Tag: ebook
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The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
This was sweet and cozy. A gay Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children or Mysterious Benedict Society. A quick and ultimately happy read with heartwarming characters. From the publisher: Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case…
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Bryher and João Gilberto Noll
I took such pleasure in these two books, with characters on opposite ends in terms of typical respectability/social function… Beowulf: A Novel of the London Blitz by Bryher: I came to Bryher through H.D., Hilda Doolittle, her long-time lover and mother to her daughter Perdita. I read BEOWULF: A Novel of the London Blitz. In…
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Final November eBook reads
Two books that made me feel a bit unhinged in a good way. I felt almost frantically as if I had to consume media about gay people by the end of this month. After reading Querelle of Roberval last year, I thought about picking up Jean Genet’s original Querelle of Brest. Instead, last week, I…
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Holiday week reads
A little gay necromancy, a little crying over ancient epics. Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir: Talked about this in my last post. I thought it was ok, and I quite liked the characters. This book was a lot spookier than I had imagined it’d be! It’s a bit of a closed-house murder mystery vibe,…
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Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
From the publisher, awkward and incomplete descriptions that make me wonder if anyone read the book. VERSION ONE: England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin…
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Three books that just lost my interest
I might come back to these at some point. I’ve read a good chunk of each one, but just drifted off to other things. Devil House by John Darnielle (Not my typical genre, and just moved a bit glacially for me… I kept realizing how many pages were left in the story and getting disheartened.…
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Slow River by Nicola Griffith
After a dud attempt with John Darnielle’s newest (sadly), and waaaaaay too much reading on the internet, I figured the best way to break my reading slump was with a tried and true favorite. Nicola Griffith is currently touring for her newest book in the Hild sequence, and I just read Spear, so why not…
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Getting through my TBR!
October has been a slow month for reading so far. I’ve spent a lot of time watching movies, or laid up in bed with terrible migraines — the weather is changing fast and fall is finally approaching. Ice took me an exceptionally long time to read despite clocking in around 150 pages. I thought it…
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So October begins, not with a bang but with… The Brits?
Reading postwar British literature again and I feel so much more in my element. Temps have barely cooled but the sky grays occasionally and evenings are already shorter. So I have a single bookstore purchase and a Kindle read to keep me company. I technically started these in September, but they’re still in progress. Soundly…
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Family After Capitalism and Death
I just read a couple more books — one through BookRiot’s marvelous Daily Deals aggregator, one (finally!) that I bought from a used bookstore on my trip this summer. L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente (Tor.com) follows the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice — Eurydice, who’s suffered an untimely death, and Orpheus, her…