A novel about love, loss, memory, identity, family, acceptance, rejection (including self-rejection), clinging, letting go, how we are who we are and why. This story continues the tradition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It made me cry more than once.
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Writer and software engineer in the US Midwest. I enjoy poetry, horror, some f/sf, some mystery, some literary fiction (but not the kind where the main character is a professor and nothing happens).
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caracabe finished reading The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance (W.W.Norton)
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. In language that is …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance (W.W.Norton)
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. In language that is …
caracabe finished reading Black Fantastic by andré m. carrington
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caracabe finished reading The Deviant Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV
The Deviant Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Joshua Hixson
Hannibal meets Silent Night, Deadly Night in this pitch-black holiday horror story that cuts right through our most taboo notions.
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The Deviant Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Joshua Hixson
Hannibal meets Silent Night, Deadly Night in this pitch-black holiday horror story that cuts right through our most taboo notions.
…caracabe reviewed Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
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caracabe finished reading Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The first of the acclaimed Ripley novels, this clever psychological thriller introduces the reader to …
Based on the episodes I’ve seen so far, the tv series stays closer to the book’s plot than the movie does, but only Highsmith’s prose brings you into Ripley’s head. That’s a fascinating and terrible place to be.
caracabe started reading Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The first of the acclaimed Ripley novels, this clever psychological thriller introduces the reader to Tom Ripley and his extraordinary …
A beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, …
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I found this book in the fiction section of the bookstore, but it’s… well, it has narrative vignettes, but I’d say it’s a work of visionary queer philosophy, with elements of satire, fable, polemic, and comfort. Maybe this book found me when I needed it, but I think it’s one of the most important books I’ve ever read. I’ll certainly be re-reading it.
caracabe finished reading The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta
A beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, written by Larry Mitchell with …
Lord Grey remarked that when the generals before the war talked about the war they talked about it as a nineteenth-century war although to be fought with twentieth-century weapons. That is because war is a thing that decides how it is to be done when it is to be done…. Writing and painting and all that, is like that, for those who occupy themselves with it and don’t make it as it is made.
— Gertrude Stein: Writings and Lectures 1909-1945 by Gertrude Stein, Patricia Meyerowitz (Page 21 - 22)