ABOUT
All initial attempts to write about myself in the third person have somehow managed to evoke both first and second-hand embarrassment (a capacity I wrongly assumed I’d exhausted somewhere in the process of taking this photo), and so:
Hi,
I’m Becky, the not-so-disembodied voice behind Swipe for Godot, yet another pandemic book blog literally nobody asked for.
Like many great things, SfG started life in the trash-doc of a recently disillusioned humanities graduate seeking refuge from the ordeal of working in hospitality: a sloppy, punctuation-averse, profanity-laden slew of “essays” (read: rants) centring around the subject of representation in fiction.
Fast-forward through a global crisis, and behold the fruits of a year spent alternating between indolence and anxiety. Namely, a semi-coherent book blog devoted to forcing beloved and bemoaned works of fiction through the critical meat-grinder.
Stick around for honest reviews, recommendations and rants, from a brown girl trying desperately to justify her life choices, while ignoring everything a bachelor’s degree in literature taught her about run-on sentences.