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Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Dementia, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War
Moderate: Body horror, Torture, Blood, Classism
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement
Minor: Alcoholism, War
Het verhaal is erg uniek en ik vond het heel sterk dat het verleden en het heden worden afgewisseld. Ik het begin vond ik dit random, maar daarna werd duidelijk waarom hier voor gekozen is. Ik vond dit een sterk concept. Ook het einde vond ik prachtig. Het was mooi om te zien dat het niet een definitief einde was. Ik denk wel dat het boek iets korter had gekund. Heel af en toe voelde het een beetje als een herhaling van wat er eerder al was gebeurd.
Ik raad dit boek in ieder geval zeker aan en ik ben blij dat dit ons boekenclub boek was van deze maand.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, War
"Forever is composed of Nows." –Emily Dickinson
Breathtaking, so original and refreshing. There are not many writers like this. This is an artist inspired and expertly crafting their divinely enlightened vision with hard-earned technique, intentional deviation, and the mark of an experienced master delighting in their gift.
Powerfully vivacious, perilous, petty, yet profound, visceral and cerebral. As Goodreads friend and book connoisseur Corinne mentioned, this is a book you want to swim in; drink in every page and slide through its depths, wade in its shallow pools of slow respite and lovely landscapes, crash through its waves of eternally high stakes and frivolous human-ness, plummet into its abyss until the strange and mythical became a mirrored skyscape of stars and monsters and to blissfully coast on your back in a wordsmith's salty-sweet ocean.
Fabulous character creation and excellent pacing. I was astounded at the author's ability to keep a timeline of hundreds of years beautifully seamless, despite constantly jumping backwards, forwards, looping, sidestepping and ambling through switchbacks. Most books lose me with this writing style, especially in audio, but this was exquisitely done!
I loved the mantra-like theme of endless time and yet still there is love and there are new and beautiful things about life to discover everyday. It all comes at the high price of experiencing suffering, despair, hunger, anguish, poverty, loneliness, madness, decay, panic, disease, grief, fleeting time and infinite evil, yes. Yet it is still worth every glorious second of happiness. Still worth being alive. Still worth experiencing. Still worth it.
Julia Whelan does a fantastic job at delivering with emotion and sincerity. She doesn't necessarily command a large variety of accents or characters, but her cadence, authenticity and tone are just as effective and transporting.
P.S. (And the food! I could feel the flavors on my tongue, the descriptions were a treat unto themselves! This was anime-rendered food in all its glory but with words only!)
P.S.S. (1 tiny pet peeve, filigree and wolfish. I feel like these words are good thesaurus-ware and I do enjoy the lovely variety, but these two words were used A LOT. Like you can just say gold now, we get it. Nope, there it is again. And again. And again. Ok maybe you just have a new favorite word now. And again.)
CW: Multiple sex scenes, mostly but not all consensual, largely non explicit, period misogyny, critical and familial religious themes including Catholicism, Judaism, Paganism and the occult, violence, substance abuse, unglamorous perspectives of historical figures, controversial historical events including war, some mild body horror, swearing and classism
Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Classism
Minor: Body horror
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Classism
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment
Minor: Body horror, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, War
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Body horror
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt
Minor: War