Recent reading
Sep. 6th, 2024 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaNow out sailing with my parents for a few days, which is lovely. Also, it's exactly one week until I move, and my life is consumed by administration (which, yes, can be done from the boat).
Lockrenar och motstånd bland folken i norr - Kerstin Eidlitz Kuoljok (2015) [Decoy reindeer and resistance among the peoples in the north]
This was an odd little collection of essays, spotted in a Jokkmokk bookstore with a cover featuring a photo of a well-known local protest against mines. The author is a lapsed academic from the south who married a reindeer herder in Jokkmokk. She did her Ph D in ethnography in the '60:s and now comes off like an idiosyncratic and slightly cranky old professor who thinks the university has gone downhill and she is well quit of it. I found the cover somewhat misleading. Here are the topics of the essays: the use of tame reindeer as decoys when hunting wild reindeer, historical bow construction among a certain Siberian people, politics and law relating to northern indigenous people in post-Soviet Russia, conflicts between the state/companies and northern indigenous people over natural resources in post-Soviet Russia. As I knew nothing whatsoever about these topics, I guess I learned something!
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1894)
I got this viasanguinity, I think? It's good to see that genderswapped Sherlock Holmes is not a modern thing! Not that Loveday Brooke is exactly SH, except for her deductive abilities. I do wish we had gotten more of her backstory and that she'd had a little more personality! Also she lacks a Watson, or other significant relationships--her boss/colleague is the closest thing, I guess, but they don't interact enough. Still, it was nice to see a super-competent woman showing up all the men in the 1890's!
I also read and enjoyed So All The Things Can Grow (18429 words) by witchoil, in the fandom Sunshine - Robin McKinley. I've long wanted a Con/Sunshine/Mel fic, and this laid thorough groundwork for that, even though it didn't go all the way.
Lockrenar och motstånd bland folken i norr - Kerstin Eidlitz Kuoljok (2015) [Decoy reindeer and resistance among the peoples in the north]
This was an odd little collection of essays, spotted in a Jokkmokk bookstore with a cover featuring a photo of a well-known local protest against mines. The author is a lapsed academic from the south who married a reindeer herder in Jokkmokk. She did her Ph D in ethnography in the '60:s and now comes off like an idiosyncratic and slightly cranky old professor who thinks the university has gone downhill and she is well quit of it. I found the cover somewhat misleading. Here are the topics of the essays: the use of tame reindeer as decoys when hunting wild reindeer, historical bow construction among a certain Siberian people, politics and law relating to northern indigenous people in post-Soviet Russia, conflicts between the state/companies and northern indigenous people over natural resources in post-Soviet Russia. As I knew nothing whatsoever about these topics, I guess I learned something!
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1894)
I got this via
sanguinity, I think? It's good to see that genderswapped Sherlock Holmes is not a modern thing! Not that Loveday Brooke is exactly SH, except for her deductive abilities. I do wish we had gotten more of her backstory and that she'd had a little more personality! Also she lacks a Watson, or other significant relationships--her boss/colleague is the closest thing, I guess, but they don't interact enough. Still, it was nice to see a super-competent woman showing up all the men in the 1890's! I also read and enjoyed So All The Things Can Grow (18429 words) by witchoil, in the fandom Sunshine - Robin McKinley. I've long wanted a Con/Sunshine/Mel fic, and this laid thorough groundwork for that, even though it didn't go all the way.
