Books

10303 readers

41 users here now

Book reader community.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml

wraptile@lemmy.ml

Just Finished Vita Nostra (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by counselwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/books@lemmy.ml

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It was weird.

It wasn't what I expected when I was looking for a story about "Magic Schools".

I can't say I fully understand what was happening as I've read it, or the message it was trying to convey. Sometimes I had to double back a paragraph or two just to better my vague understanding of the story.

Nevertheless, I devoured this book in one day; words just kept pouring as I read, giving glimpses of a fleeting story. That is to say, I enjoyed my experience in reading it. I don't know if it's something I'd read again in the future, but at least I know it was a good adventure.

What are your thoughts to this book?

How do you interpret its ending?

Why is Sasha short for Alexandra?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, one of these old-school "random nerd dumps information"-Wikipedia-articles:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryna_and_Serhiy_Dyachenko

I love it, let's hope the editors never find it.

[–] counselwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by these nerd dumps?

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I meant that the article is mostly a collection of lists (novels are listed twice 👍) including „Fictional creatures and objects created by writers“. I think it's amazing but I'm pretty it doesn't conform with Wikipedia's article writing rules.