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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Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, …
I put off reading this for so long because I was worried I wouldn’t be up to the grief of it. And I wasn’t wrong to worry about that! But I’m really enjoying the world it’s creating and the ways it’s making think differently about that playwright I already know too much about
A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of …
It’s a very bookish book written by someone who actually knows bookstores and events and authors. It was a fun read! Did it stick with me in any sort of way? Nah, but it didn’t need to.
When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given …
oof, worried this book will not do what I want it to do, but am also looking forward to learning more about Dorothy Porter, so maybe it'll balance out
At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in …
I'm generally a Jane Harper fan, and this is no exception.
After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive …
the book is not nearly as facile as my review title! I enjoyed this--the powerful writing and the story it was telling. James VI/I has a lot of fucking evil to answer for with his witch hunts.
After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this …
Sarah
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In the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like …
and option 2 for our March 2023 reading—always open access at www.cambridge.org/core/elements/book-clubs-and-book-commerce/3C50183E95136DAD1FC7FB51FD6E6A1E!
Sarah
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Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to the …
choice 1 for our March 2023 reading—available as OA through Feb 24 at www.cambridge.org/core/elements/white-literary-taste-production-in-contemporary-book-culture/095C2995B5DBBCB54EC204390CA2B4BA!
Moby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, funny, tantalizing, …
This book is insane and amazing. I had not fully appreciated how deeply weird it is, and I love it.
I read it and I enjoyed it but I also judged it hard. Power play can be a fun dynamic but actually fucking your daughter’s best friend while they’re in your house and without telling your kid is just wrong. But you might feel differently if you don’t have young adult kids.
needed something light and hot; so far hitting the mark
In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners …
I liked this. I might not play enough games to fully appreciate it? But I was very into the complicated friendship and the emphasis on the rarity of that connection.
In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video …
So glad this is finally done. They’re crap! I couldn’t stop reading them!! Very settler fantasy of Yukon wilderness, too many convoluted murders, just don’t start is my advice
Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is …
I’ve already hooted and hollered about the many ridiculous things the book gets wrong about libraries and academia and I won’t rehash (although ffs if you’re going to write a book revolving around these key details, why wouldn’t you think you need to actually learn about them?!). But even beyond that, this just doesn’t work. Like, the premise of why the murderer wants to do the murdering? Nonsensical. I stand by my appreciation of the romance plot. And I do like the idea of magical maps etc etc. But those are the only reasons this isn’t a one-star review.
