12/21/2023 0 Comments Tincture a weird west trilogyYou learn a lot about the tumultuous times (in the 1560s) during which Bruegel painted these, of bloody and ruthless Spanish rule of Holland and the Inquisition that finally erupted into the Dutch throwing off the Spanish yoke. It is supposedly a 6 th, previously unknown, painting in Bruegel’s famous cycle of five paintings of the year, of which Hunters in the Snow is the best known one, standing in for the archetypical depiction of a European winter. Witty thriller (I often burst out laughing) by the British playwright of a philosopher who thinks he has discovered a previously unknown painting of Pieter Bruegel’s in the manor of his dim-witted, venal and undeserving neighbor in the English countryside, and his machinations to acquire it. In a series of heavily fictionalized flashbacks, the novel traces the book from its inception in Spain in the 14 th century, through 500 years of bloody and violent European history, antisemite pogroms, and persecution by the Holy Inquisition all the way through World War II and the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s, where the manuscript is now on display in a museum in Sarajevo. Read in 2022 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (2008) ***Įngaging novel concerned with the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated Jewish book of prayer for Passover. Books that I particularly enjoyed or that express a point of view particularly well are awarded three to five stars. By-and-large, these are books I like otherwise I wouldn’t have finished them. (There will also be a paperback edition available in August.Chronologically arranged list of interesting books – science, philosophy, novels, whatever – I’ve read. Add the eBook to your TBR list on Goodreads!.Pre-order it on Apple, Barnes & Noble and Kobo!.Pre-order the eBook on Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon AU, Amazon CA, Amazon DE, Amazon ES, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, and all the other Amazons….Denton, Miguel Flores, Adele Gardner, Roy Gray, KC Grifant, Peter Hackney, Bryn Hammond, Narrelle M Harris, Justin Warren Jackson, Toshiya Kamei, Catherine Lundoff, Bunny McFadden, Angus McIntyre, Atlin Merrick, Eleanor Musgrove, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Lauren Scharhag, Sara L. These 22 stories explore what happens when queer characters encounter weirdness on the edge of the worlds they know.Īuthors: Julie Bozza, J.A. But here are the key facts for you!īlurb: Frontiers have always attracted the Other – where they find that the Other is always already there. You can always find the up-to-date details on the Queer Weird West Tales book page on this site. We’re well underway with setting this up, so I’ve made the volume available as a pre-order, with the anticipated publication date of 31 August 2022. Instead, there was a wonderful and enthusiastic response, and I was spoiled for choice. I thought this sub-sub-genre would be just too esoteric. I’m only sorry that I couldn’t accept all of them! And there I’d been, fearing I wouldn’t receive any that included all three of the Queer, Weird and West elements. I must thank all the lovely authors who submitted stories. (When I have my editor’s hat on, I look at myself very sternly indeed.) The collection is shaping up to give readers a terrific range in style and setting. I am delighted to announce that my proposed Queer Weird West Tales anthology is actually becoming a thing! I have signed contracts with 21 awesome authors – some new/emerging and some well-established – plus of course I really must finish my own story for it, too.
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