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My weekly reading wrap-up:

Friday Reads Nov 4 #Skoden #Victober #NonfictionNovember #CanLit #comics #GraphicMemoir #Queerlit
https://youtu.be/ALS9me5jiIU

I read this novel long time ago. I forgot how terrible Mr Heathcliff was and how dysfunctional, violent, co-dependent these relations were. But thinking about the author, how brave she was to write in a novel about these topics was incredible and she was young. I think I need to re-read it in the future after maybe read more about the author. I will need, of course, another beautiful edition. I read the Thomas Nelson edition. 4⭐️

I finished my #Victober project and it was...okay. The infamous Becky Sharp is a fascinating character & her foil, the sweet Emmy, is a dullard. We spend a lot of time with both of them, as well as with the various societies they mingle in. High society, low society, military, religious, business, in city & country, in England & abroad. We inhabit all these worlds for a while. And everywhere we go there is virtue & vice. Some sections were more 👇

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadian Littens! 🦃
My #bookreport. Lots of longer books on the go!
🎧 Vanity Fair - pretty easy to follow but also pretty racist 😑 #victober
📗The Tortoise & the Hare - very British, very mid-century
📗In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - slow-going 🐌
📗The Tapestry - middle grade fantasy from #netgalley

https://youtu.be/tF5c0zgvN2M

#victober

Intro

A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

The Lover, the Lake by Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau, Susan Ouriou (Translator)

Courting Saskatchewan: A Celebration of Winter Feasts, Summer Loves & Rising Brookies by David Carpenter

Queen Victoria's Mother by Dulcie M. Ashdown

https://youtu.be/2crJ-7fHXYA

#shortyseptember
#victober

Intro

Queen Alexandra: Loyalty and Love by Frances Dimond

The Peacock by Isabel Bogdan, Annie Rutherford (Translator)

The Scream by Rohinton Mistry

Our Colors by Gengoroh Tagame, Anne Ishii (Translator)

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole

Brain and Ten Fingers by Gerald Kersh

https://youtu.be/pGrEmsdb73I

#shortyseptember

#victober

Artwork show and tell

Hilary Mantel, RIP

Readerly Envy

Victober Surprise

Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith

In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop, Anna Moschovakis (Translator)

Happy Sands by Barb Howard

Chandelier: An Original Story by Mieko Kawakami, David Boyd (Translator)

As one of the oldest vampire fictions, this novella predates Dracula! Hugely gothic, with a picturesque and isolated setting, Carmilla describes a surprisingly sapphic central relationship. Though there are precious few frightful scenes, they lit up my imagination like a cat‘s eye in the dark. Not a mystery, as any modern reader will understand what‘s happening from the start, so just come for the fun. (I read this aloud, and we had so much fun.)

A #Victober surprise! I picked this up after reading a few of its lines on the Welsh countryside- ah, the gorse and heather. Its nature imagery is luscious, and the land is truly the heart and soul of the novel.

The simple religious and romantic plots are enriched by the care taken in developing the full family dynamics of the Owens of Garthowen. A gentle story that weighs up thoughtful questions about duty, longing, and our faith in one another.

For several years now I've meant to join in for #Victober (which started out on booktube). This year I managed to squeeze in the group read and enjoyed it! These are stories of dread, menace, and the quotidian terror of patriarchy. As a collection of stories, some are simply better than others. Yet I think anyone who's read Gaskell before and knows of the ways in which she can pull a reader in will find lots to think about and take pleasure in.