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Dykette
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Dec 01, 2022
bookshelves: 2022, a-dada-review-is-the-best-i-can-do
Read 2 times. Last read December 1, 2022.
‘Vivienne woke before Sasha and Jesse. Her need to pee wasn’t super urgent, so she nestled with her back against Sasha's stomach (though in general she preferred to be big spoon…)’
This novel is written in one semicolorful declarative sentence after another and there is honestly something appealing about the pah-pah-pah rhythm set up by this kind of prose, like the appeal of reading something written by a teenager who draws little hearts above the i’s instead of a dot, and although I found the story pointless and shallow maybe it’s purposefully pointless and shallow, like those pop art Campbell soup cans that were already passé the first time you saw one, and although this novel is not as interesting as the arrangement of old chewing gums you happen to notice on the sidewalk as you’re walking along, it almost is.
This novel is written in one semicolorful declarative sentence after another and there is honestly something appealing about the pah-pah-pah rhythm set up by this kind of prose, like the appeal of reading something written by a teenager who draws little hearts above the i’s instead of a dot, and although I found the story pointless and shallow maybe it’s purposefully pointless and shallow, like those pop art Campbell soup cans that were already passé the first time you saw one, and although this novel is not as interesting as the arrangement of old chewing gums you happen to notice on the sidewalk as you’re walking along, it almost is.
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Dec 02, 2022 02:44AM
what a great review
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Cherise wrote: "This made me laugh!"I'm getting way too cranky, Cherise. I should probably go sit in a forest and not read books at all for the next few weeks.
That made me laugh too, because I've been feeling cranky too, off and on, for quite a while! I went upstate NY, to try to de-crank (and to work) and there were so many bugs, and I was so attacked by all those bugs, that the crankiness only intensified and the work was non-existent.
I'm trying to decide if I was too mean or curmudgeonly in my review. I dig your descriptions!
Kim wrote: "I'm trying to decide if I was too mean or curmudgeonly in my review. I dig your descriptions!"Kim, looking back on this read, especially after reading your review, I realize I was deeply disappointed in this novel, in a way I didn't even touch on in my review. I felt that the author didn't take her own views seriously enough. I can't even explain to myself what I mean by this. Maybe: That there is a Great American Lesbian Novel out there somewhere, waiting to be written, and this wasn't it. This novel-to-come will be all about identity, and about how people choose to identify themselves, and how the words we choose shape who we are, as much as define who we are, as humanfolk...yeah. I have no idea what I'm talking about, it's like trying to describe a void.
