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Book 51 of 2024

Spear by Nicola Griffith

4.5 stars

A lyrical retelling of the story of Percival from Arthurian legend with a feminist lens and sapphic romance for good measure.

Griffith is one of my favorite living writers, so I knew I was going to love this. Her prose here is stunning, as always, and the historical setting is so well-researched that it jumps off the page. I have a passing familiarity with basic Arthuriana but had to look up some of the more obscure stories and Irish myths. It was fun learning more, and also getting to dissect the choices Griffith made in taking creative license and fleshing out the original stories. The afterward was particularly illuminating, and I loved her intentional inclusion of diverse characters in a medieval setting.

Through sheer coincidence (i.e. the timing of my library holds) I ended up reading two genderbent Arthurian retellings …

Ebook cover of Spear by Nicola Griffith. A large bowl with abstract cravings, including hills and human figures. Rising out of the bowl is mystical-looking white smoke, forming the shape of a forest and a house. In red smoke is a rider on a horse holding a spear. The title is in large white Celtic-looking script.

QSFer Warren Rochelle has a new MM fantasy/sci-fi romance collection out: The Great Forest and Other Love Stories.

Finding true and lasting love is not always easy, and sometimes comes at a cost. Sometimes, love hurts. Sometimes, love is found next door, sometimes on another planet. Quests must be taken; giant ...

https://www.queerscifi.com/the-great-forest-and-other-love-stories-warren-rochelle/

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cover - The Great Forest and Other Love Stories - Warren Rochelle

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cover - This Hole Was Made for (You and) Me - Sienna Eggler
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An elegant column and lush greenery frame the sides of the picture, looking out onto a blue-green ocean. Over top are the words, framed top and bottom with an elegant, swirling gold design: Finding New Adventures Fantasy Series Starters

Here is a chapter (or a single story?) from "Kalpa Imperial", one of the most beautiful I've ever read, by Argentinian writer Angélica .
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It was from Spanish by none other than Ursula K. .
https://smallbeerpress.com/free-stuff-to-read/2017/10/20/the-end-of-a-dynasty-or-the-natural-history-of-ferrets/