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Bezig met laden... Woman, Eating: A Novel (editie 2022)door Claire Kohda (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I really enjoyed this. It's a gem of a book with so much to unpack, and I found the ending deeply satisfying. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who loves a good literary spin on the supernatural or has felt there are two warring sides within themselves. ( ) "When you were a baby," she said, "I stayed up all night every night to watch you just in case I missed something about you changing." When I was around nine, she told me that she wished she could make my childhood last forever, so she could watch me grow up- becoming taller, becoming stronger, becoming womanlier, becoming more assertive and independent- for her whole life. When I stopped changing, when I stopped becoming and was just a stagnant thing that had become everything it could become, my mum drifted away from me. She stopped caring, it seemed, stopped showing me that she loved me, and, in fact, made me feel the opposite, as if, now my body was as unchanging as hers, I could no longer represent goodness to her. "I guess I do miss my mum," I say. This book was right up my alley -- I tend to be interested in any new takes on vampires, and I have a high tolerance for books in which nothing much happens. This definitely ticked those boxes! https://donut-donut.dreamwidth.org/862242.html geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London - where she is living away from her vampire mother for the first time - is much more difficult than she'd anticipated. Then there are the humans - the other artists at the studio space, the people at the gallery she interns at, the strange men that follow her after dark, and Ben, a boyish, goofy-grinned artist she is developing feelings for. Lydia knows that they are her natural prey, but she can't bring herself to feed on them. In her windowless studio, where she paints and studies the work of other artists, binge-watches Buffy the Vampire Slayer and videos of people eating food on YouTube and Instagram, Lydia considers her place in the world. She has many of the things humans wish for - perpetual youth, near-invulnerability, immortality - but she is miserable; she is lonely; and she is hungry - always hungry. As Lydia develops as a woman and an artist, she will learn that she must reconcile the conflicts within her - between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans - if she is to find a way to exist in the world. Before any of this, however, she must eat"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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