maybe not the best book i’ve read all year but perhaps the one that’s stuck with me the most
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Hard to explain this beautiful gem of a book so I’ll quote “Armfield said that the novel was in part inspired by a wish to explore the "crossover with queer women’s fiction and the sea," adding that the ocean is often used to symbolise both "something forbidden" and something that "can be many things at once." In an interview with Sam Franzini of Our Culture Mag, she stated that the novel was in part "about an anticipation of grief and losing someone," adding that part of the horror was from "the clanging bureaucracy of not being able to get an answer."
May 30, 2024
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Life changing book
Jan 21, 2024
A tense, slow burning, gripping read.
“It's been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves and the cities have retreated to higher storeys. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.”
King Lear meets the climate crisis. Just as stunningly written as Our Wives Under the Sea. I cried when I finished it this morning, mostly at it being over.
Aug 13, 2024
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i feel free. like i can take on the world.
fuck sport bras, i don’t even like sporty hoes — Shakespeare
Oct 25, 2024
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how sweet is it that two separate things can work in conjunction…a diptych …or triptych even.. that artists are always borrowing from each other…nothing is original anymore but there’s something so wonderfully human about that……..
number one double feature i’m enjoying recently is the picture of dorian gray and todd haynes’ velvet goldmine..
……i💟art……
Feb 25, 2025
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okay i am not a crazy wilderness person so the times i’ve done this have been in the safety of a camp ground with a nearby landline and surrounded by many responsible people BUT
it’s my favorite opportunity to be phoneless. and! you have a decent excuse to not answer people for 4 days straight xx
connect with natuuutreeee maaaann
the most recent trip i went on was in the most beautiful location and i don’t have a single photo to prove it because my phone was out of charge in the car
and that is a beautiful thing if you really think about it it
Nov 7, 2024