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Checking out this 1900’s queer novel. I’ve heard great things and I’m trying to be intentional about reading queer stories from before the 2000’s.

Into it so far

“after a few days, I bore no more visible signs of the tragedy, and I hardly remembered the pain. Just that my eyes had a dark look and my skirts were too big and when I sang a stone in my chest broke the song into pieces.”

lmao the only problem that took more than like 2 pages to fix so far has been ||figuring out how to move his giant monster girlfriend while she was napping||

It’s so disappointing that there’s so little tension in this “horror” book. Honk shoo honk shoo status.
Definitely recommend “So Lucky” by Nicola Griffith for a disabled queer woman in the Midwest navigating her disability and thriller elements, instead.

What do you mean she’s sending up a silent prayer to her subconscious in the middle of a nightmare for her new cat being in the nightmare as “her ally?”
Why is she so self-aware and distant from the situation? It makes it sound like she’s watching tv not being terrorized and trapped in her sleep.

This hyper aware first person narration telling everything she’s thinking and why is so frustrating, no one is 100% self-aware and rationally explaining it all the time. Describe how things feel in your body besides pelvic pain, how do emotions feel? How does anxiety feel? How does it feel when you talk to your friend you are suddenly informing us in your crush at 35%?

16% “While his blood flows red, mine comes in a startling onyx”
Sorry are you startled by your own blood, demon that has lived thousands of years and has already been bleeding this whole time????

I like the premise but the pacing is killing me. Whenever something interesting happens we go into a repetitive inner monologue until it screeches to a halt

Lovely and warm so far. Fits several of my goals to pursue for the year: pre-2000’s queer literature, translated queer literature, BIPOC literature, and also fits Women in Translation month challenge. This short novel on audio is a great way to end the month’s challenge.

Reading for book club, I’m more familiar with a nine-tailed fox from Japanese mythology, not Chinese mythology, so I’m curious to see how that element comes in to play in the story

Loving the way the body horror is described, all these loose skin flaps and strange joints

Recommended as a resource by someone I follow, and my library had it digitally. Checking it out as a goal is to be more intentional with saving and investing.