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Kathryn VanArendonk Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Kathryn VanArendonk is a writer for Vulture. critic @vulture, 1/3rd of @atvpodcast, child wrangler. kathryn.vanarendonk @ https://t.co/6LbuHJVbFk

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Book Cover for: The Mill on the Floss (1860), George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

George Eliot
Kathryn VanArendonkKathryn VanArendonk

AS WE CONSIDER THE TRADITION OF FOURTH WALL BREAKING ESPECIALLY AS RELATED TO WOMEN PROTAGONISTS IT IS VITAL TO REMEMBER CHAPTER 17 OF ADAM BEDE, IN WHICH GEORGE ELIOT BREAKS FROM THE ACTION OF THE NOVEL IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN HER OWN UNDERSTANDING OF NARRATIVE THEOR— https://t.co/HQcW3u8blA

Hardcover, 2010

$54.95Member price:$49.46 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton
Kathryn VanArendonkKathryn VanArendonk

I have loved cartoonist Kate Beaton's work forever, and it has been an honor to profile her in advance of her new memoir Ducks, which comes out next week. https://t.co/wpYlIniqrQ

Hardcover, 2022

$39.95Member price:$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Dune: Book 1, Frank Herbert

Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Dune: Book 1

Frank Herbert
Kathryn VanArendonkKathryn VanArendonk

the thing you have to know about dune and about the name duncan idaho is that several books and thousands of years later, frank herbert introduces a character named marty

Hardcover, 2020

$25.99Member price:$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Adam Bede, George Eliot

Adam Bede

George Eliot
Kathryn VanArendonkKathryn VanArendonk

AS WE CONSIDER THE TRADITION OF FOURTH WALL BREAKING ESPECIALLY AS RELATED TO WOMEN PROTAGONISTS IT IS VITAL TO REMEMBER CHAPTER 17 OF ADAM BEDE, IN WHICH GEORGE ELIOT BREAKS FROM THE ACTION OF THE NOVEL IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN HER OWN UNDERSTANDING OF NARRATIVE THEOR— https://t.co/HQcW3u8blA

Paperback, 2015

$10.65Member price:$5.32 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Christmas, Grace Jones

Christmas

Grace Jones
Kathryn VanArendonkKathryn VanArendonk

recent tally of which one 4yo says is her: rita moreno in west side story yoko ono in get back grace jones in pee wee herman’s christmas special veruca salt

Paperback, 2019

$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: adam bede: Original Edition, George Eliot

adam bede: Original Edition

George Eliot
Kathryn VanArendonkKathryn VanArendonk

AS WE CONSIDER THE TRADITION OF FOURTH WALL BREAKING ESPECIALLY AS RELATED TO WOMEN PROTAGONISTS IT IS VITAL TO REMEMBER CHAPTER 17 OF ADAM BEDE, IN WHICH GEORGE ELIOT BREAKS FROM THE ACTION OF THE NOVEL IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN HER OWN UNDERSTANDING OF NARRATIVE THEOR— https://t.co/HQcW3u8blA

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Book Cover for: Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Bleak House

Charles Dickens
Kathryn VanArendonkKathryn VanArendonk

@GriffLightning I think about the fact that charles dickens wrote a spontaneous combustion scene into bleak house at least once a week

Paperback, 2003

$13.00Member price:$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Aqualicious, Victoria Kann

Aqualicious

Victoria Kann
Kathryn VanArendonkKathryn VanArendonk

I have read many, many children’s books in the last decade, and Aqualicious, one of the many many sequels in the wildly popular Pinkalicious series, is one of the weirdest, stupidest books I have read in a *while*

Hardcover, 2015

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Bleak House

Charles Dickens
Kathryn VanArendonkKathryn VanArendonk

@GriffLightning I think about the fact that charles dickens wrote a spontaneous combustion scene into bleak house at least once a week

Paperback, 2017

$21.25Member price:$10.63 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Persuasion: (Original Edition), J. Austen

Persuasion: (Original Edition)

J. Austen
Kathryn VanArendonkKathryn VanArendonk

if 19th century screen narratives with contemporary worldviews were characters in an Austen novel, Dickinson would be the wry protagonist and Persuasion would be the boring idiot neighbor she says cutting things about at parties

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