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Homesick by Jennifer Croft
Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating and mysterious seizures, spending her childhood in hospitals as she undergoes surgeries. Meanwhile, Amy flourishes intellectually, showing an innate ability to glean a world beyond the troubles in her home life, exploring that world through languages first. Amy’s first love appears in the form of her Russian tutor Sasha, but when she enters university at the age of fifteen her life changes drastically and with tragic results.
I read this book in one go, thought « this was amazing, probably just a bit too bleak to be a believable story ». Then I opened The Storygraph to mark it as complete and found out it was a memoir. Bon. I really liked the division of the book into short scenes of daily life, or…
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Ariadne
As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the Labyrinth beneath the palace. The Minotaur – Minos’s greatest shame and Ariadne’s brother – demands blood every year.
When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives in Crete as a sacrifice to the beast, Ariadne falls in love with him. But helping Theseus kill the monster means betraying her family and country, and Ariadne knows only too well that in a world ruled by mercurial gods – drawing their attention can cost you everything.
I’ve seen this book compared with Circe about a million times, so I’m going to start by doing the same: Yes, this is similar to Circe in its premise. But it’s much less dense and verbose, and it’s also more in-your-face with its « women suffer the consequences from men’s actions in Ancient Greek mythology » underlying theme.…
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Solarpunk Now! is my latest #podcast find. It’s in English and talks about the future of our world, with #solarpunk ethics, of course. The intro episode touches on the difference between cottagecore and solarpunk and on why cottagecore too often leads to ecofascism, and I thought it was super interesting; the other episodes, if I…
The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that our coverage will influence not only how people think, but also how they act. This responsibility is at the core of an…