Dial a for aunties book review6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() I’m not often a fan of second chance tropes because I often find the original parting hard to forgive but I did love the way Jesse Sutanto framed Meddy and Nathan’s. ![]() ![]() The romance in this book was the perfect amount. They hit every sweet spot of being a dichotomy of problematic but sweet, but the real winning quality is that their interactions are hilarious. I could easily have read this in one sitting if real life would have stopped interfering as much as an Asian Auntie. Honestly, the plot was chaotic and over the top but my gosh, was it entirely entertaining. Admittedly, I sat there with a frown thinking this isn’t the light romcom that I ordered. I went into this without reading the blurb and I genuinely wouldn’t recommend that because I was incredibly shocked when things began spirally for Meddy. This is just one of those books that as a reader, I couldn’t help but fall in love with. She calls her Chinese-Indonesian Aunties for help. After accidentally killing her blind date, Meddy does the logical thing. Set up on a blind date by her interfering mother, Meddy is thinking how much worse can her love life get if her mother has to rope strangers in from the internet. ![]()
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![]() He had addressed her as Mirella then-or had she hallucinated? But who is this man? He resembles a gunman she met on an overpass as a kid. She runs into Gaspery, an investigator who quizzes the musician about the curious forest footage. Old video footage reveals that Vincent had a similar experience at the maple tree. The musician is the brother of her long-lost friend, Vincent. ![]() We shift gears to 2020, where we meet Mirella Kessler at a music concert. Roberts, the new priest he meets, turns out to be a fake, and Edwin is left unhinged. Suddenly, everything is a blur, and he hears an impenetrable symphony: a violin, a whoosh, and the sounds of a train station. ![]() Things quickly get going when Edwin makes his way through a maple tree overgrowth in the forest. Andrew, a privileged Englishman not in line for inheritance, charting the waters of the Atlantic. The novel sets sail in 1912 with Edwin St. ![]() Great Expectations by Kathy Acker6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Janis Joplin was probably the only other woman worth saying you had sex with. And Richard is prominent in the short annals of men who have written about having sex with a famous woman (Kathy) as opposed to women always covering them. ![]() Richard Hell too “left poetry” to invent punk rock. Patti Smith was kind of one of them, leaving poetry for rock n roll but still saying she was a poet. Lydia Davis is one, Renee Gladman is another right now. You know and we’ve always had fellow travelers, people who move with us as opposed to the sellout fiction world, weird experimental artists and writers. And it made a baggy loose space, a trans form where poets could meet everybody. Bernadette Mayer was the poet who coined the “writer” term at that time. Kathy was doing what people in the poetry world then called “writing.” Meaning they refused genre, they didn’t not write poems they just didn’t like calling them anything that specific. ![]() This poet Mike Sappol who was also in a band said Kathy aka the Black Tarantula is who I should be reading I don’t know I just think you’d like her. I first heard about Kathy in a workshop at St. I’ve already written two versions of this intro and now I think I’m just giving up and I’ll talk to you direct. ![]() |