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What are you reading? (self.literature)

submitted 11 months ago by Kamirose to c/literature

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Hey Beehaw (and friends)! What’re you reading?

Previously I had these thread labelled as monthly threads, but I have had an incredibly busy few months and had not been able to keep up with it. So this is now going to be a general sticky that will be replaced "every so often" when the previous thread gets overly full :)

Novels, nonfiction, ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, etc - everything counts!

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I really enjoyed CJ Archer's Glass and Steel series (and the Glass Library so far). So when I saw ~~Scribd~~ Everand had her Ministry of Curiosities series on audiobook last week, I jumped right on it. I'm really enjoying it 2.5 books in. Victorian England is a fascinating setting, but a lot of books trying to replicate the style just aren't that pleasant to read. Archer does a good job of using it without shoving it in your face by over explaining, and her magic is presented in a way where staying in the shadows is plausible.

Archer and Sherry Thomas's Lady Sherlock series are interesting to me because I like the story telling and character development, but they both handle the setting in a way that doesn't just ignore how actually awful the era was for women. They put their characters in position to directly clash with the harsh restrictions of the society in compelling ways.