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Firstly: OOF.
I . don’t . want . to . ruin . it.
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So no blurb. And a very short review.
This is about appetite in so many ways, gendered appetite, cultural appetite. Appetite for food and life and experience. Appetite for intimacy, after intimacy, through intimacy. Appetite growing and shrinking and swelling and rivalling. Yum!
I just looked up the difference between the word appetite and desire. Other than the obvious difference (that appetite is most commonly used in food-related contexts), I couldn’t find much.
Google says appetite is “a desire to satisfy any bodily need or craving” – unhelpful: contains the word desire. Whatever.
But if I say I have an appetite for adventure, it’s immediately not the same as I have a desire for adventure. Desire sounds …less aggressive, more dreamy? But then appetite is less aggressive than hunger: like I’m hungry for adventure.
The nuances are linguistically indescribable but instinctively understandable. This book was not about hunger, and it was not about desire, it was just about appetite.
And that precision is what made this book quite unique. I sort of liked it!
Lots of other thoughts… no other words…bye 🙂