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@pelagikat it's for a laugh, but I'm prepared to take responsibility for my own regret

lol

Good street library score!

Hell yes!

Recommended by BL

I just can't

I'm regretting this already

I am trying to tittle each review this year with a book-related pun but I can't think of one for The Snail on the Slope. So instead I've gone with something as baffling as the book itself.

Snail is such a funny book while also being a bit of a slog. It goes off on tangents all over the place and not a whole lot happens. That is the point, though, so don't be put off if you are partial to Soviet satire. I think of it as Kafka with a sense of humour.

@futzle if you want more, we have a pretty big Coupland connection in our bookshelf

Excited to read this, because I absolutely love Roadside Picnic... although as I understand it, this was written by the brothers as a series of metaphors that they then forgot what they were supposed to mean. (I'm reading an English translation)

This was alright - it hooked me well enough to read it quickly but it felt more like a creative writing exercise than anything. I think I was a bit bored with the 1700s feminism and the story was pretty simple.

A birthday present from last year. This will be my first book that isn't horror in some time.