My chronic pain has kept me from filming in the last weeks but I wanted to give some reading updates and ask you all for what you have been enjoying.
The last book I read was Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, I love digging into classics that are completely fixed in the culture but barely read and this one did not disappoint. I especially apperciated the layers of our protagionist Joanna and that it also touched a Black family moving into an all white community.
Another standout was Sing If You Cannot Dance by Alexia Casale, I picked this up after hearing Olivia-Savannah from Olivia's Castrophe speak about it. It follows Ven, who collapsed in a dance performance, and has now spent the last 18 months reconfiguring what her life looks like with a disability. Casale makes a point of not labelling her illness (a choice I'm still mulling over) but she often dislocates body parts through hypermobility and this has wide reaching issues from balance, pain, kidney function and so on. It's never just one thing. I apperciate the messiness of Ven, she is not the typical heroine and she's definitely not a saint. The book also deals with a variety of other topics like alcoholism, domestic violence and navigating relationships.
What are some of the books you've been reading? Hating or loving?
Kier The Scrivener
My chronic pain has kept me from filming in the last weeks but I wanted to give some reading updates and ask you all for what you have been enjoying.
The last book I read was Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, I love digging into classics that are completely fixed in the culture but barely read and this one did not disappoint. I especially apperciated the layers of our protagionist Joanna and that it also touched a Black family moving into an all white community.
Another standout was Sing If You Cannot Dance by Alexia Casale, I picked this up after hearing Olivia-Savannah from Olivia's Castrophe speak about it. It follows Ven, who collapsed in a dance performance, and has now spent the last 18 months reconfiguring what her life looks like with a disability. Casale makes a point of not labelling her illness (a choice I'm still mulling over) but she often dislocates body parts through hypermobility and this has wide reaching issues from balance, pain, kidney function and so on. It's never just one thing. I apperciate the messiness of Ven, she is not the typical heroine and she's definitely not a saint. The book also deals with a variety of other topics like alcoholism, domestic violence and navigating relationships.
What are some of the books you've been reading? Hating or loving?
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