Posts in Written by: Edgar
Edgar's Book Round-Up, June 2022
Edgar's Book Round-Up, June 2022

Well, that was another real long month. Here’s some books.

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Book reviews, Written by: EdgarC.-E. BoylesQueering Translation, Brian James Baer, Klaus Kaindl, Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty, The Fae Keeper, H.E. Edgmon, Amateur, Thomas Page McBee, Overdressed: the Shocking High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth Cline, T.L. Huchu, Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley, T. Kingfisher, Nettle and Bone, Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With UsComment
Edgar's Book Round-Up, May 2022
Edgar's Book Round-Up, May 2022

I don’t know, man. Shit’s fucked. It’s 93 degrees Fahrenheit and 40% atmospheric humidity here in KCMO — closer than I ever want to be to wet-bulb territory, and the worst is yet to come! Here’s some locals trying to do something about that, and here’s some books. Links go to Bookshop, as per.

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Book reviews, Written by: EdgarC.-E. BoylesWillis Barnstone, The Poetics of Translation, Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain, Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem, Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts, The Magician King, The Magician's Land, Lev Grossman, Sosuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books, Louise Heal Kawai, Everfair, Nisi ShawlComment
Edgar's Book Round-Up, November 2021
Edgar's Book Round-Up, November 2021

I’d like to take a moment here to say that if it seems like I’m reading a lot, it is because it is a coping mechanism of dubious use, and often feels like the mental equivalent of getting a hand cream that smells nice from a big-box store.

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Book reviews, Written by: EdgarC.-E. BoylesLegendborn, Tracy Deonn, The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling, Haec Mihi Fingebam: Tibullus in His World, David Bright, Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko, No Gods No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull, Orlando Furioso, Ludovico Ariosto, The Past is Red, Catherynne M. Valente, Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo, Philip RidleyComment
Edgar's Book Round-Up, October 2021
Edgar's Book Round-Up, October 2021

Well, that was October, and I barely remember it, but I did read some cool stuff.

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Book reviews, Written by: EdgarC.-E. BoylesAnne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson, The Secret Life of Groceries, Benjamin Lorr, Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune, The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri, In the Woods, Tana French, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw, Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots, The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay, Umberto Eco, Experiences in TranslationComment
Edgar's Book Round-Up, September 2021
Edgar's Book Round-Up, September 2021

Honestly, it was a very good month for me in books.

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Book reviews, Written by: EdgarC.-E. BoylesTana French, The Searcher, Mieko Kawakami, Heaven, Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun, Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots, Silas Marner, George Eliot, Kai Ashante Wilson, A Taste of Honey, The Sorceror of the Wildeeps, Paul Veyne, Writing History: Essays on Epistemology, The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw, Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse?, McKenzie WarkComment