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.
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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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2024 Reading Goal
35% complete! sarah has read 14 of 40 books.
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sarah reviewed The Lost Steersman by Rosemary Kirstein
sarah reviewed Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
A lesser Pym but still great
3 stars
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
sarah started reading Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
sarah reviewed The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Compelling but so much torture
3 stars
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.
sarah reviewed The Outskirter's Secret by Rosemary Kirstein
It just keeps shifting and growing!
4 stars
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.
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@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!
sarah started reading The Outskirter's Secret by Rosemary Kirstein
sarah reviewed The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein (The Steerswoman, Book 1)
sarah started reading The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein (The Steerswoman, Book 1)
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)
sarah started reading Cut/Copy/Paste by Whitney Trettien
Cut/Copy/Paste by Whitney Trettien
How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?
In Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London …
sarah reviewed The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
sparks within
5 stars
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.