I can tell you’re great at reviewing books because I always start itching to put them in my digital shopping cart. This was an excellent pitch to read Boy Parts.
Your description of the story, Irina, and her abuses (many, it seems, under the guise of art) reminds me of the 2022 film TÁR starring Cate Blanchett as a renowned conductor who does lots of dark, abusing things while hiding behind her status as a pioneering woman in a male-dominated field. If memory serves, Blanchett’s Lydia was either written as or conceived as a man initially but made a woman to render her monstrous actions more gray.
TÁR is fascinating, and your review convinces me Boy Parts would be an equally stimulating read.
Thank you! that is high praise indeed. I am aware of that movie, I must give it a watch. It very much sounds like it could be a companion piece to this book.
Your reviews always feel like walking into the chocolate aisle at the grocery store. Never on the list, but irresistible nevertheless. One cherished bar to last me for the next few weeks. Thank you!
A great review, Chicken!
So much so that I’m even considering reading this one myself . . . Kinda ;)
Well it’s on the shelf if ever you feel like diving in hehe
I’ll think about it… :)
I can tell you’re great at reviewing books because I always start itching to put them in my digital shopping cart. This was an excellent pitch to read Boy Parts.
Your description of the story, Irina, and her abuses (many, it seems, under the guise of art) reminds me of the 2022 film TÁR starring Cate Blanchett as a renowned conductor who does lots of dark, abusing things while hiding behind her status as a pioneering woman in a male-dominated field. If memory serves, Blanchett’s Lydia was either written as or conceived as a man initially but made a woman to render her monstrous actions more gray.
TÁR is fascinating, and your review convinces me Boy Parts would be an equally stimulating read.
Thank you! that is high praise indeed. I am aware of that movie, I must give it a watch. It very much sounds like it could be a companion piece to this book.
I swear it is—in the best way. Being not an adaptation but an independent take on the concept, there’s a lot of meat on the bone, I’d bet.
Your reviews always feel like walking into the chocolate aisle at the grocery store. Never on the list, but irresistible nevertheless. One cherished bar to last me for the next few weeks. Thank you!