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Contains brainfog. I admire people who have a clear definition for what each number of stars means, but I give them out purely intuitively.

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Tim Holland: wir zaudern, wir brennen (MSB Matthes & Seitz Berlin)

Die Sonne tuts nach wie vor, das Wasser steigt unaufhaltsam, in New York baut man …

wir fühlten immer noch wut, die alles glasierte. mit den pfoten, wurzeln, derben händen schlugen wir in das piezoelektrische plastik, das unsere zeltwand bildete, aus wind erzeugte, aus wut energie erzeugte und linseneintöpfe zum kochen brachte.

etwas flammte auf.

auf die berge hatten wir gewartet, aus den bergen kam feuer. und feuer.

die champagne, im klimawandel an den müggelsee gezogen, brannte.

blaugummibäume brannten. fichten brannten.

die schriftführerin: die jahreszeit feuer.

wir zaudern, wir brennen by  (Page 29)

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村田沙耶香: Convenience Store Woman (2018)

Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how …

Content warning Spoilers, plot of Convenience Store Woman

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Tove Jansson: Moominpappa at Sea (Paperback, Puffin)

Feeling his family's life is too safe and fixed, Moominpappa moves them to a lighthouse …

Content warning Mood spoiler (no events spoiled) for Moominpappa at Sea and for Moominvalley in November

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reviewed Marionetterna by Ingrid Carlberg

Stay with me, marionette, 'til the wolves are away

As a journalistic work this book is a strong reco (don't got confused by how the author's name is similar to a far right writer. It's one of those Naomi Klein or Naomi Wolf situations) I never read the back cover copy of books but this time that decision burned me since it'd've made clearer the throughline of this book as not only a larger essay on bot farms and propaganda machines but also synecdochically a biography of Willi Münzenberg.

The prose is hard to read with many ambiguously counterpunctual sentences, triply negated predicates, and skewedly applied similes. And politically I can get frustrated with Carlberg's initially trusting view of institutions like NATO.

But it's worth pushing through because the main point is great. How it sucks that there's so much secret propaganda and how the cure for that is never to fight fire with same but to instead stick …

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Expedition : My Love Story   Expeditionen (Hardcover)

Only one of the best books of all time

This is a book that has gotten a lot of hype here in Sweden and inexplicably it was published in two editions; one a text-only edition and the other a richly illustrated and cleverly laid out bigger hard cover. The latter version is so amazingly good. This is such a passion project for the author Bea Uusma. I usually do not like non-fiction but this on eis hard to review substaially without just heaping on the superlatives. It's poetic it's sad it's thought-through it's a deep dive into a failed 1897 North Pole expedition. This was a re-read for me. I don't remember when I first bought it; I have the third printing of the first (2013) edition. I remember kicking myself for not buying it when it was available then finding it again in a bookstore a few months (or maybe years? My 2010s area blur) later and reading …

Lina Rather: A Season of Monstrous Conceptions (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, monstrosity, …

A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

Novellas are inherently short on characterizaton, but in my opinion the characterizaton of London/English lilfe of this time is well done here, it made quite the impression. I also really liked the descriptions of the supernatural happenings; concise and impressive always, grand and awe-inspiring where appropriate.

(I started it in the afternoon and stayed up very late to finish it.)

September 2025 #SFFBookClub