@oylenshpeegul

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oylenshpeegul6d ago

I loved the television adaptation of Washington Black!

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https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20241018/

Washington Black

I just finished Washington Black (2018) by Esi Edugyan. Spectacular! It's a bildungsroman about a boy born into slavery in Barbados in the early 19th century. Despite this seemingly hopeless beginning, he ends up leading a truly remarkable life. A pleasure to read. Update (2025-08-04): I just finished watching the adaptation on Hulu, which debuted 2025-07-23. Fantastic! It was in eight parts, each about three quarters of an hour.

oylenshpeegulJul 31

I really enjoyed _Whale Fall_ (2024) by Elizabeth O'Connor. Thanks for the tip, Ros and Tilly!

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https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20250731/

oylenshpeegulJul 30

I just loved _Klara and the Sun_ (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro. Thanks, @ellecordova and Grace!

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https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20250730/

Klara and the Sun

I just finished Klara and the Sun (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro. Fascinating! Klara is an AF (Artificial Friend) and the whole book is from her point of view. Since her understanding of the world is imperfect, we get a strange interpretation of a truly frightening near future. I heard about it watching this video on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. At the end, they mention doing Klara and the Sun next month.

oylenshpeegulJul 27

This month I re-read _Emma_ and watched a bunch of adaptations!

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https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20250727/

Emma

I've just finished reading Emma (1816) by Jane Austen. Wonderful! This was a re-read for me, but I always enjoy reading Austen and Emma is perhaps the most re-readable of all her works. It practically demands at least one re-read. I've spent all month doing so. This was the read-a-long for Jane Austen July. We only read two chapters a day and then we chatted about it online.

oylenshpeegulJul 27

"She keeps going over her essay with a thesaurus; I find it annoying, abrasive, irritating, ..."

-- Ham, #TheGreatNorth, S5E12

oylenshpeegulJul 23

This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. Consequently, lots of neat things are happening. One pleasant surprise is _The Novel Life of Jane Austen_, a fun graphic biography that came out earlier this year.

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https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20250723/

The Novel Life of Jane Austen

I just finished The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography (2025), written by Janine Barchas and illustrated by Isabel Greenberg. Delightful! This is simultaneously fun and serious. Some lines you recognize from the novels are put in the mouths of real people from Austen's life. Jane and Cassandra are always yellow and blue and when there are characters from the books, they are red. So neat!

oylenshpeegulJul 21

I just finished Cecilia (1782) by Frances Burney, apparently an inspiration for Jane Austen. A paragraph near the end starts off

“The whole of this unfortunate business,” said Dr Lyster, “has been the result of PRIDE and PREJUDICE.

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https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20250721/

Cecilia

I just finished Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) by Fanny Burney. It was very long, but ultimately worth the trip. I read this for challenge 5 of Jane Austen July. Austen was just a small child in 1782, but this is something she would have read eventually. I think perhaps Austen learned a thing or two from Burney. I enjoyed this exchange “Your toleration, then,” said Cecilia, “will not be very extensive.

oylenshpeegulJul 11

I loved the Murderbot show! It's a shame Apple TV+ is so firmly ensconced in the Corporation Rim that it has contempt for those of us in Freeholds.

https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20250710/

Murderbot

I just watched the tenth and final episode of Murderbot, a television show based on The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. I loved it! I was more than a little worried that it was going to suck. I love these books so much and it could have gone wrong in so many ways. In particular, Murderbot has no gender, so how was casting Alexander Skarsgård going to work? I mean, Skarsgård is very handsome in a traditionally masculine sort of way.

oylenshpeegulJul 5

Arada: Where are you from?
Leebeebee: Industrial Junction fifteen fifteen twenty-three.
Arada: That sounds nice.

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oylenshpeegulJun 28

I think _King of Ashes_ by S. A. Cosby is a perfect summer read!

https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20250628/

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King of Ashes

I just finished King of Ashes (2025) by S. A. Cosby. Fantastic! I listened to the audiobook read by Adam Lazarre-White. I love the different voices he does for the different characters.