RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

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What are you reading?

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Weds is the day we are reading....

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Recently finished reading Cwen, by Alice Albinnia, which is trans-inclusive, anti-racist (anti-misogynoir), women-centred, feminist speculative utopian fiction set on an archipelago of small islands where 50% of local power has recently been legislated to women. Written in a very readable style, combining serious critique with the mischievousness of the best feminist fiction. I LOVED THIS. Can't believe nobody ever recced this to me! 5/5

And Don't Kiss Me, the Art of Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, which is a collection of essays about the lives and art of CC & MM, plus a generously illustrated catalogue of the Jersey Heritage Trust's collection of Cahun & Moore's art, letters, and other archived documents such as news clippings. 4/5

And Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, by Heather Fawcett, a fantasy romance novel. 4/5

And Never Anyone but You, by Rupert Thomson, a historical novel about Lucie Schwob (Claude Cahun) and Suzanne Malherbe (Marcel Moore) which managed to combine the historical and the novel aspects very well. Warning for the Second World War, plus suicides, and anorexia. 4/5