RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[silversea]

Last Wednesday of August, what are everyone reading? Any nice summer-y books? 👀

Comments

[spiralsheep]

I keep trying to describe it to people and I'm now at: imagine if a Dickensian orphan hero (but a girl) got dropped into a melange of the gothier Bronte novels but with lgb(t) characters and set in the 1920-30s, and the result is like a grimmer more realistic version of Cold Comfort Farm (minus Gibbons' antisemitism) but in a modernist setting and with occasional post-modern inserts towards the end. Which sounds ridiculous and off-putting but was actually a good read. 4.5/5
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I don't think I'll read any of Crystal Jeans' previous novels but I will be looking out for her next.

[drawnecromancy]

I mean, if anything, it's a detailed description LOL
And fair! I hope you enjoy whatever she puts out next!