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Alison ([personal profile] landofnowhere) wrote2023-03-29 08:53 pm

wednesday, and wednesday, and wednesday books

Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner. I finished this -- a very odd book, but I think I generally liked it. My favorite bit was when Laura went to a Witches' Sabbath and found it to be just another tedious social occasion.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin. A novel about two friends who make video/computer games together, and how their relationship evolves over the years. I am a very casual gamer -- my main point of shared cultural reference with the book is Oregon Trail, but it's written to be enjoyable by non-gamers, and I suspect I'd have more to critique about the book I knew more about the history of game design. I found the book to be compulsively readable, insightful, and I cried at the end. The protagonists of the book are complicated, flawed, people who are bad at communicating -- and that's part of the point of the book, exploring how people can be bad at communicating, especially when they've been trained to hide their suffering or vulnerability.
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[personal profile] oracne 2023-03-30 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I only read Lolly Willowes last year, and YES on how it depicted the mundanity of life - also her family, so relentlessly cramping her style.