like yes braiding sweetgrass is transformative and life changing and amazing and says everything beautifully!! what else do you want me to say!!

slow living is a scam none of this is slow at all. wrapping presents canning blueberry syrup embroidering socks making muffins making cookies making buckeyes cleaning dishes dishes dishes. i'm not on my phone even and the day passes in three seconds

literally just "heartbreaking: the best point you know just had a terrible argument made in its honor"

id honestly love to talk to an older leftist who has read this book on whether the philosophy of "everyone knows there's secret forces making the world worse, but they don't care" resonates with them. it just seems incredibly doomer to me.

keisha is a character that cannot properly understand or process her emotions until she speaks, which is the worst possible trait for a novel character to have. if this were going to be a book it should have been from alice's perspective

i actually think the scenes with the officer were some of the strongest scenes, because he's exceptionally talented at creating ambience and setting and the officer is a character that is all ambience.

the medium of radio specifically embues her story with loneliness, listlessness. when all of that is contrasted in the book with her rather flat inner voice, it completely loses that. joseph fink's novel writing style doesn't fit keisha at all.

i can totally see how this would be a really poignant story told through cb radio. told through keisha's head i am like this isnt even a concept of a person and this makes no sense

all in all "vampires of el norte" is nothing like sinners in basically any way. including the vampires.

there are so many moving pieces with sinners that make it the masterpiece that it is, and imo to break it down into any diverse historical horror is an insult both to sinners and to the uniqueness of the novels you're recommending