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Give Kingsnorth credit for his creativity with language. With the underlying premise that the Norman invasion of 1066 was the worst event to happen to England & the English language, the author creates a “shadow tongue,” a modified and accessible language that uses & invokes Old English. Reading it is a challenge at first, but a worthwhile one to convey Buccmaster‘s tale with the right feel & flavor: a disdain for the coming changes to his world.

From Goodreads: "Written in what the author describes as “a shadow tongue”—a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader—The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction."

I GREATLY RECOMMEND THE AUDIOBOOK NARRATED BY SIMON VANCE. IT IS SUPERB. I HAD NO TROUBLE WHATSOEVER UNDERSTANDING THE USE OF LANGUAGE. Excellent ?????

What a strange and difficult book, and not because of the fake Old English it's written in! Billed as a "post-apocalyptic novel set a thousand years ago" I was struck by the grief and rage of a man whose world has ended. Yet Buccmaster himself is thin-skinned, delusional, self-aggrandising. He is a broken man: he is also a gobshite. Then not much happens and the book stops rather than concludes. I'm left confused as to the author's intentions. ?

As challenging as it was, I instantly fell in love with Paul Kingsnorth's first, The Wake. I have been waiting oh so patiently for Beast and am excited to jump into Kingsnorth's brilliant mind once again!

My tea is ready and so am I!
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Thank you @Graywolfpress and @24in48 for my readathon prize! I look forward to reading these!

24in48 is such a great event! I love having an entire weekend dedicated to nothing but reading! Thank you for your work putting it together!

A book, coffee and a bright spring day. Nothing better

The way this is written takes some serious getting used to, but it's a good story and #thistitleequalsgreatbandname #marchintoreading @RealLifeReading

I've been bad. Amazon had a bunch of stuff that's been on my wishlist forever for $6. The bottom book is for book club next week. #bookhaul

This is my haul from the VNSA book sale in Phoenix yesterday! Hooray for some great finds!

This is my tbr stack of library books going into February. So many good things! See anything you liked or would like to read?

Good moooooorning! I am exhausted but decided I don't care, I need to do this! Repost of my favorite book rainbow from last year @24in48 #24in48 #readathon #rainbowstack

#TBT to the time I was really excited to get this book. 💚

Twins! #bookface #readjanuary #currentlyreading

If you're interested in quirky games about language (so...most people on Litsy, I think), check out Dialect on Kickstarter. Today is its last day of crowdfunding! Its tag line: "A game about language and how it dies." ALL THE CHILLS. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thornygames/dialect-a-game-about-language-a... (The Wake, the book this is filed under, is written in a "shadow tongue"-- updated Old English dialect. Must. Read. Now.)

To my shame I don't have any #notinenglish books, I don't know any other languages well enough ? The closest I have is this, written in Paul Kingsnorth's "shadow language", a mixture of Old English and modern. Haven't read it yet but it's on the tbr

Very strange, but riveting. Worth the effort it takes to learn to read the "shadow language" it's written in. Try reading it out loud, the rhythms are hypnotic and it makes it easier to understand.

Jeff at Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale AZ loves this book and wants to redeem it from its Litsy pans. It's told in its own "shadow language" from 1000 years ago. He confesses it took him 50 pages to get used to it, but then he loved it so much he only read 2 pages a night so it wouldn't end, because what do you read next after a book like that? He actually read a bit out loud to show how this shadow language works, and it was beautiful #getindie

Wow, I love this! I enjoy reading in dialects, and this is written in an invented "shadow tongue" of Old English. It works perfectly in service of the story -- an embittered, post apocalyptic memoir of the Norman invasion of England in 1066.

I feel superior to everyone who hasn't read this book. It's written in a shadow tongue, somewhere between old english and the English of today with a glossary for the author's created words. After the Norman invasion, our protagonist, Buccmaster seeks revenge. Who doesn't love a good revenge story?

"when i woc in the mergen all was black though the night had gan and all wolde be black after and for all time." Let's do this!

An early taste of the shadow tongue Kingsnorth crafted for his novel

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I wanted to like this novel set during the Norman invasion of England. The author's dedication to creating a "shadow" of old English was intriguing, but I found it ultimately off putting.

An unbelievably engrossing novel about the end of the world, as far as the narrator, an Anglisc man, is concerned. Written in "shadow tongue," an accessible version of Old English, this book portrays a believable, messed up mind in an apocalypse.

none will loc but the wind will cum. the wind cares not for the hopes of men the times after will be for them who seen the cuman the times after will be for the waecend