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Vanished from the edge of the world

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

January 17, 2020 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

Have you ever misidentified the Korean peninsula on a map, then double checked and realized you had your finger on Russia? That’s the Kamchatka Peninsula and it’s very nearly what Sarah Palin could see from her house. The skinny neck of land connecting it to the continent renders it one of the most isolated places on earth, and this book really fills in that picture. It is lonely, it is cold, and it is beautiful. Against this landscape, two sisters ages 8 and 11 are […]

We’re all obsessed with this, right?

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

January 15, 2020 by lowercasesee 3 Comments

Like, 100%, right? I’m in a Slack group and all the book club channel can talk about is this book so then it was on Kindle sale and I don’t even like romance but whatevs I bought it and then it was just supposed to be a mindless book in between Big Important books from the library but fuck it I wanted to read Red, White & Royal Blue ALL THE TIME because this book? Is the most adorable thing in the world. McQuiston manages to balance pop culture […]

I read this one too slow

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

January 15, 2020 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

This is all on me. I read this too slow and it returned itself to the library before I could jot down my highlighted lines. I am not a digital highlighter AT ALL but I flagged at least four spots in here because the language was just that damn good and now they’re GONE. I read this slow because, well, I wasn’t sure I was going to finish it. I was about 40% through and just like “Ugh, okay, I’ll make it halfway, that’s good […]

The short story as an interlude

Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

January 14, 2020 by lowercasesee 1 Comment

I must just have not been reading the right short stories because ever since I finally got around to How Long Till Black Future Month I have found my gear. Sabrina & Corina is one of the most fantastic story collections you will find out there right now, I fell into this book and never looked to come up for air. There is something about the way Fajardo-Anstine weaves her stories that makes them feel less separate, if that makes sense. This isn’t a disparate assembly of […]

The power in small stories

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

January 10, 2020 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

Between this and Normal People, Sally Rooney really excels in the small spaces. They’re just stories about people, removed even from extraordinary circumstances. The background isn’t war or conflict or some other extraordinary event, the background is just life. The cynic in me wonders if this isn’t because Rooney is so young that small stories about young people are what’s currently in her wheelhouse, but even if that is the case, very few young authors could tell these stories with half the care and depth that […]

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