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sarah

wynkenhimself@bookwyrm.social

Joined 3 years, 2 months ago

dorking around with old books for work and reading new(ish) books for fun with strong opinions but an inconsistent rating system | you can find me most places as wynkenhimself including as @wynkenhimself@glammr.us | she/her

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sarah's books

Currently Reading

2024 Reading Goal

20% complete! sarah has read 8 of 40 books.

Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter (EBook, 2005, Penguin Publishing Group) No rating

In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset …

Just realized that since I listed this as one book rather than the 3-in-1 collection it is, it’s going to throw off my reading stats! Lolsobbbbb trying not to count the number of books I read anyway

Rosemary Kirstein: The Language of Power (Paperback, 2018, Rosemary Kirstein) 4 stars

I don’t want this to be done!!

5 stars

Actually finished this weeks ago, but have been in denial because it’s the last one but it’s at a cliffhanger! The plot isn’t done!! So close and yet so far!! Still thinking about what makes these books so compelling. It’s the way of thinking about what magic is, absolutely. But it’s also about what community is and what knowledge is and why curiosity is important. Grateful to the friend who recommended these and said to dive in without reading anything about them first.

reviewed Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym: Some Tame Gazelle (2011, Virago) 4 stars

Harriet and Belinda Bede are middle-aged sisters who have only two things in common: their …

A lesser Pym but still great

3 stars

Definitely not yet at the level of her really great ones, but it’s her first published novel, so fair enough! I think it’s missing the key ingredient of different generations or different classes to really get her kicks in, and there are so so so many jokes about curates. But it’s Barbara Pym and it’s still v good

Scott Hawkins: The Library at Mount Char (Hardcover, 2015, Crown) 4 stars

Carolyn's not so different from the other human beings around her. She's sure of it. …

Compelling but so much torture

3 stars

So much about this book was great—the story, the characters, the slow but insanely compelling roll of it. But there is a huge amount of physical abuse in it and that abuse gets excused at the end too easily for me as something that was necessary for an end goal. So I devoured this book and then felt really gross when I finished it.

started reading The Iliad by Homer

Homer, Emily Wilson: The Iliad (2023, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.) No rating

When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a …

Achilles might be a brat, but Agamemnon is a real asshole. First time reading this epic, and doing it with my kid! Emily Wilson ftw