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WWW Wednesday: May 8th, 2024

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme Sam hosts at Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Here is what I am currently reading, recently finished, and plan to read from Thursday to Wednesday. Let me know if you have read or are planning on reading any of these books!! Happy…

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2, 9, 14, 19!

hi thank you!!

2. AOTY! I loved javelin, probably my favorite sufjan since age of adz. tied between that and influx by anna b savage. although again my real aoty was a brief history of amazing letdowns by lilys, my assigned random 90s album of 2023.

9. Best month for you this year? you know what I think my happiness was really evenly distributed this year. august was awesome because i saw a million friends but i also got covid so that loses some points. let's go with september a month that every single year makes me go my god i love september. went to boston and maine, saw some beloved friends, reconnected with some old friends in a really emotionally significant way, deepened some newer friendships, saw megan rapinoe's last uswnt game, had some top notch culinary experiences. and it looked like this:

14. Favorite book you read this year? I answered but I will take this space to give honorable mentions to: plum rains by andromeda romano-lax, birnam wood by eleanor catton, two sherpas by sebastián martínez daniell, bad behavior by mary gaitskill, briefly a delicious life by nell stevens, walking practice by dolki min, the summer book by tove jansson, a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki, outline by rachel cusk, lote by shola van reinhold, and the lathe of heaven by ursula k le guin.

19 What’re you excited about for next year? I am so stoked for next year and it's all somewhat filtered through the fact that i'll be turning 30. over the past few years I have worked very hard to put a few pieces of my life in place which is ofc an infinitely ongoing process but i am feeling very good about where i am and very optimistic about a new decade. knock on wood but based on how some things are going i think i will start a new job and that it will be great. two of my oldest friends are getting married and i'm really excited to sob through their weddings. i have been working a lot on figuring out my priorities and how to treat them like they are priorities and i just have this feeling like i am going to enter my 30s with friends i love and healthy creative habits and a pretty strong understanding of myself. and that it will be awesome.

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taylorfennersbookishworld · 6 months

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Can’t Wait Wednesday: The Deepest Lake!

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. The Deepest Lake by Andromeda Romano-Lax Thriller, Standalone eBook, Hardcover, 384 Pages May 7, 2024 by Soho Crime Blurb: In this atmospheric thriller set at a luxury memoir-writing workshop…

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cinn48 · 1 year

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Women Deserve Oscars too

Steph and Candice did not watch a movie together this month, but still had lots to catch up on, including the upcoming Oscar Awards, the new Grady Hendrix novel, and the many stories by and about women that they are reading or planning to read this month to celebrate Women's History Month.

Books

How To Sell a Haunted House & The Final Girl Support Group & other books by Grady Hendrix

From A Buick 8 by Stephen King

Annie and the Wolves by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up by Remica Bingham-Risher

The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor by Anais Granofsky

Waking Beauty by Rebecca Solnit

The Sleeping Beauty Series by Anne Rice

Movies

Elvis

Women Talking

The Fablemans

Top Gun Maverick

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Fast and the Furious series

Hudson Hawk

1408

Links

Read the full Oscars nominee list

What is a Paladin?

Grady Hendrix Podcast Super Scary Haunted Homeschool

Timestamps

01:30 Oscars talk

18:00 Oops, Candice disses Paladins

19:00 Recap of Podcamp Toronto (What is it, why do people go to it?)

25:00 Doing the things that bring you joy

28:18 On Hudson Hawk and 1408

34:00 Candice’s reading update and Grady Hendrix chat

44:30 Steph’s reading update

50:00 A short Degrassi side bar

52:00 On reading poetry and fairy tales by women and non-white authors

57:25 We somehow return to Grady Hendrix

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geeklyinc · 6 years

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A Dystopian Triptych

Unsurprisingly, SFF has been grim lately. The world is a dumpster fire, and it’s invading our art. Inevitable, of course, but if you need a break from The Handmaid’s Tale adaptation, here are three more unusual dystopias to check out. No rebel teen groups, no theocracies, and no...

#Andromeda Romano-Lax #End We Start From #Megan Hunter #Plum Rains #Rachel Heng #Suicide Club

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erikaswyler · 3 years

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In Conversation to launch ANNIE AND THE WOLVES! 2/8/21, 7pm Central!

February 8th, 7pm CENTRAL!!! I’ll be conversation with the brilliant Andromeda Romano-Lax to celebrate the launch of her fantastic novel ANNIE AND THE WOLVES with Magic City Books o Tulsa, OK. (You can register for the event and pre order her book by clicking that link)

It’s a truly smashing novel that crosses historical fiction (Annie Oakley!), speculative fiction, thriller, and psychological drama, and, and, and... in short, it’s my very favorite kind of read: a great book that fits nowhere neatly.

I also think you should check out Andromeda’s cheerily definition-busting work. Her site is here: https://www.romanolax.com/

To prepare for our conversation I’ve been doing some close reading, marked stuff I love, and things I think readers should rightfully lose their minds over. This is what that looks like:

So, Andromeda and I have a TON of things to talk about. I think you’ll want to talk about those things too. Time! Rage! Caring! History! Shooting things! When musicals get it wrong! Hope?! Where do books fit?!

I know Andromeda has some truly gorgeous signed bookplates, which are the very next best thing (better?) to a signed book. Get your pre-order on, register, and prepare to have your brain broken in the best of all possible ways.

#annie and the wolves #book launch #books

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jnsou · 5 years

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the future had its own insistent logic. hiro had taught her without meaning to: she was in fact replacable. everyone was.

plum rains, andromeda romano-lax

#mb #plum rains #moodboard

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caffeinated-fae · 5 years

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WWW Wednesday, 7.31.2019

It’s Wednesday, and that means it is time for WWW Wednesday!WWW Wednesdays is a weekly tag that is currently being hosted by Taking on a World of Words! Wondering how WWW Wednesday works? Just answer the three Ws!

Those three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?

I’m actually reading two different books right now! I always try to read an audiobook & then an eBook/print book!

My current…

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frozen-sea · 5 years

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Books Read 2018

Well I didn’t get through as many as last year, but I came close. And considering I’m no longer allowed to read at my job, I think I did pretty damn good. Here’s my 2018 year in books...

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Laugh It Up!: Embrace Freedom and Experience Defiant Joy by Candace Payne

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

The Dog Days of Arthur Cane by T. Ernesto Bethancourt

Rule of Law by Randy Singer

The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Moo by Jane Smiley

Lobster Boy: The Bizarre Life and Brutal Death of Grady Stiles Jr. by Fred Rosen

Two Girls in New York by Carli Lacklin

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Rober M. Pirsig

Warriors: A Vision of Shadows: River of Fire by Erin Hunter

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Failure is an Option by H. Jon Benjamin

Romancing the Stone by Catherine Lanigan

Going Bovine by Libby Bray

Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells

It's Not the End of the World by Judy Blume

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Feast of the Jackals by Aldo Lucchesi

Room by Emma Donoghue

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk

Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work by Andrea S. Kramer & Alton B. Harris

Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks

180 Ways to Walk the Customer Service Talk by Eric Harvey

Irish Red by Jim Kjelgaard

SeinLanguage by Jerry Seinfeld

The Wasteland and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Blue Heron by Avi

Warriors: Crowfeather's Trial by Erin Hunter

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the Wold's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo

It Chooses You by Miranda July

Just as Long as We're Together by Judy Blume

Our Gang by Philip Roth

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Warriors: A Vision of Shadows: The Raging Storm by Erin Hunter

The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

The Roswell Incident by Charles Frambach Berlitz & William L. Moore

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Guns by Stephen King

#bookblr #books 2018 #mine

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jolieeason · 6 hours

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Bookish Travels---May 2024 Destinations

I saw this meme on It’s All About Books and thought, I like this!! So, I decided to do it once a month also. Many thanks to Yvonne for originally posting this!! This post is what it says: Places I travel to in books each month. Books take you to places you would never get to. I will not be including places of fantasy. But, I will keep fictional towns/cities, but only if they are in real…

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amanitaphalloides · 5 months

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do top five books of the year and also top five new authors you read that made you say i need to read more of this. and also worst book

ty jess ily <3

top 5 books is hard but i'm gonna say the summer book by tove jansson, a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki, the glass hotel/sea of tranquility by emily st john mandel (this is me cheating), the lathe of heaven by ursula k le guin, and ummmmmm let’s toss one nonfiction in there, ghosts in the schoolyard by eve ewing

top 5 new to me authors that I wanna read more of: eleanor catton, andromeda romano-lax, ruth ozeki, rachel cusk, k-ming chang!!

worst book was thinner by stephen king really strong contender for worst stephen king I’ve ever read and you know how intense that competition is. elevation by stephen king and rose madder by stephen king also in the running for this question. I really scared myself this year as you may know by facing the possibility that i am a stephen king constant reader. it’s so habitual I just do it accidentally now. and then i always have an easy answer for worst book of the year so that's a win?

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padeloach · 5 years

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Bluestocking Babes Reading List 2018

1. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park, non-fiction- Definitely eye opening to the oppression of the people of North Korea. Yeonmi Park’s escape and eventual freedom in North Korea is remarkable, inspiring and almost unbelievable. A story that needs to be told and read by many. Book pairing recommendation: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

2. The Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, fiction- Actually one of the recommendations from the 11 Incredible Books by Writers from ‘Shithole’ Countries. This novel traces the terrible impact of slavery on generations of an African family, beginning with two sisters and then on to their descendants. One works in the slave trade and the other rises up out of slavery. This was a debut novel for the 26 year old Yaa Gyasi. Book pairing recommendation would be from any of the books on 11 Incredible Books by Writers from ‘Shithole’ Countries.

3. Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles,fiction- This book pretty much takes place in a grand hotel in Moscow called the Metropol. Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest there by Russia’s new Soviet masters. Rostov passes the decades making a whole world out of this hotel and the people in it. Book pairing recommendation: I was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon

4. News of the World by Paulette Jiles, fiction -A western novel that takes you into the world of cowboys, Indians, an old war hero named Captain Kidd. Kidd has been given the task of delivering one young girl to her relatives. The problem is the girl looks like her German relatives but believes she is an Indian. Captain Kidd must find a way to integrate the young girl, who has lived with Indians for four years, back into Western culture while fighting to keep her safe from dangers of outlaws and Western Society standards. This book stirs up questions of identity, racism and the importance of culture. Book pairing recommendation: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

5. Behave by Andromeda Romano-Lax, fiction- This book is a fictional account of the life of Rosalie Rayner Watson, wife of legendary psychologist John B. Watson, founder of behaviorism. It is an interesting and educational look at the beginning of behaviorism and the unique people who pioneered it. Sure makes you contemplate the different beliefs in child rearing our society has gone through over the years. Book pairing recommendation: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

6. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult, fiction- This is the second book I have read by Jodi Picoult and I feel like she is all about the tension. In this book she tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice and compassion. You come away with no easy answers to these issues. Book pairing recommendations: 10 Books that influenced Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things Definitely books to add to my To Be Read List.

7. Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J.Ryan Stradal, fiction- Quirky and fun read. A satirical look at Foodie Culture. Enjoyed this so much more than I thought. It actually made it into my top seven books of 2018. Thank you From the Front Porch podcast for this recommendation. Also a big thank you Debbie G. for making us Pat Prager's Award Winning Peanut Butter Bars

8. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, non-fiction -The Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma were the wealthiest people per capita in the world but ended up being horrific victims of racism. Grann writes about a series of suspicious murders of the Osage Indians in the early 20th century Oklahoma that help bring about the creation of the F.B.I. Book pairing recommendation: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

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Review: Annie and the Wolves

Annie and the Wolves by Andromeda Romano-Lax My rating: 4 of 5 stars Annie Oakley, born Phoebe Ann Mosey, is an American icon. A sharpshooter who toured the US and Europe along with her husband Frank Butler in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, Annie's early life was marred with physical abuse and neglect and what may have been child sexual abuse when she was "bound out" to work for families in her community at the age of nine. Whatever happened to her affected her for the rest of her life, and likely informed her thoughts that all women should be armed and know how to defend themselves against these "wolves" with a gun. In some ways, Oakley was the inception of a sort of gun culture among women. Nowadays we might be more interested in the "me, too" aspects of Annie's life, and how abuses that girls and women endured were minimized and denied. Her fascinating life is in part the subject of this novel, but it is a life seen, processed, endlessly reviewed by Ruth McClintock, a historian obsessed with Oakley's life. Ruth lost her chance at a doctorate, at a "serious" academic life and appointment, as a result of her obsession. When she learns of letters purportedly written to an Austrian analyst by Oakley in the early 1900's, she is stunned to find them written in Oakley's handwriting, and that they seem to detail events surrounding a train accident in 1901 that spelled financial disaster for her traveling show, and which spurred thoughts of revisiting the past in order to change the future. Ruth is hooked, in no small part because of her desperate guilt over the suicide of her younger sister Kennidy, who was also a victim of sexual abuse. This sprawling and often fascinating novel looks at causality, changing the past, the future, the evolving state of women's rights, the culture of silence surrounding child physical and sexual abuse, and child neglect. Romano-Lax manages to pull off this complex switching between past and present, and even multiple concurrent timelines in the past, in spite of little detail about how the time travel actually works, beyond seeming to begin with brain trauma. Ruth and Annie fragment themselves but stepping back and forth between past and present, trying to find justice for themselves or their loved ones, seeking vengeance against the wolves that prey on young people. This novel- complex, layered, and thought-provoking- is not quite historical fiction and not quite science fiction. It's a genre-bending memorable read. The audiobook is affectingly narrated by Elizabeth Wiley. CW: child abuse, child sexual abuse, threats of violence, physical violence I received a digital review copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

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allanamayer · 6 years

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My year in fiction.

As with last year, this post was brought to you by Bibliocommons’ Completed Shelf. Fuck yeah opt-in datasets. Anything listed here you can take as a recommendation; I’ve skipped over everything I didn’t finish or found underwhelming.

Another year, another list of awesome things I’ve read. I had a twinge around mid-year that I should start doing these more often because everything I’m reading is so wonderful. Buuuuuut let’s try this once more for now.

I delved more deeply into young-adult and kidlit this year, finishing off the Anne of Green Gables series, reading the last four books. After that I jumped right into Laura Ingalls Wilder, racism and all, and read the eight official series books. At some point later in the year I indulged in some personal nostalgia and reread two of the Louis Sachar Wayside School books that I cherished so much as a kid. I started digging around in how Canadian history is represented in kids’ reading, and discovered not just Afua Cooper’s My Name Is Henry Bibb, but also the Dear Canada books on a recommendation. I flipped through a number of kids’ biographies that aren’t technically fiction, but I’ll mention Stand There! She Shouted, a biography of Julia Cameron Mitchell that was really well done and a good mix of archival reproductions and new illustrations.

I also followed up on an adult author I love, Edward Carey, and discovered he had started writing some kids’ books about a mysterious and evil English industrial town called Foulsham. I read the first of these but haven’t gone back for more yet.

In adult books, I started with Fauna by Alissa York, an urban and modern setting unlike the books of hers I read last year. It did, however, flow nicely from 2016’s “books set in Toronto kinda” theme. I also read Behave by Andromeda Romano-Lax, which is a terrifyingly effective look at what women sacrifice when their male partners have careers in the same field as them. Wait, let me put that another way. What women sacrifice when they meet their partners in grad school and realize they’ll never be taken as seriously as them. No! What sucks about gender. There, that’ll do.

In February I went to Mexico for a short work-cation, and took Anna Freeman’s completely badass Fair Fight as well as some non-fiction, which didn’t last me very long. Luckily the hostel bookshelves contained Julia Alvarez’s fantastic and touching How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, as well as a relatively new copy of Wuthering Heights, which I had never read. It was so miserable I was actually pretty happy to get back to Villette as part of a long overdue group read - which of course ended up being both awesome and frustrating. After this I landed on Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, I think as part of that group’s discussions. Definitely less frustrating and vastly funnier. Oh yeah and I read North & South entirely on my phone from Project Gutenberg, staying up late and giggling into the covers - admittedly after I watched the adaptation on Netflix.

I would've watched North & South a long time ago if someone had told me it was about union organizing

— ҩȴȴҩηҩ (@allanaaaaaaa) August 16, 2017

Two books left me completely heartbroken and sobbing this year: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and Katherena Vermette’s The Break. Between the two of them you have American and Canadian injustice pretty well cornered. Can I admit that while reading Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad I spent a lot of time thinking about going back and reading Homegoing again? I’m not trying to pit them against each other or anything, just, if you liked the former you should definitely definitely read the latter.

I was telling my boss about something I was reading, although now I can’t remember what it was, and she recommended to me Susan Orleans’ Orchid Thief, which I know, I know, and I had never actually made it through Adaptation before either, but the book of course was totally great.

In sci-fi, I read the followup to The Girl With All The Gifts, The Boy On The Bridge and maybe cried a little. I thoroughly enjoyed the series by Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Mercy, Ancillary Sword. At the end of the year I dipped back in for Provenance. I’ll mention Ted Chiang’s Arrival, too, although only some of the stories were interesting to me.

In post-apocalypse, there was Good Morning, Midnight, which was recommended to me as “Station Eleven-ish” and I mean it kinda was, but a little slower-paced and meditative and left just the right amount of information out. I read The Leftovers by Tom Perotta and found it fantastic. I also read Jean Hegland’s Into The Forest after finding out it was going to be a movie (this is admittedly a trend for me) and holy hell I did not at all expect the way the last few chapters panned out. Not even a little bit.

In fantasy, we found a copy of Patrick Rothfuss’s Wise Man’s Fear in a neighbourhood book exchange so I got Name Of The Wind from the library and read both of them in a very quick flash. Really wonderful world.

In art writing, I probably most enjoyed Barbara Shapiro’s Art Forger, although I most identified with Sara Baume’s Line Made By Walking. Like, a bit too much. I also really liked Andrew O’Hagan’s The Illuminations after I became short-term obsessed with Margaret Watkins, although it was hard to get into.

Also it occurs to me upon reflection that I never actually finished Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See, even though it is a lovely book. I think I maxed out my tolerance for WWII depictions this year, for some strange unknowable reason.

I am way too lazy to do a non-fiction list, again, but that’s okay because this year I mostly just read trashy art-crime books:

Priceless by Robert Wittman

The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser

Provenance by Laney Salisbury

The Forger's Spell by Edward Dolnick

Seduced by Modernity: The Photography of Margaret Watkins, by Mary Elizabeth O'Connor

The Lost Painting by Johnathan Harr

… as well as Lab Girl by Hope Jahren, and the Josephine Baker graphic novel, the two most worth mentioning.

#books #fiction #reading #libraries #speculative fiction #scifi #fantasy #historical fiction #cancon #canlit

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