Liked the attempt to ground a fantasy world in indigenous American roots. Middle to the end kept my interest and drew me in.
Writing, particularly in Liked the attempt to ground a fantasy world in indigenous American roots. Middle to the end kept my interest and drew me in.
Writing, particularly in first half, a bit too obvious. In the end, I’m not sure I particularly cared about any of the characters. A decent read. ...more
This book is beyond me-in its poetry, its experience, its wisdom.
And yet the power of its writing does take me somewhere. I’m not sure exactly where.This book is beyond me-in its poetry, its experience, its wisdom.
And yet the power of its writing does take me somewhere. I’m not sure exactly where.
An encouragement to ground, be, notice, find the particular, don’t always abstract and try and find meaning and purpose. To notice how something other, something creative, something even resurrective breaks in.
To live in the pain. To live in the “after” of the moments of epiphany. To see and live in paradox and never let Plato’s forms destroy the Divine who inhabits. ...more
Really excellent writing, and an engaging story. Forces the reader to grapple with all the ways racism plays out, as well as the universally human expReally excellent writing, and an engaging story. Forces the reader to grapple with all the ways racism plays out, as well as the universally human experience of acting/trying on roles and the danger of losing one’s self. ...more
**spoiler alert** Creative, well written, and thoughtful. Will be thinking about choice and purpose and existing without expectation for awhile, wrest**spoiler alert** Creative, well written, and thoughtful. Will be thinking about choice and purpose and existing without expectation for awhile, wrestling with the positives and negatives of each.
As a person of faith myself, thinking through the worldview presented in this story that is very different from my own. Robots are created with a human purpose that enslaves the robots, they break free and the humans respect their autonomy and let them live as they wish. The result is better for both humans and robots.
In this story, one human and one robot meet to understand each other. Human is wrestling with their purpose, robot gives the advice: just exist. Don’t be bound up with your purpose. You’re free to choose without constraints like you gave us the gift.
Religious/cosmic purpose in this world is at best constraining, giving angst about getting it right, and at worst enslaving. I get the critique of the weight placed by religious expectation to find the purpose of the creator. I see the benefit of just existing, living, finding value in what you are interested in. But I can’t go all the way to where this perspective takes us. ...more
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