january reads
[1] this thing between us by gus moreno
★★★★★
"I don't want to get over anything, Thiago. I want to sink as far as it'll take me."
[2] dog songs: poems by mary oliver
★★★
"Finally, the slick mountains of love break over us."
[3] big swiss by jen beagin
★★★
"I once saw you at a farm stand. I was there to buy tomatoes, but I noticed you in the meat section, pulling venison cubes out of a freezer, and I fell in love with your forearms. I obsessed about them for weeks."
[4] decreation by anne carson
★★★
"I am excess. Flesh. Brain. Breath. Creature who breaks the silence of heaven, blocks God's view of his beloved creation, and like an unwelcome third between two lovers, gets in the way."
[5] a certain hunger by chelsea g. summers
★★★
"I loved him, I suppose, but it was the love of an itchy sweater that looks too good on you to throw away. Every time you slip into that sweater, you know you're going to get compliments and admiring glances, and every moment you're alone, you're going to scratch your flesh raw."
[6] sharp objects by gillian flynn
★★★★
"A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort."
[7] our wives under the sea by julia armfield
★★★
"'I think,' June says after a pause, 'that the thing about losing someone isn't the loss but the absence of afterwards. D'you know what I mean? The endlessness of that.'"
[8] autobiography of red by anne carson [reread]
★★★★★
"Geryon's life entered a numb time, caught between the tongue and the taste."
[9] the carrying by ada limón [reread]
★★★★
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"
[10] my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russel
★★★
"...pulling the words out of me like teeth."
my book rating system is as follows:
★ = i felt pure contempt the entire time
★★ = yeah it's a book
★★★ = i liked it!
★★★★ = good fucking book, damn
★★★★★ = blew my dick clean off and i'll throw a tantrum if everyone i know doesn't also read it and love it
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