at four o'clock in the morning

SO. I got my copy of Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush finally, and I have powered through it. If you're not familiar, this book is the sequel to He Used Thought As A Wife, both of them being by Tim Key, with design by Emily Juniper (the one in the UK). The first book is about the first London lockdown and the beginnings of the coronavirus outbreak; the second one is about the third London lockdown. The main character is a fictionalized version of the author, and the books are made up of poems and script-format dialogues with other people. They are extremely hard to explain, but they were hands down my favorite books this year.

He Used Thought As A Wife is (finally) widely available, but right now the only place you can get Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush is the "Utter" & Press website, as it doesn't go into full release until February.

Get you these books. I promise to you they are extremely good.

Anyway I'm so bursting with feels and opinions that I wrote them all down. This post does in fact spoil both books, but here we are. ( Read more... )