To Shape A Dragon's Breath was a highlight of my year too. I'm also curious about what is happening in our part of the world that by their 1840s we aren't even appearing on the Anglish world maps. *makes up reasons*
I got through The Archive Undying as an audiobook, which meant that my mind occasionally wandered and a complicated plot became more so, my grasp of names and who is doing what goes down when I listen.
The Lavie Tidhar I read this year was The Unholy Land, which is about a Jewish state that was created in East Africa, which may or may not continue to exist, so definitely speculative fiction, interesting but not entirely my thing. I'd have been interested in the book you thought you were going to read.
You might be interested in reading Hopeland by Ian McDonald, it starts in London, then goes to Ireland, Iceland, and Greenland so none of the blurbs make it obvious how much of the book is set in an invented central Polynesian country, I think he did a pretty good job of it as an outsider, though I don't know if Pasifika readers would agree. It's a fun book, I wasn't expecting to enjoy it so much. Also one I listened to, but I grabbed a print copy and reread it immediately - turned out I wasn't spelling a single character name correctly.
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Date: 2024-01-17 10:35 pm (UTC)I got through The Archive Undying as an audiobook, which meant that my mind occasionally wandered and a complicated plot became more so, my grasp of names and who is doing what goes down when I listen.
The Lavie Tidhar I read this year was The Unholy Land, which is about a Jewish state that was created in East Africa, which may or may not continue to exist, so definitely speculative fiction, interesting but not entirely my thing. I'd have been interested in the book you thought you were going to read.
You might be interested in reading Hopeland by Ian McDonald, it starts in London, then goes to Ireland, Iceland, and Greenland so none of the blurbs make it obvious how much of the book is set in an invented central Polynesian country, I think he did a pretty good job of it as an outsider, though I don't know if Pasifika readers would agree. It's a fun book, I wasn't expecting to enjoy it so much. Also one I listened to, but I grabbed a print copy and reread it immediately - turned out I wasn't spelling a single character name correctly.