Elle Hunt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"Joseph Campbell reportedly said, when shown Maureen Murdock's model for The Heroine's Journey: 'Women don’t need to make the journey, they are the place that everyone is trying to get to'" lol

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"Reading A Little Life, one can get the impression that Yanagihara is somewhere high above with a magnifying glass, burning her beautiful boys like ants" https://www.vulture.com/article/hanya-yanagihara-review.html

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The "brutal" letter responding to Susan Cain's first draft of Quiet is exceptionally good editing https://t.co/aH3V6zZuHh

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Both books follow Emma Makepeace, a promising young spy determined to serve her country and prove her worth in the face of frustrating office politics. Plot-wise, the books abide by the conventions of spy fiction. Where Glass is refreshing the genre is with her protagonist.

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It was a pleasure to interview Celeste Barber ahead of Wellmania, her new Netflix dramedy inspired by @BrigidWD's book https://t.co/KhRrBSYwwm

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Torrey Peters is uncomfortable with the idea of her novel as “essentially a complicated etiquette guide” – but the British publication of Detransition, Baby proved something of a baptism by fire https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/07/torrey-peters-trans-novelist-interview-detransition-baby?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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A sweeping but detailed and pacy account of 100 years of scientific advancement, [this book] has a cheering takeaway. What such leaps lie ahead? What questions seem intractable now that we won’t give a thought to in the future?

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Kehinde Andrews, author of The New Age of Empire, in the latest ep of Harry and Meghan: “Nobody wants to be openly racist. That wouldn’t be civilised and that wouldn’t be British. But it’s perfectly fine to give a sort of nod to it. She’s a diva... this ‘angry black woman’ trope”

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For good or ill, dividing people up along generational lines with names and traits to fit seems hard to resist. What's going on, asks a new book that sets out to find the real differences

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@youngvulgarian Have you read Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key? Really nice on the ambivalence and disadvantages and advantages of singledom