Book and movie club!
Interested in reading some LGBTQ-themed books and watching some movies together? We're going to try our lgbtq_recs book-and-movie club again this year, with liseuse choosing our first selection: Ann-Marie McDonald's Fall On Your Knees, recced by ketchup_fights last month.
Fall on on Your Knees...makes no bones about being a gothic tale about a doomed family," ketchup_fights writes. The first line of the book is “They’re all dead now.” But this is far from an unrelentingly bleak novel. It's full of black humor, humanity, and hope as it tells the story of four daughters in a lonely, turn-of-the-century island town in Novia Scotia...This is a story about the secrets people keep in a small town and in a close-knit family. Queerness is most definitely a secret in this world, and one of the Piper family's secrets is a heartbreaking lesbian love story that is, in some ways, the emotional lynchpin of the novel...I fell in love with this love story between two passionate, unapologetic women, and despite the relative brevity of pages devoted to it, MacDonald structures the novel in such a way that its presence echoes throughout the story.
Because it's a long book, let's start discussion September 1st to give us time to acquire it and read. (It seems to be inexpensive and readily available both new and second-hand in the UK, the US, and Germany.) Hope you're able to join us!
[And if anyone's interesting in selecting a book or movie for October 1 or November 1, please leave a comment.]
Fall on on Your Knees...makes no bones about being a gothic tale about a doomed family," ketchup_fights writes. The first line of the book is “They’re all dead now.” But this is far from an unrelentingly bleak novel. It's full of black humor, humanity, and hope as it tells the story of four daughters in a lonely, turn-of-the-century island town in Novia Scotia...This is a story about the secrets people keep in a small town and in a close-knit family. Queerness is most definitely a secret in this world, and one of the Piper family's secrets is a heartbreaking lesbian love story that is, in some ways, the emotional lynchpin of the novel...I fell in love with this love story between two passionate, unapologetic women, and despite the relative brevity of pages devoted to it, MacDonald structures the novel in such a way that its presence echoes throughout the story.
Because it's a long book, let's start discussion September 1st to give us time to acquire it and read. (It seems to be inexpensive and readily available both new and second-hand in the UK, the US, and Germany.) Hope you're able to join us!
[And if anyone's interesting in selecting a book or movie for October 1 or November 1, please leave a comment.]