Luips's Updates en-US Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:30:40 -0700 60 Luips's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7332372819 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:30:40 -0700 <![CDATA[Luips added 'Always Coming Home']]> /review/show/7332372819 Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin Luips gave 5 stars to Always Coming Home (Paperback) by Ursula K. Le Guin
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A vivid dream of the future.

This has been such a unique landscape to experience ever since the first page. The book has said it as well--fact is fictional and fiction is factual. And it felt to me that the vision of this book is the future.

I will not spoil anything but I will describe the structure of the book (it's not that complicated) below. If you want full blind experience, skip it.

Reading about the book you will easily be made aware that it's not a typical novel. It's more like a museum--you read about bits and pieces about a culture from a distant future. Poems, short stories, songs, accounts, cultural facts, histories, even some periods of war. But dividing these bits and pieces, you have Stone Telling's chapters. Those chapters describe one story, one novel.

This structure is the primary key to the immersion you feel reading the book. The bits and pieces help you sink in to Stone Telling's story, which by the way is so beautifully written you feel grateful for having the opportunity to read it. ]]> Review6550455225 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:02:21 -0800 <![CDATA[Luips added 'The Plotters: A Novel']]> /review/show/6550455225 The Plotters by Un-Su Kim Luips gave 4 stars to The Plotters: A Novel (Paperback) by Un-Su Kim
At its core, it’s a literary work dealing with nihilism, choice, origin, and fate, wrapped in an exciting world of plotters and assassins. It’s a great piece of work, and you can definitely tell it’s made by a careful hand. ]]> Rating830245384 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:00:41 -0800 <![CDATA[Luips liked a readstatus]]> /
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]]> Review6550455225 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:57:02 -0800 <![CDATA[Luips added 'The Plotters: A Novel']]> /review/show/6550455225 The Plotters by Un-Su Kim Luips gave 4 stars to The Plotters: A Novel (Paperback) by Un-Su Kim
At its core, it’s a literary work dealing with nihilism, choice, origin, and fate, wrapped in an exciting world of plotters and assassins. It’s a great piece of work, and you can definitely tell it’s made by a careful hand. ]]> Review7269833481 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:26:49 -0800 <![CDATA[Luips added 'Reflections in a Golden Eye']]> /review/show/7269833481 Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers Luips gave 4 stars to Reflections in a Golden Eye (Paperback) by Carson McCullers
You just know when a book is written well. The story is woven nicely, the pacing never boring, the themes are clear, and the ending tied well.

Such distinct characters also in this one. I felt each of them, and they present some kind of facet of humanity that you can relate to, in a way.

Repression of sexuality is also a strong theme here, and I loved the way the book played with it, and attempted to dig it deep in places I never anticipated. ]]> Rating819749855 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:07:33 -0800 <![CDATA[Luips liked a userstatus]]> /
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]]> ReadStatus8996340234 Wed, 29 Jan 2025 10:38:16 -0800 <![CDATA[Luips is currently reading 'Reflections in a Golden Eye']]> /review/show/7269833481 Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers Luips is currently reading Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
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Spent too many pages on sex, which I don't have a problem with in itself, but I didn't like the way it was constantly used in the story.

This time, I also cannot forgive the lack of quotation marks. I had to reread multiple times to understand whether a sentence is part of a dialogue or not. At this point I can see absolutely no reason for the author not to use quotation marks other than it being her signature. It doesn't provide anything useful at all, just detrimental to reading.

The complexities of the relationship were delightful at first we kept on having the same discussion over and over again for the entirety of the book. And then the resolution was abrupt. To me it feels like bad pacing. ]]>