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Books 2014: have I forgotten something?
Oct. 27th, 2014 10:00 pmBooks 2014: 209-2010
209. Elizabeth Bear, Karen Memory. Tor, 2015. ARC courtesy of the publisher.
This book. This book. I don't even know how to talk about it. I need to read it again and again. It did everything right for me. It's all my narrative kinks rolled up into one - including some I didn't even know I had, and some things I would've thought I'd hate to see but they're done so well - and wrapped up with a positive ending and it all just works.
Read it. Read it. READ IT I NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT WITH PEOPLE.
nonfiction
210. Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. Penguin, 2013.
A weighty (500+ pages excluding index, notes and bibliography, at 10pt-type) volume, but a deeply fascinating and extraordinarily well-written piece of history, that is astonishingly clear in its presentation of the complex factors and personalities on the European scene, and routes by which the decisions of the European powers ultimately narrowed down to war. A really excellent history book.
209. Elizabeth Bear, Karen Memory. Tor, 2015. ARC courtesy of the publisher.
This book. This book. I don't even know how to talk about it. I need to read it again and again. It did everything right for me. It's all my narrative kinks rolled up into one - including some I didn't even know I had, and some things I would've thought I'd hate to see but they're done so well - and wrapped up with a positive ending and it all just works.
Read it. Read it. READ IT I NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT WITH PEOPLE.
nonfiction
210. Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. Penguin, 2013.
A weighty (500+ pages excluding index, notes and bibliography, at 10pt-type) volume, but a deeply fascinating and extraordinarily well-written piece of history, that is astonishingly clear in its presentation of the complex factors and personalities on the European scene, and routes by which the decisions of the European powers ultimately narrowed down to war. A really excellent history book.
