04/07/2025
Our Campaign Manager Grace reviews not one but two books - perfect for your weekend reading!
On the Calculation of Volume I and Volume II by Solvej B***e
"Can a person lead a life outside of time?
Tara Selter, an antiquarian bookseller, can't stop waking up on November 18th. She describes her experience as having "fallen through the cracks of time", but this is not a science fiction novel in the conventional sense. Rather, it uses a freak displacement in the space-time continuum as a stage for ruminations on existentialism, metaphysics, Roman history, romantic love, ghosts and monsters, and even meteorology.
Throughout the book I kept thinking, where is this all going? Tara's will to survive drives the story forward and keeps you reading – going down different rabbit holes to feed her mind, she saves it from atrophy; through chasing the four seasons around Europe she creates a semblance of normality for her senses. But these are ephemeral, what she truly wants is to find a way out. Just as I'm beginning to lose hope for her, a massive twist ends Volume II..."
On the Calculation of Volume I and Volume II both out now with Volume lll coming later this year!