Recent reading
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luzulaA Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge (2017)
For my fannish book club; my choice. I really loved this! : D If you haven't read it yet, I should probably try to convince you: it has a scrappy girl for a protagonist, who in some ways just has her own survival at heart. I mean, she's pursued by evil family members who want to use her mind as a vessel for their generations-old ghosts, and also she's caught up in a civil war, so that's fair. But also she's genuinely kind and forges unlikely friendships and alliances on the way.
Aednan by Linnea Axelsson (2018)
This is probably the first time I read a 750-page book in a day, but there were very few words on each page. This is a...narrative poem? Poetic novel? Anyway, it tells the story of two Sami families in northern Sweden during a hundred years. I liked it--the format worked for me, and it was actually a page-turner.
For my fannish book club; my choice. I really loved this! : D If you haven't read it yet, I should probably try to convince you: it has a scrappy girl for a protagonist, who in some ways just has her own survival at heart. I mean, she's pursued by evil family members who want to use her mind as a vessel for their generations-old ghosts, and also she's caught up in a civil war, so that's fair. But also she's genuinely kind and forges unlikely friendships and alliances on the way.
Aednan by Linnea Axelsson (2018)
This is probably the first time I read a 750-page book in a day, but there were very few words on each page. This is a...narrative poem? Poetic novel? Anyway, it tells the story of two Sami families in northern Sweden during a hundred years. I liked it--the format worked for me, and it was actually a page-turner.
