And I read a lot of Chuck Palahniuk in college. Cursed Bunny is the most relentlessly disgusting collection of short stories I’ve ever read. As the human workers pine for home, the humanoid workers increasingly pine to be more than what they’ve been programmed to be. After collecting a variety of objects on a distant planet called New Discovery, these workers find themselves increasingly at odds as they begin to obsess over said objects, which do not speak but can emit noises, smells, and vibrations. These transcribed statements are numbered, some running for pages, others stopping after a few sentences. (Heavy on foreboding, borderline-sinister atmosphere, light on exposition.) The Employees is divided into short statements given by anonymous workers on the Six Thousand Ship, a space shuttle on a vague corporate mission staffed by a mix of humans and humanoids. Ravn’s hypnotic, elliptical storytelling about a journey to an alien land gone wrong reminded me of Jeff van der Meer’s Annihilation. It doesn’t offer easy answers, but provokes fascinating questions.Īlthough Olga Ravn’s The Employees came out in 2020 in its original Danish, an English translation by Martin Aitken was published in the United States in 2022 … so I’m counting it, because this was the most entrancing reading experience I had all year. ![]() Strangers to Ourselves is a look into this vacuum of understanding-about what happens when there’s no easily digestible story to explain what’s happening inside your head, and when Freud and pharmaceuticals and everything else fails. By examining her own experience as well as four other people with unusual mental health issues, Aviv argues against any one grand unifying theory of the mind. In Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us, Aviv wonders whether she ever truly had anorexia at all, or whether the episode was perhaps too hastily pathologized. While Aviv made a full, relatively speedy recovery, she developed a lifelong interest in the borderlands between sickness and health. They’d never seen a child so young develop the eating disorder, yet there she was. Shortly after, she was hospitalized with anorexia. Wings of Fire (fiction series), by Tui Sutherland.When Rachel Aviv was six years old, she stopped eating.InvestiGators (graphic novel series), by John Patrick Green.Big Nate (graphic novel series), by Lincoln Pierce. ![]() Percy Jackson & the Olympians (graphic novel series), by Robert Venditti.Amulet (graphic novel series), by Kazu Kibuishi.The Baby-sitters club (graphic novel series), by Raina Telgemeier and others.Cats Kid Club (graphic novel series), by Dav Pilkey.Wings of Fire (graphic novel series), by Barry Deutsch.Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series), by Jeff Kinney.Good Girl, Bad Blood, by Holly Jackson.The Hawthorne Legacy, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J.They Both Die at the End, by Adam Silvera.The Summer I Turned Pretty, by Jenny Han.The Inheritance Games, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.Heartstopper - Volume 1, by Alice Oseman.A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, by Holly Jackson.Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus.The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. ![]()
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