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asks how much of yourself you can lose before you are lost”. this book had made such an impact on me. as i experience loss and grief for the first time in my life, marcken incredibly illustrates this strange spooky story of the perspective of the undead, and what thoughts and feelings arise within that world. tucked into 123 pages lies a story like no other story ive read before. this angelic yet haunting book must be read. if you want a confusing yet profound story that leaves you wondering wtf you just read, read this. and then read it again and again.
Jun 6, 2025
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📖dystopian emotional zombie magical realism (ish) fiction about profound loss of identity and grieving a life you once had along with the one youre currently living. quick read and not super plot driven but i havent stopped thinking about it since i finished it.
Jun 30, 2025
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A widowed mother in her forties goes on a trip to a cabin in the Austrian mountains and wakes up one morning to find that she is trapped there by an invisible dome. She is alone, save for a few animals who are the other characters in the story. Everything outside of the dome is dead, their corpses frozen in the positions in which they suddenly passed. A coffee cup halfway to their lips, dogs curled at their feet. The book is written as a log of her years in the dome, on the final pieces of paper she can find in her cabin. The result is an extended soliloquy that jumps between the past and present to account a life shed of time and societal expectation and instead ruled by the rhythms of nature and the necessity to care for herself and her animal companions.
I read it this year, have already done a reread, and I still want to read it again after typing this out! It’s surrealism lite and an ecofeminist meditation on death, isolation, memory, and the nature of reality. Can’t recommend it enough!
“But if time exists only in my head, and I'm the last human being, it will end with my death. The thought cheers me. I may be in a position to murder time. The big net will tear and fall, with its sad contents, into oblivion. I'm owed some gratitude, but no one after my death will know I murdered time. Really these thoughts are quite meaningless. Things happen, and, like millions of people before me, I look for meaning in them, because my vanity will not allow me to admit that the whole meaning of an event lies in the event itself.”
I read it this year, have already done a reread, and I still want to read it again after typing this out! It’s surrealism lite and an ecofeminist meditation on death, isolation, memory, and the nature of reality. Can’t recommend it enough!
“But if time exists only in my head, and I'm the last human being, it will end with my death. The thought cheers me. I may be in a position to murder time. The big net will tear and fall, with its sad contents, into oblivion. I'm owed some gratitude, but no one after my death will know I murdered time. Really these thoughts are quite meaningless. Things happen, and, like millions of people before me, I look for meaning in them, because my vanity will not allow me to admit that the whole meaning of an event lies in the event itself.”
Dec 21, 2024
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I picked up this book on a whim during my last book shop visit and after it reading it, it feels like fate. its a powerful story of surviving grief and trauma unlike any other I’ve come across. as an adult, it can be really difficult to understand why things that happened in your early childhood happened at all. this book really captures all of those complicated feelings.
Jan 21, 2025
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⭐typing this from my computer and i am amazed at how much cooler and better it is than on ios lol
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thrilled by the responses on this post, thank you so much!!! every kitty is perfect in their own little perfect kitty ways. i needed this
these are my perfect precious angels. rogue, the black one, he is my soulmate. he travels with me (on a spiritual level) everywhere i go. he is a healer and a lover and also batman. eris, the floofy one, will take any and all attention no matter what kind, and will for sure drool all the fuck over you.
these are my perfect precious angels. rogue, the black one, he is my soulmate. he travels with me (on a spiritual level) everywhere i go. he is a healer and a lover and also batman. eris, the floofy one, will take any and all attention no matter what kind, and will for sure drool all the fuck over you.
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