Jillian finished reading An Island by Karen Jennings
Iceland read
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Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University Camden Writing about early national lit in the Americas, environmental lit, Indigenous lit, horror and affect in general Reading for work, fun, and all points in between
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Jillian started reading An Island by Karen Jennings
Iceland read
Jillian finished reading Haven by Emma Donoghue
Iceland read
Jillian started reading Haven by Emma Donoghue
Iceland read
Jillian finished reading Greek Lessons by Han Kang
Beautiful
Jillian finished reading Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)
Jade Daniels faces down a brutal serial killer in his pulse-punding tribute to the golden …
Forgot how fast SGJ’s latest read. Finished this in one day
Jillian finished reading Man-Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers
Book for class Native American Horror Spring 2023 Discussion: remix and reworking of horror conventions, indigenous language projects, remapping colonial trauma
Jillian finished reading Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
"A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small …
Book for class Native American Horror Spring 2023 Class discussion: community, identification, responsibility, displacement/disorientation. Narrative structures of dread, isolation and focalization. Unworking apocalyptic narratives, Indigenous anti-futurism
Jillian finished reading The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Ten years ago outside Browning, Montana, four Blackfeet shot some elk, and then went on …
Book for class Native American Horror Spring 23 Class discussion: diffuse networks and chronologies of responsibility/accountability; disorientation of nonhuman networks and understanding of time/world; gore and incorporation; childhood/adolescence and futurity
Jillian started reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man, Thomas Cromwell, dares …
Audiobook. The narrator has an audible breath intake that means listening to it on headphones at 1.5 speed nearly induced a panic attack. But it’s so good I can’t stop!
Jillian started reading The Day Before the Revolution
Copyright page has a mark that reads “Abennay Printing Syndicate”
Jillian finished reading The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
She is sooo good at opening up the possibilities and depth of character within the gaps of our historical knowledge. I like Hamnet better but loved both.
Jillian finished reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …
Probably not the best thing to read while on a strike. Nobody understands when you keep yelling “stop egoizing” at the people in your coalition who refuse to make sacrifices for the good of the whole.
Jillian finished reading The Saskiad by Brian Hall
Overall a really strong story but hard to read at points in large part because the author has a talent for understanding the painful confusion and vulnerability of early adolescence.
Jillian finished reading Arcadia by Lauren Groff
So many lovely moments that I wish I were reading a physical copy instead of listening to the audiobook so I could spend more time with them. A story about all reasons we strive for perfect places and all the complex realities that make them unreachable.