Tak! quoted The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
Caduv speaks hellspeak well enough, accent notwithstanding
Ah, this book is set in denmark
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Tak! quoted The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
Most people do work, because money buys a better class of needs.
Tak! quoted The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
Content warning chapter 1 setting spoiler
The only way to change the world is through intentional, directed violence.
Tak! quoted The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
Content warning chapter 1 setting spoiler
Mother-of-Glory teaches him the core curriculum of a classical education: gramarye, dialectics, revanche, deferral, and murder.
Tak! quoted The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
The moment Fetter is born, Mother-of-Glory pins his shadow to the earth with a large brass nail and tears it from him.
Tak! reviewed Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
3 stars
This is not my usual type of read - in fact, I almost put it down early on, but then I identified so hard with the first Minjun chapter that I stuck with it.
It's very much like a version of Bookshops & Bonedust without the fantasy trappings and the larger plot - characters with a variety of personal issues come together around a bookshop.
It's well written (and well translated! which is not a given!) - what I'm really missing is something actually happening. The characters each go through their different journeys of personal discovery and/or growth, but nothing is materially different at the end of the book. 🤷
One day, in the middle of a meeting, she felt as though her heart was being squeezed.
— Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan
haha same 💀
I keep thinking about how you see a cup of coffee as the distance between now and the future.
— Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan
Each day passed by in a blur of struggles, as if time had slammed to a halt.
— Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan
mood
A man was loitering outside the bookshop.
— Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan
There is something to be said for simply letting a man turn his own tent into a privy.
— Steelflower at Sea (The Steelflower Chronicles) by Lilith Saintcrow
There is a certain type of man who will not forgive anyone more skilled than himself in any way, no matter how small.
— Steelflower at Sea (The Steelflower Chronicles) by Lilith Saintcrow
Tak! commented on Steelflower at Sea (The Steelflower Chronicles) by Lilith Saintcrow
Content warning character development spoiler
This is the third major character who's exiled royalty
When you do not know the alternative, almost any feature of a life can seem inevitable.
— Steelflower at Sea (The Steelflower Chronicles) by Lilith Saintcrow
Anything at the mercy of such a divine female must, to them, necessarily be a man.
— Steelflower at Sea (The Steelflower Chronicles) by Lilith Saintcrow