Non-fiction, classics, religion/atheism, science, sci-fi, to name just a few book topics I gravitate toward.
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Hilarious New York Times No.1 bestseller about growing older in Grumpy Old Women vein, by creator of When Harry Met …
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from …
Well, it sure was worth the €37.00 investment in 2022. Finally received the book and it was MUCH more detailed than I expected. Look forward to digging in. www.kickstarter.com/projects/2036153312/georges-melies-forgotten-stories
@ramblingreaders@toot.community Okay, so I dug a little further and it seems like it's been logged here, although it hasn't received much traction: github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/discussions/2990
@ramblingreaders@toot.community What's the best way to contact RR for support? I'm curious about federation with other BookWyrm instances. I can see profiles, but it doesn't pull up any activity when I look at them from ramblingreaders.org.
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature …
My entry point to the book was the 2018 film, which I loved. Hadn't thought about the book adaptation until the 10th Anniversary iridescent cover art caught my eye in the bookstore last week.* As author Karen Joy Fowler writes in this edition, the book is about the proper relationship of humans to nature. And "pervasive uncertainty." If that's not your cup of tea, you probably won't appreciate the book.
Other than the film, which is quite different from the book, what drew me to reading this was its length, less than 200 pages. I like a book that I can make its point quickly. It is formatted as a journal of the biologist of "expedition twelve," into the mysterious Area X. There's a constant tension in the narrative, but things stay relatively calm until the third act.
I did not realize this was published as a trilogy in quick …
My entry point to the book was the 2018 film, which I loved. Hadn't thought about the book adaptation until the 10th Anniversary iridescent cover art caught my eye in the bookstore last week.* As author Karen Joy Fowler writes in this edition, the book is about the proper relationship of humans to nature. And "pervasive uncertainty." If that's not your cup of tea, you probably won't appreciate the book.
Other than the film, which is quite different from the book, what drew me to reading this was its length, less than 200 pages. I like a book that I can make its point quickly. It is formatted as a journal of the biologist of "expedition twelve," into the mysterious Area X. There's a constant tension in the narrative, but things stay relatively calm until the third act.
I did not realize this was published as a trilogy in quick succession over an eight-month period in 2014. And there's now a fourth book. They're all much longer in length than the first. I'm curious if the film used the entire trilogy as its source. What's your experience with these books and the film?
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature …
From chapter 5: Dissolution "There was something about my mood and its dark glow that eclipsed sense, that made me see this creature, which had indeed been assigned a place in the taxonomy—catalogued, studied, and described—irreducible down to any of that. And if I kept looking, I knew that ultimately I would have to admit I knew less than nothing about myself as well, whether that was a lie or the truth."
— Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Page 175)
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature …
From chapter 4: Immersion "What did the thing coming after you look like?" A coughing fit, words dribbling out around the edges: "I never saw it. It was never there. Or I saw it too many times. It was inside me. Inside you. I was trying to get away. From what's inside me."
— Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Page 126)
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature …
From chapter 1: Initiation "I liked climbing. I also liked the ocean, and I found staring at it had a calming effect. The air was so clean, so fresh, while the world back beyond the border was what it had always been during the modern era: dirty, tired, imperfect, winding down, at war with itself. Back there, I had always felt as if my work amounted to a futile attempt to save us from who we are."
— Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Page 30)
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature …
The silver-flake highlights on the cover caught my eye at the book store. Loved the movie, never read the book. 10th anniversary edition. 6 pages in and already loving it.
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of …
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments …
So many facets of humanity packed into this short novel. The plot is loose, detailing the thoughts of International Space Station astronauts during their 16 orbits around the Earth in 24 hours. All while a massive typhoon approaches Southeast Asia, and another space crew approaches for a Moon landing.
The English author, Samantha Harvey, brilliantly enters the minds of the multi-national crew, each with their own perspective on what kind of meaning their lives have. Overall, a scientific, poetic, and philosophical treatise.
(I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Sarah Naudi.)
