Status Updates From The Bookseller's Boyfriend ...

Call Me By Your Name/amatonormativity vibes from Rasul's use of "stark, immediate 1st person present"

I love the existentialism of Chapter 11, it even made me cry, even though I've never seen Moana yet, nor Hercules. I've seen part of Frozen though.

Why does this picnic feel like goodbye?

Now I'm starting chapter 10

Oh the meta commentary is fun

Also um, 2 memoirs as making love, the gasping and cuddling to stop the shakes... Like I like how the not using sex scene for this sort of thing was a thing because it gives some idea for calling sex acts & intimacy as 2 separate things often paired

So the course structure gives me flashbacks as does the pushout from the chamber of commerce... That's the thing about courses: they keep them brief enough in order to avoid organized resistance to pushout. (Fuck, which type of group setting can I hold my own?)

Oh I miss the days when stores limited shopper capacity for limiting the spread of COVID-19 instead of fire. Also I fear for the cats' safety because revenge seekers. Like the largest rabbit in the world got murdered in order to attack their guardian so.

Like not mentioning stuff in online reviews was brought up earlier & it's like that meta commentary is there, some call it knowing & centering your audience I guess

I just wish they could've chosen music from someone who was over 18? Like oy vey bad taste

So good news is we got some insight into how the 2 books work. The first one comes out of a depressive funk, while the second one comes out of an anger over categories & reputation. I'm not sure why I'm fixating on this so much, except that this book name drops so many books...

The bad news, "bad guy" by Billie Eilish is only 2 minutes long & the book is acting like it's a public version of 7 minutes in heaven...

The titles "the sword dancer's daughter" & "carnivale" remind me of remind me of dystopian fiction. However, my main experience with that genre is Suzanne Collins & Octavia E Butler (though the movie Doctor Zhivago applies perhaps)... Oy vey, like!

Also the fame in here feels very 2007 because flipphone & tabloids covering millennials not boomers. Alas, "My Brother's Husband" was called a childhood book, ¿Cuál año?