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.
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Things I like to read - saxophone * black lit * sci-fi * comics * pomo * theory
Languages I read in - English * Français
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Carnivalesque rated Telephone: 5 stars
Carnivalesque finished reading Telephone by Percival Everett
Carnivalesque reviewed Being Numerous by Natasha Lennard
On Being Numerous
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.
Carnivalesque finished reading Being Numerous by Natasha Lennard
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@astralstreeting just picked up an edition of this!
Carnivalesque set a goal to read 12 books in 2025
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@astralstreeting yeah his older works are very difficult find! also every book is so different from each other so I would be wary of suggesting that interest or lack thereof in one might not indicate feelings about others!
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@astralstreeting I've read The Trees and Erasure and they are both so good.
Carnivalesque finished reading Tremor by Teju Cole
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@peoplelikebooks this one has been sitting on my shelf for a long time your review may be the push I need to take the leap for some reason it has intimidated me!
Carnivalesque finished reading Counterweight by Anton Hur
Carnivalesque rated Counterweight: 4 stars
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Counterweight by Anton Hur, Djuna
From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, …
Carnivalesque wants to read Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us by Simon Critchley
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This one kind of reads like a book report on other more penetrating verso books about the eco -logic-nomic situation.