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What are you reading? June 2, 2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-06-02  

In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…

I am finished reading:

I mago by Octavia Butler - I like this...and the entire Xenogenesis trilogy which I’ve now completed...

I wish that Butler had allowed Lilith Iyapo to be the primary character of the entire series as opposed to her child, Akin/Jodhas. Akin/Jodhas is simply not a compelling enough character to hold down 2 of the 3 books of this series. Its metamorphosis is quite interesting but did it need to take up an entire book and a half?

I can understand the risks of turning Lilith into an “earth mother” stereotype and I feel like Butler pulled her back in Adulthood Rites (the second book of the trilogy) for that very reason (which is very understandable). The psychological and character insights were outstanding, though.

Let me rest for a month or so with Butler and then I’ll start on the Patternmaster series.

I made myself step into its embrace and at once I felt myself held and penetrated, held absolutely still, but not paralyzed. Nikanj had a gentled touch than I had yet managed. And it still gave pleasure Even to me. Even now. Then the world around me seemed to flare brilliant white. I could no longer see beyond myself. All my senses turned inward… The flood of information was incomprehensible to me at firstI received and stored it with only a few bits of it catching my attention. There would be plenty of time for me to examine the rest. I wouldn’t lose any of it, and once I understood it, I wouldn’t forget it.

I am reading:

Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl Pinckney - All the name dropping casts too wide a net in this, even though there is some juicy literary tea (e.g. the tea about the poet Sterling Brown is interesting) .

The book works better when Pinckney focuses more on the “literary education” (particularly with Hardwick) mentioned in the title rather than mere gossip and chitchat even though I understand that the gossip and tea he shares is also a part of his “literary education.”

I also like some of the details about Pinckney’s own family.

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