{"id":185,"date":"2013-03-18T00:02:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T22:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2013-03-18T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T22:02:37","slug":"sunday-recs-short-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2013\/03\/18\/sunday-recs-short-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday recs: short edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to post a far longer rec list tonight, but the day ran away with me. Now it’s midnight, I’m really hungry, and I have to wake up horribly early tomorrow to go to my first physiotherapist’s appointment. Hence, just two recs today: two stories from Strange Horizons<\/em>! <\/p>\n

I Have Placed My Sickness Upon You<\/a>, by Karin Tidbeck. This story is delightful and sad and weird in a good way. Awesome first sentence, too: Then came that Thursday in February when I stepped into my psychiatrist’s office and was presented with a goat.<\/em><\/p>\n

I need to check out more of Karin Tidbeck’s stuff. I’m rather inspired by her bilingualism-wise, because as can be discerned from her website<\/a>, she writes in two languages: Swedish and English. I always like finding other bilingual writers, seeing how they deal with their languages when it comes to creative writing. Perhaps one day I can be as confident in my Finnish writing as Tidbeck is with her Swedish. <\/p>\n

My second story rec for tonight is Town’s End<\/a>, by Yukimi Ogawa. I haven’t read Japanese speculative fiction before (my experiences with Japanese fiction in general are pretty much confined to Banana Yoshimoto and Haruki Murakami), but now I want more! Love the atmosphere of Ogawa’s story. Japanese folklore meets the modern day in a wonderfully subtle way.<\/p>\n

Finally: if all goes well, I’ll be posting about pleasing things in a day or two. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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