Did Not Finish-2 and a half stories in (can’t find the book and mark what page I got to)
So sad I could not get into this collection at all. I know that Janelle Monáe did her “dirty computer” thing and I get where she was going with this. If you pretend it’s just a continuation to her songs/album it kind of works. But if you never listened to her songs or watched the movie based on these songs, you are going to be totally lost. Also I thought the stories were not really cohesive as a whole. I think I kept going okay this is symbolism while I was reading. I felt like I was back in high school English class and I was going to be quizzed on what did I think the author meant by this after a while. In the end I found myself getting bored and DNFed it at 90 pages in (yes i bought the hardback…yes I am annoyed at myself). I do feel bad since it appears this was got tons of acclaim. She also came to this year’s National Book Festival and pulled a huge crowd.
The Memory Librarian (2 stars)-We follow the so called memory librarian named Seshet. Seshet works for New Dawn and is in charge of deleting and replacing people’s memories. Hey, you keep a population under your thumb, you can win right? Well of course there are rebels, and of course Seshet starts to wonder if she is in the right for what she has been doing. I honestly could not get into it. I thought the story was kind of all over the place and I had so many questions about New Dawn.
Nevermind (2 stars)-Jane from the movie who runs away from New Dawn to stay in a hotel called Pynk (yeah symbolism). Jane’s friend Neer is there and of course there is a lot going on with people questioning whether certain women really belong at Pynk. I started thinking about J.K. Rowling and grimacing.
Timebox (?)-I stopped here. I was going eh I am not enjoying this and then someone told me the ending and I went what and then I put this book down.
