I've just started listening my way through the Discworld Guards audiobooks because they're my favourite way to take it easy, so I feel you! I don't think Discworld's basic, I think it's classic. For a reason.
I've not tried Storygraph Reads The World, but I think I might sign on to the 2025 iteration - it seems like a really good way to read randomly, in the most positive way possible? Allende is on my women in translation to-read list (House of Spirits, specifically), but I don't actually know much about her or her work, so I'm glad to hear you had a smooth reading experience!
I'd also definitely be curious about what your interwar lesbian literature list ends up looking like. Off the top of my head, I can only think of Woolf (who's not my favourite, put me unfairly off modernism as a whole for years), and Radclyffe Hall, and those picks do feel basic. I thought The Well of Loneliness was really interesting, but a bit more in context than content.
Extremely grateful for the Andre Norton recommendation, that's not a name I can remember hearing for, but early female SFF is so up my alley.
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Date: 2024-10-20 03:48 pm (UTC)I've not tried Storygraph Reads The World, but I think I might sign on to the 2025 iteration - it seems like a really good way to read randomly, in the most positive way possible? Allende is on my women in translation to-read list (House of Spirits, specifically), but I don't actually know much about her or her work, so I'm glad to hear you had a smooth reading experience!
I'd also definitely be curious about what your interwar lesbian literature list ends up looking like. Off the top of my head, I can only think of Woolf (who's not my favourite, put me unfairly off modernism as a whole for years), and Radclyffe Hall, and those picks do feel basic. I thought The Well of Loneliness was really interesting, but a bit more in context than content.
Extremely grateful for the Andre Norton recommendation, that's not a name I can remember hearing for, but early female SFF is so up my alley.