The Passion of New Eve | 
so-soWell, that was quite a trip! I never would‘ve picked this up without the 1001 list, and it‘s not one I would recommend to many people. It is set in a dystopian U.S. descending into another civil war and includes a LOT of violence & sexual content. Evelyn begins as a real jerk of a man who is captured by a tribe of women & transformed into a beautiful woman. Suffice to say Eve experiences a completely new perspective.
#audiobook #1001books
pickThis was super-graphic and other-wordly. It had a great arc for the main character, he went from being a dick to, errr, no longer having a dick! It was bleak about humanity and really quite odd - BUT - I stuck with it and I'm glad I did, even with the frequent and incredibly detailed descriptions of genitalia. So much to unpick about the relationships between anatomy, sex and gender. Fascinating.
pickA placeholder rating until I've really had a chance to collect myself. There's so much to think about, not least Carter's stance on feminism and trans* identity that I can't quite unpack yet, it feels like there's a discrepancy between intention and realisation. I'm going to need to follow this up with some academic analyses to get to grips with it fairly so as a book to make me think and question it's definitely a winner.
Is it #litsypartyofone or #lattepartyofone? Chocolate chai latte for an indulgent evening and one of the weirdest books I have read...
I probably won't buy anything, I said. I don't have room for more physical books, I said. I have 115 unread books on my Kindle, I said. I should concentrate on my ARCS, I said.
#litsypartyofone, I said. BUY ALL THE BOOKS, I said.
pickMy head is still whirling trying to process what I've just read. I struggle to rate this book as there are bits I love, and others I struggled to get through. A story that contains so much in a few pages, the mind boggles at times. There's sex changes, goddesses, washed up celebrity, self proclaimed gods and tribes of murderous children. A dystopian, fairytale, love story that perhaps doesn't seem as far fetched in 2017 as one would hope....
Another book I bought pre-loved from Carvoeiro. An ex introduced me to Angela Carter back in 2004 but I never got round to properly reading anything so here goes...!
