🔥❤️🔥SILVER THROAT - COVER REVEAL! Here it is! Vardari 2, Silver Throat, is released in Norway October 5th, that’s less than 3720 hours! (Can’t wait? Check last post in thread.)
Imagine having stolen the devil from those in power. Robbed them of their source of everlasting life. And started a war, so fuelled by fear and disdain, that you are forced to become what you are hunting.
It's been a while since I posted about my novel, which is available on Amazon (and soon other places). If you like a strong female detective with plenty of mental problems, give it a try! Boosts are always appreciated.
A Memory of Murder
Some people envision the future. I envision the past.
In this memoir, Alice Hattrick describes her illness and that of her mother and how they were not believed, deemed hysterical by health professionals. She talks of the strain of living with an undiagnosed illness and how this puts huge pressure on them both . Alice goes into detail about how the understanding of ME/CFS has evolved and talks of the frustration felt by patients who were dismissed by doctors over a span of many years.
When diagnosis does come, it comes with mixed feelings as treatment is not straightforward and a range of medication/exercise programmes are tried, often with horrible side effects that can’t be tolerated.
I very much enjoyed the way writers such as Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are weaved in, alongside other famous figures like Florence Nightingale to illustrate her points.
Louise Bourgeois’s insomnia drawings and writings of the 1990s are discussed alongside her well known spider sculptures.
And I was really interested to read about the origins of the term “crip time” which is something that resonates with me as I live with chronic pain/fatigue. Alison Kafer coined the term and here, Alice states ‘Crip time is different from productive kinds of time, which is really just one … version of time… You do things slowly in waves rather than stages”
Kafer states that “the present takes on more ergency as the future shrinks.” This is something I’ve experienced and which will continue to be part of life I’m sure. It can be hard to explain this to family and friends and find ways to make sense of it yourself in order to ask for accommodations at work for example. Pacing has become a kind of art over the years that I’m still getting wrong all the time!
All in all a powerful read. #bookstodon#Disability@bookstodon@disability
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NARCISSUS is a unique spin on a classic myth with a special resonance in a world that seems to reward vapid, vacuous vanity. This compact and creepy nightmare will keep your gaze transfixed as the gory horrors mount and may even inspire a little self-reflection, after. (Shortwave Pub)
Today's indie author review: Casey Morales' I Hear You:
"What I loved about this book - besides the two great dogs and the two amazing humans - was what I learned about the things the deaf have to deal with... I highly recommend this book. Five stars."
Oi. Moving from Twitter to here and seeing who I follow on Twitter IS here and so far it's been painful. Any suggestions on who to follow #bookstodon in terms of #writing and related topics? :)
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The stories, poems, & characters in HOW LOVELY TO BE A WOMAN ring w/ a strength & authenticity that grounds them even as they travel into supernatural & metaphorical territories. This impressive debut by Tiffany Michelle Brown is great: sinister, disturbing, unique, angry, & empowering.
📚 Recently finished the audiobook, "Becoming," by Michelle Obama. (Thanks to Libby/library.) Then with that added perspective, re-listened to "A Promised Land," by Barack Obama. Folks, wow. Must say a personal opinion: if you want to have your finger effectively on the pulse of USA issues, these two books, preferably close together, are very nearly a must. Don't cheat yourself out of the perspective. Not enough spaces for all tags I'd like to add. #USPol#racism#Obama#books#bookstodon
Every single month I curate a list of the best new book releases. As always, Bookish Brews centers BIPOC voices & voices from other systematically marginalized communities.
If you're looking to diversify your reading, I'm always here for you!
Just one person's opinion - if you share your review of a book, please include the title of the book. And even better, the author's name. If I don't even know which book you reviewed, I'm not inclined to click on it.
Besides, even if you didn't like it, the book is likely to appeal to some people and getting the title and author's name out there couldn't hurt.
Someone over elsewhere used to do a neat thing with posting a picture of the books they read each week (or maybe each month?). I'm a day late with this, these are the books from 1st-8th Jan, but I think it's neat to share.
Doesn't include the two ebooks I read: Office (Sheila Liming) and Murder at the Theatre Royale (Ada Moncrieff). Of the omnibus, I've only read the second book this week, but I only have it in omnibus format.
Couldn't resist sneaking my ereader into this pic, since I read a few books on that. That was Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates, T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge, Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager and Christopher Rowe's The Navigating Fox.
Favourite book this week... hmm, maybe Mammoths at the Gates? I love that series.