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tbh probably wouldn't normally be my cup of tea, but I'm reading along with the Shelved by Genre podcast

reading Invisible Cities just after A Memory Called Empire, with modern-sf conceptions of empire fresh in my mind, really brings out passages like this. absolutely /loving/ the richness of Calvino's prose and his imagination of the fantastical. and besides, cultural contact, meaning, and the challenge of communication are all themes I adore

Not as visceral as the book before it, B"H, but just as powerful.

brutal, increíble

a wonderful ending to a series that (to me) has its ups and downs - the perfect culmination of what the series becomes in the later books. I feel like the themes in this book settled in where previously I had bounced off from them; like all the best capstones of a series, it paints the rest of the two trilogies in a new light, especially in tandem with Tales from Earthsea.

I've been reading through Earthsea half out of duty to finish everything by my favorite author; I hated A Wizard of Earthsea, loved Tombs of Atuan, and then found The Farthest Shore kinda tedious. But this book - written nearly 2 decades after the original trilogy - brought everything I love about Le Guin's work into the Earthsea series in a way that hadn't hooked me before. The prose, both deep and clear, and the rich depictions of life on Gont and musings on culture and gender finally brought what I'd wanted to see in Earthsea to the surface.

lo leí en desorden, según la recomendación de Cortázar (comenzando con capitulo 78, entonces capitulo 1, etc.). me encantó todo lo juego literario e lingüístico, y todas las conexiones entre un capitulo y otro - quizás lo mas divertido fue descifrar porque Cortázar te manda en ese camino en particular. hace cosas maravillosas e inigualables con el estilo y la estructura del lenguaje. al mismo tiempo, ya que el español no es mi idioma nativo, a veces se me fue el argumento de los capitulos 1-56, especialmente mientras me enfoqué más en como juega con lenguaje que en lo que de verdad pasaba. me valdrá releerlo de manera "tradicional" y traducido - me encantó de verdad pero reconocer la hermosura de la prosa es un poco dificil si de vez en cuando tienes que parar y buscar una palabra en un diccionario.

this and the first Earthsea book are really just not my cup of tea

potentially my favorite work of nonfiction to date. a work that i constantly come back to and revisit, one of the best things I read in college

One of the best books I've ever read - old-school queer/trans science fiction that asks the age-old question: what if an incel reverse-detransitions?