How do you resist a title like that. Have you ever had panic attacks? Have you ever sat and thought too deeply about how we’re just electrically stimulated meat sacks and each of us will die through one of the many, many ways a human meat sack can die? Our narrator can’t stop thinking like …
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Oh wow this is a fun book. A brick for sure (clocking in at just over 600 pages) and every page well worth it. Just putting together something so complicated is a feat! We have 1900s girls boarding school, secret clubs and shared secret books, and tragic “accidents” that take on the tinge of the …
I just decided to read all the books I’d been holding onto for a slump because I am in a slump. Or, more like it, I want to read good books, not things I have to struggle through. There’s enough struggling. I wished this book was longer because I loved reading about the union of …
Continue reading “The Factory Witches of Lowell – C.S. Malerich”
I bought this when it came out in May and have been wanting to read it, and also wanting to save it, since then. I finally decided I deserved a good book after forcing myself through a few. What a fabulous time I had reading it. It’s about women and rage and being yourself and …
I’ve been reading a lot more nonfiction lately because there are just so many good books out there! This book covers the House of D in Greenwich Village, NYC, but really spans the history of imprisoning women in America, targeting sex workers, and police making queer life hell. Pretty much every chapter is, “The horrors …
Continue reading “The Women’s House of Detention – Hugh Ryan”
I’ve never read an author from Equatorial Guinea before! Exciting to cross off my world list. This very short novel (novella?) about a young girl who doesn’t belong and then finds her people and love is wonderful. I don’t want to say much about it and give anything away, but it is about a lesbian …
This book made me miss my early days in San Francisco going downtown to clubs with my lesbian roommate or running through the Presidio to Cliff House. Though I knew almost no one and hated my job, my 6 months living in the city were wonderful. Anyway. The book. Set in Chinatown in 1954, we …
Continue reading “Last Night At the Telegraph Club – Malindo Lo”
An audio biography I got from the library. It was better/harder to listen to the narration, as hearing her voice describe the terrible abuse she suffered at the hands of her partner just made me sadder. It felt more personal. The language is beautiful – she’s an excellent writer – despite the hard topics. For …
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