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• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

  Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-

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  This book is an ecstatic read; quirky, crafty, thick with snow and pollen. 'Drive the Plow over the Bones of your Dead' is a dark feminist comedy, a plea for the animals and to remember that old women are people too. Set in a bleak, empty Polish…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Valley at the Centre of the World

  Tallack, Malachy

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  'The Valley at the Center of the World' is a winter read. It is quiet, weathered and comforting. Set in a valley in Shetland, we follow the people who live within it, and realize how important sustaining relationships in such a wild and isolated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Form

  Die! Die! Die! (Musical group)

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  Succinct, sonic, blunt.

• The Spell of the Sensuous

  Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

  Abram, David, 1957-

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  Spell of the sensuous explores how bodies, languages, cultures and individual persons (and things) all come to understand the world around them. This book is insightful because Abram explores the many sensuous and porous ways of understanding the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Babushkas of Chernobyl

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  An affectionate portrait of some of the women dubbed 'self-settlers' who have returned to their radioactive homes inside the exclusion zone around Chernobyl. Most of these women are now in their 70's and 80's, who defiantly live off the land they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Outrun

  Liptrot, Amy

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  Sweeping, sad, cold and melancholic, but celebratory and growing. This book recalls the life Amy used to lead when she was an alcoholic. Perfectly poised between a breakdown biography and a triumphant life change, Amy traces her movements back to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Overlay

  Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory

  Lippard, Lucy R., 1937-

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  This book is an investigation into contemporary arts connection to the prehistoric. Through images, landscapes, sentiments and materials, we have remembered (unwittingly or not) this continued cycle of the earth and the things that make humans feel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dictionary of Animal Languages

  Sopinka, Heidi

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  A view through time of a woman's life experiences. From European artist, to a sonic scientist, we follow the life of a woman recounting years of encounters with a Prussian artist who both made her who she was, and pulled her apart. This book is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A House in Norway

  Hjorth, Vigdis

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  'A house in Norway' follows the life of a secluded artist trying, so hard, to develop work that benefits society and to become a better person, whilst realizing she cannot please everyone. A quiet Sunday read of a book. Sweet read. Translated from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Paradise Rot

  a Novella

  Hval, Jenny, 1980-

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  Sticky, gooey. Repelling and seductive. An interesting, blooming and rather beautiful read. A coming of age of sorts for the main character. A psychedelic biological bisexual allegory ~ moist fantasy. Translated from Norwegian.

• The Dancing Goddesses

  Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance

  Barber, E. J. W., 1940-

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  Full of wonderful illustrations, linguistic references and childhood stories. This book was a chronology of women's history through their rituals, material culture and how place of origin affected our ancestors daily lives. By re-arranging the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Snapper

  Kimberling, Brian

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  Nathan is a birdwatcher in Indiana, America. Watching the world move around him like he watches birds. This is an observational book about his surroundings set in a biographical timeline. Really wonderful read. Makes me want to go outside and just…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Territory of Light

  Tsushima, Yūko, 1947-

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  A territory is paced by light and the protagonists young daughter. A new home after divorce. Light floods the rooms on the sundays when they sleep in together, and light moves around the house as the year passes. A notebook perhaps, of how life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Big Kids

  DeForge, Michael, 1987-

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  Joyful, sexual, queer, hilarious, strange. 'Big Kids' consists of artwork celebrating versatility of bodies and the strangeness of life. Any of DeForge's work is worth a read, a close look and a laugh.

• Woolgathering

  Smith, Patti, 1946-

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  I got lost (in a wonderful way) in the midst of this prose. Patti is an amazing writer, so adept at crafting a memory on the pages. A sweet, small book, one able to be read in a night in front of the fire.

• Her Body & Other Parties

  Machado, Carmen Maria

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  This book is a provocative debut. Filled with a feisty collection of twisting stories that span the genres of fantasy, comedy, horror and romance. Each story starts and ends with the experience of having a body, from the mundanity, to the sensuous,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Herland and the Yellow Wallpaper

  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935

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  Written in 1910 by a fierce suffragette, this book is a comic glimpse of life without men, whilst also craftfully and critically analyzing the ways in which men think and expect of women and the 'lesser sex'. This book was a funny, quick read, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation