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Author: FIGBERT <figbert@figbert.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:56:27 -0700
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+title = "I Suppose This Is Modern Fiction And It's Pretty Good"
+date = 2024-04-12
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+book = "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida"
+author = "Shehan Karunatilaka"
+finished = 2024-04-01
+rating = "★★★★☆"
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+When I started this book, I thought "ahh yes a book about the ghost of a
+dead gay Sri Lankan photojournalist." By the end, I was thinking "ahh
+yes a book about the ghost of a dead gay Sri Lankan photojournalist!"
+This paragraph makes more sense out loud, where the emphasis is clearer,
+but the crux of my point is that at first I was bewildered by its
+subject matter but by the end of the book I was thoroughly appreciative
+of the work and in fact enjoyed it very much.
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+I was looking for a book to get me out of my reading slump. I had
+started several, and was making little headway through any of them. When
+I began on this book I would not have thought it would be any different.
+Yet it was! The world is fascinating and its mythology completely
+original. Maali is complicated and, as such, makes me want to keep
+unraveling his story.
+
+I learned a lot about Sri Lanka through reading this. This has had
+immediate payoff as I have been making niche jokes and references to my
+Sri Lankan friend and really catching him off guard. I should probably
+back this up with some actual historical research given the book's
+general lack of commitment to the nature of reality.
+
+It was good to read some surrealist fiction. I haven't done much of this
+since last spring, when I was in a class on the subject. There are
+actually cool things to come on that specific front, which I will try
+and remember to link here when they come to fruition.
+
+If you are looking for something to intrigue you and sort of make your
+brain cells feel fuzzy, this might be the book for you.
