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Just perfect. Jansson captures wry old woman and wild little kid so so well. There's magic in all the details of how life was lived on a tiny island and the sense that one summer is all summers.
Just perfect. Jansson captures wry old woman and wild little kid so so well. There's magic in all the details of how life was lived on a tiny island and the sense that one summer is all summers.
Fun to revisit this and I think I appreciate it more now. Thinking of Dorothy Porter reciting each poem... thinking of how much fun she has mocking the other characters - the leftie lawyer, the academic, the boring old male poets. It's a rollicking read and hot too!
Fun to revisit this and I think I appreciate it more now. Thinking of Dorothy Porter reciting each poem... thinking of how much fun she has mocking the other characters - the leftie lawyer, the academic, the boring old male poets. It's a rollicking read and hot too!
Hot, fun and politically exciting. Like many nerds and queers I've loved the Greek myths since I was a kid and this and KAOS make me think we're living in the golden age. Terakes makes it feel like your trans fag uncle is whispering these stories to you, passing them on....
Hot, fun and politically exciting. Like many nerds and queers I've loved the Greek myths since I was a kid and this and KAOS make me think we're living in the golden age. Terakes makes it feel like your trans fag uncle is whispering these stories to you, passing them on....
Wow Wang is so precise, so deep in her thinking and writing. This is such a rich insightful book and it feels like a real privilege to get these deeply thought through perspectives from someone who has, "a schizophrenia". Each essay is full of insights, research and personal stories that are heart breaking but not without warmth and occasional humour. Anyone who thinks they know something about what people with psychotic illnesses live through, or wants to, should read this.
Wow Wang is so precise, so deep in her thinking and writing. This is such a rich insightful book and it feels like a real privilege to get these deeply thought through perspectives from someone who has, "a schizophrenia". Each essay is full of insights, research and personal stories that are heart breaking but not without warmth and occasional humour. Anyone who thinks they know something about what people with psychotic illnesses live through, or wants to, should read this.
This really hit the spot for me - grief and nature and chronic pain and Broder's signature no holds barred neurotic inner dialogue. Also many tender conversations with inanimate objects. Is the meta about a writer a little twee? Maybe but I didn't mind it as much as I might have in a more affected story. This one is so raw that I felt it just made the whole thing feel even more guts-cut-open vulnerable.
My only complaint is that this is so short - there were blank pages between the chapters but c'mon just admit it's a novella!
This really hit the spot for me - grief and nature and chronic pain and Broder's signature no holds barred neurotic inner dialogue. Also many tender conversations with inanimate objects. Is the meta about a writer a little twee? Maybe but I didn't mind it as much as I might have in a more affected story. This one is so raw that I felt it just made the whole thing feel even more guts-cut-open vulnerable.
My only complaint is that this is so short - there were blank pages between the chapters but c'mon just admit it's a novella!
This was always interesting, sometimes shocking and occasionally hot. I really appreciated the genuine attempt to portray the headfuck of maybe being in love and being kinda crazy and craving sex and connection and the whole mess. Sometimes it seemed like there was too much therapy speak but also, we all have that in our heads now.
This was always interesting, sometimes shocking and occasionally hot. I really appreciated the genuine attempt to portray the headfuck of maybe being in love and being kinda crazy and craving sex and connection and the whole mess. Sometimes it seemed like there was too much therapy speak but also, we all have that in our heads now.
Re-reading some DA in honour of her passing in late 2024. Cavedweller has some big dramatic plot lines and characters out of a movie but it comes to life with great dialogue and Allison's classic concern with the inner lives and hurts of tough Southern women who have been through the worst. Maybe some things are a little neat at times but this novel is a beautiful/brutal world to live within.
Re-reading some DA in honour of her passing in late 2024. Cavedweller has some big dramatic plot lines and characters out of a movie but it comes to life with great dialogue and Allison's classic concern with the inner lives and hurts of tough Southern women who have been through the worst. Maybe some things are a little neat at times but this novel is a beautiful/brutal world to live within.
