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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32% complete! sarah has read 13 of 40 books.
What can I say, these are still so good, and I am just eating them up. A lot of trauma in this one in ways that I did not anticipate, although that seems redundant because even once I felt like I got the secret of these books, they continue to add layers.
Harriet and Belinda Bede are middle-aged sisters who have only two things in common: their …
Definitely not yet at the level of her really great ones, but it’s her first published novel, so fair enough! I think it’s missing the key ingredient of different generations or different classes to really get her kicks in, and there are so so so many jokes about curates. But it’s Barbara Pym and it’s still v good
Harriet and Belinda Bede are middle-aged sisters who have only two things in common: their …
Palette cleanser! Couldn’t decide which Pym to read so made the obvious choice to read them in order of publication. Or possibly composition, haven’t decided yet
Carolyn's not so different from the other human beings around her. She's sure of it. …
So much about this book was great—the story, the characters, the slow but insanely compelling roll of it. But there is a huge amount of physical abuse in it and that abuse gets excused at the end too easily for me as something that was necessary for an end goal. So I devoured this book and then felt really gross when I finished it.
It’s hard to review these without giving away the premise and the ways what you think it is shifts as you read it. Environment is huge is this one! The ways we think about it even huger! I’m just going to start making up more words soon, so I’ll stop.
@screamsbeneath I got this as soon as it came out and have not yet read it for all those reasons. When I’m ready I expect I’ll be floored!
When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a …
Achilles might be a brat, but Agamemnon is a real asshole. First time reading this epic, and doing it with my kid! Emily Wilson ftw
No way I could possibly stop between volumes!
If you ask, she must answer. A steerswoman's knowledge is shared with any who request …
Love a good quest, extra love a quest where the very premise is about the social contract around knowledge
If you ask, she must answer. A steerswoman's knowledge is shared with any who request …
A trusted friend told me to read it without looking up anything about it, so I am, and I’m really enjoying it so far even though I have no idea where it’s going (a super fun way to read a book that I don’t do v often)
How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?
In Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London …
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl …
I don’t know what to say about this. It turned the 17th century inside out for me: what if the colonists weren’t so imbued with the entire ideology of early modern England? I loved the slow shift of the girl from her restricted world into the new wilderness she comes to love and how it shifts everything she knows.
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl …
Finally caught the library hold I’ve had on this book for ages!
Catherine Oliphant writes for women’s magazines and lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom Mallow—although she’s starting …
I think I’m in love with Barbara Pym? V funny if you’re tuned into her slyness about anthropologists and gender roles and white London suburbs.
