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Re: Books - Sky Daddy (Kate Folk)

[(Anonymous)]

I picked this book up because I thought it might be light in-flight reading.

Call me Linda. My tale begins in January, when I was invited to a Vision Board Brunch hosted by my coworker Karina Carvalho. According to Karina, the vision boards, crafted from common drugstore materials, could be used to manifest anything a person wanted in life. I was receptive to the idea, as I’d always subscribed to the notion of an intelligent universe, a web of predestination in which we all were tangled. Only such a cosmic force could bring about my dream of marriage to a plane—what others vulgarly refer to as a “plane crash.” I believed this was my destiny: for a plane to recognize me as his soulmate mid-flight and, overcome with passion, relinquish his grip on the sky, hurtling us to earth in a carnage that would meld our souls for eternity. I couldn’t alter my fate, but perhaps, with the vision board’s help, I could hasten its arrival.

In retrospect, reading about a planefucker on a plane may not have been the best idea.

Re: Books - Sky Daddy (Kate Folk)

[(Anonymous)]

Wtf did I just read.

(Also, "common drugstore materials" made me squint. I thought a drugstore was a chemist? Not a craft shop... She making this "vision board" out of pills? I guess you could do (expensive) mosaics...)

Re: Books - Sky Daddy (Kate Folk)

[(Anonymous)]

American drugstores are more like convenience stores with pharmacies attached. I can go to Walgreens and buy dental floss, a pack of index cards, and a sandwich.

Re: Books - Sky Daddy (Kate Folk)

[(Anonymous)]

This was such a bizarre book, from start to end. I've never actually read Moby Dick and the book draws obvious inspiration from it, so maybe I'm missing something here.

Linda's a 'weird girl.' Her narrative voice struck me as distinctly autistic, and most of the humor in the book is the matter-of-fact way she addresses the most ridiculous goddamn things, like how she joins a pilot-focused dating site for the express purpose of getting access to flight discounts or how she's getting off to the turbulence in her flight. (I, blessedly, had a turbulence-free flight.)

But for all that Linda's fantasies are weird, the real world she lives in is also weird as fuck. She works as a content moderator for Definitely Not Facebook, where she gets free snacks and a nine-minute wellness break every day. She lives out of a windowless (and likely illegal) in-law unit that she rents for $900/month. She accidentally engages in a love affair with her not-quite-boss because he's having a mid-life crisis and thinks flying to random cities is peak spontaneity. Girl's weird, but life's weird. It only stands out because it's her.

Anyways, this turned out to be surprisingly heartwarming, but in a bizarre way. It's very much about friendship and existential dread, but I also learned way too much about planes in the process. I'd recommend, but only to the right people.