Philip Luke Johnson · @phillegitimate
359 followers · 46 posts · Server zirk.us
I reviewed #Paradais by Fernanda #Melchor for Public Books. This is a bleak story about gender-based violence, but it's doing something different to other work on femicide in Mexico. It's examining the world - and the young men - that femicide produces.
https://www.publicbooks.org/growing-up-in-the-world-made-by-femicide/
RC Hopgood · @rchopgood
224 followers · 635 posts · Server mastodon.worldOk here's my fave books i read this year. DoE is top, rest are in no particular order, tho Melchor continues to impress & may be my favorite new(ish) writer.
#TheDawnOfEverything, Graeber
#Paradais, Melchor
#MexicanGothic, Moreno-Garcia
#Spidertown, Rodriguez Jr
#GoodNewsFromOuterSpace, Kessel
#Lacuna, Snyckers
#TheImmaculate, Johnson
#QuántóuRising, @JMoodyWrites
#TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing, Kundera
#TheRoad, McCarthy
#LanguageInOurBrain, Friederici
@bookstodon #bookstodon #amreading
#TheDawnofEverything #paradais #mexicangothic #spidertown #goodnewsfromouterspace #lacuna #theimmaculate #quantourising #theunbearablelightnessofbeing #theroad #languageinourbrain #bookstodon #amreading
RC Hopgood · @rchopgood
84 followers · 246 posts · Server mastodon.worldGravitys Rainbow is gonna take the rest of 2022, so Im gonna make my #FavoriteBooksRead2022 #YearEndList now.
(Graeber was paradigm shifting, the rest in no order)
#TheDawnOfEverything, Graeber
#Paradais, Melchor
#MexicanGothic, Moreno-Garcia
#Spidertown, Rodriguez Jr
#GoodNewsFromOuterSpace, Kessel
#Lacuna, Snyckers
#TheImmaculate, Johnson
#QuántóuRising, @JMoodyWrites
#TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing, Kundera
#TheRoad, McCarthy
#LanguageInOurBrain, Friederici
#bookstadon
#favoritebooksread2022 #yearendlist #TheDawnofEverything #paradais #mexicangothic #spidertown #goodnewsfromouterspace #lacuna #theimmaculate #quantourising #theunbearablelightnessofbeing #theroad #languageinourbrain #bookstadon