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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
A fascinating and mysterious little book! Picked this up randomly in a bookstore and after looking at some of the quotes and reading the first page, I decided to buy it. It's hard to describe what this book is or what it's trying to do, but it was gripping from the start and it's one I'll want to return to one day.
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Surreal, yet it feels like history. Should be required reading for lgbtqia+ individuals.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was incredible - the kind of book that makes you think more broadly about what it means to tell a story. It plays with truth and fiction in such a fun and interesting way, without ever feeling like it’s compromising the narrative or the memory of the subjects who populate it.
This book, which I saw somewhere described as “experimental fiction,” used its atypical components (erasures, pictures, photocopies of books and ads, etc) to situate the story, even in its fiction, as something very real. Most of all, though, it masterfully worked through what it means to be erased - from history, from the record, from the context that makes all of your stories more rich and full. It takes erasure, as well as memory, and mines them both to get to a story that feels entirely new.
This book, which I saw somewhere described as “experimental fiction,” used its atypical components (erasures, pictures, photocopies of books and ads, etc) to situate the story, even in its fiction, as something very real. Most of all, though, it masterfully worked through what it means to be erased - from history, from the record, from the context that makes all of your stories more rich and full. It takes erasure, as well as memory, and mines them both to get to a story that feels entirely new.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Intimate, dreamy, gothic
Addressing literal, metaphorical and historical erasures of queer history.
"These two alien senoras, delighted in how softly I spoke, how shy I was - though they never said outright. I don't know how I knew what I knew; some unspoken knowledge, communicated through the warmth of their indulgence"
Addressing literal, metaphorical and historical erasures of queer history.
"These two alien senoras, delighted in how softly I spoke, how shy I was - though they never said outright. I don't know how I knew what I knew; some unspoken knowledge, communicated through the warmth of their indulgence"
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced