But by the fourth chapter the sheer negativity of the rhetoric started to get to me. This relentless hate then became verbal diarrhoea, there's a lot of mention of all sorts of bodily fluids. Disgusting, vulgar and revolting imagery and writing had me thinking of pressing the DNF button a number of times.

Strange and lyrical … Hval’s writing is surreal and rich with the grotesque banalities of human existence. Publisher's Weekly This was... bizarre? Insightful? Clever? Feminist? Fantastical? I'm not sure, but I think I liked it. She handed me a yellow, folded note. I thanked her and unfolded the paper, excited to see whether I’d been offered a room, but it was just a friendly rejection from the bandana girl: Welcome to tropical paradise. Welcome to The Isle of St. Agrippina. White sandy beaches. Delicious blended drinks. And island cuisine.If this hadn't been a buddy read with my translated fiction group I'd have gotten rid of this book faster than I can say HATE. This was a real fun zombie read felt a little sorry for Kyle constantly passing out but it was so funny. Rotate the plant to correct the leaning caused by the uneven distribution of light. You should prune your plant with sharp shears, loppers, or pruning saws. Prune the old leaves and stems at the beginning of spring. 8. Legginess/growing too tall

Looking for some fun with zombies. Give this one a try. And the next book, Once More, With Blood, is available now so you won’t have to wait for more fun. Book Genre: Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Lesbian, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Novels, Queer

Jenny Hval, trans. Maryam Idriss

Provide adequate water with proper drainage to prevent overwatering and underwatering. You should also ensure that the plant has all the necessary nutrients and light. 2. Root rot Paradise Rot, Hval’s first novel, was a lurid hothouse of a thriller about a female student’s sexual awakening, likened to the “theory fictions” of Chris Kraus and Maggie Nelson. Girls Against God starts out like the teenage diary of an unrepentant suburban goth, a self-designated “Gloomiest Child Queen” who is in love with hate (“I hate God”, “I hate the Christian Democratic party”). Are these the early outpourings of a Valerie Solanas-style misandrist? Or will this be a vinegary coming-of-age story, a Scandinavian version of Daniel Clowes’s graphic novel Ghost World? Equally psychedelic (and Norwegian) is the author of Jo's life, Jenny Hval, a multi-disciplinary artist who has always loved investigating viscera in search of dampness and truth. Over the past 12 years, Hval has presented clammy wonderland after clammy wonderland, in albums and art installations that suggest her intense fascination with the lurid world of flesh, disentangling beauty from gore and vice versa. Joanna has travelled from Norway to attend university in a small Australian town. She finds the people, the attitudes, the soft stodgy foods, and the town itself so different from anything she has ever known before. It is other to her but she, with her serious attitudes and quiet demeanour, is other to it and everyone else around her. A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seems ever more alive. Jo’s sensitivity, and all her senses, become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, and dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh. This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval, presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire. A complex, poetic and strange novel about bodies, sexuality and the female gender. Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval – eBook Details

To rectify the splitting problem, remove the split leaves. Also, consider moving the plant away from direct sunlight or wind. 7. Top heaviness A sensual, putrid reimagining of the original sin that explores the dynamics between two young women … [a] striking debut novel … To read Paradise Rot is to inhabit one of Hval’s eerie, theory-conscious soundscapes. As in a dream, the closeness of this world to our own and its simultaneous uncanny otherness, awash with potent symbolism, leaves us looking at everything anew. It took nine years to be translated into English; I only hope we needn’t wait so long for the two other books, already published in Norwegian, from this talented polymath Financial Times Jo sings too, but only in her head. And people sing to her: in dreams, at a party and at bars, through earphones. When Jo listens to music she wants to overpower and pause; volume high to push out unsettling thoughts, which, uh, doesn’t always work. Some music can only take you closer to the source of pain, like Bjork’s Vespertine album, so intimate. Music, sound and verse—poetry—form parts of this book’s soft skeleton. Paradise Rot is a re/mix of and for senses. Listen… Who is Jo? A young Norwegian biology student who arrives to study in a coastal town called Ayebourne for what feels like an unspecified but limited amount of time. Hval makes it clear that this mystery town is in a part of the world full of native English speakers, but typing “Ayebourne” into Google leaves me empty-handed: Showing results for “airborne.” Search instead for ayebourne? No dice. There’s still a lot that is endearing and even riveting about Girls Against God. Hval is unembarrassable, talking about her “wet dream of writing myself into a story”. She’s still in touch with the zealotry of adolescence. (“I want to take part in a chaos of collective energy. I want to be in a band.”) Like the French philosopher Luce Irigaray, she explores ideas of what a feminist or radical language would sound like, exulting in the power that a new laptop gives her to junk Norwegian diacritics (the moment she turns it on, “I can feel my body tingling, as if I’ve woken up from a plastic surgery that has removed my old features and made my face unrecognizable and impenetrable”).It can, however, become leggy if its stems are weak and thin. Legginess occurs when the foliage develops faster, and the stems and roots cannot support the plant. I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I reviewed this book in conjunction with a blog tour with Bewitching Book Tours. Throughout, Paradise Rot rejects idealisation, depicting a paradise built on the celebration of the idiosyncratic sensuality. Bodies are worshipped in their entirety. Decay is examined at close range. So much of the novel’s outlines are obscured, narrowing our focus to sensory detail and the charged gaps in what Hval chooses to reveal. Here, the unspoken becomes more vital than the words that are being said. Though slim, Hval’s surreal debut riffs on the same layered intricacies as her music, transcending simple categorisation to create a dreamy landscape both separate and a part of what we recognise as reality.