Booknook Friending Meme

[quillpunk]

Hello, hello! booknook is tossing its hat in the ring for 3weeks4dreamwidth in the form of a friending meme :D

Copy and paste the text from the little box below into a new comment on this post. Feel free to remove the questions that aren't relevant for you! (If you want to fill this out in a post somewhere else, you're welcome do so, simply credit booknook :D)

<b>Name:</b> <b>Pronouns:</b> <b>Age Group:</b> <b>Dealbreaker(s):</b> <b>I Recently Finished Reading:</b> <b>A Book I Want to Reread:</b> <b>Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List:</b> <b>A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About:</b> <b>Related Book News I've Got My Eye On:</b> (adaptations etc.) <b>My All-Time Favorite Book(s):</b> <b>My Favorite Book Genre(s):</b> <b>A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s):</b> <b>A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s):</b> <b>A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out:</b> <b>Link to My Latest Book Review:</b> <b>Link to My Reading Log:</b> <b>Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About:</b>

Comments

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Narratives are really incredible pieces of history. It's such a heart-wrenchingly human window into an inhuman institution. <<

Sooth.

Though you have to remember, American slavery is only one iteration of it, and among the more messed-up versions. It's useful to compare other versions. Rome used slavery, essentially, as a distraction as much as a labor gain -- a way to tie up war captives but give them a route out if they wanted to work their way free. Some societies kept eunuchs as slaves but that was their bureaucracy or scribes or some other fairly high-ranked position. And then you've got parallax about the different forms slavery can take, which you can use if you want to create a fictional version that is more bad or less bad.

>> Love her! The way If Not, Winter shows the gaps and missing pieces is really lovely to me. Definitely a visual reminder of how much has been lost to time and how beautiful the remains are. <<

Agreed.

>> I have a background in archaeology and am more accustomed to thinking about functional objects like that, but it's very poignant to see it done with poetry.<<

If you ever want to talk to the future, or archaeologists, or make something last -- then bake it in ceramic and drop it in a midden or landfill, because that is where they will know to look for things. Rosetta texts are always useful too.

I find archaeology very interesting, especially as inspiration for writing. If you look on my Serial Poetry page, Beneath the Family Tree is about a community of different types of early hominids living together.