Philip Luke JohnsonMay 22, 2023

I reviewed #Paradais by Fernanda #Melchor for Public Books. This is a bleak story about gender-based violence, but it's doing something different to other work on femicide in Mexico. It's examining the world - and the young men - that femicide produces.

https://www.publicbooks.org/growing-up-in-the-world-made-by-femicide/

Growing Up in the World Made by Femicide - Public Books

A dystopian buddy story shows misogynist violence emerging spontaneously—almost casually—from male camaraderie, from ennui, from dipshit youth.

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RC HopgoodDec 28, 2022
Ok here's my fave books i read this year. DoE is top, rest are in no particular order, tho Melchor continues to impress & may be my favorite new(ish) writer.
#TheDawnOfEverything, Graeber
#Paradais, Melchor
#MexicanGothic, Moreno-Garcia
#Spidertown, Rodriguez Jr
#GoodNewsFromOuterSpace, Kessel
#Lacuna, Snyckers
#TheImmaculate, Johnson
#QuántóuRising, @JMoodyWrites
#TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing, Kundera
#TheRoad, McCarthy
#LanguageInOurBrain, Friederici
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RC HopgoodDec 1, 2022

Gravitys Rainbow is gonna take the rest of 2022, so Im gonna make my #FavoriteBooksRead2022 #YearEndList now.
(Graeber was paradigm shifting, the rest in no order)

#TheDawnOfEverything, Graeber
#Paradais, Melchor
#MexicanGothic, Moreno-Garcia
#Spidertown,  Rodriguez Jr
#GoodNewsFromOuterSpace, Kessel
#Lacuna, Snyckers
#TheImmaculate, Johnson
#QuántóuRising, @JMoodyWrites
#TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing, Kundera
#TheRoad, McCarthy
#LanguageInOurBrain, Friederici

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