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Hidden Treasures of Booktube

09 Monday Sep 2019

Posted by BoneSpark Blog in C.A. Explains It All, Fiction Experiments

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#readwomen, abookolive, bookslikewhoa, booktube, Emily Croy Barker, Emily Skaja, Hollow Kingdom, Ink and Paper Blog, Jean BookishThoughts, Karen Walker Thompson, Kira Jane Buxton, Marilou is Everywhere, Martha Wells, Mary Roach, Murder Bot Diaries, Packing for Mars, Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

Real Talk: Booktube is not my favorite thing. It tends to be overloaded with YA and is lacking in diversity in just about every category. That said, there are four  channels that are pure gold.

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 Jean BookishThoughts is produced by a Scottish academic, who reads across genres and always manages to surprise me with her recommendations.  It was because of her that I fell in love with Martha Wells’ Murder Bot Diaries series.

Currently, there are four, killer novellas about a rogue sec unit thrown by its human side. Start reading now because a full- length “sequel” is due out in 2020.

 

 

 

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Mara of bookslikewhoa describes her reading tastes as “omnivorous” and it certainly shows. After her mini-review, I devoured Emily Croy Barker’s  The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic. 

It is comparable in size to one of Gabaldon’s Outlander tomes and is about a grad student who walks into an alternate world full of medieval-ish magical beings. Really absorbing and also due for a sequel.

 

 

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Ink and Paper Blog (owner of awesome bookshelves) is the place to go for mainstream and indie reads.  Recent favorites from his channel are Karen Walker Thompson’s The Dreamers, Kira Jane Buxton’s  Hollow Kingdom and Sarah Elaine Smith’s Marilou is Everywhere.

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abookolive has fantastic non-fiction picks and is not too shabby in the other categories either. Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars and Ruth Reichl’s Save Me the Plums were gems I found because of her channel.

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Any booktubers you love? Let me know in the comments.

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Po-Fic Pairs

03 Saturday Dec 2016

Posted by BoneSpark Blog in Thoughts on Poetry

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#readwomen, Alice Notley, books to read in pairs, booktube, Carol Birch, Certain Magical Acts, Circassian Girl, female poets, Jen Campbell, Joan Kane, M. Miranda Maloney, M.J. McGrath, Marie Benedict, Michelle Mitchell-Foust, Orphans of the Carnival, poetry and fiction pairings, T.C. Boyle, The Cormorant Hunter's Wife, The Lost Letters of Mileva, The Other Einstein, The Terranauts, White Heat

Playing off Booktuber Jen Campbell’s Books to Read in Pairs Tag, I’ve got a few novel + poetry pairings for you. Whether you are a novels-only gal or a hardcore poethead, a double dip will enhance your literary muscle. Go ahead and brag to your friends over your next glass of wine or steaming cup of coffee!! #readwomen

[Sorry T.C., but you’re sort of the token male in this list.  I really liked your book, though, so there’s that.]

  1. Fiction: ORPHANS OF THE CARNIVAL   +     Poetry: CIRCASSIAN GIRL
Carol Birch evokes the strange and thrilling world of the Victorian carnival
Mitchell-Foust brings out wonders and freaks in poems about people at odds w/ their surroundings

  1. Fiction: THE OTHER EINSTEIN  +    Poetry: THE LOST LETTERS OF MILEVA
Marie Benedict’s tale of Einstein’s wife Mileva Maric
Latina poet M. Miranda Maloney’s poem have Maric at their core

  1. Fiction:WHITE HEAT         +          Poetry: THE CORMORANT HUNTER’S WIFE
The first in Mcgrath’s Artic mystery series w/ an Intuit, female lead
Inupiak poet Joan Kane explores her Artic indigenous identity

  1. Fiction:THE TERRANAUTS  +  Poetry: CERTAIN MAGICAL ACTS
T.C. Boyle’s Mutliple POV novel about 8 humans who battle human nature in a biodome
Climate change, economic crisis, future worlds and ancient Latin merge in a collection about survival and the planet’s ruin in Notley’s latest collection

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