#contemporarylit — Public Fediverse posts

No One Is Talking About This
Read like 2 novels.

I didn't know what it really about before I read it.

Liked 1st half as a look at the life of someone who is far too Online.

Short fragments were reminiscent of #birdsite! It did make addictive reading & gave that detached feeling of too long spent doom scrolling.

But 2nd half switches to incredibly tragic family events .. while keeping the same structure.

Have you read this?

#BookReview #Bookstodon #Readign #ContemporaryLit

📚 Nightcrawling by Letitia Mottley

+ Amazing achievement for teenage author.
+ Gives voice to marginalised POV, a deserving story.
- Too much poetic, flowery language gets in the way of character & plot.
- I found Kiara too detached. I didn't feel like I knew *her* & couldn't get invested in her story.
- Found it a very dry & slow reading. Ultimately forgettable.

Have you read this? Let me know your thoughts!

#BookReview #Books #bookstodon #3starbook #reading #nightcrawling #contemporarylit

The best book I've read in recent years was hands down Bunny by Mona Awad - I'm still thinking about it! It inspired me to write the most detailed review/analysis I have done since my English Lit days!

https://thewallflowerdigest.co.uk/bunny-by-mona-awad-5-star-review-and-analysis/

#BookReview #Books #ContemporaryLit

So I guess we do a hashtag dump on here for introductions? I'm interested in lots of things - ever expanding - but right now #reading lots and learning and exploring my creativity.

My current hot topics
#writing #creativity #blogging #bookreviews
#pkm #knowledgemanagement
#librarian
#obsidianmd
#menstrualcycle #periodpower
#wallflowers #introvert #socialanxiety
#contemporarylit #scifi
#startrektng
#embroidery #needleart #threadart

Here's my #introduction --

I'm a #music #librarian with a #PhD in digital #publishing (focusing on the "publishing" hash for the findability! But if you want me to rant about DRM I can...)

I #write #literary themed #SpecFic (including #fantasy #SF and #YA )

(Though my current #WIP is #contemporarylit about an illiterate performance poet (PLEASE ASK ME ABOUT IT!))

#Queer in a #gay way with my #jazz pianist husband

And super proud #greyhound dad

#Walyalup (Fremantle) #Australia

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Here's my #introduction --

I'm a #music #librarian with a #PhD in digital #publishing (focusing on the "publishing" hash for the findability! But if you want me to rant about DRM I can...)

I #write #literary themed #SpecFic (including #fantasy #SF and #YA materials)

(Though my current #WIP is #contemporarylit about an illiterate performance poet (PLEASE ASK ME ABOUT IT!))

#Queer in a #gay way with my #jazz pianist husband

And super proud #greyhound dad

#Walyalup (Fremantle) #Australia

An #introduction: I'm a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, but also work at the intersection between English and European literatures. I primarily research depictions of Poland and Central Eastern Europe in #modernism and (sometimes) #contemporarylit. But am likely to also post about travel, 1920s/30s design, and interwar tango...

#introduction: Hi! I teach in the English dept @Tulane, and am helping to plan new #Humanities Lab PhD there. My research/teaching focuses on #modernism, #contemporarylit, #fiction & #philosophy&literature. My books are *A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature after Wittgenstein* (UChicago) and *Wittgenstein and Modernism* (UChicago). I'm editing the Cambridge Companion to Literature and Philosophy and working on a new book on Vanity/Futility. I live in NOLA but am often elsewhere.

#introduction Hi, I’m a writer and lecturer based at the University of Liverpool. I work mainly on #ContemporaryLit as well as #cinema and #music and I also write #fiction - links to the stuff I’ve written can be found in the weblink in my bio. This account will mainly be a) good stuff I’m reading and watching b) stuff I’ve written and c) photos of bad book covers and literary gags.