What did you read this year?
Troy’s
average rating for
2024
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
Minor Detail seared itself into my consciousness and memory and to me is a brilliant and near perfect work of fiction written of Palestine, Israel, and the line between history and the present.
The book is a short but unnerving, forensic-like narrative that is seemingly less interested in emotion, but more focused in delivering scenes to the reader in a way similar to that of a wide angle camera lens, capturing the facts and movements, telling us ...more
The book is a short but unnerving, forensic-like narrative that is seemingly less interested in emotion, but more focused in delivering scenes to the reader in a way similar to that of a wide angle camera lens, capturing the facts and movements, telling us ...more
this was like black swan level of you don’t know what is real and what is not. this novel really did play out like some f*cked up arronofsky movie in my head, or that’s how it felt for the last half of it where you’re like whaaaaat is happppening.
kitamura is a master of mood and tension - her other two novels gave me the feeling of inhabiting in this weird, otherworldly liminal space and this novel really expands her writing within that mode in m ...more
kitamura is a master of mood and tension - her other two novels gave me the feeling of inhabiting in this weird, otherworldly liminal space and this novel really expands her writing within that mode in m ...more