Welcome to Week 5! For all the ick that can be found in book spaces on social media, there are enough fantastic people creating bookish content that I persevere. One of my favorite follows is Mari aka mynameismarines. I don’t always agree with her opinions on books, but she’s a thoughtful reviewer and has a good grasp on the larger dynamics. I’ve linked to one of her posts on the hockeytok/Seattle Kraken situation. Whose book related social media content do you enjoy? You can view […]
A master distills fantasy down to its essence
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
The Owl Service by Alan Garner
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner
Boneland by Alan Garner
Bingo (In order): Guide, Relationships, Nostalgia, Europe, Adulthood Passport: England When Alan Garner’s Treacle Walker was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize I was surprised, not because I don’t think he’s a brilliant writer worthy of a major literary award, but because awards like this don’t seem to take fantasy seriously, despite the depth of the ideas and the beauty of the prose, and I hadn’t realised that this author I loved in my childhood was still alive and still writing. Treacle Walker is not […]
On the road to nowhere
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
Bingo: On the Road; Passport: USA Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland documents several years of immersion into the subculture of vandwellers, people who call themselves houseless rather than homeless, living in their vehicles and moving between seasonal jobs such as camp hosting in national parks, Amazon’s Camperforce, and harvesting crops. The narrative follows a number of members and leaders of the vandweller community, but the focus character is Linda May who lives with her dog Coco in a 1974 ten-foot trailer towed behind a Jeep. Like most […]
CBR15 Bingo: Picture This
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kokabe
CBR15 Bingo: Picture This (can also be used for Queer Lives) Official book description: In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to […]
‘since the play has gone down well, give us a clap/ and send us away with applause’
Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard
CBR15 Bingo – Politics: This book examines the performance and politics of being the emperor of the Roman Empire. Many people can name an emperor of the Roman Empire even more than two thousand years after they lived, and are familiar with the stories of the excesses of their power. But what did being emperor actually entail? In this book, historian Mary Beard argues that being emperor in many ways meant playing the part of ’emperor,’ in the way that the Roman people saw them […]
The Duelist and the Duke’s Wife
Entangled by Mary Lancaster
CBR 15 Bingo: Take Flight – We first encounter Rosamund as she is making her escape from her claustrophobic life, and throughout the rest of the book she finds her wings. When Rosamund and Giles encounter each other on the road, she doesn’t know that he has just killed the Duke of Cuttyngham in a duel, and he doesn’t know that she is the Duchess. But by the time they find out, it’s too late – they’re already in love. I really enjoy Mary Lancaster’s books […]
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