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ALT an edited meme template from @clhubes on twitter that reads: the thing people don't get about detective conan is that yes: it's wildly pro-cop and sexist. yes: it's 44 filler. and yes: the art style is hard to look at and the characters are terminally stupid. but the plot? also not good.
ALT Is it human nature, when we are tottering on the edge of an abyss, to simply dive in? -osamu dazai, good-bye
ALT Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro translated by Eve Hill-Agnus
ALT storygraph review 2.5/5 ⭐️ Is it the book or me? That is the question. I have to admit, I can not figure out what the book is trying to say. It begins with a suspense that goes on for more or less 5 short chapters. A female captain with twenty crews (all men), takes a break in the middle of a voyage to swim. After they're back to the ship again, they have one extra person. Twenty become twenty one. The book then explores on what it means to be on the water vs land. What existence feels like when you're in the vastness of ocean. How time moves, and how fear crawls over your body. There's so much descriptions of many things, yet there's barely anything happening. I'm not opposed to "no plot just vibes" book, but this book feels like it's lost its way. It promises many things: a marine thriller, a supernatural horror, a surrealism, a poignant reflection, yet none of it delivered.
![The writing style to me seem superfluous, even for a purple prose enjoyer like me. It's not that I think it's cringe, but the captain's inner dialogues like "The one who observes the scene from the edge of the painting", or "It looks cut from the worn sheet of a ghost," gave me a shiver, not in a good way. I know the author is trying something with her poetic writing, but maybe I'm too stupid to catch on. Putting aside the writing style, what ensures me the problem might be the book is the ending. Like, excuse me? What was that? It's so absurd how the author [redacted for spoilers] AND THEN, [redacted for spoilers] THEY SUDDENLY [redacted for spoilers] What are you on about. It feels such a lazy way to end a story. I think it's best enjoyed if I know the book id a child born from the marriage of poetry and a novel. This is for anyone who wants to read a lyrical writing with a sea voyage vibes.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HRqshYObYAAWPzv.jpg?name=orig)
ALT The writing style to me seem superfluous, even for a purple prose enjoyer like me. It's not that I think it's cringe, but the captain's inner dialogues like "The one who observes the scene from the edge of the painting", or "It looks cut from the worn sheet of a ghost," gave me a shiver, not in a good way. I know the author is trying something with her poetic writing, but maybe I'm too stupid to catch on. Putting aside the writing style, what ensures me the problem might be the book is the ending. Like, excuse me? What was that? It's so absurd how the author [redacted for spoilers] AND THEN, [redacted for spoilers] THEY SUDDENLY [redacted for spoilers] What are you on about. It feels such a lazy way to end a story. I think it's best enjoyed if I know the book id a child born from the marriage of poetry and a novel. This is for anyone who wants to read a lyrical writing with a sea voyage vibes.
ALT From top left to bottom right - the heart and the bottle - oliver jeffers - elena knows - claudia piñero - call me cassandra - marcial gala - everyone in this room will someday be dead - emily austin - the flowers of buffoonery - osamu dazai - extracting the stone of madness - alejandra pizarnik
