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This Way Out by Tufayel Ahmed (1st)
Amar can’t wait to tell everyone his wonderful news: he’s found The One, and he’s getting married. But it turns out announcing his engagement on a group chat might not have been the best way to let his strict Muslim Bangladeshi family know that his happy-ever-after partner is a man―and a white man at that.
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We’re back for our first episode of the summer! In this one, we take a trip to post-Rome Britain to explore our fascination with a time period that is more myth than history. Going full history nerd, we take a look at three books set in Britain after the withdrawal of Roman imperial powers: Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott, Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve, and Sistersong by Lucy Holland. We discuss the possible origin of the King Arthur myth, queer medieval narratives, and the cultural diversity of Britain at this time–as well as wizards, warlords, and murder ballads.
Content Warnings: discussions of war, death, and body horror
#sistersong#lucy holland#dark earth#Rebecca stott#here lies arthur#arthuriana#historical fiction#books#nevet the twins shall meet#podcasts#captain's log
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There is no going back. There is no staying. There is no home.
dark earth, rebecca stott
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Historical fiction set in 6th-century Britain after the retreat of the Roman Empire following the two daughters of a Saxon blacksmith who must complete a commission from a local warlord after their father dies without revealing they’ve broken the taboo against women being blacksmiths
Two of them escape to the ruins of Londonium, the once-great city ruled by the Romans, and join a community of outcast women there
Very mythical feel despite being set in a real historical time period
Character-driven story infused with folklore and magic
Draws on archaeology to imagine the stories of women in a time period where there are no written records
The main character has a romance with another woman and the novel explores the racial and cultural diversity of Britain history
#i'm really fascinated by post-rome britain as a time period so this book was TOTALLY up my alley#also lesbian blacksmith <3#this is historical fiction but i think fans of epic fantasy would enjoy this as well#love how much this was rooted in archaeology and a sense of place#living among the fallen ruins of a once-great empire YESSSSSSSS#also i thought the author's note was cool#because the whole novel is inspired by one specific piece of archaeology#great cover also#dark earth#rebecca stott#books#lulu speaks#lulu reads#2022 reads#lulu reads dark earth
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October 2023 books
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Le Manuscrit de Cambridge - Rebecca Stott
Le Manuscrit de Cambridge – Rebecca Stott
Auteur(s) : Rebecca Stott
Editeur : Jc Lattès
Langue : Français
Parution : 07/04/2010
Nombre de pages : 332
Format : Beau livre
Dimensions : 22.5 x 14 x 2.6
Résumé.Les âmes sont-elles éternelles ? L’alchimie autrefois, la physique quantique aujourd’hui ne semblent pas le nier… Lorsqu’une historienne de Cambridge, Elizabeth Vogelsang, est retrouvée…
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Hi do you by chance have any sapphic fantasy recs? preferably adult fantasy but YA is fine too
sure! tho this could will get quite long... no links, sorry!, bc it was kicking up a fuss with those for some reason
+ = ya
pennyblade by j.l. worrad
lady hotspur by tessa gratton
sofi and the bone song by adrienne tooley (+)
she who became the sun by shelley parker chan
the scapegracers by h.a. clarke (+)
the third daughter by adrienne tooley (+)
the daughters of izdihar by hadeer elsbai
the malevolent seven by sebastien de castell
blackheart knights by laure eve
the warden by daniel m. ford
the unbroken by c.l. clark
dark earth by rebecca stott
witch king by martha wells
scorpica by g.r. macallister
the mirror empire by kameron hurley
now she is witch by kirsty logan
silverglass by j.f. rivkin
the woman who loved the moon and other stories by elizabeth a. lynn
...(this answer is how i discover there's a character limit per block so. doing this in chunks.)
fire logic by laurie j. marks
a restless truth by freya marske
when angels left the old country by sacha lamb (+)
the traitor baru cormorant by seth dickinson
an archive of brightness by kelsey socha
the bladed faith by david dalglish
the winged histories by sofia samatar
dragonoak by sam farren
the forever sea by joshua phillip johnson
into the broken lands by tanya huff
the jasmine throne by tasha suri
daughter of redwinter by ed mcdonald
the last magician by lisa maxwell (+)
the fire opal mechanism by fran wilde
...
the black coast by mike brooks
high times in the low parliament by kelly robson
foundryside by robert jackson bennett
the enterprise of death by jesse bullington
mamo by sas milledge (+)
from dust, a flame by rebecca podos (+)
uncommon charm by emily bergslien & kat weaver
wild and wicked things by francesca may
the unspoken name by a.k. larkwood
brother red by adrian selby
the final strife by saara el-arifi
way of the argosi by sebastien de castell (+)
the bone shard daughter by andrea stewart
ghost wood song by erica waters (+)
into the crooked place by alexandra christo (+)
ashes of the sun by django wexler
the midnight girls by alicia jasinska (+)
the midnight lie by marie rutkoski (+)
the never tilting world by rin chupeco (+)
water horse by melissa scott
...
a master of djinn by p. djeli clark
the good luck girls by charlotte nicole davis (+)
among thieves by m.j. kuhn
black water sister by zen cho
the velocity of revolution by marshall ryan maresca
sweet & bitter magic by adrienne tooley (+)
the dark tide by alicia jasinska (+)
the library of the unwritten by a.j. hackwith
a dark and hollow star by ashley shuttleworth (+)
the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo
the councillor by e.j. beaton
these feathered flames by alexandra overy (+)
the factory witches of lowell by c.s. malerich
fireheart tiger by aliette de bodard
...
city of lies by sam hawke
bestiary by k-ming chang
the raven and the reindeer by t. kingfisher
the winter duke by claire eliza bartlett (+)
master of poisons by andrea hairston
the empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo
night flowers shirking from the light of the sun by li xing
down comes the night by allison saft (+)
wench by maxine kaplan (+)
girls made of snow and glass by melissa bashardoust (+)
girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan (+)
the impossible contract by k.a. doore
burning roses by s.l. huang
the house of shattered wings by aliette de bodard
not for use in navigation by iona datt sharma
weak heart by ban gilmartin
girl, serpent, thorn by melissa bashardoust (+)
the devil's blade by mark alder
...
we set the dark on fire by tehlor kay mejia (+)
the true queen by zen cho
moontangled by stephanie burgis
a portable shelter by kirsty logan
sing the four quarters by tanya huff
all the bad apples by moira fowley doyle (+)
the drowning eyes by emily foster
the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon
miranda in milan by katharine duckett
the afterward by e.k. johnston (+)
thorn by anna burke
penhallow amid passing things by iona datt sharma
in the vanishers' palace by aliette de bodard
summer of salt by katrina leno (+)
the gracekeepers by kirsty logan
out of the blue by sophie cameron (+)
black wolves by kate elliott
the circle by sara b. elfgren & mats strandberg (+)
unspoken by sarah rees brennan (+)
thistlefoot by gennarose nethercott
passing strange by ellen klages
(and breathe)
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But I suspect that the problem of discontinuity between one generation of feminists and another goes even deeper than the published availability (or non-availability) of women's ideas. Fundamental to feminist analyses are the principles that gulf-like divisions are created among women and also, that where women are perceived as male property, they are accorded their greatest value in their youth. The development of ideas about ageism has helped us to understand that whereas the worth of a man may increase with age in a society ordered by men (so that life merely begins at forty) that of a woman decreases with age (so that life ends at thirty - see Spender, 1982a), with the result that, while society may sit at the feet of elderly male gurus, women almost never experience such veneration.
An 'old woman' is a term of abuse; while it may have been encoded by men its meaning could well be shared by women (see Spender, 1980). Just as women help to construct sexism, perhaps we make our contribution to ageism by accepting rather than challenging the belief that ‘old women’ have little of intellectual value to offer. This could be the explanation for Rebecca West's statement in 1975 that: ‘No Women's Lib people have ever shown the slightest interest in me’ (see Connell, 1975). Yet Jane Marcus (1980b) has stated that Rebecca West 'has become this century's great feminist literary critic, philosopher, novelist, historian and journalist' (p. 5). Her feminist ideas virtually span the twentieth century to date (her first published item on women's suffrage was in The Scotsman in 1904, when she was 14 years of age) and her commitment to feminism is no less now than it was at the beginning of the century.
I have thought about this and come to the conclusion that I am culpable, that I have been too ready to dismiss some of my immediate foremothers as misguided, and too ready to be contemptuous of what I perceived to be but a battle for the vote, and an attempt to place as many women as possible in positions of influence that have been traditionally held by men. Now I am more inclined to ask questions about the origins of those perceptions, and the effects for women when one generation - on the basis of received impressions as distinct from direct evidence - severs connections with a generation that has gone before. The pattern does not seem to vary much, for many of us today, by failing to establish links with Rebecca West (and Dora Russell, and Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan, and Mary Stott, and Constance Rover - and many many more) are playing our own part in ensuring that feminist insights are not handed down and that the process of women's disappearance is facilitated. We need actively to resist, not to aid and abet the dismissal and erasure of women, particularly when, as has been the case for me, direct evidence has revealed that there is not one shred of plausibility in the premise that these, our fore mothers, experienced arrested development with the advent of the suffrage movement, and have little or nothing of intellectual value to offer us. To believe this of them is to be taken in by patriarchal misrepresentation; many of us have been misled, and it is our loss.
-Dale Spender, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them
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Novel Syllabus 2024
This coming year I think I'm going to be on here more often than I am on twitter or elsewhere, and as part of that, I'm going to start documenting the process of writing my novel more actively. I want to return to/resurrect the momentum and energy I had while writing the first draft and be more intentional about setting aside time to work, even when it's difficult. Below are my writing goals for the coming year as well as my reading list of texts for inspiration, genre/background research, comps, etc. Would welcome any suggestions of texts (any genre/discipline) pertaining to Antigone, death & resurrection, Welsh and Cornish myth and folklore, ecology & environmental crisis, and the Gothic.
Writing Goals
Reach 50k words in draft 2 overall
Finish a draft of Anna's timeline
Finish a draft of Jo's timeline
Polish & submit an excerpt for the Center for Fiction Prize
Reading
* = reread
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & The Apocalyptic
The Memory Theater (Karin Tidbeck)
Who Fears Death (Nnedi Okorafor)
Urth of The New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
Slow River (Nicola Griffith)
Dream Snake (Vonda McIntyre)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Marlon James)
Notes from the Burning Age (Claire North)
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)*
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)*
The Last Man (Mary Shelley)
The Drowned World (J.G. Ballard)
Strange Beasts of China (Yan Ge, trans. by Jeremy Tiang)
City of Saints and Madmen (Jeff VanderMeer)
Freshwater (Akweke Emezi)
The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
Pattern Master (Octavia Butler)
Sleep Donation (Karen Russell)
How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)
The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis)*
The Golden Compass (Phillip Pullman)*
The Green Witch (Susan Cooper)
The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Black Sun (Rebecca Roanhorse)
Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)
Lives of the Monster Dogs (Kirsten Bakis)
Brian Evenson
Sofia Samatar
Connie Willis
Samuel Delaney
Jo Walton
Tanith Lee
Retellings
A Wild Swan (Michael Cunningham)
Til We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)
Gingerbread (Helen Oyeyemi)
Circe (Madeline Miller)
The Owl Service (Alan Garner)
Literary Myth-Making, Mystery, and the Gothic
Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
Frenchman's Creek (Daphne Du Maurier)
Possession (A.S. Byatt)*
The Game (A.S. Byatt)*
The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
The Secret History (Donna Tartt)*
The Wild Hunt (Emma Seckel)
King Nyx (Kirsten Bakis)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
The Night Land (William Hope Hodgson)
Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice)*
Sexing the Cherry (Jeanette Winterson)*
Night Side of the River (Jeanette Winterson)
Bad Heroines (Emily Danforth)
All the Murmuring Bones (A.G. Slatter)
The Path of Thorns (A.G. Slatter)
Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)
Prose Work, Perspective, and Stream of Consciousness
The Chandelier (Clarice Lispector)
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)*
The Years (Virginia Woolf)
The Intimate Historical Epic / Court Intrigues
Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)*
Menewood (Nicola Griffith)
Dark Earth (Rebecca Stott)
A Place of Greater Safety (Hilary Mantel)
Research
The Mabinogion (trans. Sioned Davies)
Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory)
The Collected Brothers Grimm (Phillip Pullman)
Angela Carter's Collected Fairytales
Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
Underland (Robert Macfarlane)
The Wild Places (Robert Macfarlane)
Wildwood (Roger Deakin)
Vanishing Cornwall (Daphne Du Maurier)
Lonely Planet: Guide to Devon & Cornwall
A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World (David Gessner)
The Lost Boys of Montauk (Amanda M. Fairbanks)
A Cyborg Manifesto (Donna J. Harraway)
A Treasury of British Folklore (Dee Dee Chainey)*
The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (Eileen M. Hunt)
Antigone's Claim (Judith Butler)
Theories of Desire: Antigone Again (Judith Butler)
Ecology of Fear (Mike Davis)
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1, 3, 24 for the book asks 💕
hey alfonsina!
how many books did you read this year?
41 so far!
3. what were your top five books of the year?
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs
The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell
The Woman in the Mirror by Rebecca James
24. did you DNF anything? why?
The Overneath by Peter S Beagle. I got from the library on a whim since it seemed interesting, but the writing turned out to be really boring and i just couldn't get into it at all
end-of-year book asks!
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Tag nine people to get to know them better. Tagged by @hellsbellschime
Fav colour: green
Currently reading: Just finished a book called The Atlas Six, by Olivie Blake and haven't picked up my next book yet ( but I know that it will be Dark Earth, by Rebecca Stott)
Last series: The Umbrella Academy
Last movie: Like at the cinema? Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
Currently working on: I'm on the last 10,000 words of a 1st draft of a novel I've been trying to finish since last November. It's an urban fantasy about witches and sorcerers having it out in Dublin. It's tentatively called Galileo's Lens, but I honestly hate the title!
Tagging @pers-books @garglyswoof @cbk1000 @yamimana-ramblings @sun-ni-day @randomkiwibirds @three--rings @galvanizedfriend @willowaus
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Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott
Stott blends fascinating historical details about the Seax (Saxon) culture with myth and fantasy. The two narrators are daughters of the Great Smith who have been banished to a mudflat island.
Seax culture is full of rules. Women are not even allowed to step foot in the smithy shop since it is considered a male domain. Ignoring these rules, Isla has worked as her father’s striker. He has taught…
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“And when the coral spawn, all the other sea organisms follow. It’s like a trigger. The fisherman say it’s the moon that makes them spawn, she had said, and I said: How can they see the moon? They have no eyes. Perhaps they have other ways of seeing and knowing, she had. Perhaps we all do. There’s a grandeur in that.” - The Coral Thief, Rebecca Stott
#books#book blog#book recommendations#bookworm#books round up#bookstagram#travel with books#paris#historical fiction
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Closing date for applications: Sunday 6th August 2023
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Favorite books of 2022
In the order I read them
The Accursed Vampire by Madeline McGrane
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero edited by Anna F. Peppard
Spirit Abroad by Zen Cho
From Dust, a Flame by Rebecca Podos
Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
Messy Roots by Laura Gao
The Scapegracers by H.A. Clarke
The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
Lost and Found by Kathryn Schulz
Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu
The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska
¡Hola Papi! By John Paul Brammer
Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow
The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud
The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian
The Sandman vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman and others
The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan
Black Spring by Alison Croggon
What Souls Are Made Of by Tasha Suri
Spear by Nicola Griffith
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott
Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola
Thrown in the Throat b Benjamin Garcia
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo
Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Sword Stone Table edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington
R E D by Chase Berggrun
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1. share your favorite memory of this year
There's been many good ones this year, so I don't know if I can pic a favorite 🤔 but the medieval festival week is definitely a good memory, especially the consert with Jordbrand 😊
3. list the top five books you read this year
In no particular order: Dark earth by Rebecca Stott, The Wish Granter by CJ Redwine, Wolfsbane by Michelle Paver, Heart's blood by Juliet Marillier, Uprooted by Naomi Novik
6. what is the one new thing you discovered this year (could be a place/hobby/song etc)?
Hmmm...i discovered the musical Anastasia, which I now love:D
10. your personal song of the year
I have no idea what this means but.... Pancakes for dinner by Lizzy McAlpine or Like my father by JAX, because I relate to the lyrics and they've felt very relevant for me this year
11.what is an achievement that you are proud of this year?
That I saved Liv's life. You know the story, but for those who don't: I live on a farm with sheep (not my farm nor my sheep sadly, but I live here so mine by proxy i guess). This year was the first year I was present for the lambing season and helped out quite a lot. Now one of the first lambs of the season was a set of twins, and the lambing went wrong. The first lamb was really big and got stuck, and when we finally got him out, the second one was in quite a bad shape. She was super small and weak and couldn't stand up, so she couldn't suckle (feed). The owner was convinced she wouldn't make it but I wanted to try anyway, so I spent hours in the sheep pen, just holding her to keep her warm, tried to teach her to stand and held her up against her mother so she could feed every hour. First night I woke up every hour to go out and feed her, second and third night every other hour. She had learned how to stand and walk by the fourth day and against all odds she made it and is now a fully grown healthy sheep 🐑 i named her Liv, which is an old Scandinavian name that means Life
22.list any three new things you learned this year (could be recipes, a new skill, etc.)
New embroidery technics, Norwegian (still far from fluent, but much better at it now), how to felt wool
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