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“She had lifted me to her star…”

Olivia by Dorothy Strachey

June 8, 2021 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

Welcome to a small world in which “a world in which everything was fierce and piercing, everything charged with strange emotions, clothed with extraordinary mysteries, and in which I myself seemed to exist only as an inner core of palpitating fire.” Isn’t that a place you want to go? I happened across this slim novella by chance in the classics section of a nearby indie bookstore. The author’s surname caught my eye, and I did a quick search to see if she was related to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dorothy strachey, olivia, queer love

tiny_bookbot's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dorothy strachey, olivia, queer love ·
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A Journey Into a Very Neurotic Time

Crudo by Olivia Laing

June 9, 2020 by surebitch Leave a Comment

“In this atmosphere it was becoming increasingly hard to feel real.” Oh, Olivia Laing, you barely knew! I wasn’t sure if I should read this book at first, since I have been avoiding books that could increase my anxiety during these times. I was fully subscribed to escapism and erotica for a while there, but even that became exhausting. So I picked up Crudo, which I had been meaning to read for years. And it was exactly as I had imagined it—though the protagonists wedding […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: crudo, laing, olivia, olivia laing

surebitch's CBR12 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: crudo, laing, olivia, olivia laing ·
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