Sky Daddy

I loved this book. I was completely hooked the entire time. I am completely flabbergasted by the fact that somebody thought of this and then wrote it with so many specific details about planes. Even if Kate Folk doesn't have a plane fetish the amount of research that must have gone into this and the descriptions of these planes had to come from SOMEWHERE.

This is probably the weirdest book I've ever read. It delivers on the premise. If you think a book about a woman who's sexually attracted to planes sounds interesting, you'll like it. Sometimes books like this have a weird hook that becomes a metaphor for something else and it's not actually the focus of the book, but this is really about PLANE SEX. It's explicit and it's about having show more sex essentially WITH a weird personification of planes. This is explored in detail. It's just so interesting and I just love weird shit like this. It's so good.

My ONLY small critique is that I think that the ending could have been a litttle bit better. Specifically, the last paragraph. I'm not sure exactly how I would have written it and it does work, like I wasn't disappointed exactly BUT it could have been maybe phrased in a more satisfying way. I think it's clear what happened in the end and usually I don't mind vague-ish endings, but I think it would have been a bit more fun if it ended with more of a BANG (in a literal sort of way). show less

A delightfully nutty book about a girl who wants to marry a plane. I know. It was improbable but it's about the voice and she is good company. Sincere, troubled, delusional, doesn't matter, she is fun to be with. Imagine writing a book with such an extraordinarily odd premise and how filled with doubt she had to have been in writing it.

This is about a woman who isn't a homosexual or a heterosexual, she an objectum sexual - she has romantic and sexual feelings for air planes, and she is willing to suffer any economic depravations in order to save evough money to afford a flight every month hoping to find the plan that will choose her as evidenced by its willingness to crash to the ground and kill them both. That might sound gruesome, but it's captivating. To emphasize her relationship with the inorganic, she works as an apprentice to AI for a firm that decides the appropriateness of social media posts. If she and the AI disagree on a particular post, the AI's judgment stands.

This book got added to my list because it was on the shelf of staff recommendations at one of my favourite bookshops. I cannot deny that it is incredibly well written and does sort of deserve its place on that shelf and I fully understand why it was there. HOWEVER, the plot of this book is exactly as is summarised on the back cover and includes a storyline that gripped me with such morbid fascination as when I used to watch "my strange addiction" as a teenager. This plot is a train wreck that I cannot look away from, a slow motion crash which i know will result in carnage but which i cannot close my eyes against, a politically incorrect morsel in my plate which i must know the taste of and experience the texture on my tongue, a fanfic show more labeled "dead dove do not eat" but which I consume anyway. In summary: wtf
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I enjoyed it a lot. It has a bit of Eleanor Oliphant vibes. I feel that Eleanor Oliphant kicked off a plethora of weird, anti-social heroines. Actually, in this book, everybody is weird. Maybe we all are and the normality is just an act, a socially acceptable behavior everybody is putting on like Linda did. The other thing it made me think about is fate. I don't really believe in fate, the universe and power of vision boards. I think it's a mix of your will and work and luck. I believe in chaos, but then weird coincidences happen all the time and the human brain loves them. The third thing I was thinking about while reading this book was about the difficulty to come out when your identity is unseen. It must feel the same for transgender show more and non-binary people in many communities. show less

4.5* - what a wonderfully weird book!

I don't think I will look at planes the same way ever again.