Tuesday, March 13, 2018

tob 2018

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www.themorningnews.org/tob/2018/white-tears-v-the-idiot.php#comment-3794842663








 

Somehow, How a Person Should Be will end up in the final.





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https://themorningnews.org/article/the-rooster-summer-reading-challenge-week-12





 

I went with Fever Dream mostly because it was the only one that stuck the landing for me. I think the short length really helped this one, the author did not do too much. This one really lingered and left a lot of good unanswered questions.








 

Tough choice, I'd really like to see =The Night Ocean= and =A Separation= make the tournament, both were really well done books, and both have stuck with me. And maybe it is just some proximity effect, but I voted for =Fever Dream=, which I also really enjoyed. It may be a little unfair, because I think =The Night Ocean= kept surprising over a much longer length, and I felt the (sadly not on the ballot) =A Separation= was subtle and most rewarded a careful thinking about. But I did think =Fever Dream= handled itself really well, in the mixing of technological catastrophe with mystical catastrophe, in the sustained tension, and in the fever dream like quality of the writing (although I guess that's not a very direct translation of the original title).







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