[beyonce voice] texas... 2!
Aug. 3rd, 2024 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isunshowerremember how i said in my last post that i'm doing the super cool and cringe thing of accidentally reading a book set in dallas while in dallas? (boy was that some word salad i just typed) well i'm here to talk to you today about the fountains of silence. which is mostly actually set in madrid. but it's in dallas for a little bit, okay?
i've talked a little about ruta sepetys' books here before but i'd like to reiterate how well-researched and informative her books are. like, previously i'd been aware that francoist spain was a dictatorship and bad, but i hadn't known about the babies thing or, frankly, about any of the specifics. or that it was a specifically catholic dictatorship. it was interesting to read considering, you know, the state of us politics right now and how easily my world could look not too dissimilar to that should a red wave ever happen here. not to minimize it or anything, just yknow, religious dictatorships and fucked up fertility policies and all of that jazz. anyway, i learned a lot and i was invested in daniel and ana and i'm glad that they're getting their happy ending. i wish we'd learned a little more about rafa, seen his experience with lorenza and in the orphanage through his own eyes a little more. and that there had been slightly more hints dropped towards the lali-cristina reveal. but i overall really enjoyed my experience.
also worth noting that sepetys actually reuses one of the characters here in the other book of hers that i've just read. i don't think she actually has a scu going, like i don't think between shades of gray and salt to the sea connect at all for example, but a fun little easter egg. i now kind of want to reread i must betray you to get more info on nick's wife--who it seems he hadn't met yet even as of the ending of FoS, although i'm not certain the timeline works out if dan was sixteen in 1989--and dan. since, like, clearly he was named after one of the main characters of this book and one of nick van dorn's lifelong best friends. this informs nick's actions in IMBU in a pretty interesting way--like, knowing that cristian was doing something that nick's friend ana was unable to do several years earlier, seeing the parallels between the two countries, and trying to further the narrative of the people living in ceausescu romania. yknow?
also nick van dorn and ben stahl totally hooked up at some point. although i'm not sure how old ben was actually supposed to be. maybe that's weird.
i've talked a little about ruta sepetys' books here before but i'd like to reiterate how well-researched and informative her books are. like, previously i'd been aware that francoist spain was a dictatorship and bad, but i hadn't known about the babies thing or, frankly, about any of the specifics. or that it was a specifically catholic dictatorship. it was interesting to read considering, you know, the state of us politics right now and how easily my world could look not too dissimilar to that should a red wave ever happen here. not to minimize it or anything, just yknow, religious dictatorships and fucked up fertility policies and all of that jazz. anyway, i learned a lot and i was invested in daniel and ana and i'm glad that they're getting their happy ending. i wish we'd learned a little more about rafa, seen his experience with lorenza and in the orphanage through his own eyes a little more. and that there had been slightly more hints dropped towards the lali-cristina reveal. but i overall really enjoyed my experience.
also worth noting that sepetys actually reuses one of the characters here in the other book of hers that i've just read. i don't think she actually has a scu going, like i don't think between shades of gray and salt to the sea connect at all for example, but a fun little easter egg. i now kind of want to reread i must betray you to get more info on nick's wife--who it seems he hadn't met yet even as of the ending of FoS, although i'm not certain the timeline works out if dan was sixteen in 1989--and dan. since, like, clearly he was named after one of the main characters of this book and one of nick van dorn's lifelong best friends. this informs nick's actions in IMBU in a pretty interesting way--like, knowing that cristian was doing something that nick's friend ana was unable to do several years earlier, seeing the parallels between the two countries, and trying to further the narrative of the people living in ceausescu romania. yknow?
also nick van dorn and ben stahl totally hooked up at some point. although i'm not sure how old ben was actually supposed to be. maybe that's weird.
