I’ve known for a while that Paris is Burning is a must-see and I’ve always meant to see it but now that mean to is a will because damn this book is really good. Based on the real life House Xtravaganza immortalized in Paris, The House of Impossible Beauties absolutely transports you. I really, deeply enjoyed this book. It’s a rough read, but worth it. I also very recently finally saw To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything so in my head the character of Venus was actually John Leguizamo as […]
I lack the deep well of literary understanding
Yup, this is another one where my lack of in-depth knowledge on the source topic definitely left me stranded. Some post-read googling has taught me a bit about Kathy Acker, but oh man am I still so confused. She was an experimental novelist and post-modern writer, per Wikipedia, who died in the 1990s – but this book is supposedly about her/from her perspective and is set in 2017. Which is I guess experimental in its own right and therefore lives up to her legacy? Or […]
Zombies and the Final Girl and … Cuba?
I flagged this book as “mystery” though it really pulls quite heavily from horror in ways that I don’t have enough appreciation of the genre to fully recognize or explain. The Third Hotel also reminded me a bit of Tangerine, largely in its unsatisfying plot and refusal to use quotation marks when writing dialogue, which I find to be incredibly infuriating. Overall, this was a book I read to finish, not to enjoy. So now to figure out how to draw 250 words out of that. Our […]
I’d be this excited if I led this life too
I mean, I get it. If I got to watch the Stanley Cup finals from the owner’s box in a personalized jersey, I’d be shouting it from the rooftops too. I guess I was expecting something more akin to Yes, Please – more, ‘how I got here’ memoir, less ‘what I’ve done since’ – and that threw me. It got a little too name-drop-y, if that makes sense? But if I was doing shots out of a Grammy with Daveed Diggs … yeah, I’d probably dedicate […]
Will East Texas ever change?
I’ll preface this review with – I am from North Texas, not East Texas. I’m from big city Texas, not small town Texas. The Texas in this book is not directly the Texas I grew up in, but it is a Texas I recognize. For such a big state, it sure can be small. Also, for reference, the hate crime dragging death of James Byrd, Jr., was only 20 years ago. Feels like it should be a lot longer, but it most definitely is not. […]
Not for me
So apparently this book has depths and metaphors that I’m just not getting. Admittedly, I didn’t read to closely because, like, 40% of this was just awkward, graphic sex scenes and that is super not my bag. There’s also another very valid reason I didn’t like this book but I’ll do my best to push it below the fold. Okay, quickie plot. Our protagonist, whose name I’ve already forgotten, is a PhD student in Phoenix who has been stalled for years on her thesis on Sapho […]
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