Did I, a brand-spankin'-new gynecologist, just read a book about a sexually transmitted city??? Yeah, I guess so much for that whole 'don't bring your work home' thing..."To touch a person... to sleep with a person... is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their ...
Acknowlegdes that "the source of all suffering is desire" (106) while charting out an immigration narrative wherein the primary object of desire is not precisely defined, other than the act of immigration itself. The narrative has no need to explain, and does not explain, the reasons that everyone ...
Cross-posted on ReaderlingThere are whole cities of me who could have hated this book, or been indifferent, or been casually affectionate, and then left the next morning - or even just as it ended - and then called four days later and been polite but firm that it was over. Books can be - they are - ...
I loved this. A book about how we get to the wondrous places, to fairyland if you will. And the great thing is, it's through sharing and communicating and being with each other that we create and find it. I suppose the first thing you need to understand about this book is that it has sex in it. ...
Valente spins out a fantastic world here, weaving a story about four people and a city, a city so strange and otherworldly admission is only gained by having sex with someone with a part of the city tattooed on their skin. Mmm, soooo romantic.Also, one can only enter those parts of the city that hav...
The end was a bit rushed. Something that requires so much sacrifice for the other and still impossible to achieve happens just like that for the chosen one. sigh... still it's beautiful story in a dark complex way.“It hurts you,” she had said, finally, her face a mask of distress. “The city. It hurt...
My book club selection for the month.I'd heard Valente described as a steampunk author, but I reallywouldn't classify this as being in that genre. I've yet to acquire herother books, but I'm on the lookout for them!Outside of our reality, there is a city called Palimpsest. Those whohave visited the ...
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