Might have to call it now and say i'll never get sick of stories from death's perspective. I am a big fan of the central metaphor here. I cannot get enough of an unusual format. but i am powerful and strong and i will try to put three days in one here because i want to catch up!!!Ĭall me prudish, but i've never liked sex and sci-fi to mix. it's technically day 12, because i have now skipped two days. Really really really not a fan of this one. Today i am feeling: grateful that my mind doesn't work like NK Jemisin's, which, while brilliant and creative and one of a kind, seems also kinda exhausting. Took a day off from this project for Depression Reasons but we're back at it. I do love me some alternate history where the world is more just, even if just as wicked. felt like it could have been written by anyone, where the first three were so distinct. Not going to lie.this didn't have much oomph for me.
Not really my kind of story (my fey days are behind me - shoutout to when i was 9 and i thought i could control the wind because my friend grace told me she saw it in a dream), but i can still appreciate this one. kinda nervous this collection might be a 5 star read. The pacing of this was kinda weird but overall this is gorgeousexcitingcreativeamazing. and the ethics class i read it in can too while we're at it. Omelas can f*ck off and die as far as i'm concerned. Now you might finally be able to envision a world where people have learned to love, as they learned in our world to hate."īrilliant and melancholy and inspiring. "Now, perhaps, you will think of Um-Helat, and wish. PROJECT 5: HOW LONG 'TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH? BY N.K. PROJECT 4: THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES BY SHIRLEY JACKSON
PROJECT 3: 18 BEST STORIES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE PROJECT 2: HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADO PROJECT 1: THE COMPLETE STORIES BY FLANNERY O'CONNOR I've been meaning to pick up something by NK Jemisin for a long time, but i find long, literary short story collections far less intimidating than huge tomes of high fantasy, so here we are. To accomplish this, i'm going to work my way through the collected stories of various authors, reading + reviewing 1 story every day until i get bored / lose every single follower / am struck down by a vengeful deity. In case you somehow missed parts one and two and three and four clogging your feed for the past 4 months (and thank heavens for small mercies), here's the situation:
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