Tag: historical fiction
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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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Historical Women I’ve DNFed
The Passion of New Eve: Angela Carter’s writing style is so overblown and hilarious, but ultimately this book was so dated it was hard to read. Fascinated though I may be by old feminist sci fi. I would love to read Gretchen Felker-Martin’s take on this one though. The Paying Guests: I’ve never read Sarah…
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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…
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Currently Reading: Lapvona
I saw it for eBook download, I had to try it. Ottessa Moshfegh is a strange one, and her period writing is so weird, grotesque, and fableistic. Fable-like? What’s the real word there? McGlue was a difficult read for me, and My Year of Rest and Relaxation was… fine. Why do I keep picking up…
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In Progress: Trust, by Hernan Diaz
I read In the Distance when it came out. I was obsessed. I ate the book up. In many ways it catapulted me into my belated love of Coffee House Press. What I didn’t expect was a book so social, so filled with people, and yet with so little dialogue. Trust is a lonely book…