{"id":13602,"date":"2020-11-22T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T01:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=13602"},"modified":"2021-06-05T20:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:43:12","slug":"half-resurrection-blues-audio-edition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13602","title":{"rendered":"Half-Resurrection Blues, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Half-Resurrection Blues<\/a><\/em>, Audio Edition (2015) Daniel Jos\u00e9 Older<\/a>, narrated by Daniel Jos\u00e9 Older (Bone Street Rumba)<\/p>\n

\"Half-Resurrection-Blues\"<\/a>This is the first audio book I started when I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be listening to.<\/p>\n

Carlos Delacruz works for the NYC Council of the Dead. Being half-dead–and inbetweener–it’s one of the few jobs he can do, keeping the dead in line.<\/p>\n

Do your thing<\/em>.
\n\u201cWhich thing?\u201d
\nAn icy pause. Eliminate him<\/em>.
\nAnd me: \u201cCare to elucidate further?\u201d
\nAnd them: Nope<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the things I like best about Daniel Jose Older’s writing is his snark.<\/p>\n

…another little guy is definitely Indian\/ Pakistani or maybe Puerto Rican. Or half-black. Whatever he is, he gets randomly searched every time he\u2019s within twenty feet of an airport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bureaucracy\u2019s got its own special language. It\u2019s trifling, of course, the lowest order of poetry, and manages to divest words of all meaning and still weigh them down with extra banality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This book also has one of my favorite throw-away passages of all time.<\/p>\n

The eight-year-old giggles every time her abuelo picks up a card. Her laughter rises to a joyous cackle and she crows, \u201cUno!\u201d The old man fusses with his mustache, furrows his brow, and then picks a card. And then another. \u201cChingada madre,\u201d he mutters as the laughter continues unabated across the table. \u201cMierda.\u201d Finally, he puts down one with a sigh and the girl gets real serious, scrunches up her face, and draws a card, then slams it down, yells, \u201cUno!\u201d again, and resumes laughing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: Audible Studios
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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