Beauty and the beast retelling, kind of repetitive in the last 100 pages, but still kinda fun

Sto accidenti di libro ti tiene così in tensione costante che ho temporaneamente perso l'uso delle gambe e ci ho rimesso la tazza di Harry Potter.
E dirò solo ancora che Dante e Colomba sono entrambi nel mio cuor.

It took me a while bc of the density of the prose mainly, but what a marvelous span thorough history, and magic, and pain, and love. Joe Kavalier is an amazing character, all broody and pensive (a bit like Sandman, to name one), and Sammy only superficially cheerful and carefree. By the time you reach the end and think of the start, it'll be like a lifetime had passed, and it is for the characters. And it's like the writer purposefully took all his time to make you feel the distance they went through, all the troubles and shifts. Epic.

3.5 actually. This books reads more like an aggregator of other sources. Will get back later

There are 2 worlds, with is Anarres/anarchist vs Urras/capitalist, and I had problems with the first half of the book being too didactic about that. But we follow the life of a physicist studying Time (simultaneity vs sequency), from childhood through teenage years and on and forth, with the story being narrated following both worlds in different timelines. Things got darker and darker in both worlds, so much so that at some point I felt trapped, and dispossessed myself, and saw no way out, in neither. This book grows on you, what with LeGuin being the master she is with language, sparse, and with unusual perspectives and points of view.

Sweet macabre

As soon as I very my feelings back, I'll write some proper thoughts on it

Love the art of this comic book. I was so confused by the first volume, I DNF it, then came back and loved it, then waited ages to read the 2nd, couldn’t remember/understand a thing about what was going on, skimmed through the first again, finished 2nd in 2 days, now waiting for the 3rd. This is love.

This must be one of the most complicated books I’ve ever read. To summarise the second I might say: there’s a girl, whose mother doomed into being the monster who will change everything, who will save the world or destroy the world. She’s not a monstress actually, she has a monster living inside her. But it’s not really a monster, although it does monstruos things (eating the hearts of people animals and mermaids), in fact it’s actually one of the old gods. And the girl is not a girl, she’s a halfwolf. And then there are: only women society, a cats’ society (pretty holy), and all sorts of half-animals half-humans kingdoms. It is a holy wonderful amazing genial mess.