📚 Here comes the BBC with a list of the 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time. Maybe when I’m recovered from jetlag I’ll see how many are on both this and Time’s 100 Best Fantasy Books list.
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Want to read: The Light Room by Kate Zambreno 📚
📚 Purchased 2 different books from museums to be shipped directly to my house rather than carrying them home myself:
- Sarah Bernhardt - Et la femme crea l’etoile exhibition catalog (Petit Palais, Paris)
- Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination exhibition book (Science Museum, London)
📚 Revisiting Time’s The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time.
N. K. Jemisin:
Don’t think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train for reality. It always has been, after all.
Finished reading: Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale 📚
A sweet historical romance involving a Quaker and a rakish Duke.
Want to read: The Witch of Woodland by Laurel Snyder 📚
🔖📚 Read BookTok encourages reading as an aesthetic and no one is safe from its gaze by Elena Cavender (Mashable).
Insightful piece about how limiting our reading to a particular aesthetic connects with our attention being commodified.
Finished reading: Mr. & Mrs. Witch by Gwenda Bond 📚
Loved it. Scorchingly hot, fun secret agent hijinks. Highly recommend.
I am reading Gwenda Bond’s Mr. & Mrs. Witch right now and one of the 🔥 scenes actually made me cry because it was so beautiful and made me so happy. 📚
Want to read: How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information by Jillian M. Hess 📚