Dodged a bullet? Cricket didn‘t due to Gun Loving Loon Kristi N. In Dead Boss Cemetery Vol. III, a gun club faces an ugly, and grotesque scene. The leader shoots her head off when her gun misfires. OH NO! It‘s time for therapy again! https://tinyurl.com/yc2kr2fn
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so-soWhile the author did a ton of research and really dug deep her primary focus was on the deplorable people who call themselves TRUTHERS ( conspiracy theorists) but they are nothing more than troubled, sick individuals who are allowed to spew nonsense - The events at SH were so heinous and then for people to claim SH was a sham is just beyond cruel. My heart broke for the victims families but this book was not the tribute I was expecting. 👇🏽
pickA great, evocative read - definitely going to use it in my English class.
panI‘ve read some of Hopkins‘ novels and enjoyed them! However this one was awful. It does not do what it sets out to do, the characters are one dimensional, the narrator makes too many unjustified assumptions, the language and descriptions are not only stereotypical but vulgar. I don‘t think one can condense a complex dynamic like human nature and behaviors into these tidy little packages and pass it off as ‘poetry‘.
Today‘s portable reading…
#OutAndAbout #ReadingOnTheTrain #Nonfiction
#TemptingTitles Day 13: #WithHeart - more book haul from the ongoing Big Bad Wolf book sale in Dubai. 📚📚📚
^^p138, Pulse nightclub. Auster‘s passages interspersed w/ statistics & grainy b/w photos of sites of mass shootings, maybe intentional aesthetic but maybe just cheap reproductions? Maybe photos are the better presentation—straightforward, plain. Conclusion: America needs to reckon w/ past violent suppression of populations before future violence can be stopped. Okay, but how?
so-soAuster trying to come to terms with family history & with American history of gun violence. Novelist, not a sociologist, but analysis here feels weak. Recounting of the Sutherland Springs shooting reads like a thriller, which feels wrong considering the very mundane, methodical, horrible process of identifying & cleaning & reporting that is the reality. Section from ER doc, which could have been interesting, reduced to cryptic broken lines. 2023
^^[11 Gunshots] by Vanessa German
Response from gun reform activist Camilla Williams: “Are we talking the sexy gun violence or the ugly gun violence? […] Where I am from it‘s the ugly gun violence where it seems no one gives a damn! It‘s hell—in order not to be scared you have to not be afraid to die.”
33 The Crisis lady says It‘s OK to cry.
Keisha says she been ran out of tears.
60 One man, two guns, fifty dead—
Two men kissing.
