Read in AugustJessica Townsed, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan CrowRadclyffe Hall, The Well of Lone
Read in AugustJessica Townsed, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan CrowRadclyffe Hall, The Well of LonelinessLeanne Shapton, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and JewelryCurrently readingBrit Bennett, The Vanishing HalfLiu Cixin, La Mort immortelleI devoured Hollowpox as soon as it arrived. I loved it! I love the Morrigan Crow book series and I think it is for certain going into my top ten of 2021. I don’t usually read or enjoy children’s books but this truly is something special. I don’t really know what I can say to recommend this to adult readers, except to say that it’s wonderful and magical but never takes the reader for an idiot and always pushes forwards the boundaries of imagination.I read The Well of Loneliness next, which took me two or three weeks to finish, partly because it is almost 500 pages long but mostly because I’ve been busy and never made time. Radclyffe Hall was a right-wing asshole that reminds me of Anne Lister in all the bad ways, but she was also a talented writer. I was afraid that this book would be just a novelty, an event – “the first lesbian novel!! 1928!!” but it reads just like a good Victorian novel. Yes, it is very sad. Yes, the main character is too much like the author herself to be truly likeable. Still I really enjoyed reading this and found it unexpectedly deep in places.Important Artifacts… is a fiction book written like an auction catalogue. I believe it works, in that it manages to tell the story of the two main characters and make them sound like real people, and I was delighted to find a book like this. It’s about rich white people in New York so, not exactly my thing, but I still enjoyed this as an experiment.I’m not going to talk about Liu Cixin again, especially since we’ve made so little progress in the book in August.I started The Vanishing Half a few days ago and I really like it so far, even though I think the story moves quite fast and doesn’t spend enough time with its characters. We’ll see how it goes.I wish I had read more in August, and in particular spent less time on Radclyffe Hall, but I still had a very good reading month overall.* Be my friend on Goodreads! -- source link
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