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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
It's a nice book, but one I would have dipped in and out of, like a bed time book you read a couple pages of each night. I read this as a book club selection and finished it over two weeks. I don't think this made for the ideal reading experience as it was repetitive and I can't remember a single city that was described; all of them blended together similarly. The prose is beautiful but nothing happens.
The Big Melt by Emily Riddle
funny
informative
medium-paced
5.0
Emily Riddle is sharp, brilliant and witty. She captures the ups and downs of millennial life on the prairies, anger in colonialism and climate change, nehiyaw joy and more. I saw her read poems at the Griffin poetry prizegiving where she was amazing. I loved this book, I loved that she forced me to bring out the Cree dictionary app and to learn. Brava.