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Ten out of five stars for the audiobook reader for this series, who makes it feel like a radio play with his Shakespearean acting and meditative, emotive approach to Cromwell's voice. This book was a tad long-- and at times, after thousands of pages i ...more
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Ten out of five stars for the audiobook reader for this series, who makes it feel like a radio play with his Shakespearean acting and meditative, emotive approach to Cromwell's voice.

This book was a tad long-- and at times, after thousands of pages i Ten out of five stars for the audiobook reader for this series, who makes it feel like a radio play with his Shakespearean acting and meditative, emotive approach to Cromwell's voice.

This book was a tad long-- and at times, after thousands of pages in the Wolf Hall series, it does get repetitive. One wonders if all those courtiers were really sneering so much to Cromwell's face and saying *quite* so frequently that he is low born and should not really be called a lord, and if so, if every instance of it needed to be in here. But I love what Mantel gives us in terms of sketching a plausible picture of the religious heart of England in the midst of abortive holy wars that keep changing direction. Cromwell, who says he loves the gospel but privately doesn't believe in the Eucharist, is given the power to smash up all the saints and unlabel the bones of Beckett. The countryside, out of a mix of anxiety about taxes and anger that their icons are gone, arises in revolt against him; he is protected by a king whose vision of god is basically his own face. When Cromwell meets his maker, he does it alone. He is a man ahead of his time, making his time, unmaking the ground beneath him as he does so. He lives in a world in which, after his blood flows, his great-great-nephew will carry the axe in the opposite direction vis a vis monarchy barely a hundred years after his own chop-chop.

As I said with Bring Up The Bodies, this is a fantastic catharsis to read right now in America, because it is about a vindictive and increasingly autocratic leader too short-sighted to see the consequences of his actions, in a kingdom where morally weak politicians mad for power are buffeted by waves of favor and their own vicious scheming, and a tide of history which promises to crest sometime but keeps carrying you higher and higher above a stormy sea. What Mantel promises you on every page is that the Tudor wave crashed-- and ours will, too, plunging every man who vies for Ozymandian status to the grave sooner or later, eroding class, and leaving all of us to plod or charge, with fire or prayer, toward our various better futures.

If you enjoy Wikipedia research spirals and a lively, engaged, personal image that makes the alien past seem like it breathes, this is an awesome series for you. I wish she had lived longer so I could binge-listen to her take on the Diggers, the latter Cromwell, or, hell, even Queen Anne. ...more

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Cannon
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In thinking about what unites my favorite comic artists: I like when people acknowledge a brutal, scummy world that can really drive you insane but which still contains the potential for human connection or liberate– depicted in panels which draw you In thinking about what unites my favorite comic artists: I like when people acknowledge a brutal, scummy world that can really drive you insane but which still contains the potential for human connection or liberate– depicted in panels which draw you along through both the ugly and beautiful parts of the world. What I see from Lee Lai is an almost unbelievably consistent artistic project centered on themes of queerness, family, the difficulties of intimacy and trust, and (often) food. I remember a comic Lai drew in what must have been 2015 or before of two chubby gay guys in bed together talking about their relationship insecurities while discussing a recipe for noodle soup. Their visual style was almost the same then; their focus and subject matter has sharpened in depth but remained in the same frame of focus.

I read Stone Fruit a few years ago.It’s one of the most enchanting, empathetic break-up books I’ve ever encountered and features painfully recognizable scenes of missed and lost intimacy, as well as a visual approach to rendering child-play and imagination as toothy and partly unskinned which I think illuminates the joy that adults can have with children while also stripping it of traditionally sentimental visual language.

Lai’s new book, Cannon, has artistic depth and interest outside of its use as a manual or reflection– but I enjoyed listening to Tuck Woodstock talk to Lai about what her project is and realize that she set out to do basically exactly what she actually achieves.

In Cannon, Lai follows a friendship between Lucy (Cannon), who is pathologically stoic out of a conviction it is moral and necessary, and Trish, a high school friend whose self-obsession and loudmouth processing habit isn’t visible to herself because Cannon spends all her time in the relationship absorbing Trish’s feelings but rarely offering her own in return. This dynamic is unsustainable. Unreflected, Trish feels alone. Meanwhile, Cannon’s workplace is grueling, her boss a creep, her formerly abusive granddad is declining with apathetic paid care, and Cannon’s mom, who bore the brunt of her father’s abuse, isn’t present to help care for him for understandable reasons that nevertheless place a lot of pressure on her daughter. Trish talks about herself all the time and fixates unhealthily on past breakups while keeping an eager FWB lad at arm’s length; she expresses her love for her friend and demonstrates she is actually paying attention by incorporating Cannon’s life into her art practice. Dodgy decision at best.

In another author’s hands, virtuous Cannon would explode righteously at her friend at some point in the narrative for her selfishness, and her friend would tearfully apologize, realizing she has been using and abusing Cannon’s generous good nature for too long. Not here. There is still a moment of eruption– but it is a moment of meeting. Both characters find they have something to complain about– leaning too hard without providing reciprocal care is cruel, but avoidance of dependence shuts the people you love out, after all, and noncommunication doesn’t necessarily protect those around you. Both women have problems selecting partners– Cannon, reticent, falls for a forward, directly-communicating bartender girl at work and rapidly comes to expect more than she can give, resenting her for flirting with their mutual terrible boss, and Trish beds down with a sort of awesome dude who’s ready for a relationship that she really doesn’t want yet. Both emerge as complex, messy women who need quiet, passion, care and peace, and who contain the power to deal with their respective situations.

Something I appreciate about this book is that it contains both evil and beneficent men– abusive dads, terrible bosses, loving boyfriends whose asses are clean and who cook even if you didn’t ask, coworkers who play bossa nova to lull you out of a panic attack– and sometimes guys who can be both, as in the scene where Cannon’s restaurant coworker who has a hot temper and can be a real crud helps her out in the aftermath of her inevitable explosion. It’s a cool-eyed but loving look at the world. As an aside, I adore the way Lai draws men’s bodies, particularly their arms and tummies.

Racism and the pressure on artists to make work about themselves, exposing their lives for a (white) audience, is also a theme in this book. Trish’s white lesbian writing mentor offers insight into using her identity to get funding, which makes Trish stall out; Trish’s strategy of using her friend’s life rather than her own speaks to a kind of self-protection wherein she also cannot safely expose herself or her life. Her subsequent drop of the project when Cannon finds out feels like a relief– and her beneficent mentor, who previously appeared a little sympathetic or hot, has a moment of embarrassing exposure when she reveals to her partner that she needs Trish to feel relevant right before Trish stops working with her.

Limited-color comics are more of a thing lately. I don’t know if it’s because of any kind of expense-related thing– certainly there are enough glossy bright-colored kids’ comics which throw vivid shit on the page just for the sake of it– or impact, but I like the way red is used in this book, and the way visual language is used to communicate something that Cannon herself has difficulty expressing about her rage and its connection to her grandfather– to her fear of herself.

For a book that’s just about friendship drama and which doesn’t contain a “bad end”, Cannon was gripping to read. Lai, for her part, represents a kind of community-focused art practice in a very individual medium that I think is genuinely useful for every reader. ...more

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Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
by Hilary Mantel

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Had a great time with this on audiobook-- started reading print book at my in-laws' house over the holidays and was hooked by Mantel's vivid, evil, sympathetic Early Modern Man. I'm a huge nerd for the Reformation thru seventeenth century all over th Had a great time with this on audiobook-- started reading print book at my in-laws' house over the holidays and was hooked by Mantel's vivid, evil, sympathetic Early Modern Man. I'm a huge nerd for the Reformation thru seventeenth century all over the world, because it's the period that produced so much we live with today. A time of Mughal kings, Chinese consolidation, cataclysmic genocide in the Americas and the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, English domination of Ireland and the rise and fall of Spain and the Hapsburgs, power struggles, and the beginning of modern banking practices in Europe that would completely change how governments functioned in the centuries to come and destroy the power of kings.

Cromwell (great-great-uncle to Oliver, with dramatic irony) is at the heart of all this. Mantel's project is to imagine as vividly as possible what people in Henry VIII's court might have been feeling while sticking as closely as possible to more-or-less-agreed-upon historical fact. And Cromwell is one of those men who is uniquely produced by his time and seems dedicated to single-handedly shoving the wheels of history. A king's right-hand-man whose life journey started as either a blacksmith or yeoman's son (Mantel votes blacksmith, for drama) and became a mercenary and a banker/lawyer before ascending ever higher into a court at a crossroads.

Characterization is what makes this book awesome. He's a real man: tough, pragmatic, and unsentimental, with calloused emotional baggage from the death of his mentor, his enemy Thomas More, his wife and daughters, and the loss of a young love in Antwerp. He's evasive about his faith but sympathetic to Lutherans and gospelers-- twenty years after Martin Luther stuck some notes to a door and ten years after the german peasant rebellion. You can feel the immediacy of these events, the uncertainty. Will Protestantism be crushed, or will it challenge the balance of power across the world? What are its key tenets-- faith over works? The idolatry of saint worship? He's interested in draining power from the churches and monasteries and reallocating funds to the state-- which benefit his king, who has less of a long term vision and sometimes worries about his soul but is always certain that God is on his side. Mantel rides the line of occasionally showing a kind of great-man theory of history here, but she also shows how recent changes made a man like Cromwell possible while also illuminating contingency. IF Anne had born a son and not miscarried... IF Henry had fallen and died at a joust...

Henry's personality is satisfyingly executed too. He's narcissistic, short-sighted, ponderous, self-pitying, easily swayed, but full of powerful passions, explosive anger and a sense of his own nobility and grandeur-- even as his kingdom's wealth pales in comparison to the continental powers. England under Henry is at a crossroads, and with Cromwell's encouragement, Henry pushes it further from Rome and enhances his own coffers by enclosing land, turning on some of his own noble families to take their lands for the Crown, and refusing to share power or give Catholic countries what they want from alliances.

The women at the edges of this narrative move to its center as Henry's persecution of Anne reaches a zenith and the ladies of court scramble to save their own asses. I love when they emerge from the shadows-- vindictive, vulgar Lady Rochford especially, but also opaque, shy but occasionally vicious Jane Seymour, who is implied to have engineered her own rise a little more than any man around understands. I listened to the last half of this on audiobook and I really enjoy the French accent the reader gives Anne, who spent time in the French court. ...more

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Lost Souls
by Poppy Z. Brite (Goodreads Author)

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Super slippery, purple-prosadaical, sexy, dirty, saccharine in its own way, this is an edgelord '90s queer vampire adventure that is a template for a zillion things after it--including, I think, parts of the current IWAV moment but also a dozen dozen Super slippery, purple-prosadaical, sexy, dirty, saccharine in its own way, this is an edgelord '90s queer vampire adventure that is a template for a zillion things after it--including, I think, parts of the current IWAV moment but also a dozen dozen indie-comics ripples. There is nothing Brite's writing reminds me of so much as the dark queer manga and manwha I read in middle school--stick-thin goth bishonen boys, child abuse, blood, aesthetics at the expense of worldbuilding-- mixed up with a kind of grimy grunge indie aesthetic and a lot of a dude just having fun at the keyboard.

It's funny that I'm writing this review and reading this Brite after writing my own runaway-kid-encounters-vampires narrative. I at least can't be said to be cribbing from it--my vampire queer teens are from an undoubtedly post-queer-youth-organization moment. Brite's vamps are the kind of monster that I find very fun, but difficult to write as queer allegory: they're absolutely Predator Monsters, with the ability to love humans tied closely to their ability to kill them and no sense of human sexual mores or decorum. They are exactly what the right is scared of. There's a curious lack of depth to the vamps as consequence, but as sex objects or figurines, they're fantastic. A fun visual detail that Brite includes not infrequently is the image of candy and sugar slicking over these immature vampires' teeth in a gross brown film. The central vamp trio are sort of eternal party kids who roam around killing people and leaving messes in their wake-- escaping, who knows how, persecution in their endless Chartreuse and opium-fueled orgies. There is also an older vampire named Christian who, after being confronted by the father of a teen girl whose death he was present for, takes off and sells roses by the side of the road. And then there's Nothing, the half-vampire changeling reunited sacrilegiously with his vampire father as he flees suburban emptiness. There's also a rock band composed of a psychic named Ghost and a dude who abused his girlfriend and feels bad about it. The human characters have a deeper relief than the vampires; I love the way Brite writes a kind of deeply curious (and currently unfashionable) approach to understanding abusive relationships between devastated people in dire straits, and how his fucked up boys (human) tend toward the moral arc as a consequence of facing the pain of constant loneliness as the result of causing harm.

There is a really upsetting scene where Nothing helps kill a former friend, who is a thirteen year old wearing pink high top sneakers. That is the biggest warning I would issue for this book. There's other assaults, murders, moments incest and violence, mostly against and by queer people. Just know that you're getting an edgelord. It's like if Koontz was a queer boy with eyeliner.

This is an excellent book to read on a plane or a beach, like Brite's other work. It delivers an endless snacktime of horror-- I won't say "cozy" horror, because that doesn't fit the aesthetic, but like...dark cobwebby spanish moss horror, bartender horror, skinny pretty boy with bloody lip horror. He precedes Tumblr and fanfiction.net and MCR, but Brite knows the to-be-repeated guilty pleasures that lurk in the back of the adolescent queer mind. Without condemnation, he puts together a kind of festival of tropes and hot boys and horrible kinks for his reader to escape into, doing the absolute most the whole time. ...more

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by James Tiptree Jr.

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Desperately depressing, complicated sci fi stories that are riveting to read. Five stars for pacing, drama, addictivr energy and yanks on the heart. Minus one because there is a fair bit of old primate in these star songs— they represent some of the Desperately depressing, complicated sci fi stories that are riveting to read. Five stars for pacing, drama, addictivr energy and yanks on the heart. Minus one because there is a fair bit of old primate in these star songs— they represent some of the best of their time and also are from their time and the one before it. Tiptree believes in the inevitability of great men, or perhaps civilized creatures—who are no more than animals—, smashing down anyone who gets in their way and then, after they have destroyed women and the world, being done in by their own foibles. Her insight is sharp— both constituting and reflecting the weary resignation of the ‘70s as colonies unspooled and rock stars died and utopia didn’t deliver. In every story, though the heroes are some real spaceman spiffs, despair is palpable. The world wears thin. The veil flutters. It is unsurprising tiptree writes this way, having seen both the violence of power and its grueling internal destruction on those who hold it from a young age. But it is sort of like tip plays a death knell for Pulp as a genre as he plays his turn. No business writing the future, readers might say. There is nobody left in it.

This anthology has: a story about an alien society, one among many almost-technically-human races in the universe, trying to prove their humanity to a biologist by concealing the inhuman, plantlike nature of their reproduction and treating the sexual/sexed individuals of their species as if they are an inferior distinct race, to the point of threatening their species’ own existence (the aliens are saved by mercenaries; the federal organization is too slow). A story about a world that promises a new Earth for colonists from a dying planet, only to eat up the minds of the exploratory ship in order to absorb or neutralize their psychic energy—dooming all mankind to be shots in the dark, as refugees from a dead Earth follow. A story about the souls that have only memories of pain that haunt that dead planet, later. A scientist forced to confront the darkness of his profession.

You can trust Tiptree to deliver tragedy in basically every story. She (or my friend would argue he, but i think you cant truly claim a hypothetical trans man unless he at least announced intent— it is a specific historical situation that tiptree, alas, chose not to reach) has more than one thing to say. We are egotistical, greedy, patriarchal by miserable genetic destiny, megomaniacal, and refuse incentives other than personal gain, so we are all doomed. Also, in addition to that, alien women are hot but inaccessible. And sometimes Tip throws in an odd racist underhand in the midst of a clumsy swing at multiculturalism— one that a reader feels is done from deep confusion about truth.

I do not personally think the world Tiptree saw was real, any more than the world of Lovecraft. But both are fantastic at describing the feelings of fear and hatred that lurk in the human heart. Several of these stories feel very much like Tiptree sneering at the optimism of Star Trek about the future and instead writing an alternate vision, one based in the backstabbing, cesspool-like heart of a washington sub-basement. Science fiction is an expose of the time it is written, and this is a portrait of a society where pain and the divine right of money and male power feel inevitable even in fantasy. The fact that tiptree’s contemporaries were attempting to innovate out of this image meant nothing to her. And why not? LeGuin’s words are quotable, but she wrote an anarchist world that seemed unappealing and thin. Russ envisioned women’s solidarity, but was too pissed off at her peers to really build it. Tip’s crumbling galaxies capture the potential of what seems wrecked to dissolve still further. Her captain kirk analogs are alcoholics, and her ship’s doctors have unresolved sexual tension with their sisters. You can see in her “A Momentary Taste of Being” story both the exciting promise of multiculturalism, feminism, environmentally self-sustaining ships— and their decay under petty tyrants who cannot dream except of nations and kings.

As the seventies wore on, the beginning of the attack on pulp—and with it, the churning discourse of ideas on the future promulgated by common fans chatting with established authors— dissolved into Star Wars, Barnes and Noble franchises, and bestselling Steph King hardbacks.

Tip never broke out of the dark glass h/she saw the world through. What is so interesting about her stories is that in that miserable tint, there is a lot of human life and character. People who drink deep of evil can be fascinating; people who write about the failure of nobility can tell us where the limits of the empire’s own imagination is. Just beyond the edge of a lot of Tip stories lurks a beautiful world that humans are not allowed to be part of: a vegetal aurora, an alien woman whose body conceals thousands of rippling, dancing mouths, a voice that calls from across the universe but will kill with proximity. We can hope someone has inherited those voices with a tone as crystal and a gaze as sharp, but without that feeling of lurching termination. ...more

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