Sarah started reading Less Dead by Denise Mina
I remembered I love Denise Mina and that I’d saved this for a rainy day. Thanks, past me!
Reviews and Comments
It's me, wynkenhimself! Most of my booklist is still over at @wynkenhimself@bookwyrm.social and maybe I'll import it someday, but I'm trying to primarily post over here now. I pretty much only list the fun reads I do here, and the Bookish Book Club ones, but maybe I'll do a better job of tracking my work reading too. Remember: if you don't like a book, you can stop reading it!!
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Sarah reviewed The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, …
books and grief and community
4 stars
This was a great little book, packed full of love for books and bookstores and authors (of course) but also full of angst about incarceration and love and anger about indigenous history and what it means when we lose our connections to community and fail to accept the full circles of who we are. Comes with handy book lists in the back!
Sarah started reading Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley
A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere …
Audiobooks might be the perfect way to encounter new translations of epics, bro
Sarah reviewed Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train …
Comfort murder
4 stars
It’s an Agatha Christie classic, what’s not to love? My mistake in using the audiobook as a bedtime story, thereby missing big chunks of it, but given that I’ve read this a gazillion times, it didn’t really diminish its joys.
Sarah reviewed Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, …
a world of violations
5 stars
“Enjoy” isn’t quite the right word for a read that’s about something as nuanced and anguished as this is, but it’s also apt. I lingered over it and zoomed through it. It’s generous and devastating, sympathetic to the awful positions poor people find themselves in to get by and to the ways it warps who they are, and devastating in how it depicts the violence directed at everyone—women and the land, especially, but also the men who are used up without regard to turn profits for the company.
Sarah started reading Feminist theory by bell hooks (South End Press classics ;)
A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist …
Rereading in preparation for teaching the next Feminist Bibliography course
Sarah started reading The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, …
Actually started this yesterday, finding it funnier than I had anticipated? Anyway, optimistic that I will like this.
Sarah commented on The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race …
stayed up way too late devouring this, just can't stop
Sarah commented on The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race …
All I want to do is read this book
Sarah started reading The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race …
not entirely sure this is the right choice given that I just finished two intense long books but also maybe this is just where I'm at right now, so let's see
Sarah reviewed Matrix by Lauren Groff
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn …
holy wowww
5 stars
I am bad at titling my reviews but “holy wowwww” seems to cover it. I loved this. The story of Marie, her efforts to turn the dismal abbey into a fortress, the struggle to defy patriarchy, the love for her sisters that turns into holy love, the carnal and secular love for her various lovers that also becomes holy, just the whole thing. Part way through I came across a review that was so dismissive and childish that it raised all my hackles and the ways in which that review has been bothering me helps me understand why I loved this book so much. If you can’t handle nuance, if you’re not open to the long history of women struggling against what they’re told to believe, then this book is definitely not for you. But it’s full of rage and anger and beauty and love.
Sarah started reading Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train …
watched the dreadful 2022 Death on the Nile and decided to try some Agatha Christie as my bedtime listen. will following all the details keep me awake or will I be able to relax into the story since I’ve read it like a billion times? who knows!
Sarah started reading Matrix by Lauren Groff
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn …
maybe 1/3 of the way through and I am still loving it and it's still intense