A table with a display of books and a sign that says "fiction?". These are all dystopian books including Animal Farm, It Can Happen Here, Parable of the Sower, 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, Fahrenheit 451, Mania, Julia, The Dispossessed, The Book Censor's Librarian, Brave New World, and I Who Have Never Known Men.

I'll just leave this here.
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A screenshot showing a passage from the novel The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa which goes: To inhale the musk of paper, dust, and wood, to hear the rustle of the browned pages, to run his fingers along the embossed titles on the leather covers and turn the books over in his hands.

So intimate.

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A screenshot of the opening of the novel The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa which goes: AS THE BOOK CENSOR awoke one morning, filled with others' words, he found himself transformed into a reader. Lying on his back, he felt a stiffness in his neck; when he raised his head ever so slightly, he could see hundreds of books surrounding his bed, books he had no recollection of bringing home. One or two of them, certainly, but somehow the books appeared to have multiplied overnight, sprouting, dividing down the middle, copulating even. Piled up, one atop the other, towering over him, hemming him in from every side.

I would also like to wake up and find that books have multiplied like Tribbles all over me. 📚

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Buchcover der beiden in diesem Buch erwähnten Bücher.

📚 #bookstodon #ClimateFiction
Zwei neue Bücher für die Besprechung in #PrekäreWelten:
#Grist #Metamorphosis. Climate Fiction for a Better Future (2024) und #BothaynaAlEssa #TheBookCensorsLibrary (2024)