shorshewitch's reviews
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The Employees, originally written in Danish, has a fascinating format. It is made up of a series of barely a page or two each of non-sequential entries from employee interviews conducted by a nameless committee on a spaceship called the Six Thousand Ship. The employees are a mix of humans and humanoids, and the interviews are being conducted to observe and document their responses to alien objects picked from a planet called New Discovery. The entries are super-ominous, vivid, melancholic and in some places very disturbing. The characters remain unnamed, analogous to the namelessness and expendability of human cogs in late capitalistic workplaces of today, one of the many satirical aspects of the book. The end is intriguingly disconcerting. And I learnt about trypophobia. I think I have it but have found coping mechanisms. I wish there was more I could read though. It felt very abrupt but with immense potential to be a saga. I shall go hunt down if Olga has written more on this.

Excuse me, wtf! 

This was such a sad book. A blend of fiction and philosophy told by a narrator we never know much about, not even the name. The broken star's name is Macabea and it's about her and like 4 people she has ever known in her whole life. 

tw : motherhood, abortion

My second book from the 3TimesRebel oeuvre. I wasn't as impressed as with the first one "Mothers Don't" but this one also deals with motherhood and as a childfree woman, motherhood fascinates me from afar. That women keep choosing again and again to do this to their bodies is very intriguing to me. In that, this one also deals with an abortion. It's a quick read so I'd recommend if you want a reflective clips of a life of a mother who chose to abort the second time.