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February book log pt. 2
Feb. 24th, 2021 09:00 am- No One Is Talking About This, the debut novel of Patricia Lockwood, who has written a number of things that are not novels, including the memoir Priestdaddy, poetry, and such viral tweets as "@ parisreview so is Paris any good?" and "me, lightly touching miette with the side of my foot: miette move out of the way please so I don't trip on you / miette, her eyes enormous: you KICK miette? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!"
The novel's unnamed protagonist is, like Lockwood, a writer who is Extremely Online, catapulted to "airy prominence" by a viral tweet (can a dog be twins?) and subsequently made a career as a public speaker about social media and a generator of absurd quips. For the first half of the book, the internet (specifically, but not exclusively, Twitter) is to the narrative what drawing rooms are to Austen's; the second half chronicles the earthquake shocks of a family tragedy.
( Thoughts )
- Embassytown by China Mieville, a fantastic - in both meanings of the word - and creepy sci-fi novel that I unfortunately cannot describe without spoilers, so under the cut it goes.
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- Still reading David Copperfield! I'm about 70% of the way through. David's courtship of Dora Spenlow has gone from amusing to nails-on-a-chalkboard, and Uriah Heep's sinister plan is in full swing, but overall, the ratio of humorous to bleak has shifted in favor of the humorous.
The novel's unnamed protagonist is, like Lockwood, a writer who is Extremely Online, catapulted to "airy prominence" by a viral tweet (can a dog be twins?) and subsequently made a career as a public speaker about social media and a generator of absurd quips. For the first half of the book, the internet (specifically, but not exclusively, Twitter) is to the narrative what drawing rooms are to Austen's; the second half chronicles the earthquake shocks of a family tragedy.
( Thoughts )
- Embassytown by China Mieville, a fantastic - in both meanings of the word - and creepy sci-fi novel that I unfortunately cannot describe without spoilers, so under the cut it goes.
( Read more... )
- Still reading David Copperfield! I'm about 70% of the way through. David's courtship of Dora Spenlow has gone from amusing to nails-on-a-chalkboard, and Uriah Heep's sinister plan is in full swing, but overall, the ratio of humorous to bleak has shifted in favor of the humorous.
