Gracielis

I had a hard time getting into this one, I was impatient with the bickering of the women. But as the book went on and I got to know them better I also started caring more about them.

This is a hard read, because of the subject matter.

I've been dragging my feet with this one. And now, weirdly, I can't find it. Time to pick something else to keep up my Spanish.

It’s the end of the school year and as a teacher my brain capacity is temporarily somewhat reduced. So, this has taken quite a while to get through. It’s really good, though.

Battle, armies, intrigues, involvement of several factions and really powerful players. Laseen’s a badass.

A pretty cute fairy tale retelling.

I liked this. I mean, it’s a bit strange but also quite interesting. The narrator tells her left’s story. She grew up in an underground bunker, one of 40 women who were caged and guarded by men who never speak to them. They are allowed no privacy or occupation, and are not even allowed to touch each other. The other women are older and remember life before the bunker.

One day everything changes.

The narrator isn’t really a likable character, and the story is quite slow, but it is interesting. I’m going to have to look into what else this author has written.

This is really good. It’s made up of different plot threads, but also images from places and events, and even meeting minutes and strange interludes from things like history and computer code.

It’s a very important book, in that it shows that we could save the Earth, but not by making an important invention and then keeping going the was we do now. We would need to address more than carbon, things like economic gaps, refugees, war, gender roles among other things.

Oh, and a “warning”: make sure you are comfortable when you start reading the book, specifically that the space you are in is at a comfortable temperature. I read the first chapter while being too warm on the first day of a heat wave after a week of rain. Don’t do that!!!