I love the word "palimpsest". I like how it sounds and what it means. When I read Nymeth’s review of this book, and she was all, It reminded me of MirrorMask!, I knew I had to get it. Catherynne Valente‘s Palimpsest is about a city called Palimpsest, a sexually transmitted city – people have pieces of a map of Palimpsest, like tattoos, somewhere on their bodies, and when two people with the marks on them sleep together, they go to Palimpsest for the night. Like a dream, except that it isn’t a dream. The book is about four people who…
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I dreamed that I was at Barack Obama’s inauguration with the Endless. IT WAS AWESOME. It was so good that I turned off my alarm twice in order to carry on having the dream. (I never turn off my alarm.) I was very chummy with all of the Endless, except that Dream didn’t really want to chat. This led me to wonder whether I was one of the Endless. I didn’t see Despair or Desire, so I was probably one of those two, if I was anyone. Destruction was ridiculously huge, but very friendly. Destiny was surprisingly forthcoming with information…
3 CommentsFirst my father (who was buying it for my very-difficult-to-get-presents-for mother), and then my mother told me about this book, so I heard about it from them; and in the first place it was picked up at random by my father, who knows that my very-difficult-to-get-presents-for mother enjoys reading memoirs written by neurotic people with a sense of humor. I waited until down here to put an excerpt, mainly because I wanted to defend my choice of excerpt. I am quoting this bit not because it is perfectly representative of the book at large (not that it isn’t – it’s…
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