Recent Read: Elsewhere by @YanGeMay
"Ge proves herself to be exceptionally capable at pulling readers into little moments, scrutinising, admonishing, and celebrating the parts of life that are all too easy to look over and ignore."
https://t.co/19BxAqxMz9
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@DisastroMan Not sure if you've heard much of them, but Everything Everything does a lot of satirical stuff hidden behind catchy pop and rock.
https://t.co/T0emCwSbgy
Recent Read: Rose/House by Arkady Martine
"A house locked away for 51 out of 52 weeks of the year, only one person allowed access in that brief window, the system controlled by a next level AI; yet there is a dead body needing to be examined."
https://t.co/rQBdGL9tGN
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My SOTY for the 2020s
2020 On the Floor - Perfume Genius
2021 Introvert - Little Simz
2022 Concorde - Black Country, New Road
2023 Rest - Anohni & the Johnsons
2024 Cold Reactor - Everything Everything
2025 Luciférine - Ichiko Aoba
2026 Why is the Lion? - Bonnie Prince Billy
My SOTY for each year in the 2020s
2020: On The Floor - Perfume Genius
2021: Dancing Away In Tears - Yola
2022: Less Than Zero - Weeknd
2023: Shit Talk - Sufjan Stevens
2024: Like Him - Tyler
2025: So Be It - Clipse
2026: Tabloid Talk - Aries/underscores
@DisastroMan Some of the paragraphs are long, but he breaks up sections pretty regularly, sometimes multiple times a page. I think the only truly long stretches without a break are in the final 20-30 pages of the final part.
@DisastroMan You should definitely try 2666 then, that's 900 pages of book critics getting into a tryst, a philosophy professor losing his mind, a lightweight boxing match, 100s of violent murders, and a really tall German boy just trying to enjoy his books while WW2 happens.
Recent Read: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
"This is the kind of book that can only be written by someone who reads voraciously and loves so much of said literature that he must spew it back onto the page for the rest of us"
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@teeassou Bruno Pernadas is obviously a rec. MNBB and BBP are both sides of Folk and Tiffany Day is a lot of fun!
I think you recced Yo La Tengo a while ago, but I listened to I Can Hear... which I still don't connect to. And Then Nothing... is much more my speed and much more consistent.