Finished Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker at last, and my reread of The Devil's Mixtape by Mary Borsellino.
I've spent most of this past week rereading Jane Eyre for the first time since 2019, and I got a lot more out of it now that I'm older. This edition had an introduction which was helpful in contextualising public reaction to the story, which only furthered my appreciation of Jane's self-willed character. I'd wanted to read Wide Sargasso Sea in dialogue with it, but I can't pick that up from the library until Friday, when I'll be neck-deep in Trans Rights Readathon, so I'll have to put that off until April.
Speaking of the Trans Rights Readathon, I've started slightly early, with A Natural History of Transition by Callum Angus, a short collection of stories that will tide me over well from now until I visit an LGBT+ bookshop on Saturday. I've only read the first story so far, but I liked it; Angus has a good style.
I'm also slogging through Queer Data by Kevin Guyan. It's a good and valuable book, for sure, but it's been very theory-based so far, and very academic in a "using a lot of words to very precisely make one (1) point", and both of those things give me a headache.
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Date: 2025-03-20 06:51 am (UTC)I've spent most of this past week rereading Jane Eyre for the first time since 2019, and I got a lot more out of it now that I'm older. This edition had an introduction which was helpful in contextualising public reaction to the story, which only furthered my appreciation of Jane's self-willed character. I'd wanted to read Wide Sargasso Sea in dialogue with it, but I can't pick that up from the library until Friday, when I'll be neck-deep in Trans Rights Readathon, so I'll have to put that off until April.
Speaking of the Trans Rights Readathon, I've started slightly early, with A Natural History of Transition by Callum Angus, a short collection of stories that will tide me over well from now until I visit an LGBT+ bookshop on Saturday. I've only read the first story so far, but I liked it; Angus has a good style.
I'm also slogging through Queer Data by Kevin Guyan. It's a good and valuable book, for sure, but it's been very theory-based so far, and very academic in a "using a lot of words to very precisely make one (1) point", and both of those things give me a headache.