![]() ![]() Lush, opulent, and romantic!Īmanda: I love catching the reflection of a person in her glasses. Kiki: I love how the person in the foreground almost looks like a living painting. Sarah: Moody and intricate and lush, I agree.Įlyse: It also conveys a sense of intimacy, which I love. I wonder if the yellow background in the left one has any symbolic meaning? Assuming they’re all done by the same artist, it’s odd that they chose a colour that flattens the cover so much when they were so clever about creating space with the other two. The middle and right one makes me wish they were covers for sapphic romance. The red for revolution and the design makes it look like the fist is grasping onto a red banner flying high. Sneezy: Ooooo the Black power fist in the tie is really clever. The left and middle immediately remind me of their respective stories, though. ![]() Shana: I love the eye contact on the S&S cover. Especially the use of shadow on the Jane Eyre cover.Įlyse: I love the Sense and Sensibility cover. ![]() Sarah: The one on the right doesn’t do it for me, but the middle and left are terrific design. This edition of Cover Awe is for us goth kids.Īmanda: Loving these classic goth covers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() If the story had been less dressed-up with fancy trimmings, in my opinion it would have been better, had no Man Booker Prize, and sold far fewer copies. A woman's ear is an invitation to adventure? Give me a break. ![]() How can you criticise a work that sets out to tell such an horrific story of war and violence? But this book is drowning itself in its own pretentious language. It makes me feel bad saying this about a book which was clearly inspired by the author's father's own experiences on the Burma death railway. I guess I'm inviting haters and trolls by reviewing this much-loved Booker Prize winner, but the eye rolls started somewhere halfway through chapter one and they just wouldn't stop. "I shall be a carrion monster, he whispered into the coral shell of her ear, an organ of women he found unspeakably moving in its soft, whorling vortex, and which always seemed to him to be an invitation to adventure." ![]() ![]() ![]() Even if the trip includes a third couple―Jesse’s best friend, Lou, and their cool-girl flame, Darcy―whose It-queer clout Sasha ridicules yet desperately wants.Īs the late December afternoons blur together in a haze of debaucherous homecooked feasts and sweaty sauna confessions, so too do the guests’ secret and shifting motivations. When a pair of older, richer lesbians―prominent news host Jules Todd and her psychotherapist partner, Miranda―invites Sasha and Jesse to their country home for the holidays, they’re quick to accept. ![]() ![]() Sasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis (Queer Fiction)Īn addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two other queer couples ![]() |