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I started this one moments before I got en email about how overdue “The Glutton” is. Apologies to everyone who has that one on hold at their library!!

I am positively OBSESSED with this book. You guys. I will be talking about this book for the entire year to come, probably more. An intimate, modern, queer, provocative, spiritually challenging retelling of the Noah‘s Ark flood story through the eyes of Noah‘s wife. Dreamlike, poetic in style, Blake made me dig deeper into my own questions, my own struggles, and my own relationship with Gd.

Library haul! Excited to try both of these!! 🐯👩🏻‍🚒

Last chance to enter to win a copy of Naamah by Sarah Blake. This is a weird and wonderful feminist retelling of Noah‘s ark from the perspective of his wife. Enter the giveaway at bit.ly/FBCgiveaway42 #giveaway

My tentative August TBR. The top row are audiobook holds I‘m expecting this month.
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Did you love any of these?

I'm conflicted because I didn't hate this but I didn't love it either but the writing was beautiful. Such a unique story.

Naamah is a person is a person I've never paid attention to but then again, I feel like many women in the Big Book were overshadowed.

2/5🐯. I was really excited about this novel based on the synopsis. However I was underwhelmed and considered bailing several times. The long drawn out passages related to Naamah going out to swim were long and drawn out. The amount of sex was unnecessary. Would not recommend 😤

This is a weird one but I‘m enjoying it so far.

“How can we do this?” Noah asked Namath again. “If we don‘t, we‘ll die, “ she answered ... “Maybe we should die,” he said, “if every one of is wicked.” “No,” she said, and she took him into her arms because he had begun to cry. “If I am sure of anything, I am sure that you and our children should not die” (p 3)

With those words, Noah‘s wife Naamah‘s fate is sealed. This wonderful work tells us her story. Incredible writing; Highly recommended.

I waited on this book at my library for 4 weeks. I LOVE flood myths and wanted so badly to like this. But the surrealist dream sequences just didn‘t make sense with the rest of the narrative. I found myself skipping the dreams then bailing altogether. Really terribly disappointed.

Naamah is the wife of Noah, and I read this thinking it would be similar to The Red Tent or even Ahab's Wife, novels that bring a formerly silent female character to life.
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That's not what this novel is. ⤵️

This book presents the perspective of Noah‘s wife, Naamah, during the last months on the ark. Naamah has crazy dreams, a surprising amount of sex considering there are only 7 other people still alive in the whole world, and, for some reason, can‘t see any of the animals onboard. There are some feminist themes-vaguely. There is some questioning of religious principles-vaguely. Mostly, it‘s just crazy dream sequences and the book makes no sense. 2⭐️

I just could not get through this one, it felt like it was way over my head the whole time. I liked the idea in theory, but only got about 30% through before giving up, I just couldn‘t follow what was happening.

It‘s Tuesday, which means NEW BOOKS! Here are some of today‘s new releases. And there‘s a whole bunch more out now! What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚