Hello bookworms! For this post, I want to discuss how authors who work across multiple genres really get to flex their writing skills. Sometimes you’ll notice that an author injects a little bit of their other genres into their various projects. I find that doing this really opens up genres to trope inversions, new ideas, […]
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What is Urban Fantasy?
Urban fantasy is not magical realism It can be difficult to find extensive literary thought on this topic, in part because both sub-genres of the fantasy category (and fantasy itself) are considered “lesser” in the world of literary thought and aren’t thoroughly discussed, nor examined. However, this article from 2019 is the easiest to read […]
Hello book bees! This discussion post is a little different, as it’ll be a brief little guide to how to more consciously engage with historical nonfiction. As an archaeologist with a background in history and historiography, I find it important to discuss critical engagement with modern texts regarding historical events. When reading historical nonfiction it’s […]
Definition: Southern Fiction and Southern Gothic “Southern Fiction” and “Southern Gothic Fiction” refer to genres born in the Southern United States, and can cover a whole lot of works. “Southern Fiction” generally refers to novels that take place in that region as a whole, and feature Southern characters and themes. “Southern Gothic” is a bit […]
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What is Polar Fantasy?
Hello bookworms! As you may have noticed, I am participating in the Polarthon on twitter, a readathon focused on building up to a polar fantasy novel. For some participants, every book they are reading is polar fantasy but for others like myself I am going through the prompts with different options first. Before joining this […]
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