Before I go into the novel I picked for this week, here’s a bookish issue I have remembered. I said I would challenge myself to read at least five Kindle books before reading a World War II book. Now, I’m on my 7th, so I would have to decide if I want to pick one now or read 10 so I can choose two from my Historical fiction list. If you’d like to weigh in on this, please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
Hey Everyone,
As you know, I’ve been trying a new thing for me, where I share a book I love and provide a free ebook link to it, if possible.
Why did I pick this book?
Let me start by saying I have thoughts about this novel, but I’m having a difficult time putting them into words; however, I’m trying. I started Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor as an audiobook, but halfway through, I switched to listening from the ebook since the audio wasn’t providing details quickly enough, so I switched from 2x speed to 3x speed, that’s how intrigued I was. I’m trying not to spoil anything, but it was interesting how much Zelu’s readers changed their opinion of her as a person so quickly, which, sadly, I think is very realistic to nowadays. I wonder what people with disability who are reading this would take the offer Zelu was given. I put that question to myself, and I still don’t have an answer.
First Lines:
What’s the story you want?
Honestly, I don’t see it. Even after everything, Zelu will always just be Zelu to me. What you think she is—it’s all made up. Life is short. Fortune is fleeting. Fame is just swirling dust. It’s people dreaming and perceiving while they say your name like it’s some tangible object, but it’s not. A name
is just a name. A sound.
What matters is family. Without family, you’re nothing. You’re debris tumbling through space. Unseen, unconnected, uncollected, unknown, no matter how famous you are.
Zelu will always be part of our family. She will always be my sister. No matter what. Oh, it’s been rough. The fact is that Zelu never really cared about family. Zelu had to do her own thing. Then she’d expect everyone else to deal with her mess. We will always love Zelu. We hang in there for her. She never made it easy, though.
Goodreads Blurb:
The future of storytelling is here.
Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she’s suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister’s wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she’s not sure what comes next.
In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life – she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity. And everything changes.
What follows is a tale of love and loss, fame and infamy, of extraordinary events in one world, and another. And as Zelu’s life evolves, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
Because sometimes a story really does have the power to reshape the world.
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Alex
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