Reviews and Comments

Zoë Camille Locked account

zoec@wyrms.de

Joined 1 year, 10 months ago

Wyrms account belonging to @zoec@deadinsi.de

No lord no master, #nobot #noarchive

Follow on Fediverse

This link opens in a pop-up window

Zoë Camille rated With her body: 4 stars

No cover — Nicola Griffith: With her body (2004, Aqueduct Press)

With her body by Nicola Griffith (Conversation pieces -- 2.)

Zoë Camille rated The Einstein Intersection: 4 stars

Samuel R. Delany: The Einstein Intersection

The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany

The Einstein Intersection is a 1967 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. It won the Nebula Award for Best …

Zoë Camille reviewed The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry

Elaine Scarry: The Body in Pain (1987, Oxford University Press, USA)

Review of 'The Body in Pain' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

"Artifacts and bodies I sing ..."

Zoë Camille rated An Atlas of the Difficult World: 4 stars

Adrienne Rich: An Atlas of the Difficult World

An Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich

Zoë Camille reviewed Blue Sunset by Mary Jo Rabe

Review of 'Blue Sunset' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

A miniature America on the otherworldly planet.

Zoë Camille rated The Dream of a Common Language: 5 stars

Adrienne Rich: The Dream of a Common Language (1993, W. W. Norton & Company)

The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich

Zoë Camille rated The cure at Troy: 5 stars

Seamus Heaney: The cure at Troy (1990, Field Day)

The cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney

Zoë Camille rated The Cyberiad: 5 stars

Stanisław Lem: The Cyberiad (Hardcover, 1974, Seabury Press)

The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem (A Continuum book)

Zoë Camille rated Gravity and Grace: 4 stars

Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil

Zoë Camille rated Manfred: 3 stars

Manfred by Lord Byron

Manfred: A dramatic poem is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping …

Zoë Camille reviewed The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron (; Italian: Decameron [deˈkaːmeron, dekameˈrɔn, -ˈron] or Decamerone [dekameˈroːne]), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old …

Review of 'The Decameron' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

A lengthy tribute from the storyteller to his mistress, Fiction. It's weirdness is fit for its purpose. Its betrayal of the society's cruelty and misogyny is inevitable, almost a necessity.

It is weird, and thereby generations of us project our own experiences and imagination onto its weirdness, and thereby we're moulded by our own storytelling and vice versa.