Tag Archives: Female Author

Thoughts: Time of the Octopus, by Anatoly Kucherena, translated by John Farndon with Akbota Sultanbekova and Olga Nakston

Posted on 10 June 2020 by Dove

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Die Analphabetin Die Rechnen Konnte, by Jonas Jonasson and translated by Wibke Kuhn

Posted on 2 June 2020 by Dove

You might think I’ve been reading faster than the human eye can possibly read, but actually this one has been in the works for months – we’ve been reading it bit by bit during and between German classes, and we … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Posted on 28 May 2020 by Dove

Truly, this is the briefest palate-cleanser between Tarzans. Partly because this book is a novella, but also because it’s of that kind of particularly swallowable book. Lately I feel like I talk about swallowing books whole or inhaling them a … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers

Posted on 23 May 2020 by Dove

It feels like I’m absolutely racing through books lately, so here I am again lest I overtake myself in reading and give myself a backlog again. There are some cracking books I ended up just skipping over to get back … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: A Closed and Common Orbit, by Becky Chambers

Posted on 11 May 2020 by Dove

Lucky me ended up going into work for a thing that could only be done in the office, and to make up for this outrage, with me went the colleague who had lent me The Long Way To A Small … Continue reading →

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Thoughts-ish: Tristan et Iseut, edited by Michel Zink

Posted on 22 April 2020 by Dove

I’m not going to write a scholarly essay on this, sorry and you’re welcome. This is just closure for me, and letting myself brag a bit, because this was a really difficult read and I got through it! (Musical accompaniment!)

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Thoughts: Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes

Posted on 19 April 2020 by Dove

I’m only… eight years late? Well, let’s get stuck in. Spoilers abound, probably.

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Thoughts: The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel

Posted on 6 April 2020 by Dove

Oh man, this one is going to be disappointing in terms of analysis and detail. What can I say? I’ve been waiting years for it, and it came. It was what I was hoping for. I only had to haul … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers

Posted on 14 March 2020 by Dove

So, given all the Covid-19 that’s going around, it’s probably a good time to catch up on reading, yes? I have a bit of a (totally normal) cold right now, so I’m feeling particularly sympathetic to the quarantiners. And happy … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: The Power, by Naomi Alderman

Posted on 22 February 2020 by Dove

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would! Not because I was thinking ugh I will hate this book, better read it, because I uh definitely never do that (let me kick Thomas Wolfe under this carpet here), but … Continue reading →

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