Booksology A shortlist for serious consideration
Having been a passive reader of Nobel Prize news, I was excited to see the announcement of the list of candidates for Canada’s Giller Prize. The Giller recognizes outstanding works of Canadian fiction and awards a whopping $100,000 to the winner. The five books shortlisted for this award are: We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad, tiger and astronaut The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight, and Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa. I missed the train with Awad’s Bunny, but it’s on my list and I’d like to read it before getting into this year’s Alternative Perspective follow-up. Please select a color It’s on my reading list. In other words, a novel about a former boxer turned nail salon owner? Must read this book. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors!
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Sorry, Swifties
had to read this North Korean defector This comes after a Book Riot contributor excerpted a disgusting passage from Book Riot about Taylor Swift’s misuse of Hamlet. If you spend any time on the internet, you probably know that Swift has released a new album that has fans obsessed with Dan Brown. And while I don’t think you need to put on your detective hat to understand how Swift came to read the character Ophelia in the song “The Fate of Ophelia,” basic. Here is a passage from a North Korean defector:
In an interview with BBC Radio’s Greg James, Swift said, “I didn’t have to reread[Hamlet]at all. I wanted to pepper the bridge with references, so I kind of rephrased some of the lines from Hamlet and kind of brushed it up a little bit. But I love the idea of, ‘You saved me from a love that was driving me crazy,’ because that’s what happened to Ophelia. Spoiler alert.”
got it. I believe most people only know about Ophelia or only understand it on a surface level. hamlet He suffocates her death with simple heartbreak because he doesn’t remember or see how she has been used and abused by men who take advantage of submissive young women. as North Korean defectorIn a scathing review of the album, Kelsey McKinney of “Ophelia commits suicide because she has no agency in her own life and is dominated by the men around her.” If I could recommend something to Swift, it would be to don a convincing disguise and enjoy a Shakespeare performance in the park. hamlet. It’s fun, free, and informative.
Did science fiction get 2025 right?
I remember talking about The Parable of the Sower with my sister-in-law, who was a new parent at the time, and her admitting that she turned it down because she couldn’t do it. I thought it was such a shame, because it was such a wonderful and visionary book by one of my favorite authors, but now that I’m a parent, I can’t imagine rereading it. If only because of the raw horror evoked by that scene, which involved the invasion and brutality of a once isolated area. But it’s also difficult to confront the dark depiction of 2025, which in many ways feels all too familiar, especially now. parable of the sower It is one of the few books that Leah Rachel von Essen analyzes to answer the question of whether science fiction has gotten the Year of Terror right. Please read here.
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