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highlyeccentricCurrently reading:
Fiction: I made some further progress with Garth Greenwell - still struggling with embarrassment squick and the audiobook format. Otherwise... not a strong showing for fiction this fortnight. Wait, no, I did read a couple of stories from Wake, Siren.
Non-fiction for fun: Also not a strong showing. I think I read two pages of The Queer Child and lbr that's 60% personal interest 40% work.
Poetry: None. Nothing new, and no progress on Paradise Lost. I am re-reading Agbabi's Telling Tales, but that counts as work.
Lit Mag: None, I'm between issues.
Academic: I don't actually have a currently reading because I've been ploughing through them so fast. That's good news! Plus a re-read of Agbabi in light of new ideas.
Recently Finished: Much work, little leisure.
Feminist Theory And The Classics by N. Rabinowitz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Only read intro and Shelley P Haley's contribution; intro good, Haley BRILLIANT.
Transporting Chaucer by Helen Barr
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
some good stuff, but the style really isn't my thing
Meanjin Summer 2019 by Jonathan Green
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I FINALLY FINISHED THE THING. It had a lot of good non-fiction and i wasn't super taken with the fiction or poetry.
Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio by Carol Falvo Heffernan
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
An odd genre of book: book that is not actually very good, and at times infuriatingly negligent, but provides incredibly useful references. Old fashioned source studies, so if one isn't all up on 14th c italian lit it's strategically useful (but it massively overstates the marginalisation of Boccacio in Chacuerian studies). Doesn't appear to realise that misogyny is a problem, let alone a core factor in a lot of comedy. Replicates some misogynistic tropes in very useful quotable ways. And yet I got so many useful cites out of it.
Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation by Sorcha Gunne
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Only read the intro and forward, but: YES. EXTREMELY USEFUL YES GOOD THANK YOU
Up Next: Still trying to hold myself to finishing Shafak or Greenwell before starting more fiction. Book club read is Girl, Woman, Other, but while I intend to read it I might not actually make it to the meeting, for various reasons. I have Jeff Sparrow's 'Money Shot' pulled out of the tbr shelf and set to go for work-but-not-medieval reading, either tomorrow or monday (a re-read).
Once again, I should make a links list, i have read many important essays, but... nope. I cannot with the braining.
Fiction: I made some further progress with Garth Greenwell - still struggling with embarrassment squick and the audiobook format. Otherwise... not a strong showing for fiction this fortnight. Wait, no, I did read a couple of stories from Wake, Siren.
Non-fiction for fun: Also not a strong showing. I think I read two pages of The Queer Child and lbr that's 60% personal interest 40% work.
Poetry: None. Nothing new, and no progress on Paradise Lost. I am re-reading Agbabi's Telling Tales, but that counts as work.
Lit Mag: None, I'm between issues.
Academic: I don't actually have a currently reading because I've been ploughing through them so fast. That's good news! Plus a re-read of Agbabi in light of new ideas.
Recently Finished: Much work, little leisure.
Feminist Theory And The Classics by N. RabinowitzMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Only read intro and Shelley P Haley's contribution; intro good, Haley BRILLIANT.
Transporting Chaucer by Helen BarrMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
some good stuff, but the style really isn't my thing
Meanjin Summer 2019 by Jonathan GreenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I FINALLY FINISHED THE THING. It had a lot of good non-fiction and i wasn't super taken with the fiction or poetry.
Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio by Carol Falvo HeffernanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
An odd genre of book: book that is not actually very good, and at times infuriatingly negligent, but provides incredibly useful references. Old fashioned source studies, so if one isn't all up on 14th c italian lit it's strategically useful (but it massively overstates the marginalisation of Boccacio in Chacuerian studies). Doesn't appear to realise that misogyny is a problem, let alone a core factor in a lot of comedy. Replicates some misogynistic tropes in very useful quotable ways. And yet I got so many useful cites out of it.
Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation by Sorcha GunneMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Only read the intro and forward, but: YES. EXTREMELY USEFUL YES GOOD THANK YOU
Up Next: Still trying to hold myself to finishing Shafak or Greenwell before starting more fiction. Book club read is Girl, Woman, Other, but while I intend to read it I might not actually make it to the meeting, for various reasons. I have Jeff Sparrow's 'Money Shot' pulled out of the tbr shelf and set to go for work-but-not-medieval reading, either tomorrow or monday (a re-read).
Once again, I should make a links list, i have read many important essays, but... nope. I cannot with the braining.