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bognymph

bognymph@wyrmsign.org

Joined 11 months, 2 weeks ago

ethereal girl in a material world. i like things bittersweet.

making emotional and noisy "ambient" / neoclassical music, writing poetry and diaries, and taking portraits of the ones i love in Tiohtià:ke.

a bookworm bb and hobby collector.

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Leslie Feinberg: Stone Butch Blues (Paperback, 2004, Alyson Publications) 5 stars

Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as …

God I wish I’d had a copy of this when I was like 13. I’m usually more of a purple prose enjoyer, but the straightforward style made this feel so immediate and personal. I’m glad I was familiar with Feinberg’s life and activism before going in, because otherwise many moments in here would have felt very “and then everybody clapped”. But ze was really about it.

Much has been said about the brutality in this novel, but it was the soft squishy parts that really broke me. I had to put the book down and lie down many times.

It feels like a diary, a condensed history, an indictment, and a mirror all at once. This really nestled into my heart, I already know I’m going to re-read it in a few years’ time. A salve for my little outsider heart.

Edward P. Coleridge: Medea (Paperback, Digireads.com) No rating

"Medea has been betrayed. Her husband, Jason, has left her for a younger woman. He …

This play is all I can think about since devouring it in a sitting. I have a lot of feelings about this, none of which I’m ready to articulate, but suffice to say this really spoke to me. The more I read about the myths preceding the events in the play the more obsessed I become. This has the feeling of an epic but is so thoroughly distilled down to an emotional core. Also god this activates my feminine rage. I can see why Courtney Love once claimed that this play helped inspire the name “Hole”

Virginia Woolf: Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics) (Penguin Books Ltd) 4 stars

In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the …

Went into this one somewhat blind and didn't realize how humorous / satirical it would be. Lots of wink-wink, nudge-nudge fourth wall breaks. It's both a love letter to and a satire of Virginia Woolf's lover and literature itself. There is a generous sprinkling of historical criticism and themes of loss (loss of love, loss of home, loss of time, loss of self). Also gotta love seeing two gender-fluid tri-centenarians win. Now i've got to tee up the movie adaptation.

Aurora Mattia: Unsex Me Here (2025, Nightboat Books) No rating

Unsex Me Here is a prayer book tied together by the strings of a corset. …

Unfortunately i think this one may not be for me. I typically like poetic prose, but I just can't seem to drop into this writer's style in particular. It also feels a bit too navel-gazey for me. Makes me feel kind of how I felt trying to read Bluets.

Marina Tsvetaeva: The Story of Sonechka (Cherry Orchard Books) No rating

It is 1918 in Moscow. The communist revolution is in full swing. Food is scarce, …

cried during the translator's note. cried during the introduction. cried throughout the novel itself. her punctuation and cadence is so halting and breathless. the doomed and anxious nature of youth dotted with so much playfulness and joy, but you know there's no happy ending.