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Foragers (2022, Jumana Manna 🇵🇸)

Palestine is the home for several wild, edible plants. Za’atar and akkoub are popular herbs in Palestinian culture and cuisine. In 1977, however, Ariel Sharon declared za’atar a ‘protected plant’, rendering its foraging, possession or trade a criminal offense. Akkoub suffered a similar fate when it was labelled protected in 2005. Those who pick za’atar and akkoub subsequently became lawbreakers and in many cases were indicted and convicted. Despite this, several Palestinians, especially the elderly, are willing to defy these laws.

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Blue, grey, pink?

Blue: What’s more important to you: characters or plot?

I know this sounds like a cop-out, but both? The way I write, they’re basically the same thing. I create characters to fit plots and I create plots to fit characters. I’m not really good at conceiving of one without the other. My ideas for characters are usually also plot ideas and vice versa.

I know a lot of people like to come up with OCs without necessarily having a story to fit them into, and I think that seems like a lot of fun, I’m just bad at thinking that way.

As a reader, I’d maybe weigh character a bit more heavily. But if a plot is strong enough it can sometimes carry a story even with mediocre characters, so it really just depends on the specific story, I guess.

Grey: What’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

I almost exclusively use “said” as a dialogue tag and only use less-common dialogue tags in rare circumstances when they really seem necessary.

Pink: Which of your characters would become your best friend?

I would love to be friends with Geilis but I feel like neither of us are the type to really actively pursue new friendships very often so we probably would just end up never hanging out.

I bet I’d be good friends with Eugene, since he’s outgoing enough to kickstart the friendship himself.

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It's… policy.

Problemista (2023), dir. Julio Torres

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Problemista (2023, Julio Torres)

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Bummer that jazz didn't give u what u wanted 😔 I really recommend that u read Sula next time 😇🌹

Thank you for the rec i will definitely read it :) <3 i was frustrated that she didn't say much about the misogynistic violence of the murder the story revolved around and many other things but i still appreciated its beauty and i understand that she was more concerned with the convulsions and possibilities of Black life post Great migration and ultimately that's the story she chose to tell !

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book you’ve reread the most times?

I typically don't reread books bc i always think life is too short and there are so many books to read i always want to pick up something new.... but sometimes i do want to like i'd love to reread agua viva or cahier d'un retour au pays natal for example bc i feel like i'd get caught more in the flow of the book on the second read. only exceptions i can think of are books for children i kept rereading, one called fleurs de vache comes to mind lol it's about a weird woman who gives seeds to a man at the market and they grow cows lol and then they fall in love (a masterpiece). also i reread camila grudova's the doll's alphabet bc i had pirated it first and then bought a physical copy bc i wanted to support the author / editor and i felt like i had to justify it by rereading it but it kinda disappointed me lol.

top 5 books of all time?

i feel like i always say the same thing sorry... 5 books that i read the last few years that left a rly strong impression on me : Giono's Que ma joie demeure, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Du Maurier's Rebecca, Djebar's Nulle part dans la maison de mon père, Kertész' Kaddish for an unborn child and 5 older favorites but that maybe should revisit : Gary's Gros Calin, Daniel Pennac's the Malaussènes series, Edgar Poe's stories, Phèdre, Zola's La curée.

11. what non-fiction books do you like if any?

I loved Assia Djebar's memoirs and i'd love to read more bc i love it when ppl talk about themselves lmao but i haven't read more since bc i'm also kinda scared i will find it long/boring. In terms of essays actually i think the second sex is the book i think about the most (and i should probably read volume II lmao) but i don't read a lot of non fiction or not as much as i would want. I thought Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow was rly helpful too but doesn't have the same depth (not the same aim either obviously). And i'm pretty hermetic to most poetry except poems here and there i think.

19. most disliked popular books?

Feels obvious but i hated Houellebecq's submission like i hate this kind of stuff (misogynistic, racist) but i don't even think the hype for what it claims to be is all that deserved... like the book is poorly constructed, the comparison between the narrator's conversion and Huysmans' is very obviously forced and pretentious, i don't think that wallowing in your own mediocrity is a good way to show mediocrity lol and i also don't think any of the things he talks about (seeing prostitutes bc feminists ruined relationships...? lmfao) is a particularly well observed critique of modernity. Didn't hate it but i couldn't finish Sense and sensibility bc it bored me to death lmfao.

20. what are things you look for in a book?

Well first and foremost i'm just looking to be entertained rly... and be transported to a different world. that's why i'm always looking to try different stuff from what i'm used to. But I think my favorite thing is rly well constructed characters that feel real and give you a window on the human interiority lol and make you empathize and understand things you've never experienced or you have but weren't able to formulate. i also like beautiful prose and i can be a bit of a snob about it. i don't particularly look for books that are thought-provoking but it's always a plus.

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