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I have now finished the penultimate year of my english literature degree and fuck me I never want to pick another book up ever again. Smash the printing presses! Burn the trees! Melt all the rare earth elements that would otherwise be used in the manufacture of ebooks! Absolute shite. I usually switch to graphic novels if I can't do text reading and even that is beyond me right now.
I did manage to struggle through What Survives by M. Amelia Eikli recently, which I enoyed. It's very "debut novel", but she's got a fantastic line in grief and bereavement that I've not seen tackled all that well in most post-apoc. A lot of the genre just glosses over the emotional effects, goes straight for the roaming cannibals and whatnot, but Eikli completely avoids all that and just focuses on this one character losing everyone. It's gut-wrenching, gorgeously-written grief.
Well done for making it through Ulysses, @markyp ! What ill-advised doorstop are you tackling next?