Wet Sand in an Hourglass by Lana C. Marilyn
Rating: 4/5 Stars
I've watch this work grow since it was just an idea by Lana. I have been following the development of Lana but known to me as Ciinnie from Tumblr. When the opportunity to review this work came along I jumped at the opportunity to review it. When I review books I have an ideal of what it will be but for this one I decided to go in full blind to stay strictly unbiased. The story is broken up through short snippets of her life through her
eyes. Some of these snippets get very intimate and you get a rush of
excitement of peeking through someone else's eyes. The work starts with a story about her Mother and how she shifts between Animal and Animalé. She describes her Mother and how she embodied everything that Ciinnie wanted to be. As all daughter do as a young age, we strive to be mothers until we learn who we truly are in the inside. That is what this work is about, finding yourself or rather Ciinne finding herself.
What stopped this other than stellar work from being a five were the works that were meant to be breaks.It was cute but I felt it pulled away from the emotions and distracted from the main idea. However I would figure that this was the ideal that Ciinnie was trying to portray with her work. It is a representation of her and how she is. Full of life, constantly moving and bouncing in between emotions. I would say that my favorite excerpt had to be Nine Lives of Love. She goes into depth about a woman name Carmela and I just could imagine her and then about the cats which reminded me of my own experiences with Love.
I would recommend this book for all ages but especially to women of color. This is what kind of work we need in our shelves. Support one another and read one another tales.
"MY EARLY LESSON IN love were always administered under the circumstances of loss, the depth of which correlated to the value (Sentimental or monetary) of the missing entity in question.
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Check out her blog
http://cinniie.tumblr.com/
What stopped this other than stellar work from being a five were the works that were meant to be breaks.It was cute but I felt it pulled away from the emotions and distracted from the main idea. However I would figure that this was the ideal that Ciinnie was trying to portray with her work. It is a representation of her and how she is. Full of life, constantly moving and bouncing in between emotions. I would say that my favorite excerpt had to be Nine Lives of Love. She goes into depth about a woman name Carmela and I just could imagine her and then about the cats which reminded me of my own experiences with Love.
I would recommend this book for all ages but especially to women of color. This is what kind of work we need in our shelves. Support one another and read one another tales.
"MY EARLY LESSON IN love were always administered under the circumstances of loss, the depth of which correlated to the value (Sentimental or monetary) of the missing entity in question.
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Check out her blog
http://cinniie.tumblr.com/
