Flying through the second Gwendy book. I highly recommend them if you want something to change things up. Just go into them blind, start with Gwendy’s Button Box. #amreading#fediverse#kindle@bookstodon
Premise: “A period adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. After a change in circumstances, Marianne is torn between two men, while Elinor longs for a man beyond reach.”
TFW you're reading a mystery set in the UK written by a UK resident author and your keen detective abilities make you think "hmmmm, US edition?"🤔 #AmReading#mystery@bookstodon#ebooks#Kobo
Just finished "The Empress of Salt and Fortune" by Nghi Vo.
It was well written, and nicely concise. Buttery. Nice for a change but not really my jam. 🤷
#AmReading futuristic YA novel Catfishing on Catnet, which I hadn't realized was an expansion of Kritzer's short story "Cat Pictures, Please." Suspenseful, mysterious story about a teen girl who's been on the run with her mom her entire life; the only friendships she can keep are online, and one of those friends turns out to be only online. I keep forcing myself not to read the description and just let it unfold.
I recapped "An American in #Austen" and it's now available at the Excessively Diverting newsletter! Yo1ep55&utm_campaign=post&utm_mediumack.com/pub/excessivelydiverting/p/austen-bronte-issue-6-recap-american-in-austen?r=1ep55&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web!
When I first heard Romagnol, I thought it sounded a bit French. Reading "San Marino la storia in miniatura", with its snippets of Romagnol songs & poems led me to a YT recording of someone speaking Romagnol. Many commenters who spoke Catalan said they could understand it easily, so I tested Google Translate out with "detect language" on the following. It said "Corsican" and offered a translation for almost every word. Interesting! #Languages#AmReading#Nonfiction#History@bookstodon
Premise: “Harriet, who thinks that no real man compares to Mr. Darcy, is transported into Pride & Prejudice and gets an unexpected chance to find out.”
The best epic fantasy book I have read in a while. Tons of names, tribes, nations, cities, countries, factions, individuals clash in a massive once-in-a-millennium undertaking. What more does a bookworm need? Simply top-shelf stuff, imho.
The most impactful nonfiction I have read in a long time. An informative deep dive into some unsavory corners of the internet combined with an examination of the cultural significance of doppelgangers. It has led me to reframe some of my assumptions about conspiratorial thinking and the intertwined nature of various historical and modern oppressions. Feels like a political therapy session: raw but productive.
Book 8 of 2024: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris
5 stars
I'm going to be thinking about this book for a long time. Gorgeous art, a compelling mystery, two fascinating historical settings, queer themes, nuanced characters, and a loveable child protagonist who feels painfully real. It ends on a cliffhanger, but luckily I only have to wait a few months for the sequel!
As an agnostic, this meditation on faith and suffering was interesting and sometimes frustrating. The prose was sparse but quite lovely, and I enjoyed the epistolary passages. I found the protagonist self-absorbed and unlikeable, though that was probably intentional. I would have enjoyed a deeper dive into the colonialist implications, as well as the hybridized form of Japanese Christianity which is only hinted at.