Whenever someone complains about how the second-person point of view just doesn’t work for them, I think they should give Jamaica Kincaid’s short story Girl a solid read.
reading log
Reading Log on Cockroaches In Autumn by Lydia Davis
There is one particular short story in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis that I’ve adored since the very first time I read it, called Cockroaches in Autumn.
Reading Log on The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar
There is a linguistic thread that runs through The Truth About Owls that I keep catching myself thinking about.
Reading Notes on “A Closed and Common Orbit” by Becky Chambers
This sequel continues the theme of found family from the first book, and is bursting at the seams with several themes common to a lot of disabled, queer, and trans experiences: dysphoria, dissociation and depersonalization, healing from traumatic childhoods, gender fluidity, to name just a few.
Drink tea and read comic books 2019.09.22
This month's edition of #DrinkTeaReadBooks features some pu'er-fuelled ramblings prompted by a recent reading of Alan Moore's "Watchmen" and Kat Verhoeven's "Meat and Bone".
Reading Notes on "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers
It's the journey, and not the destination, that counts — even when one is on a ship like the Wayfarer, whose job is to punch stable wormholes through the fabric of space-time.