Update - The Rouse

Currently reading: The Rouse by China Miéville 📚

Really loving this book - but man, it’s slow going. Ordinarily, that’s fine; I love to savor prose like this, but I made the tactical blunder of getting this from the library, and there’s just no way I beat that deadline. I’ll end up buying my own copy for sure. I’m pretty committed to physical books these days, but am tempted to go epub on this one, just so I can read it in bed.

That said, Mieville does a lot with formatting in this book to convey tone and help tell the story, and I’m worried it will get lost on my Boox screen. So I’ll probably buy the hardback and take my lumps.

And what a story it is! It’s got ghosts and mythology and special ops and it’s all so very British and yet underneath it all, it’s a heartbreaking meditation on grief and loss. Makes me miss my mom more than usual.