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On the last chapter and this book is really well written! Intensely intellectual with topics discussed between writers and sensual and funny and dark! It might take me a bit to put everything Iâve read into more coherent and engaging words to solidify my recommendation of this book!
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Julie Chan Is Dead
Liann Zhang
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Mona
Pola Oloixarac
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A Woman is a School (Books for Collective Liberation)
CĂŠline Semaan
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The Golden Book of Words
Bernadette Mayer
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Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection
Laura Pegram
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âAnd how many ways can I break a mask? How many syllables would it take to travel from oneâs own stubborn and beastly tongue?â â from the poem, âThe Wild Water Buffaloâ This book is like a âlesson / in fortitudeâ as it interweaves the story of Little Red Riding Hood as we known it and as itâs been retold, across different cultures, into her own life. The way the structure of the little girl and the hungry wolf is reworked into the poetâs upbringing, her origin story & her motherâs, and how the poet herself comes of age. â⌠I donât know if // I ever found happiness,â she says in one poem that stuns one to a halt. But then the poet gives us the image of feeling like air, free and untouchable and that there is just one of many moments of reclamation that made me feel hopeful of whatâs to come. âif something must be taken away, continually, one must learn to cut out its value.â â from the poem, âThe Light of the Moon,â & to me it feels like where there is a will, there is a way especially as it concerns securing âsafe passageâ in order to live another day. To live is to hunger and to be blunt, âwe were a fucking wolfpack / for a free sample,â Stark says and later on adds: âI felt so gone I picked my own bodyâs price (tradition) / (never simple) and danced it near-deadâŚâ âTHE NIGHT IS LONG AND I BEAR THE HUNGER. The girl said: I AM HUNGRY, TOO.â â from the poem, âThe Tale of the Tiger-Womenâ Some lines I want to come back to: âAnd everything even absence / leaves a trace within the body. / And everyone even truth / is their own version of memory.â âFor years I ignored the sentence in my body.â âI am not frightened of risks, / but I am afraid of drowning.â â⌠she said too much, / wanted too little, wasted too much timeâ âHistory books are forever / missing the details of unfathomable / lossââ âwe all know there are no true villains â weâre just a bunch of hungry animals.â âWhat are we, but small creatures avoiding new versions of violence?â
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Buffalo Girl
Jessica Q. Stark
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Julie Chan Is Dead
Liann Zhang
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One More World Like This World
Carlie Hoffman
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âThe only ghost that had ever truly haunted her was regret. She couldâve escaped, but now it was too late. And she had to live with the consequences of her own choices. Those were often the heaviest burdens to carry around.â (3) For fans of Mexican Gothic⌠sign me up! I feel like Iâve been needing a thriller lately to get me compulsively reading and this book just might be the one! âThese days Iâve come realize that when a house lacks the warmth of a home, one becomes overly attached to materials things. We give meaning to them, craving the feeling of comfort and safety, but theyâre all as empty as we are.â (30) I like that itâs set in Colombia, with the time period flipping from 1936 to 1923 as journal entries are in between chapters. It sure has a promising start thus far! â¨
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Bochica: A Novel
Carolina FlĂłrez-Cerchiaro
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Liquid: A Love Story
Mariam Rahmani
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Liquid: A Love Story
Mariam Rahmani
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Audition
Katie Kitamura
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âu are learning what it is to be loved it is a planetary terror it is a gargling of galaxiesâ The second section of the book was a ramble, the poem and it had this page turner pace that i really liked tho i really wanted to dwell on some lines, sometimes they were as simple as: how do i say iâm not ready to die in a poem i think i just didâ