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Another book review is up on my blog this week. This time it's The Understory, a work in translation from Thai. I don't remember how I heard about it, but I borrowed it from the library and was glad I did.
https://kristenhallgeisler.com/blog/2024/review-the-understory/
#BookReview #literature #translation #Bookstodon
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S00E04. SCP-6001: Avalon
https://beforethefuture.space/podcast/s00e04-scp-6001-avalon/
#article #binti #cats #epistolary #fanfic #grief #incarceration #literature #novella #pacifism #phenomenology #pussy #queerTheory #rutherford #SCP #theWildRobot #visionStatements
So this is done? I'm tired!!
if you're in the UK/EU, print copies are going to be available...
Themes:
#Caribbean #puertorico #postcolonial #performanceart #photography #literature #afroindigenous
dm me if interested
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
Read the first reviews of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
By Dan Sheehan via @LitHub
"For Mr Orwell, the most honest writer alive, hypocrisy is too dreadful for laughter: it feeds his despair."
https://lithub.com/read-the-first-reviews-of-george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four/
Read the first reviews of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. George Orwell’s dystopian masterwork, Nineteen Eight-Four, was first published seventy-four years ago today. Set in a …Literary Hub
....retelling these folktales is an important part of cultural preservation & evolution, as .. oral traditions face extinction. Many #stories disappeared during the colonial period, when written western #literature was privileged & bans on vernacular languages, containing communities’ #cultures & #history were enforced"
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Blackfedi
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/10/african-film-makers-reimagine-folktales-as-dark-fantasy-dramas-for-netflix
African film-makers reimagine folktales as dark fantasy dramas for Netflix
The six films include the tale of an ogre who preys on women, a sci-fi Nigeria taken over by AI, and a girl on a mission to end droughtCaroline Kimeu (The Guardian)
I’m also curious about who was writing about what and when, and who kept these books for so long. This is a fascinating glimpse into the past. If only books could talk!
(Coming soon to) #Amazon #Books #Literature