#Salena Godden

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Pink Moon, Salena Godden

from Pessimism is for Lightweights: 30 Pieces of Courage and Resistance

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In the movie of this month

my period would be played by Bruce Willis: Bleed Hard

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Salena Godden, "Red", Pessimism is for lightweights, 2023

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#Poetry #poetrycommunity My review of With Love, Grief and Fury by Salena Godden. With thanks to Canongate Books, Net Galley and of course the author for allowing me to view a copy. Publisher: Canongate Books ISBN: 9781805303510 Published: 02/05/2024

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Sex and food and drinks and books. You really don’t need much else. Maybe a nice view of the sky. Some shoes that don’t hurt. A bed and roof that won’t leak. Some singing, some music and tempo. A heart full and a soul fed, a head full of dreams and possibilities, what more could you possible want? What more is there?

Some people never imagine their death. They rush and push and elbow through life, they use people like stepping stones or the rungs of a ladder. They use people and take what they need and move on, they consume and consume, constantly taking, reaching and grabbing. Where the fuck do they think they are hurrying to? Where do they think this road goes?

Salena Godden, ‘Mrs Death Misses Death’.

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Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn’t met Death in person – a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen.

Enthralled by her stories, Wolf becomes Mrs Death’s scribe, and begins to write her memoirs. Using their desk as a vessel and conduit, Wolf travels across time and place with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced – or, in the case of Mrs Death, facilitated – their friendship grows into a surprising affirmation of hope, resilience and love. All the while, despite her world-weariness, Death must continue to hold humans’ fates in her hands, appearing in our lives when we least expect her . . .

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Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

��What a glorious mess this living thing is,” Continue reading Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

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Title: Mrs Death Misses Death | Author: Salena Godden | Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd. (2021)

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​Mrs Death Misses Death

By Salena Godden.

Design by Gill Heeley.

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Everytime I go to the cafe, I remember that writing a book can hurt, it can hurt as much as climbing a mountain.

Not writing a book hurts too. Not writing, well that's like swallowing a mountain and having it jammed in your throat, unclimbed, unchallenged, unspoken and unwritten.

~Salena Godden

(Mrs Death Misses Death)

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But every time I go to the [cafe] I remember that writing a book can hurt. It can hurt as much as climbing a mountain. Not writing a book hurts too. Not writing, while that’s like swallowing a mountain and having it jammed in your throat, unclimbed, unchallenged, unspoken, and unwritten.

Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

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Day 3: Assisted the organisers of a conference. Monster drink for energy. Salena Godden's words and hugs for comfort.

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6, 15, 24 for the end of year book ask!

6) Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

oh so many things. especially elena ferrante's neapolitan novels tho i need to get to those

15) Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

oh i'm sure i did, off the top of my head i read hamnet which i think won the women's prize for fiction and i loved it. i also read all this could be different which was nominated for the national book award and it was meh

24) Did you DNF anything? Why?

this year i dnfed boy snow bird by helen oyeyemi, the four humors by mina seckin, mrs death misses death by salena godden, and nightshift by kiare ladner. out of those i'd be most likely to pick up boy snow bird again bc i have liked helen oyeyemi's writing in the past. the rest i just wasn't vibing with

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But every time I go to the café I remember that writing a book can hurt, it can hurt as much as climbing a mountain. Not writing a book hurts too. Not writing, well, that’s like swallowing a mountain and having it jammed in your throat, unclimbed, unchallenged, unspoken and unwritten.

Mrs Death Misses Death - Salena Godden