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What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
tense
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
Jacklight by Louise Erdrich
5.0
I knew this was going to be something special from the very first poem, and I was so happy to be proven right. I've never encountered Louise Erdrich before this, so words cannot say how glad I am that I picked this up on a whim from the secondhand bookstore. A reminder of how magic literature can be; that surprise favourites can still find us spontaneously, organically, even in a world of tailored algorithms.
There's something so compelling about how Erdrich muses equally on the darkness and the beauty of her life, lineage, and locale. Hauntingly gorgeous. Anyone interested in an exploration of feminism, Gothic Americana, folklore, tradition, misogyny, and colonialism, that holds space for all these themes honestly and without platitude, should try this collection.
There's something so compelling about how Erdrich muses equally on the darkness and the beauty of her life, lineage, and locale. Hauntingly gorgeous. Anyone interested in an exploration of feminism, Gothic Americana, folklore, tradition, misogyny, and colonialism, that holds space for all these themes honestly and without platitude, should try this collection.
A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver
emotional
hopeful
reflective
4.0
Save me Mary Oliver's benedictions to the world. Save me humbling existentialism inherent to perceiving nature and our fellow creatures...
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
2.75
Starts and ends strong, but the middle is too much of the same stuff for too long. Also, the fish sex should have been weirder. Where's the commitment to the bit? Also also, unrealistic that Lucy goes through all this with men and doesn't try toxic sex with a woman even once? She's obsessed with Sappho?