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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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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/

#books #literature #dystopia


Traditional #African tales of monsters, genies & malevolent spirits have been reworked in a new #Netflix series.
....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


is there an inventory online somewhere? I’d love to find a synopsis on each.

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) # # #

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