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Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
disclaimer: i did not like this book. the opinions and impressions i will express in this review are entirely subjective and i am not in fact stating ‘irrefutable facts’. it has come to my attention that this author has a history of going on twitter to ‘bemoan’ reviewers who have given her book a negative…
1 STAR, ART/CREATIVITY, ARTISTS, beauty, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, books i hate, Boy Parts, British author, class, Contemporary, dark, dark humor, Eliza Clark, england, female authors, feverish, graphic content, grotesque, lesbian side characters, lgbtq+, LONDON, My reviews, navel gazing, Newcastle, offensive, photographers, PHOTOGRAPHY, PRIVILEGE, psychological, psychopaths, published in 2020, queer, rape, read in 2022, reading, satire, sexual assault/abuse/rape, SEXUALITY, she is not feeling good at all, slow pacing, style over character, subject over characters/story, the female malaise, trying and failing @ feminism, unreliable narrators -
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
“Your eyes meet in the silence. The gaze requires no words at all. It is an honest meeting.” Open Water is an exceedingly lyrical debut. The story, narrated through a second-person perspective (ie ‘you’) is centred on the relationship between two Black British artists (he is a photographer, she is a dancer). Although their relationship…
2nd pov, 3 STARS, Adult, ART/CREATIVITY, Black & Black heritage authors, British Ghanian author, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Contemporary, cultural dissonance, england, friendships, Ghana, identity, LONDON, loneliness, Longing, lyrical prose, male authors, masculinity, netgalley, Open Water, photographers, PHOTOGRAPHY, published in 2021, RACE, read in 2021, ROMANCE, style over character, unnamed characters -
Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg — book review
“Time after time my mother traded privacy, square footage, countertops, and a decent bathroom for darkroom space.” While the way in which Feast Your Eyes is framed makes for an undoubtedly interesting technique (telling the story of a fictional photographer Lillian Preston through the catalogue notes for an exhibition of her work at the Museum…
1950s, 1960s, 3 STARS, Adult, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, ART/CREATIVITY, ARTISTS, documentary style, epistolary, Feast Your Eyes, female authors, HISTORICAL FICTION, LITERARY FICTION, motherhood, mothers & daughters, museums, Myla Goldberg, navel gazing, NEW YORK, obsession, photographers, PHOTOGRAPHY, published in 2019, read in 2020 -
Akin by Emma Donoghue — book review
“He and this boy were quite alien to each other, he decide. Yet, in an odd way, akin.” Akin tells the touching story of Noah Selvaggio, a retired seventy-nine year old chemistry professor, and his eleven year old great-nephew, Michael Young. Noah is a widower who has few remaining connections in the world and his fairly…
3rd pov, 4 STARS, Adult, ageing, Akin, bittersweet, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, Contemporary, Emma Donoghue, family, female authors, FRANCE, GRIEF, history, Irish Canadian author, LGBTQ+ Author, LITERARY FICTION, MEMORY, MYSTERY, netgalley, NEW YORK, Nice, nostalgic reads, PHOTOGRAPHY, published in 2019, READ IN 2019, social issues, travel, WWII -
Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon
“Tragedy is insignificant, banal. A falling boy goes largely unnoticed.” Self-Portrait with Boy is an electrifying debut novel. Within its pages, Rachel Lyon’s paints an unsettling portrait, that of the artist as a young woman, one whose raw hunger for artistic recognition drives her to betray the trust of the person she loves. Self-Portrait with…
1990s, 1st pov, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, Adult, ALIENATION, ambiguous protagonist, America, American, anxiety-inducing reads, ART/CREATIVITY, ARTISTS, atmospheric, bad love, Contemporary, contemporary malaise, dead boys, female authors, GRIEF, introspective, it’s about the *yearning*, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, loneliness, Longing, MEMORY, NEW YORK, no quotations marks, obsession, PHOTOGRAPHY, psychological, published in 2018, queer, RACHEL LYON, re-reads, read in 2018, read in 2021, sapphic, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY, strong sense of place, terrific prose, tragedy, unrequited love
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