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最后一个讲故事的人
The Last Cuentista Douban
[美] 唐娜·巴尔巴·伊格拉 translator: 马爱农 publishing house: 中信出版社 2023 - 6
2022年纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖! 2022年美国国家图书馆普拉·贝尔普雷奖! 2022年水晶风筝文学奖! 《泰晤士报》2021年度最佳图书奖、《华尔街日报》2021年度最佳图书奖、《波士顿环球》2021年度最佳图书奖! 时间来到2061年,太阳耀斑将哈雷彗星推到了与地球相撞的轨道上,只有精英科学家、建筑商和政治家才能坐上宇宙飞船,逃离这个已成为定时炸弹的星球。在长达380年的飞行中,“乘客们”将进入睡眠状态,由几代“看护人”负责维持他们的生命,直到来到新的星球。孩子们的大脑中将被写入设计好的知识程序,在未来,他们将继承父母,成为新一代的科学家,在新目的地开始重建工作。 13岁的女孩彼得拉却因为认知器故障从休眠中醒来,却发现自己成了最后一个保有地球记忆的人类。所有人的记忆都被清洗干净,不再记得曾经的地球、没了人的感情。一个人记得所有事是很痛苦的,尤其是发现科学家爸爸妈妈都已经因为拒绝遗忘而被飞船统治者清除,六岁的弟弟也不知所踪…… 当女孩彼得拉万念俱灰,想要放弃时,一次给噩梦中惊醒的同伴们讲故事的经历改变了她的想法……为了留住曾经那些美好的故事、留住和爸爸妈妈、奶奶在一起的暖乎乎的记忆,彼得拉决定承载着他们的那一份,坚强活下去。 好像是冥冥中注定,在她伪装潜伏、勘探新星球、逃离飞船的整个计划实施过程中,奶奶讲过的故事就像镜子,呼应了她的每一步冒险,甚至带着她找到了失散的弟弟……但尾随着她的脚步,飞船的统治者也紧紧跟来……
Reading Oct. 6, 2026
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System Collapse
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Martha Wells publishing house: Tordotcom 2023 - 11
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect , the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something . If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize. But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast! Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.
Reading Aug. 2, 2026
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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Olga Tokarczuk translator: Antonia Lloyd-Jones publishing house: Riverhead Books 2019 - 8
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
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Oct. 5, 2026
A really great read that I mostly enjoyed until about the last 20 pages (give or take) where it became an exposition dump of sorts. I had hopes for a supernatural affair, so perhaps it was more me that let myself down.
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Oct. 5, 2026 Review A Review - a review of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (may contain spoilers)