It’s Top Ten Tuesday time once again friends! This week the prompt is books I wish I could read again for the first time! Ahh there are soo many that I could choose for this but I ended up going with 10 that popped into my mind first…
This book was honestly one of the weirdest things I’ve ever read, and I mean that in the best possible way. It follows a shapeshifting alien stuck on Earth who changes between male and female forms to have sex with humans before, well… eating them. It’s bizarre, unsettling and kind of brilliant. Beneath all the chaos, it’s really a deep look at what it means to be human or what it means to never quite fit into the world’s expectations.
Through the alien’s voice, Min dives into big ideas about gender, queerness, loneliness and disability. The creature keeps changing shape, breaking every rule of identity, yet it still craves connection and love. There’s this strange tenderness underneath all the violence and hunger that makes it hit harder than you’d expect. It’s messy and emotional and painfully relatable at times.
The writing plays around with structure too, stretching out words and spacing to make you feel off balance, like you’re inside the alien’s head. It’s graphic, sexual and often confronting, but it’s also beautifully human in its own odd way.
Walking Practice won’t be for everyone, but if you like stories that are strange, gutsy and full of feeling, this one’s worth the ride.
⭐️4/5 stars, weird in the best way.
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
“Cambridge, Michaelmas Term, October. The wind bit, the sun hid, and on the first day of class, when she out to have been lecturing undergraduates about the dangers of using the Cartesian severance spell to revise without pee breaks, Alice Law set out to rescue her advisor’s soul from the Eight Courts of Hell.”
I’ve had a lot of wins in my professional life over the last couple of months so I figured why not indulge and treat myself to some new books!!! Some I’ve already read and wanted a copy for my collection and others are at the top of my TBR, so a very exciting haul all around 🙂
Amy Leigh Reads 