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carolinewithane's Reviews (647)
reread june/2020
my relationship with this book goes a long way back. it means something very dear to me. it was lovely to tip my toes back in this world.
my relationship with this book goes a long way back. it means something very dear to me. it was lovely to tip my toes back in this world.
“but even if the desert forgot a thousand and one of our stories, it was enough that they would tell of us at all. that long after our deaths, men and women sitting around a fire would hear that once, long ago, before we were all just stories, we lived.”
so fantastically awesome
(couldn't get into the romance though. but that's a given)
(couldn't get into the romance though. but that's a given)
ryan is a gem and i liked many aspects of the story (mostly the creativity), but i was confused and lost and a bit bored most of the time
octavia e. butler was a genius
also i feel exactly the same way about bearing children
also i feel exactly the same way about bearing children
such a poignant book. the concise writing style was a choice i wasn't a bit fan of, mostly because i felt some things would have been better developed with some fifty pages more or so, but the story does pack many punches.
