jazzxteax
self appointed court jester ~•♡☆♡•~ Lover of queer horror 🕸 They/them 24📍Australia No one is free until we are all free.
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My first Trent Dalton read. But it certainly wont be my last.
What a beautifully heartbreaking story. This is a novel about family,community, heart break, domestic violence, the dark places we go when we are desperate and alone and how that may give your actions a reason, but it will never be an excuse.
This book had it all in buckets, love, loss, trauma upon trauma and oh so much art, love and heart. The only thing it lacked was story pacing, it felt verry overwritten in places, thus the 4.5 instead of 5, I was debating a 4 star, but even in its over written moments Trent Dalton had me hanging on every last tearful detail.
Trigger warnings: classism, housless strugels, parental abuse, domestic abuse, suicide, drug use and overdoses, physical and emotional assault, natural disasters, parental loss...and honestly probably a lot more i forgot.
Cry count: two weeps and one ugly sob
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Lola in the Mirror
Trent Dalton
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jazzxteax commented on SkywardStrange's review of Horsefly
Horsefly was like an overpriced appetizer - bite sized, kinda weird, and ultimately unsatisfying.
After introducing us to the most interesting part of the work - the parts narrated by the horsefly - Gagné then proceeds to introduce us to characters that are difficult to like and spend an inordinate amount of time describing details of their lives that ultimately don't matter to the infinitesimal amount of plot at all. She sets up many paths and takes none of them, ultimately refusing to even answer the most basic questions in favor of hammering her vague point home to readers who probably didn't care after that ending.
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jazzxteax commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I am sick, so I made this! Some of these are supposed to be hard, some are genuinely only about preference. All lighthearted of course, don’t take them TOO seriously (unless it would be funny to do so)
- Would you rather read 🛖in a lonely cabin infested with spiders or 🏢standing up on a busy sidewalk where you keep being bumped into and run danger of having things spilled on you and your book?
- Would you rather 😍love a book that everyone else hates with a passion or 🙄hate a book that everyone else loves with a passion?
- Would you rather 🔮know the ending of every book you read from now on as soon as you read past the third chapter or 🤔struggle to fully understand every single ending unless you have someone explain it to you or look it up?
- Would you rather have dinner with ✍️your favorite author or 🥸your favorite character?
- Would you rather have your favorite book turned into a screen adaptation that 🌇is wildly inaccurate but incredibly good in its own way, or 🌃is incredibly faithful but still bad in pretty much every other way (acting, editing, effects, colour, costuming, …)?
- For the next five years, Would you rather only be able to read 🎵booktok™ books or ✖️books from your least favorite two genres?
- For the next year, Would you rather 🤖only read books generated with AI or 🤓have listen to a litfic bro™ explain to you why every genre but litfic is not real literature every time you start a new book?
- Would you rather be 🕴️be kidnapped by a hot mafia billionaire or 👽abducted by a hot alien?
- Would you rather 🔜only be a able to read books published from this very second onward or 🔙only be able to read books published up until this very second?
- Would you rather read ❓a series that ends on a cliffhanger and the author has no intention of finishing it or ❗️a story that ends with no happy ending for no narrative reason other than shock value?
Feel free to elaborate on some or all (or not at all) on why you chose the way you did & to add other tricky questions in the comments, I’m curious to see what pagebound thinks 🫶
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Lola in the Mirror
Trent Dalton
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What an intresting read. I appreciate the speculative nature of this book and its themes of mental illness and Coercive control. I just could not connect with the writing style or pacing of this book, it could be a case of good book, bad timing. in conjunction to it being very diffrent to my current reads, this may be a pick back up another time situation.
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When the Museum is Closed
Emi Yagi
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Perfume & Pain
Anna Dorn
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