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Choose what book WE will be reading for book club in August. (see description before voting)
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima
The Accidentals: Stories by Guadalupe Nettel
Drinking From Graveyard Wells: Stories by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
This Strange Way of Dying: Stories** by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
Before voting, please understand that we're voting AS PARTICIPANTS for what we want to read together. This is not a passive poll. If you vote, please plan on participating. Even if you don't finish the book. Anyone is welcome to join. We'll be posting about the book and having discussions on August 31st.
We're keeping it short(er) in August with some short story collections!
** This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire, and the Fantastic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Full title wouldn't fit.
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Our August pick for the 31 Pages Later book club will be Bliss Montage by Ling Ma. I'm so fucking exciiiited!!!
Remember, anyone is welcome to join! 12 people voted, so I'm looking forward to 12 people sharing their thoughts on August 31st! Doesn't matter if you finish the book, doesn't matter if you read one story and dnf. Share where you're at and what you think, and we'll have a good time :)
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"But when I'd believed I was a god, that godhood had formed most of my identity. My gender and sexuality were always ancillary to my divinity."
/-Blue Skinned Gods, SJ Sindu p.439
Kind of a weird one to relate to, given the god of it all, but I was a kid who grew up with a whole lot going on that made adults really not pressure me (or really pay attention to me) about doing or being properly gender expressive and sexually social. I never had think about it, and no one pressured me about it. I figured it out in my own time.
It was really nice, actually, to not make my sexuality or gender--or the fight to express either as I chose--the center of my identity. Would recommend.
before I started the book I searched the blue skinned gods tag to see if anyone was talking about it and I couldn’t find any posts but I did see Hindus arguing that Krishna is depicted as blue not because he was dark skinned and he was actually fair skinned and they didn’t even see how colorist that was it’s so infuriating. The intersection of colorism and castism and racism is something I wish Hindus thought of more
I'm not sure if you've read the Great Cities duology by N.K.Jemisin, but there's a good conversation going on in The World We Make about Padmini is who, I believe, a darker-skinned Dalit woman. It comes up in her feelings toward being Queens, as well as in the work place with a co-worker who refused to engage with her bc of her caste.
I have read this and I actually made a post about that lol but thanks for sharing!
Tbh, I'm having difficulty articulating my feelings about Blue Skinned Gods with getting into the trauma of my own upbringing. The pressure, the disappointment, the desperation to be a child, to have the life that other children have, warring with the need to be loved when that love is conditional.
It's actually been a struggle for me to get through this book. I read a little, get to a part where Ayya is being Himself, and have to set it down again. I'm enjoying it in little bursts. It's absurd that, in two years of reading, I've gotten to the point where I can easily read shit that used to trigger me or literally make me sick to my stomach. But I haven't gotten that far with parental bullshit, apparently.
"Normally I went to the oxbow pond with Ayya in the mornings, but today I was ten, and like I'd planned, I'd woken up early enough to go on my own. I'd be back at the ashram by the time Ayya got up, and he'd look at me with pride and recognition of my grown-up responsibility. He'd forgive me for my failures the night before. He'd smile. He'd love me again."
~ Blue Skinned Gods, SJ Sindu, pg. 19
Blue Skinned Gods spoilers
From the beginning of the book I thought Kalki’s skin was dyed blue or he had a blood disorder and then as soon as I read that he bled black I knew it was methemoglobinemia and felt so vindicated at the reveal
Also fuck his mom for going along with that insane lie. What happened to her was obviously terrible but everything leading up to that could have been prevented. Actually going off of that the thing that boiled my blood the most was when Kalki’s dad named that she had depression while letting her believe that she wasn’t enough of a believer and that explained all her misery. That was the most shocking reveal to me actually, that he was a doctor in America before all this. He knew everything he was peddling was snake oil but he wanted the power anyway. Kalki’s and his mom’s situations really reminded me of everything Tara Westover talked about in her Memoir, Educated, for some reason. The way her Mormon dad (and mom) used religion to exert control over their families and all the guilt that came with doing something wrong while questioning faith. It was a very interesting and at times deeply upsetting book.
Also at the end when they ordered lo mein or whatever and picked all the peanuts out my dumb ass was like they could’ve just asked the restaurant for no nuts before I realized what they were doing.
Anyway thanks @lexsreadingcorner for this pick!
Maybe the most important part of Blue Skinned Gods - spoilers below
before I started the book I searched the blue skinned gods tag to see if anyone was talking about it and I couldn’t find any posts but I did see Hindus arguing that Krishna is depicted as blue not because he was dark skinned and he was actually fair skinned and they didn’t even see how colorist that was it’s so infuriating. The intersection of colorism and castism and racism is something I wish Hindus thought of more
Blue Skinned Gods really emphasized how for cult leaders the only authority that matters is their own no matter how religious they claim to be. The way Kalki’s dad hated thirunangai (trans women - I can’t remember if that was the exact term used my hold expired) while raising Kalki to believe he was a God in a religion that took male and female forms and Kalki himself remembers a story of Krishna valuing his trans followers who stuck by his side. It’s so telling.
Library Haaauuul!
I dropped off seven books to the library and, despite still having five at home, I picked up these four. At least I kept them short this time.
Bloom - Delilah S. Dawson
Demon Song - Kelsea Yu
The Goth House Experiment and Other Stories - SJ Sindu ( @safirefire I had no idea Sindu had a short story collection)
The Scourge Between Stars - Ness Brown (started last year)
