Recent reading
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luzulaTulku by Peter Dickinson
My third Dickinson, and it's my least favorite so far--The Blue Hawk is a beloved childhood favorite which holds up for me still, and The Ropemaker is a fun and inventive YA fantasy I read last year. Which is not to say that I disliked this book, far from it. I liked the first half best, when they're walking through China and you're getting to know the characters. I like the setting and landscape description, and Mrs Jones is an interesting character.
Tillbaka till henne by Sara Lövestam (Back To Her, only in Swedish)
Oh, excellent. This is the story of a lesbian Swedish suffragette and her life, with lovers, work and activism, alternating with the story of a modern-day woman who finds her letters and diary. I really enjoyed it--there are feel-good elements, but it also put tears in my eyes several times. I wish it was available in English so that more people could read it.
My third Dickinson, and it's my least favorite so far--The Blue Hawk is a beloved childhood favorite which holds up for me still, and The Ropemaker is a fun and inventive YA fantasy I read last year. Which is not to say that I disliked this book, far from it. I liked the first half best, when they're walking through China and you're getting to know the characters. I like the setting and landscape description, and Mrs Jones is an interesting character.
Tillbaka till henne by Sara Lövestam (Back To Her, only in Swedish)
Oh, excellent. This is the story of a lesbian Swedish suffragette and her life, with lovers, work and activism, alternating with the story of a modern-day woman who finds her letters and diary. I really enjoyed it--there are feel-good elements, but it also put tears in my eyes several times. I wish it was available in English so that more people could read it.
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Date: 2017-08-18 12:18 am (UTC)Tangentially, I finished Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, a lovely graphic novel about the English campaigners. I didn't know how violent their struggle was: bomb throwing, forced feeding, prison strikes.
I've probably nattered to you before about Peter Dickinson's morbid murder mysteries -- he loves mocking the ruling classes, which always deserve some disrespect.
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Date: 2017-08-18 04:21 pm (UTC)I think I was the one who recced you the Sally Heathcote book? : ) I've also read a couple of books written by British suffragettes at the time. Pretty violent, yeah. ETA: Although I can't help suspecting that people focus on the exciting violent bits and not on the probably much greater mass of people who did all the everyday bits of organizing.
Murder mysteries are usually not my genre? Although I could probably be persuaded to try one. I've got one more Dickinson in my physical pile of books to read: A Summer in the Twenties.
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Date: 2017-08-22 01:53 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's easy to end up reading mostly in English...which means you can miss some good books. Like this one!
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