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If you’re a fan of podcasts, there are over dozen podcast dedicated to and the Brontes. If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list!

https://excessivelydiverting.substack.com/p/austen-bronte-newsletter-issue-7-podcasts

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I never really got into the habit of using bookmarks consistently until my partner got me this nifty astronaut. 🚀

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    and Co have a series of videos on “Reading with Jane Austen.” The videos are available for free and can be watched at anytime.

    Premise: "Reading with Jane Austen explores authors contemporaneous with Austen and authors that Austen is likely to have read.”

    https://www.janeaustenandco.org/reading-with-austen?cid=eafaea11-318d-4df4-8711-de00eee562fe

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    When I couldn’t sleep last night I read one of the stories by Alice Munro Granta have unlocked on their website in her memory, A Queer Streak. As with all her stories you really have to read it twice! It was published in two parts, here are the links:
    Part 1- Anonymous Letters https://granta.com/a-queer-streak-part-one-anonymous-letters/
    Part 2 - Possession https://granta.com/a-queer-streak-part-two-possession/

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    ? Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh which is very intriguing so far. Lots and lots of undercurrents, clueless main character.

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    Am reading "Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries" by Heather Fawcett. Absolutely loving it.

    I'm not sure if the writer did this on purpose, but the main character is heavily autistic coded. Emily Wilde finds it easier to deal with the capricious Fae, than with mystifying human social conventions.

    The book reminds me quite a lot of Naomi Novik, especially "Spinning Silver".

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    I’ve just finished The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner which was a great and sometimes difficult read. It’s about Julius who’s in his 70s and is now retired. His parents and brother have died and his wife has left him. He’s living alone in central London, his adopted city after his family fled from Nazi Germany. He’s looking for the next big thing in his life, pondering his past and feeling concern for his failing health. Sounds gloomy, right?! Well, the insightful writing just carries you along and pulls you in before you know it and you’re hooked on this story of loneliness and regret in later life. I found myself, like I often do with Anita Brookner, rereading sections due to the beautiful prose. Here’s an example to give you a flavour:
    “He raised his eyes to a rooffline bristling with television aerials , lowered them again to windows still blank before the evening lights were lit. The sky was already darkening; signs of spring were absent, and yet the chilly damp held a promise of greenness, of new life only just in abeyance. it was even possible to appreciate that sky; its opaque blue reminded him of certain pictures, though no picture could compete with this strange sense of immanence. With the crust of the earth ready to break into life, the roots expanding to disclose flowers, the trees graciously putting forth leaves. The impassivity of nature never ceased to amaze him. This awakening process was surely superior to anything captured on canvas, yet art made all phenomena its province.in its unceasing war with the effort of capturing moments of time art won this unequal contest, but only just. The majestic indifference of nature was there to remind one of ones place, and no doubt to serve as a corrective to the artist’s ambition. When the canvas was finished it was already a relic, outside change. And surely change was primordial; all must obey it. To ignore the process was to ignore the evidence of one’s own evolutionary cycle.’
    Haunting, introspective and with a hint of dark comedy this was so good, just maybe one to approach with caution if yu’re about to retire! This novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002.
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    This week I'm wrapping up the audio of Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann. This is the second audiobook in a row for me with truly raw depictions of people just scraping by and trying to make the best of their situation. Tillie's narration is heartbreaking. Next audio read needs to be something not so heavy.

    Related: now I feel like I should watch "The Walk" starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (not a bad thing)

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    Interesting how I should be reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for the first time ever (Never saw the movie either), when it was first published in 1900: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz

    (h/t @wikipedia)

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    ? I very much enjoyed The Wonder Engine, the sequel to Clockwork Boys. Suspense, romance, humor, redemption!

    I actually followed Ursula Vernon on the bird site because of her gardening posts long before I thought to read any of her books. Might be a lesson there... 😇

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    My 2024 reading thread is below!

    Book 1: On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

    5 stars

    Stunning art, lovely found family, and a fun sci fi setting, all while managing to strike the perfect balance between cozy and yearning.

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    Book 20 of 2024: Hild by Griffith (reread)

    5 stars

    I appreciated the depth of the research and craft even more on a reread. The 7th century setting is engrossing, and I absolutely love the protagonist. I first read this 10+ years ago and can see the impact of the style and themes on my own writing since then.

    It's hard to keep all the similar-sounding names and politics straight, but Griffith does her best and the stunning prose more than makes up for it.

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