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Anyone dressing up this year? Going to any costume parties?
I'm probably not but if I were picking a costume from this list, I would probably go with Elizabeth Bennet- Zombie Killer! : ) What's your favorite?
Can anyone guess what the most popular adult costume is going to be?
Yep- Unfortunately, I think we're going to see a lot of Donald Trump's & Hillary Clinton's! : (
Source of Literary Costume Article: Penguin Random House
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It's been a really long time since I did one of these recaps! So much has happened here on the blog and I've read a bunch of different things since my August book talk too (though even in that I didn't really link back to different blog posts? Oops?). So here we go - let me know what you've read, reviewed, etc. this past month as well. Mine could probably be summarized with: "Christina is terrible at TBR lists."
So, first up, from the blog: I got my bookish rounds back on a weekly basis! Woohoo! You can check out edition 87 (this week), edition 86, edition 85, edition 84, and edition 83. (There are more blog posts, but this is only from between now and my August book talk). The only change is that so far this month, I've just been too tired to include book blogger discussions. I hope to do this in the future, but since it's the last thing that I do on those posts, it's the one I most often skip when exhaustion takes over.
This month, I also read and reviewed Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, Serpentine by Cindy Pon, and The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow. I read but did not reviewQueen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas (my thoughts are too complicated for a blog post or booktube video - we can have a discussion on this but expect it to be long),Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz translated by Dick Davis (aka a book of Persian poetry; I enjoyed it but have been told that no translation can ever match the original. Also looking forward to comparing it to another book of poetry on Hafez since Dick Davis takes a literal interpretation to most of Hafez's poetry while others view him as a very famous, mystical Sufi poet), The Mirror King by Jodi Meadows (which I will review in the future), The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh (heyhey this was on my list of 2015 debuts I wanted to read, so that counts, right?), Humans of New York (I only recently discovered the blog & was curious to see what the book would be like; was slightly disappointed the captions weren't there as often but perhaps they'll be more featured in the upcoming Humans of New York: Stories?), Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1) by Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows (Sevenwaters #2) by Juliet Marillier, and Child of the Prophecy (Sevenwaters #3) by Juliet Marillier.
Because I loved Daughter of The Forest so much, I created a list of recommendationsof adult fiction that seemed suited for YA readers.
If you're interested, I'm also giving away Zeroes, This Raging Light, One, Mirrored, and the Wild Ones - some as ARCs, some as hardcovers.
What I just read & absolutely loved was Six Myths of our time by Marina Warner.
I had a feeling that I was going to love it when in the introduction, Marina Warner quotes Roland Barthes: Myth transforms history into nature.
Particularly relevant to all the YA I read was Warner's third essay, "Little Angels, Little Monsters: Keeping Childhood Innocent." So many of the most popular YA - Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, The 5th Wave, Twilight, Divergent - end with or prominently feature the idea of the child as a stand-in symbol for hope, for the innocence of the future generations and the betterment therein of society. Time and time again I wondered how we got to a place where we placed such undue pressure and responsibility on a child and the child as a symbol. This essay gets into that and more. (Actually, I want to email my old kidlit professor and ask her whether she's read this essay or heard Marina Warner as she gave these lectures on the BBC. "Little Angels, Little Monsters" felt so, so relevant to everything that we had discussed; Warner even mentioned Bettelheim, who analyzed fairy tales with a Freudian lens. (Because of Bettelheim, every time I see Cinderella's slipper now, I think of the supposed representation of her sexuality i.e. her vagina.)).
Some reviews suggest that this book is dated. Maybe some of the cultural references are dated (the things that are referred to in the present are obviously no longer so), but the points that Warner makes on she-monsters (and motherhood/femininity, the role of women), modern masculinity, the concept of national identity, fairy tale beasts and cannibalism (and colonialism) still feel rather relevant to me. In fact, her last essay, "Home: Our Famous Island Race," is directly applicable to the Refugee crisis today. I appreciated the feminist lens and the broad-ranging approach Warner took to deconstructing these myths, and I will definitely be reading more of her work.
(I also am looking forward to reading some of the work she mentions here. Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands? Derek Walcott's work? Yes, please!)
I just found the booklikes new releaese calendar under that link. Who knew they had a release calendar?
([Someday maybe they'll fix my menus and I won't have to depend on links ... I have a feeling I have a lot of messages and upset friends waiting for me since I could last see my booklikes inbox before they had a book database (mid 2014?)]
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