mouse rated The Return of Martin Guerre: 5 stars
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century French imposter who convinced a peasant woman and her family that he was her …
So far this is SO interesting!
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mouse started reading The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century French imposter who convinced a peasant woman and her …
mouse reviewed Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist …
Hotel du Lac
Beautifully written but confined (if not uncritically) within in a Cathy comic's grueling tedium of 1980s bourgeoisie gender norms. I think the ending made it work, however
mouse finished reading Norwood by Charles Portis
Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, …
Camping trip read
mouse finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, #1)
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes …
I got this from the library out of curiosity -- it was such a thing ten years ago, that even though I never read it I felt like I knew everything in it by osmosis. I was reminded of it because I am approaching my first year anniversary of living in my new place and I thought it might be fun to follow this book as a bit. But ultimately it's seeped so thoroughly into the mainstream consciousness that commentating on it didn't seem that fun.
There is however one thing which no one told me: at one point she genuinely claims that completing her method will often cause people to have diarrhea.
mouse finished reading Legal Plunder by Daniel Lord Smail
Sorry to my coworkers who no longer get to experience daily updates about medieval debt collection
mouse stopped reading Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
In Ashtown, a rough-and-tumble desert community, the Emperor rules with poisoned claws and an iron …
this just isn't doing it for me
mouse started reading Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
In Ashtown, a rough-and-tumble desert community, the Emperor rules with poisoned claws and an iron …
I re-read The Space Between Worlds to refresh my memory when I saw that this was out, and I was nervous to see what this would be, since that story felt.. concluded. But seeing that it's following different characters is a relief! I'm curious to see where it goes.
mouse commented on The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
"God spoke to me, he says he wants me to tell you about all the times I was right and you were wrong"
mouse commented on The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
this is a wild read and it's sort of comforting that a lot of her contemporaries, even in her account, seem to also be going "Margery, what?"
mouse commented on The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe would have killed it on Tumblr
mouse finished reading Abarat by Clive Barker
Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something …
As a kid I found this so engaging but on re-read it felt flat and aimlessly zany
mouse commented on System Collapse by Martha Wells(duplicate) (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
I'm out of Murderbot?? mods???
mouse finished reading Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling …
Murderbot Diaries really is the Sanctuary Moon of our time
mouse reviewed The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey …
Fantastic Planet does the Book of Kells
This book is so visual and imaginative, and thrives when walking you through the surreal, psychedelic, illuminated manuscript of a world. But while it was always interesting, I found it hard to stay engaged with the story at times, particularly in the middle. The ending compelled me, and I wish I'd had more of that connection to the plot and characters through the rest of the book.