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@penandinkprincess Laline Paull just spoke to me on Twitter! After I said her book was kind on insane!! I am both super embarrassed and also flattered. 😳😱😱😱😱
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Trespasses
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion.
Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family's pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who's made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment - Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married - Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything, and everyone, Cushla most wants to protect.
As tender as it is unflinching, Trespasses is a heart-pounding, heart-rending drama of thwarted love and irreconcilable loyalties, in a place what you come from seems to count more than what you do, or whom you cherish.
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Remember when we learned we may hear an accent much like Ma’s on 24 May when Caitríona reads from Trespasses? ☘️
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anyone has a pdf of the bees by laline paull i need it. need to read. need
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vote yes if you have finished the entire book.
vote no if you have not finished the entire book.
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Everyone has to read this book NOW. It is the perfect blend of scientific accuracy, gore, horror, dubious morals, murder, and bees that is driving me crazy.
So if it wasn't obvious, this book is about bees and their lives. And while Laline Paull did take some liberties (such as the caste system, their rituals, and some spoilery stuff), the rest is VERY accurate to science, which causes scent and pheromones and dance to be a pretty important plot point in the story with bees being emotionally dependent on the queens love/pheromones, and more importantly, some very fucked up morals.
The main character Flora 717 witnesses ableist bee murder by the bee police (really putting the bee in acab) on a newborn bee and being called ugly and fat (how cruel!) by said bees who just commited said bee murder afterward less than 5 minutes after she gets out of her chamber. Bee warned, this book is not for the faint of heart.
A bee priestess saves Flora from getting the exoskeletal equivalent of her neck snapped as, while not deformed like the other bee who had one wing that was *gasp* partially shriveled, she is abnormally large and can do things the rest of her caste can't do, leading Sage to test what she is able to do by having her try to take care of some larvae.
During this an older flora removes the body and cleans up the arrival hall, cause floras are bee janitors/sanitation workers that are at the bottom of the hirearchy, who can't speak and do normal bee stuff, and are often dismissed/considered lowly by other bees. However Flora 717 is "not like other bees" and can talk and produce flow/royal jelly.
You and Flora 717 explore the hive and try almost all the jobs and face many a challenge, but she almost always makes sure to go to Devotion at the dance hall and be filled with the queens love and recite the bee bible
Almost everything I stated above happened in the first 5 chapters btw. I didn't even mention the drones and all the other shit
Important warning: the bees relationship with Mother/the Hive Mind is pretty much a cult, the hive is very authoritarian, and the story does not shy away from gore, horror, and child/baby/egg death, with some parts even making me queasy (oh god chapter 35).
#Debating on tagging Ohabee cause bees#the bees#tw cult#tagging that just in case#laline paull#books#book recommendations#book recs#book#bees
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obsessed academic (flirtatious)
KAITLYN: It's the kind of perspective like, on a character, that you can really only get from being an obsessed academic and I really appreciate that.
LAETY: Yes, I love that.
KRISTEN: Yeah, yeah, absolutely!
LAETY: No matter that I didn't particularly like my book, this was the nerdy episode and I love it.
KAITLYN: Yeah
KRISTEN: Oh yeah, it was definitely like taking these little niche things that me and Laety love and putting them in a book.
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Right so it turns out that Laline Paull’s Pod is set near Taiji.
Page 246 hit me like a fucking truck.
#I knew this book was brutal but oh I wasn’t ready#I didn’t realise that was the setting. we’re just throwing everything in here aren’t we laline#it’s a fabulous book but what the FUCK man#pod#laline paull#books#currently reading
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Laline Paull || Pod
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2023
Pod is an allegory, a metaphor continued throughout the novel. On the first pages you might think the novel is about a young female dolphin, Ea, it does not take long for the reader to realise Pod is one gigantic allegory. The inhabitants of the oceans being a metaphor at several levels.
Paull has written a novel that shows the earth’s destruction by…
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Women's Prize for Fiction: Shortlist Book Club Online
Our much-loved online shortlist events are back! Join Kate Mosse, the six Women's Prize shortlisted authors and a host of celebrated actors.
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Mon, 22 May 2023 7:00 - Wed, 24 May 2023 8:30 BST
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Welcome to the 2023 Women’s Prize Shortlist Book Club online! Over three evenings in May, join host Kate Mosse, the six shortlisted authors and a line-up of celebrated actors for a joyous celebration of women’s writing.
Featuring readings from the shortlisted novels, candid chat from the authors, and your chance to shape the conversation, this is the ultimate book club.
This year we want you to get even more involved! From all over the world, you’ve been reading along with the judges and discovering this year’s books – and now it’s time to have your say. Share your questions for the authors – or simply an interesting take on one of the books – and it may be featured on the night. Either enter your question when prompted on the order form or email it to [email protected], with the subject line SHORTLIST BOOK CLUB.
And if you’d like to delve into the books’ themes ahead of the event, look out for our bespoke reading guides, which will be shared with all ticketholders ahead of the event.
Full line-up details will be announced over the coming months. And in the meantime, get reading, stock up on snacks and settle in for three nights of inspiring book chat with readers from around the world…
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Each shortlisted book will be paired with a world-class actor, who will perform an exclusive reading.
Monday 22nd May 2023, 7.00pm BST: Barbara Kingsolver + Priscilla Morris, chaired by Kate Mosse, featuring readings from actors to be announced
Tuesday 23rd May 2023, 7.00pm BST: Maggie O'Farrell + Jacqueline Crooks, chaired by Kate Mosse, featuring readings from Lashana Lynch and another actor to be announced
Wednesday 24th May 2023, 7.00pm BST: Louise Kennedy + Laline Paull, chaired by Kate Mosse, featuring readings from Caitríona Balfe and another actor to be announced
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The Bees
Laline Paull
Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical of her kin. And while mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns before…
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#anthropomorphic animals#Bee fanatic#Bee hive#Colony Collapse Disorder#Laline Paull#Oligarchy#Superorganism#The Bees
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Title: The Bees | Author: Laline Paull | Publisher: Fourth Estate (2014)
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Mary Sue im Bienenstock
Meinung zum Roman The Bees von Laline Paull
Flora 717 wird in die unterste Klasse eines totalitär regierten Bienenstocks geboren. Alle dienen der Bienenkönigin und verhalten sich ihrem Stand entsprechend. Doch Flora fällt schon zu ihrer Geburt durch ihre überdurchschnittliche Größe und ihr Sprachvermögen auf und schafft es so, ihre Klasse zu verlassen und in die tiefsten Winkel des Stocks vorzudringen.
Während der Roman zu Beginn noch an The Handmaid’s Tale erinnert, mit seinen strengen Hierarchien und den religiösen Grüßen (“Accept, Obey and Serve”), verliert er sich nach den ersten 50 Seiten leider in seiner Episodenhaftigkeit. Kapitel für Kapitel wird ein Teil des herkömmlichen Bienenlebens abgearbeitet und fiktiv dargestellt. Mit Protagonistin Flora besteht zwar der Versuch, einen schwarz-gelb-gestreiften Handlungsfaden in die Geschichte einfädeln, aber das Unterfangen scheitert daran, dass Flora sich als absoluter Mary Sue Charakter entpuppt. Während sie ihr Leben noch in der untersten Kaste als Säuberungsbiene beginnt, wird schnell klar, dass verborgene Talente in ihr schlummern, die sie nach und nach beinahe jede Rolle im Bienenstock übernehmen lassen. Praktisch für die Handlung, unglaubwürdig für eine einzige Figur. Flora kann alles und überlebt jede gefährliche Situation ohne Probleme. Dazu kommt die fehlende Introspektive, die der künstlerischen Darstellung einer Bienensicht geschuldet sein mag, aber eben nur oberflächliche Einblicke zulässt. Als Novelle hätte das noch funktioniert, aber als 300+ Seiten starker Roman wird es schnell langweilig.
Stilistisch ist The Bees eine seltsame Mischung aus bienenspezifischem Vokabular (Waben, Fühler, Flügel, Propolis) und Vermenschlichung (die Bienen "haben Hände", im Bienenstock gibt es Sofas und Gesänge). Das macht die Erzählung einerseits interessant und nachvollziehbar, andererseits muss im Kopf konstant die Vorstellung angepasst und hinterfragt werden, ob es das bei Bienen wirklich gibt oder ob das künstlerische Freiheit ist. Das kann natürlich den positiven Nebeneffekt haben, dass Lesende selbst recherchieren und mehr über diese erstaunlichen Insekten lernen. Trotzdem wäre in diesem Zusammenhang ein klärendes Nachwort hilfreich gewesen, denn einige der Vorkommnisse im Bienenstock klingen nach reiner Imagination, entsprechen aber, wie mir das Lesen eines Wikipedia-Artikels gezeigt hat, der Realität.
Für mich hat The Bees nur in der Hinsicht funktioniert, dass es mich dazu bewegt hat, endlich A Sting in the Tale von meinem TBR zu ziehen, einem Sachbuch über Hummeln, das ohne verwirrende Vermenschlichungen und eintönige Figurenzeichnung auskommt. Wer aus der Sicht von Tieren lesen möchte, könnte stattdessen zum Klassiker Animal Farm (ebenfalls totalitäre Regierungsform) oder Watership Down greifen.
The Bees von Laline Paull erschien erstmals 2014 bei 4th Estate und lässt sich als Xenofiction, Fiktion aus der Perspektive von Tieren, kategorisieren. Die deutsche Übersetzung von Hannes Riffel erschien 2018 unter dem Titel Die Bienen beim Tropen Verlag.
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palace drama style book revolving around multiple pharaoh ant queens trying to dominate the colony for themselves
#deer rambles#ants are so so cool#i want more xenofiction around them#Laline Paull if you see this PLEASE I READ THE BEES YOU CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN
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Fellas is it gay use your bro's cigarette to light your own?
Yes.
KRISTEN: There's little scenes where you get like weird intimate moments, there's a part really early where Hamlet lights a cigarette and Laertes lights his own off the end of it.
KAITLYN: Oh my god, that's the gayest-
LAETY: Yeah
KAITLYN: -possible fucking way of lighting a cigarette.
KRISTEN: I know right! When I-- In my notes, I was like "Just kiss!"
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