bestiality lit

[hermionesviolin]

My feminist sci-fi/fantasy book club read The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan -- which is a ghost story of sorts, and involves sirens and werewolves, but is arguably rather less fantastical than we were led to expect? (The narrator is schizophrenic, so there's a lot of Unreliable Narrator happening.)

Anyway, at one point in the book, there's a wolf/woman sex scene, and so of course in the discussion I brought up the Governor General's Literary Award winning (1976) book Bear by Marian Engel (#ThanksCanada). [I also noted that a Globe and Mail review asserts that, "Bear unfolds (pretty self-consciously, I think) like a parody of Canadian literature."]

Eve then reminded us about the dolphin sex book we had read a couple years ago in this book club -- Made for Love by Alissa Nutting, pitched to us as: "a woman flees a toxic marriage to the abusive CEO of Gogol Industries when he decides to connect them via brain chips for a literal mind meld; rave reviews say the book is very funny and that there are dolphins"

My partner pulled up the book on GR and PMed me loling that the entirety of my review was, "Huh, this has a more satisfying ending than I was expecting."

She then went on to joke:
     I mean, also, “That’s what she said!” 😘

We r the most mature. 😂

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