oooh yes this was stellar. looove the eerie, macabre, at times hilarious, and always completely raw and on point feel that lima brings to these storieoooh yes this was stellar. looove the eerie, macabre, at times hilarious, and always completely raw and on point feel that lima brings to these stories. a really masterful collection full of works that function well both as a loosely connected overarching narrative, as well as completely self-contained narratives.
a lot of these stories are lockdown stories as well which, despite being very grounded in the political sphere of 2020-2022, still feel very fresh and enjoyable to read despite the wealth of lockdown stories we've gotten since then. i love how the author draws parallels between US and brazilian politics, exploring both sides of the political dynamic with stories like [i]ghost story.[/i] i'm a huge sucker for autobiographical fiction too, and i really enjoyed how lima weaves memoir-style segments into and around the main stories. like, this is just so fucking excellent, please read it???
got this as an ARC and i'm so glad i was able to get my hands on it early because it was a THOROUGHLY enjoyable read! really impressive not only as a got this as an ARC and i'm so glad i was able to get my hands on it early because it was a THOROUGHLY enjoyable read! really impressive not only as a work of horror but also especially impressive given that it's the author's debut - leslie anderson is definitely one to watch!
i told basically everyone i knew about this while i was reading it and i have to say, getting to chant "horse horror horse horror horse horror" at people is extremely fun. i looooved that this was a horror book for horse girls because oh my god that is a niche i need more of?? also just did a fantastic job of exploring the ecology of small towns and how interwoven everyone's lives. while i can usually take or leave a lot of POVs, this worked really well to showcase the story from every angle and highlight the complex plot threads. the town almost takes on a life of its own, with the monster from the woods acting as a personification of the poverty and generational trauma that haunts everyone living there. it's just so well done and i am SO IMPRESSED.
reads super easily - it's just mystery/thriller enough to make it hard to put down while keeping the harsher edge of horror. the character development flows really well, too, in an almost untraceable arc - i went back to the beginning after finishing so i could underline a few quotes i liked and i didn't realize until i did that how much the POV of the main character, marshall, had changed. that's definitely a sign of a good author to me and i loooove an author who can manage character development and complex plots at the same time. and i mean, small-town rural folk horror with lots of horse gore and creepy forest monsters that also explores the opioid crisis and economic downfall of rural america AND lack of access to reproductive healthcare?? this could not be MORE specifically written for me. 10/10 i loved it and i highly encourage horror fans to check it out when it is released in august! ...more
debating on whether to tag this as romance but fuck it we ball
SOOO GOOD GODDDDD!!! i want to just live in this art forever and ever & look at it all tdebating on whether to tag this as romance but fuck it we ball
SOOO GOOD GODDDDD!!! i want to just live in this art forever and ever & look at it all the time. so fluid and beautiful and the colors are so carefully chosen and it's like beautiful but also the horror scenes are HORRIFYING to look at and like. what if i was a young woman in an unhappy relationship with a dentist who has a dark secret and you were the beautiful but terrifying ghost of his late wife now haunting our house and we fell in love <3 then what <3
100% one of my favorite graphic novels i've read in recent years. everyone go read this now thank you...more
read this one for this month's book club pick not knowing a ton about it other than that i liked christopher buehlman's writing style (i read Between read this one for this month's book club pick not knowing a ton about it other than that i liked christopher buehlman's writing style (i read Between Two Fires recently and loved it) but it ended up being a HUGE hit for me and a favorite!! as much as i enjoyed buehlman's horror writing, i feel like this style of dark comedic fantasy a la the witcher really suits his voice. quite literally - he narrates the audiobook and it really makes the story come alive.
side note: while listening to the audiobook i was like huh....i didn't realize christopher buehlman was scottish...because WOW this man has a thick scottish accent. i go to google him and realize oh he sure ISN'T scottish, he was born and raised in florida. how did he perfect that scottish accent? 25 YEARS OF A RENFAIRE COMEDY SHOW. i'm sort of obsessed with him and i desperately wish he was still doing that act at the NY renfaire because i would absolutely roadtrip out there to see it.
back to the point - clearly those 25 years contributed not only to his accent but also his writing style, because this book is just razor-sharp witty, hilarious throughout, and effortlessly switches between fast-paced dialogue, relentless action, and grim, somber moments. there's a huge amount of range here which is super impressive to see and makes for a really enjoyable and fast paced read. overall i just really Loved reading this and am really glad we picked it for book club because i probably wouldn't have gotten around to reading it otherwise - and i am very much looking forward to reading the prequel that comes out this month, The Daughters' War and the sequel WHENEVER IT COMES OUT. i need more kinch & galva interaction pls....more
i was lucky enough to get my hands on an arc copy of this thanks to my wonderful coworkers and OH MY GOD AHHHHH!!! molly knox ostertag isSO GOOD AAAAA
i was lucky enough to get my hands on an arc copy of this thanks to my wonderful coworkers and OH MY GOD AHHHHH!!! molly knox ostertag is such a powerhouse and i've loved their previous works but this is far and above my favorite. the characters and story are so compelling and immediately catch your attention - i loved mags from the start and by the end i was crying over her SO. that's a solid endorsement if there ever was one. obviously the art is gorgeous and ostertag clearly has an excellent sense of how to make a story flow using visual storytelling. i often find that graphic novels run into issues with pacing but this one doesn't struggle in that area at all which was super refreshing! the story moves quickly when it needs to build tension but also has room to breathe and let the characters develop, which gives you time to get attached. plus it's absolutely heartbreaking! win/win/win. just a really lovely book and i highly encourage everyone to pick it up when it comes out in june!...more
"a skin was nothing. pigs had skins; snakes had skins. they were knitted of dead cells, shed and grown and shed again. but a name? that was a spell, w"a skin was nothing. pigs had skins; snakes had skins. they were knitted of dead cells, shed and grown and shed again. but a name? that was a spell, which summoned memories."
clive!!! clive you absolute mad lad!!! this was SO INSANELY GOOD, like so much better than i expected - even going into it having watched hellraiser and knowing the story, it pulled me in immediately and i was just like tearing through it as if i didn't already know what was going to happen lol. it really puts into perspective how absolutely balls to the wall insane the story is, like if i had been reading this in '86 i would have lost my mind?? also yes i did put this in my queer shelf because if this doesn't count as a queer classic i don't know WHAT does. pinhead, the original bdsm leather/latex extreme body modification kink queer, i adore them! and i mean the writing in this shit is just beyond excellent, even if you're not a horror fan give it a shot if you like good prose because this is GORGEOUS. and also nauseating. best of both worlds...more
BRIAN!!! BRIAN!!! brian you madman you've done it AGAIN. haunting and genius and delightful all around - this is definitely a favorite among his shortBRIAN!!! BRIAN!!! brian you madman you've done it AGAIN. haunting and genius and delightful all around - this is definitely a favorite among his short story collections. a good one to read slowly, savor, and have rattling around your brain forever. so so so good.
individual ratings: black bark - 4/5 a report - 5/5 the punish - 3.5/5 a collapse of horses - 5/5 three indignities - 3/5 cult - 4/5 seaside town 3.5/5 the dust - 3.5/5 bearheart™ - 5/5 scour - 4.5/5 torpor - 3/5 past reno - 5/5 any corpse - 5/5 the moans - 3.5/5 the window - 3/5 click - 5/5 the blood drip - 4/5...more
THEY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE....they said no you'll never finish the 450 page book in time for book club! you fucked up! and i said WATCH ME4.5 stars
THEY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE....they said no you'll never finish the 450 page book in time for book club! you fucked up! and i said WATCH ME. and it was SO GOOD honestly huge props to rebecca roanhorse for writing such an engaging and well crafted plot because it kept me turning pages SO FAST. there were no slow moments here every single chapter kept the tension high and i was on the edge of my seat the whole time. loved the characters, loved the political intrigue, the worldbuilding and sensory details were insanely good, just overall an excellent epic fantasy and now i've gotta read the next one because THAT ENDING???...more
honestly i'm... not even sure where to start when talking about the indian lake trilogy? sometimes a book comes into your life at the exact right timehonestly i'm... not even sure where to start when talking about the indian lake trilogy? sometimes a book comes into your life at the exact right time and reminds you of how important stories are and how much they can touch your life and like, completely consume your brain hahaha. these books have done exactly that for me, and i am thrilled to report that (not that i had any doubt - i trust sgj as an author implicitly) angel of indian lake was an utterly perfect closer to an already impeccable series.
i think there are so many ways that the book could've ended that would've felt wrong, and it could've really easily felt underwhelming compared to the previous two books? but here jones has perfectly finished out not only the story and wrapped up all the loose threads, but he's also written jade's character arc in a way that feels so satisfying and so like...triumphant? it takes a really good grasp of plot and story and tropes to be able to steep your story so thoroughly in slasher movie hallmarks (which demand constant escalation to the point of ridiculousness), while also creating a nuanced and real and touching story. jones takes these tropes, uses them to the fullest, honors them, and then subverts them, creating a story where you sort of already know what's going to happen but at the same time never know what's coming next. (much in the same way that jade is always looking one step ahead with her knowledge of slasher movies, but still gets blindsided no matter how much she prepares or how paranoid she becomes)
the stakes feel so much higher in this installation of the series - partly because it's the third in a SLASHER SERIES which means that of course, no one is safe and the gore is getting ridiculous - but also because this is the first book where you really feel like jade cares about what's happening. she was heading that way in the last book, but it didn't hit quite as hard because there were so many povs and also, i think, because the third person pov created a level of separation between character and story. really being in jade's head this time gives you an idea of how much this matters to her, especially now that she's become the town's history teacher and is committing herself to her students, to letha, to aidy, to banner - she cares so much about these people and this is the first book where she's letting herself feel that. because of that, each death and each act of violence hits so much harder; each person that dies is a person she knows and cares for, each person that is driven to kill is someone she knows who is now beyond saving. and it's SO COOL to get to watch that development through the books. it's even more apparent when listening to the audiobooks because cara gee and isabella star lablanc are incredible narrators who embody jade so well.
also, let's just take a moment to appreciate (view spoiler)[confirmed bisexual jade because i FUCKING CALLED IT THE FIRST BOOK!! i love her and i'm so proud of her for finding a hot girlfriend in prison she deserves that so much (hide spoiler)]
like, i love the story and the setting and all of the characters but jade has such a special place in my heart and is 100% in my top 5 favorite characters of all time - she really spoke to me even from the first book and getting to watch her grow and come into herself was such a delight. it felt so hopeful and inspiring and (view spoiler)[i'm so glad that she got not only closure but also her version of a happy ending? like even after all the horrific shit that happened, she found both a family that cares for her and a purpose in life and like...after the first book where she's so young and so bitter and so hopeless....it made me sob, yes. thank you sgj for letting her escape the slasher cycle and letting her finally have a chance to be happy. :') (hide spoiler)]
overall just 10/10, no notes, it made me cry and i loved it so much. i already can't wait to revisit the series and i imagine i will be listening to the audiobooks over and over. i can't wait to see what stephen graham jones does next - no doubt it will be incredible...more
genuinely I think one of the best things I've ever read? 100% the best work of historical fiction I have ever read - every scene is so thoughtful and genuinely I think one of the best things I've ever read? 100% the best work of historical fiction I have ever read - every scene is so thoughtful and so grounded in historical fact that you become completely immersed in the setting in a way that can be really difficult to achieve in historical fiction.
just a masterpiece - perfectly crafted story, incredibly developed characters (and incredibly humanization of deeply divisive historical figures), the PROSE!! it's so gorgeous!! the wit and complexities and philosophy of it all!!
this is such a good fucking book by any metric and it's SO completely tailored to my hyper specific interests I can't believe it took me this long to read it. so so so good please read it ...more
lauren groff my beloved...what a beautiful and terrifying mind you have
just such an excellent book! i was so excited for this after reading matrix a lauren groff my beloved...what a beautiful and terrifying mind you have
just such an excellent book! i was so excited for this after reading matrix a while back and loving it, and then especially after watching her interview with the newberry library where she spoke about vaster wild and her absolutely fascinating writing process. vaster wilds certainly did not disappoint - in fact it exceeded all expectations. it's so...visceral and disgusting and horrifying but also so so beautiful which is a tension not many authors can pull off well, but a tension that's often needed in books like this?
honestly, this book is to me everything that lapvona was trying and failing to be: a study of the deep evils of humanity that is visceral and filthy and evokes disgust and horror while at the same time, a meditation on the simultaneous smallness and all-importance of life. where lapvona failed by making human evil an endless and numbing parade of shock-value, vaster wilds succeeds by drawing in the beauty and awe of the natural world as a backdrop to the horrors of colonization and the violence of christianity. groff keeps her eye on the overarching theme of her book and so is able to avoid falling into the trap of using violence and disgust for shock value; everything has a purpose, even lamentations' many, many hot liquid shits in the woods. god bless.
genuinely so incredible. i am stunned by how much this book achieves and how perfectly it achieves it. another fantastic offering from lauren groff that i will be thinking about constantly for a good long while.
the men of her own country had always felt this nothing deep within them; they felt it twist and strain at the center of them, and they believed the sensation to be eternity. they grew up twisted inside around this nothing; it was like the scar after an early wound that deformed them around it, and so twisted, they became terrible and frightened and loud and hungry. it gave them a need to set their boots upon everything they saw.
no, she said, for the blight of the english will come to this remoteness as well. it will spread into this land and infect this land and devour the people who were here first; it will slaughter them, diminish them. the hunger inside the god of my people can only be sated by domination. they will dominate until there is nothing left, then they will eat themselves. i am not of them. i will not be....more
sgj does it again...gets me really fucking emotionally attached to a character and then makes me cry about them. jade fucking daniels, my friends. shesgj does it again...gets me really fucking emotionally attached to a character and then makes me cry about them. jade fucking daniels, my friends. she's so good and after this book, is FIRMLY in my "top 5 favorite characters of all time", right up there with my beloved zhu from She Who Became the Sun. (shoutout to my coworker who told me that having those two as favorites is deeply concerning, she is correct!)
overall just a huge hit! the audiobook narration is fantastic as usual, it's a perfect mix of plot and character development with a nice selection of POVs that really expands on everything and gives you a look into the minds of the characters you didn't learn much about in the first book. i especially appreciated the time we got to spend with the ginger/cinnamon/galatea trio (and can we talk about what a fucking badass galatea pangborn is?!) and kimmy. i looved getting to hear more about kimmy's backstory but also had to brace myself every time i started a kimmy chapter because HOLY SHIT they were fucking bleak!! OH and i loved that og audiobook narrator for jade from My Heart Is a Chainsaw was the narrator for galatea in this book - a really neat little stylistic choice that hammered home the full-circle feeling. (and the narrator for charlotte from The Babysitter Lives was jade! which also felt incredibly correct)
so yeah this was absolutely incredible and i am just over here frothing at the mouth for the third book PLEASE COME SOONER...more
this book THOROUGHLY chewed me up and spit me back out in the best way possible? i listened to it on audiobook (the whole 12 hours in 2 days) and endethis book THOROUGHLY chewed me up and spit me back out in the best way possible? i listened to it on audiobook (the whole 12 hours in 2 days) and ended up staying up until 3am listening to it....and then shut it off to sleep and spent another 20 minutes laying awake thinking about it. personally, i didn't find it quite as scary as The Only Good Indians but it was absolutely and totally engrossing (and held its own in the realm of gasp-inducing gore). honestly though, i think the main character was the big selling point for me - i ADORED jade and her character development was just so satisfying to watch. overall just so smart and hilarious and heartbreaking and horrifying - 10/10 would recommend. ...more
this collection: - sneaks up behind you in an alley - knifes you - pours salt in the wound and i LOVE IT.
broken bottle of vanilla fields
a block away, tthis collection: - sneaks up behind you in an alley - knifes you - pours salt in the wound and i LOVE IT.
broken bottle of vanilla fields
a block away, the football stadium floodlit like the mothership, soaking up the pitchy dregs of friday night, calling all flying insects home. he kissed me. there was no heat in it. only the mouth of a small goldfish swallowing a smaller goldfish. when he touched me down there, he expected combustion. but i was not his dad's red bronco - idle, looping i smell sex and candy here. i was a fat wildflower unstapled from the pop-up field. i lay very still and let him strive against me, the grass pricking. plasticine. i asked, can you hear my heart? i needed to know it was there. shh, he breathed. he looked like a man building his house on the slope of some dormant volcano. trust me, he said. a drumbeat, and then: the drill teams of travis county gave a shallow, singular grunt on my behalf, high-kicking their white sequin cowgirl hats, lunging forward into the splits.
big game trophy return fantasy
it's not quite thanksgiving. just shy. the uncles stow her in the hunters' bunkhouse. no place for a girl. from bed, she gazes at the guns on high racks, the empty beer cans, field & stream, hustler, all the enormous animal heads. trophies open & close their glass eyes. a little steam. the wildebeest & water buffalo step from wood paneling. simply, as if from a pond. they shake sawdust luxuriously from their beards, trampling the guest sheets, buckling the thin mattress. her foldout couch retracts & from this claptrap rises a gamey smell: wet flannel, old boots, defrosting meat. a girl & her reindeer nightgown swallowed whole. she falls face-first into dark- borne down through an underworld of leather & bedsprings. the lopsided beasts pour forth: bok, boa, kudu, rhino. they scratch & sniff her future: an opening in the ice, a truck overturning. this girl thing warming their bodies. this small hunter neither snuffed nor comforted. thanksgiving: an electric flash, the smell of frying venison, the knife's path along its strop. the deep freeze hums. they stiffen, backboard ruff around their necks. now the screen door opens: it's time to be dead again.
blue-eyed boyfriends
every blue-eyed boyfriend lining up to look at me all at once: a firing squad of looking, my head in one of those big paper cones to keep a bitch from biting her wounds, hackles up against the levee, hemmed by the bayou. all my blue-eyed boyfriends swaying silent as spikerush, staring me down. some without socks, grown stockier, self-effacing, shit-faced. doesn't matter. they just want to see me see them. their eyes- some wet, shallow, shiny as pie pans left in the rain, some pure pupil, so bottomless-inkwell i can't see the blue until it smudges my thumb. some for a second, like looking through the sunroof between tall buildings. others so light they look blighted by lime, bleached of gravity. what now? i throw nickels at them in remuneration. they ping off the pylons or platt tail-up onto the sludge of the bayou. all my ammunition gone, i finally get it. i take out my make-up mirror: the eye of the storm, bloodshot, rimmed in blue and contraflow. the forecast funnels in: i know, i know....more
this was easily the best graphic novel i've read this year and by god it was a BRUTAL read. a really really raw look at growing up queer and catholic this was easily the best graphic novel i've read this year and by god it was a BRUTAL read. a really really raw look at growing up queer and catholic in the 80s in a hostile environment where the most easily available coping mechanism is alcohol. it follows claire's tumultuous high school days as they struggle with burgeoning queer desires, unsupportive family, and already fully-fledged alcoholism, which leads to them being sent to a rehab center. there they befriend their fellow 'troubled teens' and grapple with harsh truths, both about themselves and the world they live in. ultimately this was a really bleak book, lit with bright moments of hope and human connection. although the ending wasn't exactly happy, i thought it was perfect for the story, and i appreciated the author's willingness to let the reader sit with the messy and real uncertainty of it. really really beautiful and i would absolutely recommend it...more
this was SO good!! i listened to it in audiobook format (highly recommend the recorded books version) while driving around the northern wilderness on this was SO good!! i listened to it in audiobook format (highly recommend the recorded books version) while driving around the northern wilderness on a camping trip, and let me tell you, it was thematically appropriate. obviously i've heard rave reviews for all of cormac mccarthy's works, and it was delightful to finally read one (my only previous interaction was watching the no country for old men movie which was also really enjoyable), and one that hits everything i love in dystopian fiction, no less. i feel like so much of dystopian fiction focuses too much on either the rebuilding of society after a collapse or the leadup and immediate aftermath of the collapse, but i've found that the stories i enjoy the most hit the midpoint. i like it when the story just sort of plops you right into the middle of several years post-collapse when everything is at it's worst. (shoutout to the last of us for also doing this extremely well)
anyways, the road absolutely nailed this by zeroing in on the lives of two people in the midst of an incredibly bleak world that feels all the more vast for its isolation. i love how the setting here made everything feel so bleak and empty and horrific yet everything becomes so much more terrifying when other people do show up. (and more horrific too! wow the cellar scene fucked me right up). just a really masterful example of dystopian stories done right in all of their gruesome horror. unsettling and haunting and perfect to listen to while whittling by the fire in the woods, in true old man style. shoutout to books that make you feel like a hollow, empty husk when you finish them, i fucking love that shit!!...more
martha wells you have healed me!! i've been intensely intensely looking forward to the next murderbot since i blitzed through the entire series earliemartha wells you have healed me!! i've been intensely intensely looking forward to the next murderbot since i blitzed through the entire series earlier this year and this lived up to all possible expectations - such a lovely hilarious thoughtful but also incredibly sad addition to the series. so so good and a really great way to expand on the characters and plot! i love that this whole series is like, action sci-fi but also at its heart is just a character study on murderbot. absolutely my favorite thing i've read in months and now it's time to go relisten to the entire series...more
stunningly hilarious and smart and brutal and just all of the best parts of contemporary poetry wrapped up into one perfect collection with allll the stunningly hilarious and smart and brutal and just all of the best parts of contemporary poetry wrapped up into one perfect collection with allll the homages to kate bush <3 i haven't gotten any poetry in in a while and this just hit everything i was looking for and now i need a physical copy because i need to underline the fuck out of it!
the girls i grew up with were hard
& inscrutable as mirrored cop glasses- they reflected your fear right back at you.
They had shins like weapons & weren't afraid to hurt you. They were gleaming, high-busted & knew their way around a pool table. They moved down the court of my adolescence:
Muscle & Hair & High-Five. They aced precalculus & clattered down those awful halls like the air of high school was hugging them.
Their retainers glinted when they grinned & when they laughed hard, you could sometimes see the whole firmament of sparkly blue plastic.
They all took up Texas two-stepping-tan & top heavy with God. They had cliques & Clinique & intentions to study International Business.
Without intending to, their limbs sawed at the new wood of me. I was soft & easily outdone.
I flung myself in the path of their collective Jeep Cherokee & said my dad had stranded me.
They didn't stop-even though I smiled, even though I said, Please. Even though
I'd baked them lemon cupcakes & daubed Love's Baby Soft between my knees.
i thought no one would ever love me
so I lay in my daybed at night & fashioned myself a Future Wife. Someone like the girl up the street with the old tan Volvo. The one with one foot in volleyball & the other in drama club. Maybe I hid her pearls & a satin-trim robe. Maybe I cut her diploma into fleur-de-lis & dipped them in the dark chocolate of my chintzy desires. I installed My Wife in a woody, masculine den & made her whippet-willed & full of brandy. I stole her hairspray & gave her a letter desk instead & an actual inkwell. I gave her a lockable, leather- bound love. I imagined her parents somewhere safe, warm & out of the way. We summered in Monaco, read nothing but Daphne du Maurier, took our sun at the Top of the City. She had a smile like a high-wire act & a signature like a sigil. I never stopped loving the way she slid into day-old stockings like a snake reassuming its shed. In truth? Her name was Jill. She wore athletic shorts & never spoke to me. So I renamed her Miriam de Havilland & had her handle my correspondence. We cohabitated fantastically. I installed paintings throughout our Morning Room: storm- flecked seas, gold-framed & foaming at the mouth!
golden age drinking
Our upstairs neighbor's apartment is leaking "Moon River" again-it trickles down the stairs & under our door. It puts chopsticks in my chignon & spritzes the place with Jean Patou.
The girl up there has been crying for three days straight.
She's pretty, pale & looks like she's made of matchsticks, but she heaves her Sadness around the building like a Giant Toddler on a short leash.
She never seems to sleep. When she checks her mailbox we can see she's a cuttr.
This is the late '90s though, so what's happening feels more like an Aesthetic than a Situation.
In the Mansion of Many Apartments, we keep facing a choice: whether to leave certainty for something else which might be messy, awkward, or mean.
When I try to look through the prism of my early twenties all I really see is gin, scorn & a marble chess set. My stupid Scorpio earrings. I took baths, felt wrath. I didn't even have a real job, just a Lover who fed me slivers of cheese & apple off a knife in a silver hammock we scored for free on Craigslist. Did I think I was some kind of French Duke or what?
By day I did my vocal exercises & listened to cassette tapes: etymological lectures, French lessons, Robert Lowell intoning "nine-knot yawl" & "I myself am hell; nobody's here-"
By night I blew long curls of lavender smoke & Julie London tunes through the cracks in our ceiling like I was fumigating millennial centipedes.
Our upstairs neighbor? The short answer is I don't know what happened.
None of us did a damn thing but drink & egg each other on with increasingly melancholic music.
In hallways, I still see her rhinestone spine flash & wriggle back into the shadow of the fact: we made a Whole Skit of her but never even knocked.
[also: halloween in the anthropocene, we sing mozart's requiem in the back of the cruiser, on the dubious honor of being the prettiest, how to talk the manic away, i wake up in the underworld of my own dirty purse, and this was supposed to be an ode to aqua net.]...more
blew through this audiobook for this month's sci fi/fantasy book club, and WHAT A TREAT IT WAS!!! sharp, fun, hilarious, with engaging prose and immedblew through this audiobook for this month's sci fi/fantasy book club, and WHAT A TREAT IT WAS!!! sharp, fun, hilarious, with engaging prose and immediately loveable characters that hook you in so you quite literally can't stop listening. i got to the store this morning with 5 minutes left in the book and sat at the desk all furtively with it playing on my phone hoping no customers would come in so i could just finish it!! I loved Murderbot, who is the best example of autistic rep in scifi that I've seen in a long time and a fucking hilarious narrator. It's also read by Kevin R. Free, who Welcome to Night Vale fans will of course recognize as the voice of Kevin, and his narration was a delightful blast from the past. Just a really excellent example of how good sci-fi can be. on to the next!...more
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