dorking around with old books for work and reading new(ish) books for fun with strong opinions but an inconsistent rating system | you can find me most places as wynkenhimself including as @wynkenhimself@glammr.us | she/her
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Feeling a bit bitchy that we don’t get more from Rudy, who is so much the key to it all. (The shoah is always there but not there, just like in the world.) But I devoured the book!
When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their …
I’m not sure I loved it as much as I thought I would, but I think that’s a response to the stresses of the world we’re living in, not to the book. I do love the way history—and history making—are depicted in this book, although it’s equally a book about trees and nature. Read along The Overstory and The Vaster Wilds to make your brain and heart spin
When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their …
back to serious reading for a bit lol
American journalist Ethan Fletcher traversed the globe to claim his late uncle’s Fleet Street print …
fun! also good if you want to learn about the effects of the news tax in 19c England.....
American journalist Ethan Fletcher traversed the globe to claim his late uncle’s Fleet Street print …
so far an incredible add to the romance book history microgenre
Three Weddings...And a Murder
So far Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. Down in her small Virginia hometown, she's …
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in …
Continuing my slow revisiting of things I read for my PhD comps 30 years ago (!!!) it’s now George Eliot’s time. I loved the book then. Will I still now? (Yea, I assume yes)
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, …
What a shock to see that midlife menopausal crisis reflected in such startling accuracy and sympathy. Gorgeous and hilarious
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, …
Started reading this at 11:45pm on Dec 31 because I couldn’t bear to have that other book be the end of the year lol
A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too …
This started off as so much fun but then we got to the reveal of the big mystery and NO it just made me angry. I’d do a spoiler alert to explain why but this has already taken up too much space in my brain
This wry comedy of manners—Barbara Pym's seventh novel and the last one she wrote before …
Calling this as the final book of 2024 and posting my year-of-not-finishing-books blog reflection because it's been that kind of year sarahwerner.net/blog/2024/12/books-i-didnt-finish/
A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too …
sometimes you just read whatever comes off the waitlist that you joined 6 months ago
This wry comedy of manners—Barbara Pym's seventh novel and the last one she wrote before …
Third-tier Pym, tbh, but even so a good read. (No Fond Return of Love is the best; Quartet in Autumn possibly second best but so much more grim)
This wry comedy of manners—Barbara Pym's seventh novel and the last one she wrote before …
I remembered there were still two Pyms I haven't read yet--the posthumous ones. In the spirit of reading is hard and Pym is great, I'm excited to start this one
Gemma Guillory knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason …
And that doesn’t even count the drama of the murders. On the other hand, if you need something to devour, this might hit the spot