Such Small Hands

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Such a strange and stirring book. There's a 2006 video game called Rule Of Rose that (for me) lives in the same universe as this. Both stories contain an outpouring of complex emotions from little girls who feel so far removed from everyone and everything. As a result, you end up marooned on an island with these girls and go back and forth between despair and tenderness for the experience.

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The Resurrectionist

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Such a cool read! This gave me the same vibes as those dragon ology books that I was obsessed with as a kid. I would totally read a more narrative book following Dr. Black around through his disappearance.

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a year ago

This World is Full of Monsters

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Ok, so this one is a tough read. It doesn't hold your hand and it's best to just kind of give yourself up to it and just take in the words if you can't take in the meaning quite yet. I would suggest using this as an exercise in developing media literacy and avoid looking up explanations while reading. It took me till about 2/3rds of the way through before my thoughts started to become cohesive about what I was reading.

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I believe that this story is about evolution. The huge environment changes and the strange creatures melding into the narrator or giving things like their eyes to them feels like a poetic way to describe the evolutionary process. For awhile, I thought that the narrator was never human like I thought but was making their way to human and perhaps started as plant or small single celled creature. But towards the end, with the single eye (or potential space helmet) and launching into space thing, I believe that it's possible that narratively, evolution is used to describe the dramatic shift in humanity. Could be wrong but being right ain't really the point!

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a year ago

The Last Question

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Such a cool and interesting read

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a year ago

The Last Question

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Such a cool and interesting read

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a year ago

Spy Island

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Really cool world building. Would love to read more stories from other parts of the world in this universe

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a year ago

Spy Island

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Really cool world building. Would love to read more stories from other parts of the world in this universe

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a year ago

My Death

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The twist at the end is so brilliant. I'm gonna be thinking about this one for a long time

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a year ago

My Death

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The twist at the end is so brilliant. I'm gonna be thinking about this one for a long time

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a year ago

This World is Full of Monsters

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Ok, so this one is a tough read. It doesn't hold your hand and it's best to just kind of give yourself up to it and just take in the words if you can't take in the meaning quite yet. I would suggest using this as an exercise in developing media literacy and avoid looking up explanations while reading. It took me till about 2/3rds of the way through before my thoughts started to become cohesive about what I was reading.

Keep reading if you'd like to hear about what I think is happening:

I believe that this story is about evolution. The huge environment changes and the strange creatures melding into the narrator or giving things like their eyes to them feels like a poetic way to describe the evolutionary process. For awhile, I thought that the narrator was never human like I thought but was making their way to human and perhaps started as plant or small single celled creature. But towards the end, with the single eye (or potential space helmet) and launching into space thing, I believe that it's possible that narratively, evolution is used to describe the dramatic shift in humanity. Could be wrong but being right ain't really the point!

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a year ago

The Last Question

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Such a cool and interesting read

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a year ago

Spy Island

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Really cool world building. Would love to read more stories from other parts of the world in this universe

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a year ago

My Death

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The twist at the end is so brilliant. I'm gonna be thinking about this one for a long time

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a year ago

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