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Carnivalesque

Carnivalesque@wyrmsign.org

Joined 1 year, 3 months ago

Things I like to read - saxophone * black lit * sci-fi * comics * pomo * theory

Languages I read in - English * Français

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16% complete! Carnivalesque has read 2 of 12 books.

Percival Everett: Telephone (2020, Graywolf Press) 5 stars

A beautiful and sad story about losing someone and needing to save someone else to save yourself. As always Everett's highly stylized non-style leads to an incredibly fluid reading experience and his exceptionally well characterized first-person narrator contains and reveals all the ugly and beautiful complexities of muddling your way through this world. Incidentally much of the novel is set in and around Altadena.

Natasha Lennard: Being Numerous (Hardcover, Verso) 5 stars

On Being Numerous

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I started reading this essay collection the day after Trump's re-election and finished it for the most part the day of his second inauguration. Published during his first term much of what is discussed within remains relevant, possibly even more so now. Lennard discusses race, violence, love, and abolition. One chapter explores the lifelong ramifications of the legal response to pipeline protestors while another explores her personal experiences of attempting suicide. Wide-ranging and with a rare clarity of thought this collection of essays tackles the dangers and hopes of living right now.