#versenovel

Until they came. Humanity had been judged and we were found wanting.

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"Sometimes it feels / all I'm worth is under my skirt // and not between my ears. / Sometimes I feel / that turning the other cheek // could get someone like my brother killed." I just opened up a page and typed in one part I underlined, but I could pick from any note on any page, and it would mean something. Let me tell you, I haven't marked up lit like this since undergrad and I've been reading academically again for months. Sometimes seeing how a word is set on the page sets it deeper in your soul. I can not wait to teach this novel in verse. Will this baby be the merengue-thumping heart of my critical thesis next year? So much to unpack. I'll just give one hint, one small, simple spot to start: look for the couplets. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Content warning: religious triggers (as in, if you're afraid of questions and confessions, this will scare you. As in, portrayals of forced repentance, painful "piety"), sexual harassment, familial sexism (boy did this one RESONATE), some self & consensual sexual content #thepoetx #novelinverse #versenovel #elizabethacevedo #epicreads

Picked up BLOOD WATER PAINT this afternoon courtesy of @sir_rachel. It's the story of the brilliant female Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, who painted herself in Judith Slaying Holofernes (one of my favorite apocryphal stories) and gave Holofernes the face of her own rapist. This book is written in exquisite verse, and I highly recommend it. . . . 📖: Blood Paint Water by Joy McCullough . #weekendreads #poetry #novelsinverse #versenovel #bibliophile #amreading #currentlyreading #booklove #yalit #yalove #bookstagram #instabook #quotes #historynerd #arthistory #classicalstudies (at Urbana, Illinois)