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Mya Matteo’s 2023 Year in Books
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really stunning debut, this one. so intentional. content warnings for sexual assault & abuse. |
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| Hard no. There are moments of introspection and observation here that I enjoy but as a whole this text often possesses well-meaning but still careless white-savior / microaggressive tendencies. examples: the poem "Tachycardia", where she compares her ...more | |
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it was... fine? I do like complicated / repulsive main characters, so that was interesting. lots of content warnings for childhood sexual assault in this one btw~ |
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| I adored A Taste of Gold and Iron and I think I just wanted something of that caliber and didn't find it. It's very different, very Our Flag esque, the comparisons are right. ...more | |
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| A really emotional one-sitting poetry memoir about a lesbian couple wanting to be parents. I'm still chewing on this one, but as of right now I don't love how the reveal works toward the end, and the neat sort of narrative that it's aiming to create. ...more | |
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| “I wonder what my mother’s god / is thinking when he lets things happen to our children.” | |
“Don’t misunderstand me; I don’t want to die alone, but spending quality time with myself 60 to 70 percent of the day is my idea of mecca. However,”
― The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
― The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
“It was an exquisite irony: Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die. Just when we were feeling strength, it was taken from us. This”
― Two Boys Kissing
― Two Boys Kissing
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers. Now,”
― The Last Days of New Paris
― The Last Days of New Paris
“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..”
― The Reader
― The Reader
“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”
― The Reader
― The Reader
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