Category: Book Review
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Iron Widow by Ziran Jay Zhao Review
Iron Widow by Ziran Jay Zhao has been on my To-Read list for a long time, and I had avoided it for mostly subconscious reasons surrounding the marketing of novels as “Young Adult,” I think. There’s much to say about YA as a pseudo-genre (it’s not a genre, it’s a marketing strategy), but even I…
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Jousting and Knighthood-Where is the Limit for “Historical Accuracy” in Modern America?
The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly is a 2020 YA novel from Jamie Pacton; discussing the novel opens some interesting conversations about gender, knighthood, and historical accuracy. Kit Sweetly is 17 years old, obsessed with the history of the Middle Ages, and currently works as a serving wench at a Medieval Times knock…
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Book Review-“So This is Ever After” by F.T. Lukens
I’ll give you one guess why I saw this cover on an end cap at the library and immediately checked it out. And yes, it’s absolutely exactly as queer as I was hoping for. So This is Ever After begins at the end of a traditional fantasy novel-the chosen one has defeated the Big Bad™…
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The Time Traveler’s Wife-What Is The Appeal?
Maybe it’s because I’m queer, and growing up queer fundamentally changes the way I approach and perceive love, but nothing in The Time Traveler’s Wife feels romantic. It could be that I didn’t give it enough of a chance. Should I continue watching? Should I try to read it? What are your thoughts?
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We Don’t Talk About Bruno
Published in 1972 as the first novel under the new pen name Philippa Carr, The Miracle at St. Bruno’s is the first in Carr’s Daughters of England series, told through a series of first-person diaries written by the eldest daughter of each subsequent generation, from Henry VIII’s reign all the way through WWII.
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