I've added you as a friend on LJ, and also at goodreads (username hyacinthony). I think I first found you through aboutpoetry.com years ago, and then found your other blog of reviews, on which you just recently posted a link here. I look forward to reading more book reviews!
hmmm...I may have been incredibly spacey and been looking at xterminal's friends list and confused him with you and (maybe) even one other person.
I try so hard to be organized, but then things like this happen and I realize it may be hopeless. nonetheless, I will be reading, and will not be offended if you choose not to add me as a friend--my entries are usually miscellany from my own life, and occasional blurbs about books, so far never as in depth as yours.
I felt--erroneously, because I guess I wasn't paying attention--that Wreck City was an earlier period of Planet Blue--that was occurs in Planet Blue is a result of Wreck City. I saw some greater continuity of spirit between Billie and Spike in these two, while Easter Island and Post-3 War, in terms of characters were less closely linked.
To really appreciate the prose poem nature of this work, I think it needs to be read as close to all at once as possible, which I did not do because, frankly, I was bored. Not bored with the prose, which is beautiful, but with the story. I agree that the last half of Planet Blue is very compelling, [if I didn't make that clear in my review] the ending deeply poignant.
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I try so hard to be organized, but then things like this happen and I realize it may be hopeless. nonetheless, I will be reading, and will not be offended if you choose not to add me as a friend--my entries are usually miscellany from my own life, and occasional blurbs about books, so far never as in depth as yours.
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I was wondering! I'm not on goodreads (though I am on LibraryThing as "devilwrites") and I'm definitely not on that poetry site you mentioned. :)
But no worries. Stuff like that happens. :) Enjoy!
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To really appreciate the prose poem nature of this work, I think it needs to be read as close to all at once as possible, which I did not do because, frankly, I was bored. Not bored with the prose, which is beautiful, but with the story. I agree that the last half of Planet Blue is very compelling, [if I didn't make that clear in my review] the ending deeply poignant.
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