ju a terminé la lecture de Always North par Vicki Jarrett

Always North de Vicki Jarrett
We all have to work to live, even if it is an illegal survey for oil in the rapidly melting …
Photojournalist and many other things in -ist.
I read a lot of SFF, obscure LGBT, travel, photography theory and women authors, in French and English.
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55% terminé ! ju a lu 29 sur 52 livres.
We all have to work to live, even if it is an illegal survey for oil in the rapidly melting …
This novel has pretty much everything: an alternate history setting that is at times omnipresent and a detail at others ; a mysterious contemporary artist ; many LGBTQ+ characters ; drama and love. It weaves brilliantly facts and fiction, real artists and writers (oh hello David Bowie & Susan Sontag) and completely imaginary characters (or are they?), and manages to be serious with obvious satirical elements. Very enjoyable.
The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to …
The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to …
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard …
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard …
In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set …
I loved the idea of playing with the trope of "the chosen one" and putting an elderly woman instead. But the execution wasn't as good as the pitch: the main idea and character felt under-exploited (a teenager takes over mostly), and I could see no real evolution in her. Some characters weren't very useful and some lacked depth, being just a bit more than a name, while becoming important in the end. The writing was good enough, but there's only so many "fidgeting with the hem of their t-shirt" or "hugged herself" or "her hip hurt badly" that I can take. All in all, some nice and fun ideas, but maybe it could have gone really into parodying the genre, or on the contrary, be more serious about it all, avoiding cliches, repetitions etc.
When you’re a geriatric armed with nothing but gumption and knitting needles, stopping a sorcerer from wiping out an entire …