Enjoyed the science fiction novel Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey. Essentially Groundhog Day. Does one ever tire of variations of that theme, if well-written? The denouement happened a bit too quickly for me. Just thinking aloud, I would have liked the last fifth or so to have been more carefully and substantively plotted than the first four-firths evidently were. Really good writing, very mature development of the evolving character transformations. Again, though, just thinking aloud, the hardest conversation to write about remains the challenge: the two characters know where they are… they have a lot of time… it seems to me they would stop “acting” and have a really long conversation perhaps filled with silences. Maybe there is a device though that constrains their ability to engage in meta-conversation?
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Sortie d’animation au Centre de Lecture et d’Études de Béréba (CLEB)
- Compte rendu d’une sortie de l’animateur à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Some photos from Nyariga community library in June
- Échange avec un nouveau lecteur de la bibliothèque de Boni
- Gowrie Kunkua community library during the night session
- Encadrement du gérant de la bibliothèque de Dimikuy
- Sumbrungu Community Library, mid June
- A class came to read at Sherigu library in June, with their science teacher
- Compte rendu d’animation à la bibliothèque de Dohoun
- Une journée d’animation dynamique à la bibliothèque de Koho