#2020 novel

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Me, November 30th: cool okay so NaNoWriMo is ending but I have more to write, so I’m just gonna keep this energy going, it’s been mostly enjoyable anyway

Me, today: Thou fiend! Thou monst’rous villain! Thou do steal my night away, and with what? With words? Am I to die at mine own hand, quill in the right, pad in the left? It has been a fornite, no? A million moons hath passed since first I began. I pray thee, good sir, tell me, what day is it?

Mom: ....December 4th........?

Me: JESUS it’s been four days??? And I haven’t even started writing today??? kool, am gunna die

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currently reading

I picked up Indelicacy by Amina Cain while shelving a cart of fiction at work. I immediately found the writing style distinct and captivating. It is plain and inexpressive, yet deep and personal. You get the sense that you are inside the narrator’s mind, and you are looking into a room which no one else has ever explored. Many of the paragraphs read like poems, they are divinely beautiful and precise. The protagonist is a curious person, someone who doesn’t let just anyone know what she thinks, how she feels. A theme throughout is her longing to write, and how her external world either encourages her art, or stifles it. I find her relationship with writing to be much like my own, and that has been exciting to be a part of in this book. 

Here’s a quote I liked: “In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own.”

I’m halfway through this short 160 page novel. The “what’s happening” of the story is not the focus of the storytelling. It is an exploration of an inner mind, so what is happening to the characters and when only unravels as the narrator thinks of it, or reflects on it. I imagine that pace will change in the second half. This is the author’s debut novel.

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Books for school....both good but not what I would read of my own volition.

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Finished the term finally hopefully today I will read one million comics.

Six Gun Snow White was soooo good!

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Things I finished in the last week (or so?). Technically started reading Golden Sheep and Tokyo Tarareba Girls v7 last year but finally finished.

Was reading Rockport Limited real slow too because the thb are one of the only things keeping me going Rn and I have limited remaining content at this point

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These were both super good. Snapdragon was even cute and sweeter and more fun than I expected!

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I’m doing a fantasy unit so you know I’m boutta just CHEW through a huge pile of these (not Sanderson I mean chew thru a lot of fantasy books)