pickNot part of my #TBR but I had meant to read this one for #HispanicHeritageMonth - I loved parts of this. Overall it worked.
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pickColombian-American young lesbian is dealing with both being able to come out to her rather unwelcoming Colombian family and her dying but glamorous grandmother with tragic secrets of her own.
You‘ll likely love it. 😺
The entire novel is Luciana talking with her older sister Mari. It is rather comedic but also discusses harder topics.
“Of course, that‘s what happens. When we ignore ourselves for long enough, our bodies find a way to make us listen.”
“FUCK.”
bailedI‘m bailing on this since I haven‘t felt like picking it up again…
The narration style was just not for me.
This book has a very unique format and I have to say I‘m not a fan.
I love family drama, but reading it in the form of one-sided phone conversations is getting tiresome…
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Many themes emerge, those of the nature of art, repurposing, love, death, illness, despair, bliss and many more. Philips has created intricate and important images on each page which reflect, mirror and encapsulate the chosen words on the page. It reads almost like a hybrid book; a poetic novel and is challenging but breath-taking.
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A Humument is the work of a decades long creative endeavour by Tom Philips which started as a simple challenge to himself in 1966: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page. From this came several different versions and from the pages of an old Victorian novel called A Human Document, a new story emerged. Philips‘ new book follows the story of a man called Bill Toge and his love Irma.
“'Even freaks need homes, countries, language, communication.
“'The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in. Anywhere. It is for you, freaks my loves, I am writing and it is about you. Since humans enjoy moralizing, over and over again they attack us.
“Language presupposes community. Therefore without you, nothing I say has any meaning. Without love or language, I do not exist.“
Remembering Kathy Acker on her b-day.
Since it's banned books week, I'm taking the opportunity to revisit a favourite banned book.
