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@mouse Wait that's so funny, does she really? I might have to read it just for that.

Terese was at an author panel with another author I like, and I'm very glad I picked up her work as well! I don't usually gravitate towards poetry, but something about the fantasy elements she was talking about really resonated with me as a fantasy lover, and the poems she chose to read excerpts from had such vivid imagery.

I loved the grounded experiences of the POV characters in these poems as well as the whimsical elements of each one! The poems are organized into parts based on the rough setting, so some are air, some are earth, others are rivers or the sea, et cetera. This was the perfect way to organize them, IMO, it fits so well for such a fantastical poetry collection.

It'll be nice to have some proof that I'm not just a broken person. Everyone say "thank you, Puritans!". I said it with a huge eye-roll, by the way.

This'll be a tough read. Yeah. I'm so glad I'm Canadian. Not that our country hasn't done anything terrible, it definitely has. I'm just glad this isn't one of the things.

Ivan's experiences don't 100% line up with mine, but how could they? Everyone's gender journeys are different, and despite our differences, Ivan Coyote's willingness to talk about their experiences resonated deeply, and helped me understand myself a bit better. It also contains helpful diagrams for all sorts of tomboy-related things, which funnily enough, brought me back to my time in Girl Guides and Pathfinders when we were learning to tie different kinds of knots.

Reading this felt super familiar at times, so I think I may have read it when my mom checked it out of the library? Either way it's a fantastic read, although somewhat heavy.

I don't wanna spoil anything since the book hasn't been out long, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and would definitely reread at some point! My only complaint is that it isn't The Last Unicorn, but not many books can live up to that one, for me. Not even books by the same author. And if given the opportunity, I would love for my next partner to be like Robert Thrax.

The one thing I will say is that, like The Last Unicorn, this story makes a clear distinction between what the characters want, or think they want, and what they truly need. I've always loved that about Peter S. Beagle's work.