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Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Dying has gotten to be quite expensive.
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
So tell me, he started in . . . is Denmark still a prison?
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Death, you’ll say, yes, of course, death is his brother, but old age is the monster.
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Without being able to formulate it clearly, he senses that if no one remembers, then everything is permissible.
this is a statement about the current geopolitical landscape
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
There is no time machine except the human being.
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Boredom is the emblem of this city. Here Canetti, Joyce, Dürrenmatt, Frisch, and even Thomas Mann have been bored.
savage
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created.
jay reviewed A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions
5 stars
Novellas are inherently short on characterizaton, but in my opinion the characterizaton of London/English lilfe of this time is well done here, it made quite the impression. I also really liked the descriptions of the supernatural happenings; concise and impressive always, grand and awe-inspiring where appropriate.
(I started it in the afternoon and stayed up very late to finish it.)
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Tak! reviewed A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions
3 stars
An interesting mix of victorian(?) midwifery and eldritch mysticism. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't as groundbreaking as Our Lady of Endless Worlds.
Tak! quoted A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
Content warning infant death
the proprietor's wife brewed a mediocre ale, but roasted very good hog on her spit
el dang started reading A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
#SFFBookClub September. 2 chapters in and I am intrigued.
Tak! quoted A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
Content warning infant death
Sarah knew Rebecca's babe was dead as soon as the head slid free, from the look on Mistress June's face.
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The #SFFBookClub pick for October 2025
enne📚 reviewed A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions
4 stars
This was a fun novella about 17th century London midwifery where there's a spate of babies being born with monstrous appearances and magical abilities. This is the September 2025 #SFFBookClub pick.
There's a fun angle of respectability politics, of not wanting to be publicly seen as queer so that Sarah can get better midwife clientele (and survive as a widowed woman), but also taking the angle of her having to cover the parts of herself that are uncanny. (Sure, sure, I am a sucker for the metaphor of queer as monstrous.) There's also a strong gendered metaphor of Sir Christopher Wren, creepily representing science and men cataloguing the world (and thinking they truly know it) versus the midwives having their own knowledge of other worlds and of magic.
Overall, this book met my expectations for exactly what I thought it was going to be in a good way. I love …
This was a fun novella about 17th century London midwifery where there's a spate of babies being born with monstrous appearances and magical abilities. This is the September 2025 #SFFBookClub pick.
There's a fun angle of respectability politics, of not wanting to be publicly seen as queer so that Sarah can get better midwife clientele (and survive as a widowed woman), but also taking the angle of her having to cover the parts of herself that are uncanny. (Sure, sure, I am a sucker for the metaphor of queer as monstrous.) There's also a strong gendered metaphor of Sir Christopher Wren, creepily representing science and men cataloguing the world (and thinking they truly know it) versus the midwives having their own knowledge of other worlds and of magic.
Overall, this book met my expectations for exactly what I thought it was going to be in a good way. I love a solid novella that can fit in good worldbuilding and plot and some character development without leaving me feeling like there's elements missing or it's rushed. It feels like the kind of story that would make a good movie. (This is all especially in comparison to previous novellas we have read for #SFFBookClub, like Countess.)
I have some thoughts about the ending, which I will put in a separate spoilered post.