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Growing up out here in the country taught me things. Taught me that after the first fat flush of life, time eats away at things: it rusts machinery, it matures animals to become hairless and featherless, and it withers plants... I learned pain can do that too. Can eat a person until there’s nothing but bone and skin and a thin layer of blood left. How it can eat your insides and swell you in wrong ways.
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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JOMPBPC September 27 Warm Colors
#books#jompbpc#sing unburied sing#instructions for a heatwave#just call me angel#angels don't knock!
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I like to think I know what death is. I like to think that it's something I could look at straight.
from Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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last book read + last stethoscope used, part 10
The stethoscope: MDF's Procardial Titanium Cardiology scope in Botswana agate and rose gold. I love this stethoscope so much. True--she has appeared in this series before (in the first shy installment), but she matched this book best...and she was the last used. I don't make the rules. (I do?)
The book: Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones, part 1 of her Bois Sauvage trilogy. I could go on about how I loved the protagonist, Esch, and felt the unrequited love she felt for her classmate that only a 14-year-old can feel quite so desperately. And of course I could talk about the harrowing account of Hurricane Katrina depicted here, but I'd rather talk about this series as a whole. Of everyone I've read so far in my life, few capture the unique circumstances brought on by systemic poverty in the rural South like Ward does. But few can make you long for a place that means suffering like she does. It's a mind-boggling paradox to me. I'll admit that I'm biased because where I grew up isn't far from this region, sure. Ward grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi, just north of the Gulf Coast, and places the titles in this series in the fictional Bois Sauvage, situated somewhere nearby. Bois Sauvage is breathtakingly beautiful to read about, and Ward's descriptions have a way of working on all of your senses. The way she writes her characters is unflinchingly honest while reserving judgement. Circling back around to the book--I probably enjoyed this one the least because it was the most graphic.
Here are the other two, which I recommend wholeheartedly. You don't need to read them in any particular order, and each book introduces a completely different cast of characters.
#cardiophile#cardiophilia#stethoscopes#heartbeats#auscultation#MDF instruments#Jesmyn Ward#Salvage the Bones#Where the Line Bleeds#Sing Unburied Sing#Bois Sauvage#books#reading#last book last stethoscope#lbls
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Books I'm considering next
I mentioned before I add a new book every 5 sim years in my bookish save.. I'm torn about what book to add in next for Year 55. I know It seems too soon to be thinking about it bc I'm posting Year 50 right now, but in actuality I'm halfway through playing Year 53 so I need to give myself some time to finish reading and do prep like take notes, make a timeline.
Below are the ones I'm currently considering. They each have things about them that I really want to play and things about them that would be difficult to show with sims. Opinions welcome! I would love if somebody just tells me they have a clear favorite and then I don't have to decide lol.
In alphabetical order (info on each after the cut)
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys (memoir)
Dust Child (historical fic)
Magic Lessons and the Practical Magic trilogy (fantasy)
Refugee High (nonfic)
Salvage the Bones ; Sing, Unburied Sing (fic)
She's Not There (memoir)
The Glass Castle ; Half Broke Horses (memoir)
To Kill A Kingdom (fantasy)
War and Speech (YA)
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys (memoir of Viv Albertine, member of British female punk rock group The Slits. I'm interested in the aesthetics of this. She's also dated Mick from The Clash, has been friends with various ppl like Sid Vicous. But should I hold out for the possibility of a bands EP or GP in the future? And there's another memoir of hers I could also read before playing. It's more focused on her family rather than her music career)
Dust Child (historical fiction about a half Vietnamese half black man who is trying to find out who his father is in the present time intertwined with the story of two sisters who leave their small town to become bar girls in Saigon in past time. I actually haven't read this yet but I became interested in playing something with a Vietnamese storyline because of the tumblr @biplusco . Their Indochine cc collection made me want to play something set in Southeast Asia.
Magic Lessons; The Book of Magic; The Rules of Magic; Practical Magic (trilogy and a prequel following the Owens family of witches since the 1600s. You may know the movie Practical Magic. Of these books I've read Practical Magic and half of Magic Lessons but haven't read The Book of Magic or The Rules of Magic yet. The main issue here is 4 books is a lot to take notes about and make timelines for before playing through. Plus, starting from the late 1600s all the way to more current times at the speed I play will mean I never finish! But maybe I could JUST play the prequel.)
Refugee High (nonfiction about the high school in the U.S. with the highest percentage of refugees. The author chose some students, each from a different country, to delve into the lives of. Could be interesting depicting each one's past in sims before they end up together in Copperdale High School. But I've only just started reading this one.)
Salvage the Bones; Sing, Unburied, Sing (fictions both by Jesmyn Ward and they take place in the same town. The characters even cross paths at one point. I love her writing so much but a key part of one book is a hurricane and the other book mostly takes place in a car so I don't know if I can do this well in Sims 4 as the game is rn)
She's Not There (memoir, gender transition. I might want to read her other book called Good Boy about every dog she's had in her life first so I can play both together and have each of the pets join the family at the right times)
The Glass Castle; Half Broke Horses (both by Jeannette Walls. The Glass Castle is a really popular memoir about the author's nomadic upbringing with parents who eventually choose to be homeless. Half Broke Horses is her biography of her maternal grandmother. That one mostly takes place on ranches. What happens in The Glass Castle basically picks up right after what happens in Half Broke Horses.)
To Kill A Kingdom (fiction, fantasy, mermaids and princes. This one I'm worried about my lack of cc for. I want to play out a fantasy book at some point but I haven't done any collecting of fantasy cc whatsoever yet so it might take a while to accumulate it )
War and Speech (a humorous YA book about a high school girl, new to a school, who joins the super snobby speech team just to try to bring them down from the inside.)
#books#booklr#bookblr#simblr#sims 4#ts4#bookish save#viv albertine#clothes clothes clothes music music music boys boys boys#dust child#magic lessons#practical magic#alice hoffman#refugee high#jesmyn ward#salvage the bones#sing unburied sing#she's not there#jennifer finney boylan#the glass castle#jeannette walls#to kill a kingdom#war and speech#fiction#nonfiction#memoir#fantasy#young adult#historical fiction
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If you read and enjoyed "Our Missing Hearts" by Celeste Ng, you might like "Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward.
Our Missing Hearts: "From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear."
Sing, Unburied, Sing: "A story of how the past affects the present, and of deeply entrenched racism, Sing Unburied Sing describes the life of a biracial boy, his addicted, grieving black mother, and his incarcerated white father. A road trip to Dad's prison kick-starts the novel, which offers deeply affecting characters, a strong sense of place (rural Mississippi), and a touch of magical realism in appearances by the dead."
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Title: Sing, Unburied, Sing | Author: Jesmyn Ward | Publisher: Scribner (2017)
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Book Report for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) by Jesmyn Ward
[ID: Detail of the cover of Sing, Unburied, Sing, with a red background and black bird behind the title. To the right is a photo of the author, a young Black woman with shoulder-length dark curly hair; she smiles at the viewer. / end ID]
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Read in: January 2023 (audiobook format)
Readability: Gorgeously poetic prose that carries you along the intense plot, sometimes gently, sometimes relentlessly. The text is laden with powerful imagery that pulls no punches. Major content warnings for drug and alcohol use, emetophobia, anti-black violence including lynching, sexual assault and other physical violence, animal death described gruesomely, and child abuse described frequently and in detail.
Recommendation: This is a powerful book that explores multi-generational trauma, the evils of anti-blackness and incarceration, and complex familial relationships. A work of high literature that would be worth reading again and again to uncover more of its rich symbolism and imagery.
Ultimately, it's a story about a story's need to be told. The ghosts of all those wronged haunt the earth because they had not justice in life nor in death; and each generation grapples with the ghosts of the previous generations.
Thematic Quotation:
“Sometimes I think it done changed. And then I sleep and I wake up and it ain't changed none. It's like a snake that sheds its skin. The outside look different when the scales change, but the inside always the same.”
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I felt a stinging in my toes, in my soles, in my legs, up my butt, and through my back, where it burst to fire in my bones, licking all through my ribs, a loose powerful feeling, like a voice freed from a throat, a screaming note all through me, and it was then I knew I was going to run.
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing
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The covers for the Italian Editions of Jesmyn Ward's Bois Sauvage series are some of the most beautiful covers I have ever seen
#jesmyn ward#salvage the bones#sing unburied sing#where the line bleeds#black author#black lit#black literature#italian editionss#beautiful covers#black history month#happy black history month#bois sauvage#salvare le ossa#canta spirito canta#la linea del sangue
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2022 Reading Challenge | An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner
18/40. Canta, spirito, canta - Jesmyn Ward
A volte il mondo non ti dà quello che ti serve, non importa quanto lo cerchi. A volte lo tiene per sé.
Sometimes the world don’t give you what you need, no matter how hard you look. Sometimes it withholds. [Sing, unburied, sing - J. Ward]
★★★★★
#2022 reading challenge#popsugarreadingchallenge#dani reads books#dani reads in italian#canta spirito canta#sing unburied sing#jesmyn ward#personal
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Kayla scoots towards me when the door bangs shut; she snatches her juice cup and sucks before kneading my ear. The little pinch and roll of her fingers almost hurts, but it's her habit, so I swing her up in my arms and let her knead.
from Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
#Jesmyn Ward#Sing Unburied Sing#Jojo#Kayla#care is the sweetest touch#tenderness as a lingering touch#sugar and spice and everything nice
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(ds: 39, 45, 85, 126.)
#ghost story enjoyers when the ghosts get revenge: [yelling]#fucking spectacular you funky little dead guy. maybe learn how to swim next time around the carousel of life and death.#anyway. speaking recreationally here.#do think it's cool that bill identifies how important revenge is to burke out loud. and. well.#yeah this kind of ignores the first thing that bill's ghost does is scare the shit out of vicki (accidental?) to warn her to get away;#before what happened to him happens to her.#(eta: but where bill's ghost shows up in 85 singing as though that was part of the invocation of the ghost story - it carries no emotional;#weight. for Vicki - i mean. in 126 bill's ghost does the same thing and it genuinely comes off like he /means/ to fuck with matthew;#that it's intentionally unsettling - even cruel.)#ghosts are multifaceted. they contain multitudes.#it's fascinating that Carolyn reads the ghosts as crying out for help but the ghosts are the most helpful people in Collinwood. hands down.#something something all the characters see in the ghosts what they want to see. Carolyn sees a trap; a cry for help;#Liz (and Roger. to an extent.) see ghosts as the threat of the unburied past come to unseat the present.#Burke sees a ghost as a revenge seeking fulfilment.#Vicki & David? they're lonely. the ghosts - however unsettling - are objects of fascination. friends.#dark shadows#bill malloy#burke devlin#sam evans#matthew morgan
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