Tag: America
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Helen DeWitt and Jac Jemc
Sick as a dog, reading instead of thinking/leaving my house. The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt: I really liked this, and it reflects the reality of publishing — well, many fields, really — and trust/ignorance. From the publisher: Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above…
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In Progress: Empty Theatre and Yara
One via ereader, the other via paperback. I’ve done very little except read the last couple days. It has been great fun, but also a bit frustrating — I’m making up for the exhaustion of the last few months at work, and I keep feeling like I should have more energy to do more day-to-day.…
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In Progress: Orlando and Seventh Mansion
Currently reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf and The Seventh Mansion by Maryse Meijer. Deeply moody and wonderful. Orlando: Virginia Woolf’s fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman. The long-lived protagonist of Orlando begins as a passionate teenage aristocrat, whose days are spent in rowdy revelry at…