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Tak! quoted The Thousand Eyes by A. K. Larkwood
Two years ago, Csorwe and Shuthmili defied the wizard Belthandros Sethennai and stole his gauntlets. …
How pleasant it would be, to float mindlessly in a jar of slightly warm water, nourished intravenously.
hell yeah
Tak! quoted The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood
What if you knew how and when you will die?
Csorwe does. She will climb …
Women of a certain age loved Sethennai, even when they were giant snakes or evil rocks.
Tak! reviewed Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami
From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions …
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
3 stars
This felt to me like a much more surreal variant of North Continent Ribbon. Each story/chapter was a continuation or a tangent of a previous one, but I don't feel like the whole contributed much to a more coherent understanding of the whole picture. Overall, the vibe was very vague, and I'm not sure how much I took away from the experience.
Tak! quoted Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami
From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions …
Let’s go to the baths today, Miss Ikuko said, so we all got ready.
Tak! rated Where the Axe Is Buried: 5 stars
Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his …
Tak! quoted Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a …
But every species has its wasp. Even the wasp.
vespa vespa vespae est
Tak! quoted Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a …
If you look at an ad, it is always looking back at you.
Tak! quoted Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a …
You are never more vulnerable than when you are about to buy something.
Tak! quoted Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a …
Because when people say they aren’t political, I want to pour gasoline over them and set them on fire.
Tak! quoted Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a …
The axe cleaved the log in two.
Tak! quoted Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut …
It was another moist orifice pressing into her. A sort of mutually failed cannibalism.
objective description of a kiss
Tak! quoted Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut …
People could simply choose not to hate things.
Tak! quoted Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut …
It was always tricky, getting the hang of being conscious again.
mood
Tak! quoted Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut …
Each year when Shesheshen hibernated, she dreamed of her childhood nest.