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A review by savaging
Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler
5.0
This book is cold and cruel and slides away from any metaphors I try to close it into. Also: I loved it.
I hear people talking about Octavia Butler like she wrote how-to manuals, like she's moralizing, and I think: are we reading the same person? Because at least with books like this ... it does not feel like a Life Lesson. It feels like a heat check, to see whether her expert sensory writing can make us totally buy into the wildest ideas she can create. (and it can! it does!)
I hear people talking about Octavia Butler like she wrote how-to manuals, like she's moralizing, and I think: are we reading the same person? Because at least with books like this ... it does not feel like a Life Lesson. It feels like a heat check, to see whether her expert sensory writing can make us totally buy into the wildest ideas she can create. (and it can! it does!)