A Council of Dolls is gorgeous, quietly devastating, and ultimately hopeful, shining a light on the echoing damage wrought by Indian boarding schools, and the historical massacres of Indigenous people. With stunning prose, Mona Susan Power weaves a spell of love and healing that comes alive on the page.
A 15yo coal miner needs a new home before his alcoholic uncle kills one of his siblings. So, he takes a job with a union leader, who’s also a gangster, while secretly courting his daughter. Now the gang leader, cops and rival gang all want him dead.
Today in Labor History August 11, 1894: Federal troops drove over 1,000 jobless workers from the nation's capital. Led by Charles "Hobo" Kelley, an unemployed activist from California, and Jacob Coxey, they camped in Washington D.C. starting in July. Kelley's Hobo Army included a young journalist named Jack London and a young miner-cowboy named Big Bill Haywood. Frank Baum was an observer of the protest and some say it influenced his Wizard of Oz, with the Scarecrow representing the American farmer, the tin man representing industrial workers and the Cowardly Lion representing William Jennings Bryan, all marching on Washington (Oz) to demand redress from the president (the Wizard). 650 miners, led by a "General" Hogan, captured a Northern Pacific train at Butte, Montana, en route to the protest. The Feds caught up with them at Billings, forcing a surrender, but a few eventually made it to Washington.
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
In the latest edition of the @fictionable#podcast, we put capitalism and urban crime under the lens with José Falero and his translator, Maria Jacqueline Evans.
I am finishing reading this delicious historical novel that will go directly in the #littlefreelibrary afterwards. If you love stories with strong women, generational drama, the fresh smell of bread and the Parisian atmosphere, you will surely love it as much as me !
Queer thriller with several surprising twists, The Guilty Twin is a fun and fast paced read following Evan and Fiona, teenagers who grew up into adults with a dark secret. A disappearing twin is at the heart of this murder mystery, and the murderer may not be the person you think.
I started Demon Copperhead at the beginning of July, but put it down b/c several library books came in. I’m back at it & it’s definitely a good one. #friday#books#kindle#fiction#amreading@bookstodon
Katherine Kerr: Daggerspell (1986)
Cassandra Clare: City of Bones (2007)
Jennifer McMahon: The Winter People (2014)
Greg Bear: Blood Music (1985 - Not sure if I had read it before)
Anu Kuusenoksa: Prinssi jolla ei ollut Sydäntä (2017)
Richard K. Morgan: Altered Garbon (2001)
Sarah J. Maas: House of Earth and Blood (last book has not been published, should I wait for it?)
Queer Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Filipino folklore in this horror comedy about a high school stage manager who accidentally sells her soul to a demon.
How does a novelist summon up a character suffering from mental illness? In the latest edition of our #podcast, Fiona Mozley says it took her a trek up the mountain and down again.
I liked very much. Althought the end of the book can be guessed soon, there were interesting happenings in the book that you did not expect. You can't always be sure what's going on, what are characters true motives, etc. There are lots of mysteries and romance. I enjoyed the descriptive writing style.
Perfect for spending a Friday night under a blanket.
I have now read the last part of the trilogy. Mainly I just repeat the same pattern as in the previous books: I like the author's style and the world she has created. Some of the plot twists were surprising, some were not.
A few things were left unexplained in my opinion: I didn't see a logical reason for some of the characters' actions: Why did some decide to do what they did.
Now I feel sad for ending the reading trip. Of course, the next trilogy in the same world exists, although I guess it hasn't been completely translated yet. I'm not sure if I should try to read it in English or Finnish. Mostly I usually preferred translations. But I am also quite impatient.