Ooo I can’t wait to hear what you think about The Other Eden Nat! I had so many thoughts when I read it - most prominent one being I don’t think mr Paul Harding should really be telling this story?
Ps puuurrrrr on the nails 💅🏻 slay (pur bc cats also)
I just finished This Other Eden a couple days ago and I have to say I might agree with you on that one... this is going to take some thinking to write about! and thank you 🤩
Yeh I thought you’d agree - I think I read somewhere that he didn’t wanted to get ‘bogged down’ in the details of the people on the island so choose to interpret them however he wanted.... even though he’s writing about a group of people who were attempted to be written out of history anyway by the institutions surrounding them... which makes Paul no different and just as bad?? it giving racist. I thought the history of the actual events were SO much more interesting than what he wrote too. urgh white men.
Ahh such a classic! I actually got half way through and then some bad life things happened and I couldn’t look at that book. I will need to pick it up again
I’m not a huge true crime person, unless it involves a cult religion or something. But I enjoyed your post always; it made me think. I don’t plan to watch the documentary so I went all in on the spoilers, which always feels so freeing.
Are you going to do a review of The Stand? Or do you need a break from it.
I just finished Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey. I liked it but found it extremely repetitive. I also finished If Beale Street Could Talk and further cemented my admiration for James Baldwin. I think I’m going to read The Parable of the Sower next by Octavia Butler (ever read her?).
I will do The Stand for sure!! I started and then I watched this documentary and all my plans went out the window lol. I have been following the nap ministry on instagram for a while and it’s some really really important work, but I could see how a full length book might be stretching the content. Butler is high on my list and so is Baldwin. So much of my formal English education was old white people I really need to make up for lost time.
Great post. I am pulling my hair out thinking lately about the true crime-crime fiction connection. You (and Caitlin, and others) have asked questions about dramatized adaptions or fiction that is inspired by crime, including examples where things get changed in peculiar ways but not enough to hide the origin story (May December with Natalie Portman). My own latest mind-bender is when a mystery/crime novel is coming out in a few months (umm, mine) and long after its been edited and ARCed, a real true crime thing happens that parallels it in about a dozen eery ways. I just wrote some words about this yesterday (!) but honestly don't know if it's shareable, because it will look like me yoking my book to a real crime, when really I'm just asking, WTF--I researched this, I imagined this, I visited this setting, and then what I imagined, at least in part, actually happened--in that precise same setting, with the same kind of protags. Eery.
Ok that’s so very very strange but also not because I have this theory that all the bacteria our bodies are made of communicate and that’s why we call it a gut feeling, and so women are just more in tune with it and the world. I can’t wait to read it your book!!
Ooo I can’t wait to hear what you think about The Other Eden Nat! I had so many thoughts when I read it - most prominent one being I don’t think mr Paul Harding should really be telling this story?
Ps puuurrrrr on the nails 💅🏻 slay (pur bc cats also)
I just finished This Other Eden a couple days ago and I have to say I might agree with you on that one... this is going to take some thinking to write about! and thank you 🤩
Yeh I thought you’d agree - I think I read somewhere that he didn’t wanted to get ‘bogged down’ in the details of the people on the island so choose to interpret them however he wanted.... even though he’s writing about a group of people who were attempted to be written out of history anyway by the institutions surrounding them... which makes Paul no different and just as bad?? it giving racist. I thought the history of the actual events were SO much more interesting than what he wrote too. urgh white men.
Thanks for the shout-out! The best thing about it is it introduced me to your rad newsletter!
Thanks for writing amazing true crime content! 😃
I’m reading this other Eden right now! Just started it
Ahh such a classic! I actually got half way through and then some bad life things happened and I couldn’t look at that book. I will need to pick it up again
I’m not a huge true crime person, unless it involves a cult religion or something. But I enjoyed your post always; it made me think. I don’t plan to watch the documentary so I went all in on the spoilers, which always feels so freeing.
Are you going to do a review of The Stand? Or do you need a break from it.
I just finished Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey. I liked it but found it extremely repetitive. I also finished If Beale Street Could Talk and further cemented my admiration for James Baldwin. I think I’m going to read The Parable of the Sower next by Octavia Butler (ever read her?).
The kitty pile pic is hilarious 😹😹
I will do The Stand for sure!! I started and then I watched this documentary and all my plans went out the window lol. I have been following the nap ministry on instagram for a while and it’s some really really important work, but I could see how a full length book might be stretching the content. Butler is high on my list and so is Baldwin. So much of my formal English education was old white people I really need to make up for lost time.
Right? You and me both. I’m discovering writers in my adulthood that I had no idea existed when I was in HS or college.
Loved this: “Detective Mat Mustard [with the nightstick, in the interrogation room]”
Great post. I am pulling my hair out thinking lately about the true crime-crime fiction connection. You (and Caitlin, and others) have asked questions about dramatized adaptions or fiction that is inspired by crime, including examples where things get changed in peculiar ways but not enough to hide the origin story (May December with Natalie Portman). My own latest mind-bender is when a mystery/crime novel is coming out in a few months (umm, mine) and long after its been edited and ARCed, a real true crime thing happens that parallels it in about a dozen eery ways. I just wrote some words about this yesterday (!) but honestly don't know if it's shareable, because it will look like me yoking my book to a real crime, when really I'm just asking, WTF--I researched this, I imagined this, I visited this setting, and then what I imagined, at least in part, actually happened--in that precise same setting, with the same kind of protags. Eery.
Ok that’s so very very strange but also not because I have this theory that all the bacteria our bodies are made of communicate and that’s why we call it a gut feeling, and so women are just more in tune with it and the world. I can’t wait to read it your book!!