Nicole

This book is not for me. Bleak, and sad-making stories, one after another. Perhaps another time in my life I'll be ready for it .....

A dissapointment after North Woods.

Fantastic read at many levels, if you love Leckie's work you will love this.

Totally original and entrhalling. Fantastic world building. A great read.

A couple of exceptional stories. I thought a lot while reading these ....

I learned so much from this book. It was hard to absorb it all. But you can't unsee what is laid out, after reading it. A valuable read.

Classic Scalzi. Funny and fastpaced, a great, quick escapist read.

Poetic, vivid, atmospheric, slow-moving at times, and at times confusing .... A very moving story of the violence humans seem unable to stop committing upon each other, and how it harms those who follow. In this case, a massacre in Korea, after WWII, about which I've never known a thing.

The prose is a little too purple at times for me . . . but the exposition of NY at that time was very vivd and interesting.

Riveting, funny, a book of ideas and a propulsive plot. Great read.

A fun and funny quick reading novel.

Short and utterly absorbing. Something I love in novels is when they give me access to a worldview and experience that is entirely new to me. This novel delivered in spades, with lots to think about after.

A good read for when you laid up with a broken ankle. Cliched characters and story arc, but important points about gender, power, insider status etc. are made.

A fun and engaging read, on books, relationships, technology, and a bit of magic. Thoroughly enjoyable.

This book is a Must Read. It is available as a text or in their graphic version which I recommend.

My first book by MFK Fisher. Interesting to read, as a window on a person of privilige in her time. Her prose and language choices often made me think of Hemingway . . .

Interesting speculative fiction with good characters, but I found myself glossing over the (for me) mind numbing detail.

A good reminder of why we need the EPA and DOJ.

Another amazing book by Rushdie. Nothing hit me like the first I read by him. But none have ever disappointed. Tremendous writer and observer.

Felt tedious. Wonderful ending .... But not enough to make it worth it.

The passages discussing the Adirondacks are lovely, and at times this book reminded me a bit of Wallace Stegner. There is a wonderful, accurate, and troubling brief discussion of the undermining of the independent “yeomen and yeowomen” as the wealth gap grew in the 20s and 30s ... surely it could be written today. But the characters are too one dimensional; they almost seem like cartoons. Leftist self-indulgent & self-absorbed artist. Beautiful high strung troubled heiress. Noble Adirondack guide. Loyal and rather perfect wife. I wish they had been more nuanced so that the people part of the story would be more believable and engaging.

So disappointing. Some characters are so flat and hackneyed (the cop, his war buddy for example). The sex scenes from the romance are corny. What is the book even meant to be – a who done it? A chance for diverse voices to speak and share their world? A family melodrama? A look at how the country is evolving? For me, an unsatisfying book which I'm sorry I bothered to finish.

I listened to the author read this book and it was mesmerizing. Highly recommended as an audible book.

So funny. So insightful. So uplifting. Read it!

Attempted to read this in translation. Lots of purple prose. The book is clumsy. I stopped roughly 1/4 of the way through. Reading should not be such work. Two stars because maybe it gets improves a lot?