.
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Without being able to formulate it clearly, he senses that if no one remembers, then everything is permissible.
this is a statement about the current geopolitical landscape
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
There is no time machine except the human being.
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Boredom is the emblem of this city. Here Canetti, Joyce, Dürrenmatt, Frisch, and even Thomas Mann have been bored.
savage
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created.
Tak! reviewed A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions
3 stars
An interesting mix of victorian(?) midwifery and eldritch mysticism. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't as groundbreaking as Our Lady of Endless Worlds.
Tak! quoted A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
Content warning infant death
the proprietor's wife brewed a mediocre ale, but roasted very good hog on her spit
Tak! quoted A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
Content warning infant death
Sarah knew Rebecca's babe was dead as soon as the head slid free, from the look on Mistress June's face.
Tak! commented on Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
The #SFFBookClub pick for October 2025
Tak! commented on A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
The #SFFBookClub pick for September 2025
Tak! quoted Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami
From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions …
It’s strange to think there are humans who aren’t me.
Tak! commented on Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami
From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions …
The #SFFBookClub selection for August 2025
Tak! reviewed Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba (Stormbringer Saga, #1)
In this an enthralling Filipino-inspired epic fantasy, a nun concealing a goddess-given gift is unwillingly …
Saints of Storm and Sorrow
4 stars
Content warning spoilers
Despite the overt themes of colonialism and religious imperialism, Saints of Storm and Sorrow feels primarily like a story about toxic relationships - Catalina's abusive partnership with Lunurin, Alon's self-destructive infatuation with Lunurin (and Lunurin's knowing, cynical usage of it), Alon's father's abusive treatment of Alon, even the goddess's relationship with Lunurin.
The hollywood ending feels good, but I have to wonder if any of these characters is undamaged enough to live Happily Ever After.