a magical story about two anxious teenagers learning how to deal with some of their issues. queer, fun, relatable and a gorgeous cover!
when the moon was ours - mclemore 4☆ (banned book)
this book left me with intense yearning for that feeling of belonging. very gentle storytelling of a heartbreaking and heartwarming tale with beautiful stylistic choices!
ella minnow pea - dunn 4.5☆ (epistolary)
a clever story about perseverance and the consequences of limited language. a hopeful dystopia that makes you laugh along the way
currently reading: in other lands - brennan (underhyped prompt)
I’ve made some progress in the Spring Reading Challenge (I’m not sure I’ll finish it, but here goes):
An epistolary novella: I read Silène Edgar’s Inconnue à cette Adresse (in french) which is an SF rewriting of the famous novella of the same name about the rise of totalitarianism.
Banned book: Well… I’m straying from the prompt here but Asja Bakić’s short story collection Mars (translated into french) discusses the topic. In the last short story, ‘Mars’, all books and authors are banned on Mars, deemed too dangerous for the Earth. I liked those short stories, they all had this disturbing quality I hadn’t encountered in a while.
Nature element in the title: I recently finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (in english). It is masterfully executed and you do want to identify with Theo somewhat, but I didn’t like it so much. Especially the metaphysical lesson-giving at the end, which I found…. if not cliché at least uninteresting.
