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“On that long journey she wept all the tears stored in her soul, leaving none in reserve for later sorrows.”

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (translator)

December 31, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

It has been a few years since I last tackled an Allende work, but with tasks in both the Read Harder and Reading Women challenges about translated works (the former asking for non-European novel in translation, the latter asking specifically for a book by a South American author in translation) I had the perfect excuse to move Eva Luna up my to read list. The amount of emotion, detail, and characterization that Allende weaves into her writing is simply astounding. It always takes me a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Eva Luna, Isabel Allende, Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (translator), magical realism, read harder challenge, read women, works in translation

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:77 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Eva Luna, Isabel Allende, Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (translator), magical realism, read harder challenge, read women, works in translation ·
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“The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.”

Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

December 25, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Like many, my formal education didn’t contain much indigenous history, and certainly almost none about modern indigenous history. Reading Women task 8 was read a memoir by an Indigenous, First Nations, Native, or Aboriginal Woman which helped move Lakota Woman up my TBR (I had added it in 2015 for a similar Read Harder task but I read Rabbit-Proof Fence instead). It certainly didn’t hurt that it was also the Indigenous Reading Circle’s choice for November (the group that inspired the Reading Women task). Lakota […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: indigenous, Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog, native American, read harder challenge, read women, we need better history books

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:70 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: indigenous, Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog, native American, read harder challenge, read women, we need better history books ·
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“I have learned that sometimes the simplest things are the hardest things to say. That sometimes there is no word for what you feel, no word in any language.”

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

November 20, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I read Jasmine Warga’s debut My Heart and Other Black Holes in 2016, and its one of the books that has stayed with me most as it contained some of the truest descriptions of being a teenager that I have ever read. When I was hunting for a book to fulfill the Muslim Middle Grade novel task for the Reading Women challenge and came across Warga’s name I decided that Other Words for Home would be the book I read, without looking any further into […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: immigrant experience, Jasmine Warga, Middle Grades, Muslim, Other Words for Home, read harder challenge, read women, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:59 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: immigrant experience, Jasmine Warga, Middle Grades, Muslim, Other Words for Home, read harder challenge, read women, we need diverse books ·
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“Winter mornings are made of steel; they have a metallic taste and sharp edges. On a Wednesday in January, at seven in the morning, it’s plain to see that the world was not made for Man, and definitely not for his comfort or pleasure.”

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)

November 14, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The Reading Women Challenge for 2021 (its last year, as it turns out) contains two challenges which surprisingly caused me some consternation – I didn’t have anything in my nearly 600 book deep to read list that was a book written by an Eastern European woman and/or a crime novel or thriller in translation. I spent time on and off all year hunting up a book that could work for both – it had to be out there and the whole point of this is […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), drive your plow over the bones of the dead, Eastern Europe, faintingviolet, mystery, Olga Tokarczuk, Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Polish literature, read women, thriller, works in translation

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:56 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), drive your plow over the bones of the dead, Eastern Europe, faintingviolet, mystery, Olga Tokarczuk, Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Polish literature, read women, thriller, works in translation ·
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Affectionate Glares All Around

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

November 14, 2021 by faintingviolet 5 Comments

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb is Sebastian’s trade paperback debut and I’m excited for the people who get to discover her work with this outing. There were times during The Queer Principles of Kit Webb that I was reminded of the first Cat Sebastian I ever read (her debut) The Soldier’s Scoundrel. There’s a class difference, one character making their living on the wrong side of the law, and a major injury. Plus, I really, really liked it. Sebastian writes steamy, upbeat historical romances […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Cat Sebastian, faintingviolet, LGBTQ romance, M/M historical romance, read harder, read women, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Cat Sebastian, faintingviolet, LGBTQ romance, M/M historical romance, read harder, read women, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, we need diverse books ·
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“The ace world is not an obligation. Nobody needs to identify, nobody is trapped, nobody needs to stay forever and pledge allegiance. The words are gifts. If you know which terms to search, you know how to find others who might have something to teach.” (Bingo Blackout & Cannonball!)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

October 30, 2021 by faintingviolet 9 Comments

Books have answers, and that is one of the reasons I love them. The past few years I’ve spent some time digging into me, and how I work, and how much of what I have presented to the outside world was authentic, and how much was what I had been expected to do. I had some knowledge of aces and asexuality before reading this particularly as one of my friends is ace and has been out for at least the decade I’ve known her, probably […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: ace, Angela Chen, asexuality, cbr13bingo, identity, investigative nonfiction, Own voices, pandemic, read harder challenge, read women, sexual identity, Social Justice, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:52 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: ace, Angela Chen, asexuality, cbr13bingo, identity, investigative nonfiction, Own voices, pandemic, read harder challenge, read women, sexual identity, Social Justice, we need diverse books ·
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