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laurengayle4's review against another edition
4.0
liked the authors writing + cool layout like chapters but also felt like prose poems but also mixed with actual poems (?) !
jestintzi's review
5.0
Really into the tone and language in this book. It has the intensity of "A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing" mixed with Otessa Moshfegh (maybe?). Hard to put my finger on the books it evokes.
flowpouet's review
5.0
Pfiou...
Lire ce livre, c'est accepter de se brûler les rétines tellement la lumière qui jaillit de la noirceur est puissante et scintillante. Kaitlyn Purcell arrive à jouer avec grâce avec les mots, elle les fait entrer en collision pour en faire surgir des images indélébiles. Des images pleines de poésie, qui représentent tellement bien comment la vie peut se montrer parfois si surréaliste qu'on finit par l'aimer toute entière sans plus se poser de question. Ce livre m'a jetée au sol autant qu'il m'a permis de me surélever.
La fin est un coup de poing autant qu'un cri délivré, long, fort, poussé à s'en crever les poumons, jusqu'à ne plus avoir de souffle avant d'aspirer l'air d'un grand coup et de se sentir plus vivant.e.
Je vous souhaite de telles lectures pour l'année qui débute. Et si possible, je vous souhaite de faire la connaissance de la plume de Kaitlyn Purcell, si ce n'est pas déjà fait, et de vous en délecter.
Maybe I should be so full of myself that I float to the moon. Should I love her more that I love myself? Or is it that the more I love myself, the more I will become able to love the world? Can I fill myself with so much love that there's no longer room for anything else inside me? So full of love, will I really float away? Or will my love for the world sink roots in to keep me here?
Why am I so concerned?
Lire ce livre, c'est accepter de se brûler les rétines tellement la lumière qui jaillit de la noirceur est puissante et scintillante. Kaitlyn Purcell arrive à jouer avec grâce avec les mots, elle les fait entrer en collision pour en faire surgir des images indélébiles. Des images pleines de poésie, qui représentent tellement bien comment la vie peut se montrer parfois si surréaliste qu'on finit par l'aimer toute entière sans plus se poser de question. Ce livre m'a jetée au sol autant qu'il m'a permis de me surélever.
La fin est un coup de poing autant qu'un cri délivré, long, fort, poussé à s'en crever les poumons, jusqu'à ne plus avoir de souffle avant d'aspirer l'air d'un grand coup et de se sentir plus vivant.e.
I drift into sleep, begin to dream: The world is turned inside out. Our solar system has rearranged itself. The earth sits in the orbit where Uranus was. We stole its moon. One moon chases the other as they drift across the sky. Cold air swallows us. Heavy snow. The sun is too far to feel it on our skin. A famine for wildflowers. The world is going to end.
Why is the world always funking ending?
Je vous souhaite de telles lectures pour l'année qui débute. Et si possible, je vous souhaite de faire la connaissance de la plume de Kaitlyn Purcell, si ce n'est pas déjà fait, et de vous en délecter.
When I wake up, he is gone. But I'm still searching for his eyes, the ones that spoke about the love he never got as a kid.
myza's review
5.0
What an amazing read! The story and then poetry throughout was incredible and I could picture every scene. The ending was perfect. I would definitely recommend this.
foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book captures a very specific Edmonton energy that I’ve never seen in a book before. It is was a stunning, emotional and graphic read that carried me away into Ronnie’s world. Poems and prose coupled with short stories and character reflections make this a unique read that defies categorization. I loved it!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Drug use, Vomit, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
megpaz's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
suzyreadsbooks's review
4.0
I found an older version of this as Purcell’s master’s thesis, and the intro included in that pdf was very helpful in giving context and discussing more about her methods of storytelling:
“In my writing practice, I have found that when my own stories are too painful to consider, I must augment my subjective writing practice so that I can maintain a level of objectivity and distance, and so to survive re-living/re-writing those stories. I have found the disembodied practice of the cut up, reframed and radicalized within a feminist sensibility as the “cu(n)t up” by writer Dodie Bellamy, as an essential practice to access my stories. After writing a traumatic story, the cu(n)t up process allows me the space to break apart those memories, playing with them in order to create new and more impressionistic poetry. In this process, traumatic memories become words on a page. Physically cutting the words up and replacing them on the page helps me to remember that there is distance between those difficult memories and my current life. Additionally, I consider my practice to be feminist and that my resulting poems are cu(n)t ups because with them I face and challenge the misogynist violence that my characters encounter.”
“In my writing practice, I have found that when my own stories are too painful to consider, I must augment my subjective writing practice so that I can maintain a level of objectivity and distance, and so to survive re-living/re-writing those stories. I have found the disembodied practice of the cut up, reframed and radicalized within a feminist sensibility as the “cu(n)t up” by writer Dodie Bellamy, as an essential practice to access my stories. After writing a traumatic story, the cu(n)t up process allows me the space to break apart those memories, playing with them in order to create new and more impressionistic poetry. In this process, traumatic memories become words on a page. Physically cutting the words up and replacing them on the page helps me to remember that there is distance between those difficult memories and my current life. Additionally, I consider my practice to be feminist and that my resulting poems are cu(n)t ups because with them I face and challenge the misogynist violence that my characters encounter.”
madelindrew's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
actualtheodoreroosevelt's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes