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Books 21 & 22
Apr. 13th, 2012 09:15 am21)Valentine, Geneveive. MECHANIQUE: TALES OF THE CIRCUS TRESAULTI. Prime: 2011.
"This steampunk-flavored circus story begins with a disturbing undertone, like an out-of-tune calliope, and develops in hints and shadows." Nebula Award nominee for the year. Reminded me somewhat of Angela Carter's NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS, and Erin Morgenstern's more recent THE NIGHT CIRCUS, but with a few more sci-fi elements (like a post apocalype setting and cyborg mechanics). I quite like circus/sideshow characters and such.
22) Benaron, Naomi. RUNNING THE RIFT. Algonquin: 2012.
"No wonder Barbara Kingsolver awarded her 2010 Bellwether Prize, given biennially to an unpublished novel that confronts social issues, to Naomi Benaron's Running the Rift. In her coming-of-age story of young Tutsi Jean Patrick Nkuba, whose extraordinary gift for distance running lands him on the path to become his country's first medalist in track, one of history's most inconceivable chapters--the Rwandan genocide--becomes intensely personal. Out of a childhood marked by loss and overshadowed by mounting Hutu-Tutsi tensions, Jean Patrick draws the strength for grueling Olympic training and the courage to run his life's most crucial race--to save himself and his family. A vividly told tale with a memorable champion at its heart."
Good literate books both.
"This steampunk-flavored circus story begins with a disturbing undertone, like an out-of-tune calliope, and develops in hints and shadows." Nebula Award nominee for the year. Reminded me somewhat of Angela Carter's NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS, and Erin Morgenstern's more recent THE NIGHT CIRCUS, but with a few more sci-fi elements (like a post apocalype setting and cyborg mechanics). I quite like circus/sideshow characters and such.
22) Benaron, Naomi. RUNNING THE RIFT. Algonquin: 2012.
"No wonder Barbara Kingsolver awarded her 2010 Bellwether Prize, given biennially to an unpublished novel that confronts social issues, to Naomi Benaron's Running the Rift. In her coming-of-age story of young Tutsi Jean Patrick Nkuba, whose extraordinary gift for distance running lands him on the path to become his country's first medalist in track, one of history's most inconceivable chapters--the Rwandan genocide--becomes intensely personal. Out of a childhood marked by loss and overshadowed by mounting Hutu-Tutsi tensions, Jean Patrick draws the strength for grueling Olympic training and the courage to run his life's most crucial race--to save himself and his family. A vividly told tale with a memorable champion at its heart."
Good literate books both.
