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Pussy album by Stella Bergsma
4.5
Héérlijk brutaal, ruw en vulgair. Met een literaire platvloersheid schrijft Bergsma een taalwaterval van kotsmisselijk alcoholgebruik en vaginale nattigheid aan elkaar.
Het grappigste boek dat ik tot nog toe las. Het onbeholpene en zelfdestructieve hoofdpersonage deed me (vooral in de eerste delen van het boek) vaak gênant luid lachen.
Hoewel dit meesterlijk geschreven is, modderde het grotere verhaal voor mij hier en daar wat aan. Desalniettemin een aanrader voor ruimdenkende mensen van (gewillig) vlees en bloed die zichzelf eens uit hun comfortzone willen rukken.
Het grappigste boek dat ik tot nog toe las. Het onbeholpene en zelfdestructieve hoofdpersonage deed me (vooral in de eerste delen van het boek) vaak gênant luid lachen.
Hoewel dit meesterlijk geschreven is, modderde het grotere verhaal voor mij hier en daar wat aan. Desalniettemin een aanrader voor ruimdenkende mensen van (gewillig) vlees en bloed die zichzelf eens uit hun comfortzone willen rukken.
Alle mensen die ik ken by Lisa Huissoon
4.0
Geniaal concept en goed uitgewerkt. Zonder achterliggend plot, maar dat stoorde me niet.
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
2.0
Tijdens het lezen bekroop me het gevoel dat ik dit beter zou moeten vinden. (Hoe harteloos kan je zijn als je een memoire over een stervende moeder niet kan appreciëren?)
De link tussen herinneringen en voedsel kan heel krachtig zijn, maar werd hier dik uitgesmeerd. Na de eerste 50 pagina's was ik eigenlijk al voldaan. Er werd steeds aan dezelfde touwtjes getrokken en enkele van de hoofdstukken leken slechts een variatie op het voorgaande...
Tja, eentje om op de plank 'geen spek voor mijn bek' te zetten.
De link tussen herinneringen en voedsel kan heel krachtig zijn, maar werd hier dik uitgesmeerd. Na de eerste 50 pagina's was ik eigenlijk al voldaan. Er werd steeds aan dezelfde touwtjes getrokken en enkele van de hoofdstukken leken slechts een variatie op het voorgaande...
Tja, eentje om op de plank 'geen spek voor mijn bek' te zetten.
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
4.0
When a book is introduced as "a feminist, LGBT+, sci-fi-horror story with all the tantalizing elements of gore, mystery, war, end love you can ask for", I just have to read it. Wilder girls is a ruthless story about resilient girls against a world gone mad and the power of female friendship.
An all-girls boarding school set on an island has been overtaken by the Tox. This plague/virus that has transformed the wildlife of the island and all of the inhabitants. Since 18 months the island is quarantined, and countless teachers and students have died. The ones that survived are left with gruesome mutations: a fused eyelid, a second spine, a scaled hand, two hearts.
When Byatt disappears, her best friend Hetty and Reese do everything in their power to find her and figure out what the hell is happening on the island. Expect a lot of violence, blood, betrayal, death.
Because it was such an unique context, it took me around 50 pages to really get engaged in this book. And although this is a young adult book, I really enjoyed it.
The characters are untamed, determined, independent, queer, young women with complex characters and emotions. The relations between the different characters are intriguing. The writing is just as fierce as the dystopian setting. The chapters are perfectly chopped and made me want to read 'just one more'.
An all-girls boarding school set on an island has been overtaken by the Tox. This plague/virus that has transformed the wildlife of the island and all of the inhabitants. Since 18 months the island is quarantined, and countless teachers and students have died. The ones that survived are left with gruesome mutations: a fused eyelid, a second spine, a scaled hand, two hearts.
When Byatt disappears, her best friend Hetty and Reese do everything in their power to find her and figure out what the hell is happening on the island. Expect a lot of violence, blood, betrayal, death.
Because it was such an unique context, it took me around 50 pages to really get engaged in this book. And although this is a young adult book, I really enjoyed it.
The characters are untamed, determined, independent, queer, young women with complex characters and emotions. The relations between the different characters are intriguing. The writing is just as fierce as the dystopian setting. The chapters are perfectly chopped and made me want to read 'just one more'.
We hebben altijd in het kasteel gewoond by Shirley Jackson
4.25
"My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise, I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead..."
The first page of We Have Always Lived in the Castle immediately draws you into this strange and claustrophobic book.
The story is told by Merricat. Her voice is childish for an eighteen-year-old, which makes sense since she's been cut off from the rest of the village/world since the majority of her family died when she was 12. She invents magical safekeepers to ensure that everything remains as it is, including magic words that should not be mentioned, burying things in the garden as offerings. Above all, Merricat is an unreliable narrator, which makes her very intriguing.
Shirley Jackson creates a universe where time seems to stand still forever: a fixed routine for every day of the week, the same walking route to the library and the grocery store, her sister Constance who obsessively cooks the vegetables from the garden to store in jars (like all the other Blackwood women before her). This family is completely cut off from the outside world until unexpected visit threatens the fragile stability of the family and of Merricat's mind.
This book is mysterious, bizarre, sinister, haunting, and leaves the reader with an ever-growing sense of unease. Love it!
The first page of We Have Always Lived in the Castle immediately draws you into this strange and claustrophobic book.
The story is told by Merricat. Her voice is childish for an eighteen-year-old, which makes sense since she's been cut off from the rest of the village/world since the majority of her family died when she was 12. She invents magical safekeepers to ensure that everything remains as it is, including magic words that should not be mentioned, burying things in the garden as offerings. Above all, Merricat is an unreliable narrator, which makes her very intriguing.
Shirley Jackson creates a universe where time seems to stand still forever: a fixed routine for every day of the week, the same walking route to the library and the grocery store, her sister Constance who obsessively cooks the vegetables from the garden to store in jars (like all the other Blackwood women before her). This family is completely cut off from the outside world until unexpected visit threatens the fragile stability of the family and of Merricat's mind.
This book is mysterious, bizarre, sinister, haunting, and leaves the reader with an ever-growing sense of unease. Love it!