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Started: 1/19/22
Finished: 2/2/22
Pages: 352
Goodreads Shelves: apocalyptic; post-apocalyptic
Intimate and curiously interwoven stories about life, how it inexplicably tangles up, and how important and difficult choices are. A bit slow sometimes but always interesting. A character piece set smack in the middle of the end times.
Without a traditional plot, its almost like reading a narrative history of events fleshed out through the lives of people. Elegant is a good word, quiet. A more literary version of World War Z or Robopocalypse minus the official UN documents. I liked the opaque nature of parts of the stories. Things happened and no one understands exactly what why or how. The characters, as happens in real life, are forced to make up their meaning ... the meaning of their lives and their existence, who they are as they go along. In true fashion, its all anyone can ever do.
It was easy to read and there were an abundance of characters and POVs. I liked the time slips so that the world before and after are explored along an adjacent narrative through line. My biggest critique is that the plotty aspect of the ending is more than a bit anti climatic. The plotty aspect of the ending is also, in the end, the least interesting and the least important thing about the book. A solid read and a good start to the 2022 reading challenge.
Finished: 2/2/22
Pages: 352
Goodreads Shelves: apocalyptic; post-apocalyptic
Intimate and curiously interwoven stories about life, how it inexplicably tangles up, and how important and difficult choices are. A bit slow sometimes but always interesting. A character piece set smack in the middle of the end times.
Without a traditional plot, its almost like reading a narrative history of events fleshed out through the lives of people. Elegant is a good word, quiet. A more literary version of World War Z or Robopocalypse minus the official UN documents. I liked the opaque nature of parts of the stories. Things happened and no one understands exactly what why or how. The characters, as happens in real life, are forced to make up their meaning ... the meaning of their lives and their existence, who they are as they go along. In true fashion, its all anyone can ever do.
It was easy to read and there were an abundance of characters and POVs. I liked the time slips so that the world before and after are explored along an adjacent narrative through line. My biggest critique is that the plotty aspect of the ending is more than a bit anti climatic. The plotty aspect of the ending is also, in the end, the least interesting and the least important thing about the book. A solid read and a good start to the 2022 reading challenge.
