pickHistorical fiction steeped in magical realism unfolds here in a pre-technicolor Oz of Uz, NE. Beautifully written with multiple perspectives, the story comes from the titular Antidote, a Prairie Witch practiced in banking memories away from their experiencer, Asphodel, a fearless orphan obsessed with basketball & new love , her uncle, a farmer who finds sudden fortune after Black Sunday, Cleo, a New Deal photographer, a scarecrow & a cat!
panI just didn't like this book that much, which isn't a popular opinion. It looked at a murder 200 years ago. Dawson wrote about the murder, Williams ( the author of the first book about the murder),and Hawthorne ( how he based the Scarlett Letter off of the victim). It just seemed to me that way too much stuff was going on in the book. It could have been just me, as others liked the book. 2⭐️
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pickThis legit might be my fave from Freida. This book is satire and I took it as making fun of all the tropes and the know it all readers.
And…I now interrupt all in-progress reading to start this one. Russell never disappoints, always entertains. Look forward to a great read.
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The Antidote- Karen Russell
Book Review- https://www.boleybooks.com//the-antidote/
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Happy 😊 pancakes 🥞 day from the uk 🇬🇧 ☺️mollie moo and I with library 📚 pre orders - I‘m finding the peepshow fascinating 🧐 I wouldn‘t say I‘m enjoying it as the theme/ topic is just so terribly sad 😔 the casual misogyny and racism is making my blood 🩸 boil who the hell would want to live in the 50s let‘s pray 🙏 Wer not moving back towards these despicable attitudes
pickThis was cheap on kindle so ended up buying it for #wpnf25. I found the writing really engaging. The way the subject matter was written about through a social commentary lens, aswell as the bits about the newspaper journalist Harry Procter, was done so well. You really get a sense of the time and place. There is no concrete conclusion when it comes to the murders & motives etc but the author has clearly done her research with this book.
pickI wasn‘t really surpassed to find out just how much of Catherine Read Arnold Williams‘s 19th century book was. It was really obvious from the beginning. I loved that Kate Winkler Dawson brought in a document examiner. It was interesting to see the weird and random ties to the Borden family (and just how messed up that family apparently was - think Lizzy Borden and her alleged ax).
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