Happy St George's day
Apr. 23rd, 2010 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livI'm not really interested in celebrating a saint's day (not being Christian), nor in celebrating Englishness (not being that sort of patriot), nor in dragon-slaying (as I generally find myself on the side of the dragon). However, I kind of like the idea of the Catalan version where people give eachother books.
So I propose a game: comment and recommend me a book, and I'll rec you something in return. If I don't know anything about you, I'll suggest something that I really like, and which I generally find isn't well known. And I'll keep going until I find something new to you, if necessary. You can give me a hint of the sort of books you prefer if you want to, but it's not required; it might be a more fun game if I have to guess based on my judgement of your character.
I have a comprehensive list of everything I've read in the last seven years, in case you find it hard to know where to start, but you obviously don't have to read through all that.
So I propose a game: comment and recommend me a book, and I'll rec you something in return. If I don't know anything about you, I'll suggest something that I really like, and which I generally find isn't well known. And I'll keep going until I find something new to you, if necessary. You can give me a hint of the sort of books you prefer if you want to, but it's not required; it might be a more fun game if I have to guess based on my judgement of your character.
I have a comprehensive list of everything I've read in the last seven years, in case you find it hard to know where to start, but you obviously don't have to read through all that.
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Date: 2010-04-23 05:57 pm (UTC)It's a really fascinating book, although I might recommend a different book of hers to start with if I had read any others yet. So maybe a general Nalo Hopkinson see-what-appeals recommendation.
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Date: 2010-04-24 11:57 am (UTC)I read your mindful reading essay with great interest. To fit in with that theme, I think you might well like Keri Hulme's The bone people. No, not like, I would have to say appreciate, because it's a very disturbing book with some child abuse themes. But anyway, it's a really beautiful book about indigenous people in New Zealand, and it's like pretty much nothing else I've ever read. It certainly avoids most of the obvious clichés you often find in writing about the intersection between dominant European-origin cultures and indigenous cultures. The protagonist is also asexual, as I believe the author is. Hulme herself I believe is ethnically mixed, but to at least some degree is an insider to indigenous New Zealander culture, just not in a totally uncomplicated way.
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