danielmolloy's reviews
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downloaded the unofficial homestuck browser so i'm going with the flash first :)

just clearing off my in-progress with things i intend to start over

gonna restart this baby :) 

poor istvhan never really got a chance in the face of my love for stephen D: but clara was a delight!!  this took me longer to get really into than grace, but the worldbuilding and the sense of humour is so charming and consistent that it kept me reading until the plot actually kicked in.

nightmare nightmare nightmare.  complete and utter failure of the justice system.  evil from pickton himself to the vpd to the presiding judge.  so much love and community and tireless work by the families and institutions like WISH, all dashed because the life of an addicted woman or a sex worker is something the courts can simply turn away from.  it doesn't matter.  these women loved and were loved and no one was allowed to truly speak for them when it came time for robert pickton to get some kind of retribution.

i've seen some other reviews complaining that stevie cameron spent too long going over the details of each missing woman.  not to get too heated, but if you came into this book wanting the juicy details of their deaths and the butchery their bodies were subjected to, shame on you for not wanting to take the time to understand the people they were.  this is a long, difficult book that had me in tears multiple times.  there is a rage in me about these women -- and any other marginalized person from the DTES who disappears not because no one cares for them, but because our systems don't care for them -- that i never want to lose.  the very least you can do, if you're hoping to get some sort of edgy shiver out of reading descriptions of the dismemberment of human bodies, is spend some time learning who these women were and the giant spaces they left in their communities when they disappeared.

just as warm and engaging as the rest of michael palin's work, but with a personal and devastating focus.  it reminds me of exactly what i've always wanted to do with my own family history <3

god i love the beats.  it's been a long, long time since i've read this book, and i'm certain it speaks differently to me now than it did as a teenager.  you have to let yourself slip into a trance with it, and allow kerouac to guide you along in his mad visions of america and the people who slide in and out of his life.  i'll read it again in another ten years and get something new out of it all over again.

psa do NOT drop this book when you're a decent chunk into it and think you'll pick it up again later... you won't

just did not vibe with the writing style

quicker than i'd expected, but no less heavy.  it's incredible how quickly nella larsen made me care for irene as a whole, complete person.