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These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
by Yiming Ma
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑺𝑬 𝑴𝑬𝑴𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑬𝑺 𝑫𝑶 𝑵𝑶𝑻 𝑩𝑬𝑳𝑶𝑵𝑮 𝑻𝑶 𝑼𝑺 𝒃𝒚 𝒀𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒂, #gifted to me by @marinerbooks to which I just yesterday added the audio thanks to @librofm & @harpercollins audio.
I just received this interconnected short story collection and immediately dove in. This is a subgenre that I was possibly introduced to with a huge favorite of mine, 𝑯𝑶𝑾 𝑯𝑰𝑮𝑯 𝑾𝑬 𝑮𝑶 𝑰𝑵 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑫𝑨𝑹𝑲 𝒃𝒚 𝑺𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒊𝒂 𝑵𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒔𝒖, and the with 𝑵𝑶𝑹𝑻𝑯 𝑾𝑶𝑶𝑫𝑺 𝒃𝒚 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏. This book is just as unique as these favorites and will take its place alongside them on my shelf with similar adoration.
This is a future where one power rules, Qin, a renamed China. Everyone has what is called a Mindbank, a technological repository for memories and interconnectedness. Yet not without censure or capitalism. There is an overarching point to this collection as Memory Epics being shared in an illicit manner to show how it all began, what it was like before and after "the war" in an effort to keep the truth of the past from being erased or remade.
I couldn't stop reading this book. It was gripping, prescient, moving, and inspiring. This world is terrifying in its "perfection" and the rules imposed to create it. I couldn't look away. I am also not a little horrified to see glimpses of this happening today, but just as in fiction (and history), truth will not be repressed completely.
I read much before I added the audio, but as a full cast of impressive narrators, I had to hear it from the beginning. I now want to read it again.
I do find this topic of history and memory quite fascinating in its importance and in its flaws. How we deal with stories from those before matters in how we deal with stories of those now, and there is power inherent in these stories.
Coming out on August 12th, this debut is an outstanding book of powerful dystopian stories.
I just received this interconnected short story collection and immediately dove in. This is a subgenre that I was possibly introduced to with a huge favorite of mine, 𝑯𝑶𝑾 𝑯𝑰𝑮𝑯 𝑾𝑬 𝑮𝑶 𝑰𝑵 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑫𝑨𝑹𝑲 𝒃𝒚 𝑺𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒊𝒂 𝑵𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒔𝒖, and the with 𝑵𝑶𝑹𝑻𝑯 𝑾𝑶𝑶𝑫𝑺 𝒃𝒚 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏. This book is just as unique as these favorites and will take its place alongside them on my shelf with similar adoration.
This is a future where one power rules, Qin, a renamed China. Everyone has what is called a Mindbank, a technological repository for memories and interconnectedness. Yet not without censure or capitalism. There is an overarching point to this collection as Memory Epics being shared in an illicit manner to show how it all began, what it was like before and after "the war" in an effort to keep the truth of the past from being erased or remade.
I couldn't stop reading this book. It was gripping, prescient, moving, and inspiring. This world is terrifying in its "perfection" and the rules imposed to create it. I couldn't look away. I am also not a little horrified to see glimpses of this happening today, but just as in fiction (and history), truth will not be repressed completely.
I read much before I added the audio, but as a full cast of impressive narrators, I had to hear it from the beginning. I now want to read it again.
I do find this topic of history and memory quite fascinating in its importance and in its flaws. How we deal with stories from those before matters in how we deal with stories of those now, and there is power inherent in these stories.
Coming out on August 12th, this debut is an outstanding book of powerful dystopian stories.