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Hi! Just read yr blog description abt weird recs :) If ur still taking any, may I recommend the online story 17776, the Tom Waits song 'Singapore', the Lemon Demon songs 'Soft Fuzzy Man' and 'Lifetime Achievement Award', the books 'Ella Minnow Pea' and 'Invisible Cities' (not related), & the short story 'The Menelaiad' if ur into Homeric epics! I have the PDF of that last one & can send it to u, it's p rare :) Enjoy! & if ur not taking weird recs, have a lovely day all the same 💙
I will take weird recs forever and always. 🍌🍌🍌
I'm unfamiliar with all of the things you just recommended but will dutifully and delightedly check them all out.
Thanks so much for weird recs! 💕
#i always love a weird rec#weird recs#weird recommendations#17776#tom waits#singapore tom waits#lemon demon#soft fuzzy man#lifetime achievement award#ella minnow pea#invisible cities#the menelaiad
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"Today we queried, questioned, and inquired. Promise me that come tomorrow, we will not stop asking why."
Mark Dunn
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Apprise
1. to inform or tell someone
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yknow i tried to read Ella Minnow Pea once cuz it had a cool concept and a pun for a title. but i had to stop when the major conflict’s resolution was to come up with a phrase to replace “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” cuz all i could think of was this fukcing tweet
And seeing the characters struggle was so frustrating 😭
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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || September 20 || Simple Cover:
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
#Ella Minnow Pea#Mark Dunn#justonemorepage#jompbpc#book photo challenge#book photography#books#Not Out of Void But Out of Chaos#bpc catch up
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Ella Minnow Pea (Book Review)
Ella Minnow Pea written by Mark Dunn is an odd little book that I would easily recommend to people who like language, gimmicks, and/or have a strange obsession with pangrams.
Hey wait, what's a pangram? Great question, it's a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. Of which, the most famous is likely, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
In fact, this sentence is very important for the fiction island of Ella Minnow Pea. The people of Nollop are obsessed with this phrase, and when letters begin to fall from the sentence the island's council begins to restrict the use of those letters. That's where the gimmick of the book comes in.
The narrative of the story is told through letters between the people of Nollop, so as letters fall those letters disappear from the text of the novel. You might not notice with only one letter missing, but how many letters have to fall before communication becomes hindered?
(Also, side note I love that double meaning of the subtitle to the book. "A Novel in Letters", referring both to the narrative structure and the importance of the letters of the alphabet.)
The worldbuilding in the novel is well done in my opinion. The use of letters to communicate helps establish the feeling that the characters in the novel are truly apart of a community. And because of the continuity of the disappearing letters it is easier to feel like you are part of the story as you read.
I'm quite surprised this was never on a reading list growing up, or even now that I am in college as an English major. It isn't terribly long (my copy is a little of 200 pages) and it has a lot to say on the nature of language, communication, and expression. It really feels like it would be easy to fit into a curriculum, but alas, was not the case for me.
#blu reviews books#book review#ella minnow pea#language is cool!#and I loved the way this novel experimented with language use and asks questions about how we use language to express ourselves#seriously if the concept interests you at all#check this book out
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Slips of the tongue. Slips of the pen. All over town people hesitate, stammer, fumble for ways to express themselves, gripgrasping about for linguistic concoctions to serve the simplest of purposes. Receiving no easy purchase.
I go to the baker's. I point. We all point.
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people who know it should I read Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn yes or no
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i just read ella minnow pea in a single two hour session and like wtf dude. this is so cool.i wanna be cool enough to come up with this concept.
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Love how in some Ella Minnow Pea editions it says a novel in letters and in some others it says a novel without letters and they are both so true
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i’ve got a book recommendation
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
i found out about it from a tumblr post.
i got it because it was a fun book that was made of letters where every chapter a letter of the alphabet is removed from the book and it sounded like a really interesting read, it was supposed to be a fun comedy escape from the reality of 2020
it was actually about a totalitarian government. how if the people allow the government to have a little bit of control in a “one time” situation. they will take the power they where given and stench it as far it can go. not caring how it effects the citizens because their way is the right way and all they care about is power.
i was a AMAZING and really funny social commentary, but it’s definitely wasn’t a good book for escapism (social commentaries aren’t the best for that)
but like 10/10 amazing book definitely one of my favorites that i completely forgot existed until now
i’m gonna reread it because own it and completely forgot it even existed until just now
oh wow!!! cool!!!!
i definitely am a fan of dystopias, and I agree, not the best for escapism unless you're in the mood to invision how you could change the world.
that's such an interesting idea for the book
I'll look into it, for sure! Ideas for books to read whilst at college.... hmmm
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just read Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. this book is so clever holy heck!! I will admit I had to google a lot of words in order to read this but it was so worth it; I like how it's about the words but also in a way not about the words at all, but the people controlling them. for about the first half of the novel I didn't even notice that some letters had been banned, but after about 'd' it all started to spiral so quickly, and by the end it was almost incomprehensible. 10/10, amazing.
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Balefully
1. in a way that seems to threaten to do something evil or to hurt somebody
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"So long, 'F'. So long, my sweet Nate. I will miss you. Ferociously so."
Mark Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea
#ella minnow pea#mark dunn#books#epistolary fable#i will never shut up about this#language#words words words
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