Okay so first I am absolutely obsessed with how good this cover is.If this was in a museum I would buy a print for my office
For inside - I enjoyed this but it is too long. I thought the world building is exceptional, all of the characters are really complex and rich. Saint is way more complicated than I thought she would be from the blurb. She will make you uncomfortable. And sometimes you will fully be on her side. 👇
#WeeklyForecast
Finishing the tagged (have a little over 100pgs to go) Reading SGJ's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (I am about 75 pages in already and loving it)
Starting Real Americans which is due back to the library next weekend (#ToB), and Still Life With Bones (#NFReads)
"Not much for notable sins. Ever since he made Ours home, he had seen only a couple scuffles. One over a pig invading a neighbor's garden and another between two men over a woman who wanted nothing to do with either."
Isn't that the way it often is?
#FirstLineFriday
“Nearly two centuries before the boy who was shot dead at the intersection of First and Bank stood up in his own blood and spoke his name as if it were just given to him, there was a town named Ours, founded by a mysterious and fearsome woman right where the boy had been shot. “
January 2025
Let's go!
#MonthlyTBR
I started the tagged a bit ago but go distracted by library books hoping to get a good jump on the years page goals with it out the gate.
You know those times when you already have four other books on the go, and just picked up two library holds, and have a mile-high TBR pile at home, but then you open the first page of a 573 page chunkster and the first paragraph draws you in so completely you just HAVE to bring it home with you and read it immediately?
Yeah, me too.
Had a great weekend at Printers Row in Chicago and finally picked this one I‘ve been eyeing all year up. It was clearly meant to be as it is now signed.
pickThis had an enlightening summary of anti-Semitism in Europe up to the mid-20th century, followed by a sociopolitical analysis of the then contemporary (1938) position of Jews globally, increasingly overshadowed by Naziism and the far right, a sadly over-optimistic section on the possibility of peaceful coexistence of Jews and "Arabs" in Palestine, and a sadly prescient warning of what might be in the immediate future if Hitler remained in power.⬇️
"The addition to any country of a body of young, strong, active and industrious immigrants with the probability of a long life before them (as the [Jewish] refugees from Germany and Austria in the main are) is clearly an asset, particularly to a land which, like England, is faced with an imminent fall in population. As workers and consumers, moreover, they must add to its economic activity, rather than compete (as is generally imagined) in... ⬇️
