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Reading update

The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights - 5/5 stars

Again, bought this solely for Natasha Pulley's story, The Eel Singers, which is about Thaniel and Mori from The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. It's set between Watchmaker and The Lost Future of Pepperharrow. I loved it, obviously. The rest of the stories were also really good—a few of them were genuinely really disturbing.

Teacher of the Year by MA Wardell - 3.75/5 stars

This is the first book in Wardell's Teachers in Love series (the second being Mistletoe & Mishigas, which I read last week). I didn't like this one as much, though tbh I'm chalking that up to the fact that it's Wardell's first novel. He uses some very strange descriptors sometimes that really throw me off ('matte' was used once to describe dialogue, which I still can't really make sense of). I also got kind of frustrated with Marvin's freakouts over Olan's alcoholism—not really the fact that they happened, but just like...the pacing of them, I guess? After it happened once, it didn't really feel like there was any escalation of that conflict, just sort of the same conflict happening repeatedly.

That said, I did like the book! The characters are all great, and I really loved how Marvin has to take responsibility for how he can't move on from how his mother's alcoholism affected him, and how he's actually quite unfair to his mother and Olan when they both take recovery incredibly seriously. There was a nuance to that that felt really refreshing.

Fallow by Jordan L Hawk - 4.5/5 stars

Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton - 3.5/5 stars

Only the Brightest Stars by Andrew Grey - 3.25/5 stars

Beautiful Undone by Melissa Polk - 3.5/5 stars

Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee - 5/5 stars

Adorable book and read it made me so hungry. I need to try a mooncake next fall.

Keeping Christmas: Yuletide Traditions in Norway and the New Land by Kathleen Stokker - 5/5 stars

I've had this sitting around for a few years now and figured I should read it around Christmas. It was super interesting—not only did I learn a lot about Norwegian Christmas traditions, I actually learned a lot about American Christmas traditions. Also it gave me an idea for a Christmas ghost story/romance.

The Winter Knight by Jes Battis - 5/5 stars

This book had a dreamy quality to it that was perfect for the subject matter. This is a murder mystery and kinda/sorta a retelling of Gawain and the Green Knight...I think? It's been way too many years since I've read Gawain and the Green Knight. The premise is that all the characters of Camelot are reincarnated over and over and stuck living out their myth cycles.

Death by Silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold - 5/5 stars

Soooo much yearning. Two school friends reconnect over a murder case. Both of them think they're the only one in love with the other. If you're a Freya Marske or KJ Charles fan, this is very much up your alley.

Doc by Mary Doria Russell - 4.25/5 stars

The King's Delight by Sarah Honey - DNF at pg 72

[evenaturtleduck]

Wayne and Bert (The Winter Knight) being the coziest knights 💚

[itachi86]

The Winter Knight had a good concept but the author executed it really slowly like i had to wait quite a few pages for this murder and then like barely anything happened again until like just over 100pgs before the end. also tbh that hildie chick really did not interest me at all-the valkyrie thing was interesting but the way her POV was more than half her whining about not wanting to be a valkyrie anymore was not. i think really instead of giving her her own pov they could’ve just worked her into someone else’s. i did really like some of the narration and wayne/bert and the cover was really pretty(also vera/lancelot/gale poly ship ftw)

i gave it 3 stars on goodreads but maybe more like 3.4?

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David Curtis’s book cover for Jes Battis’s The Winter Knight.

[reviewsthatburn]

THE WINTER KNIGHT is an Arthurian murder mystery told through several narrators, primarily through a Valkyrie (Hildie) and the current incarnation of Sir Gawain (Wayne). One of my favorite things about Arthurian retellings is that due to the elasticity of their cannon, they absorb and except the existence of other entries in a way that retellings of other stories often would be harder pressed to do. One such case is Vera’s identity as a professor who discusses, among other things, Guinevere's place in the Arthurian cannon, all whilst her students are unaware that she is the current incarnation of that queen.

Full review at link.

[queer-ragnelle]

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BUFFY READING LIST

As promised @possession1981 and I have compiled a list of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and Angel) related academic text and books. I think this is a good starting point for both a long time fan and for someone just getting into the show, or just someone interested in vampire lore. I have included several books about the vampire lore and myth in general as well. Most of these are available online.

BOOKS

Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox & David Lavery

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy - Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale by James B. South

Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television, edited by Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo & James B. South

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Myth, Metaphor and Morality by Mark Field

Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Gregory Stevenson

Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Elana Levine

The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Matthew Pateman

Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks by Emily Pohl-Weary

Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Ronda Wilcox

Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz

The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction, and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Milly Williamson

Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel by Jes Battis

Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan by Lorna Jowett

Diseases of the Head: Essays on the Horrors of Speculative Philosophy; edited by Matt Rosen (chapter 2 Death of Horror)

Public Privates: Feminist Geographies of Mediated Spaces by Marcia R. England (chapter 1 Welcome to the Hellmouth: Paradoxical Spaces in Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead From the Enlightenment to the Present Day; edited by Sam George and Bill Hughes (chapter 8 ‘I feel strong. I feel different’: transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

The Contemporary Television Series; edited by Michael Hammond and Lucy Mazdon (chapter 9 Television, Horror and Everyday Life in Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays; edited by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III

Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One by Valerie Estelle Frankel

The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity by J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20 Years of Slaying: The Watcher's Guide Authorized by Christopher Golden

Reading the Vampire Slayer: The Complete, Unofficial Guide to 'Buffy' and 'Angel' by Roz Kaveney

Hollywood Vampire: The Unnoficial Guide to Angel by Keith Topping

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Monster Book by Christopher Golden

Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon by Michael Adams

What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide by Jana Riess

ARTICLES, PAPERS ETC.

Bibliographic Good vs. Evil in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by GraceAnne A. DeCandido

Undead Letters: Searches and Researches in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by William Wandless

Weaponised information: The role of information and metaphor in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Jacob Ericson

Buffy, Dark Romance and Female Horror Fans by Lorna Jowett

My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, "Perfect" Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance by Ananya Mukherjea

Buffy, The Vampire Slayer as Spectacular Allegory: A Diagnostic Critique by Douglas Kellner

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer": Technology, Mysticism, and the Constructed Body by Sara Raffel

When Horror Becomes Human: Living Conditions in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" by Jeroen Gerrits

Post-Vampire: The Politics of Drinking Humans and Animals in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight", and "True Blood" by Laura Wright

Cops, Teachers, and Vampire Slayers: Buffy as Street-Level Bureaucrat by Andrea E. Mayo

"Not Like Other Men"?: The Vampire Body in Joss Whedon's "Angel" by Lorna Jowett

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Domestic Church: Revisioning Family and the Common Good by Reid B. Locklin

“Buffy vs. Dracula”’s Use of Count Famous (Not drawing “crazy conclusions about the unholy prince”) by Tara Elliott

A Little Less Ritual and a Little More Fun: The Modern Vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Stacey Abbott

Undressing the Vampire: An Investigation of the Fashion of Sunnydale’s Vampires by Robbie Dale

"And Yet": The Limits of Buffy Feminism by Renee St. Louis & Miriam Riggs

Meet the Cullens: Family, Romance and Female Agency in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight by Kirsten Stevens

Bliss and Time: Death, Drugs, and Posthumanism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rob Cover

That Girl: Bella, Buffy, and the Feminist Ethics of Choice in Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Catherine Coker

A Slayer Comes to Town: An Essay on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Scott Westerfeld 

Undead Objects of a “Queer Gaze” : A Visual Approach to Buffy’s Vampires Using Lacan’s Extended RSI Model by Marcus Recht

When You Kiss Me, I Want to Die: Gothic Relationships and Identity on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Ananya Mukherjeea

Necrophilia and SM: The Deviant Side of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Terry L. Spaise

Queering the Bitch: Spike, Transgression and Erotic Empowerment by Dee Amy-Chinn

“I Want To Be A Macho Man”: Examining Rape Culture, Adolescent Female Sexuality, and the Destabilization of Gender Binaries in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Angelica De Vido

Staking Her Claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Transgressive Woman Warrior by Frances H. Early

Actualizing Abjection: Drusilla, the Whedonversees’ Queen of Queerness by Anthony Stepniak

“Life Isn’t A Story”: Xander, Andrew and Queer Disavowal in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Steven Greenwood

S/He’s a Rebel: The James Dean Trope in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Kathryn Hill

“Once More, with Feeling”: Emotional Self-Discipline in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Gwynnee Kennedy and Jennifer Dworshack-Kinter

“The Hardest Thing in This World Is To Live In It”: Identity and Mental Health in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Alex Fixler

"Love's Bitch But Man Enough to Admit It": Spikes Hybridized Gender by Arwen Spicer

Negotiations After Hegemony: Buffy and Gender by Franklin D. Worrell

Double Trouble: Gothic Shadows and Self-Discovery in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Elizabeth Gilliland

'What If I'm Still There? What If I Never Left That Clinic?': Faërian Drama in Buffy's "Normal Again" by Janet Brennan Croft

Not Gay Enough So You’d Notice: Poaching Fuffy by Jennifer DeRoss

Throwing Like A Slayer: A Phenomenology of Gender Hybridity and Female Resilience in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Debra Jackson

“You Can’t Charge Innocent People for Saving Their Lives!” Work in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Matt Davies

Ambiguity and Sexuality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Sartrean Analysis by Vivien Burr

Imagining the Family: Representations of Alternative Lifestyles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Vivien Burr and Christine Jarvis

Working-Class Hero? Fighting Neoliberal Precarity in Buffy’s Sixth Season by Michelle Maloney-Mangold

A Corpse by Any Other Name: Romancing the Language of the Body in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the Adam Storyline in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Amber P. Hodge

Sensibility Gone Mad: Or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Heroine of Sensibility by Claire Knowles

"It's good to be me": Buffy's Resistance to Renaming by Janet Brennan Croft

Death as a Gift in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work and Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Gaelle Abalea

“All Torment, Trouble, Wonder, and Amazement Inhabits Here": The Vicissitudes of Technology in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by James B. South

Staking Her Colonial Claim: Colonial Discourses, Assimilation, Soul-making, and Ass-kicking in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Jessica Hautsch

“I Run To Death”: Renaissance Sensibilities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Christine Jarvis

Dressed To Kill: Fashion and Leadership in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Christine Jarvis and Don Adams

Queer Eye Of That Vampire Guy: Spike and the Aesthetics of Camp by Cynthea Masson and Marni Stanley

“Sounds Like Kinky Business To Me”: Subtextual and Textual Representations of Erotic Power in Buffyverse by Lewis Call

“Did Anyone Ever Explain to You What ‘Secret Identity’ Means?”: Race and Displacement in Buffy and Dark Angel  by Cynthia Fuchs

“It’s About Power”: Buffy, Foucault, and the Quest for Self by Julie Sloan Brannon

Why We Love the Monsters: How Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Wound Up Dating the Enemy by Hilary M. Leon

Why We Can’t Spike Spike?: Moral Themes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Richard Greene and Wayne Yuen

Buffy, the Scooby Gang, and Monstrous Authority: BtVS and the Subversion of Authority by Daniel A. Clark & P. Andrew Miller

Are Vampires Evil?: Categorizations of Vampires, and Angelus and Spike as the Immoral and the Amoral by Gert Magnusson

BOOKS ABOUT VAMPIRE LORE AND MYTH IN GENERAL

The Vampire Lectures by Laurence A. Rickels 

Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach

Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber

The Secret History of Vampires: Their Multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes by Claude Lecouteux

The Vampire Cinema by David Pirie

The Living and the Undead: Slaying Vampires, Exterminating Zombies by Gregory A. Waller

Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend by Mark Jenkins

Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead by Bruce A. McClelland

The History and Folklore of Vampires: The Stories and Legends Behind the Mythical Beings by Charles River Editors

Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology by Theresa Bane

Vampires of Lore: Traits and Modern Misconceptions by A. P. Sylvia

The Vampire: A New History by Nick Groom

Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella by Christopher Frayling

Race in the Vampire Narrative by U. Melissa Anyiwo

Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods by Dale Hudson

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3 and 16 for the book ask

3. What were your top five books of the year?

ooooh a good question! also this is less like... books i enjoyed the most, and more books i ended up thinking about the most over the year, in no particular order: winter knight by jes battis, unauthorized fan treaty by lauren james, the shadow of the torturer by gene wolfe, people collide by isle mcelroy, and postcapitalist desire by mark fisher

16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

lies we sing to the sea lol. like overhyped in both directions in terms of some people loving it and some people going "how dare you write something based on odyssey without reading it" because it was genuinely just a.... fine ya book slash one that i would not write home about. it was just a book that i had fun with in the moment and immediately forgot about. so! not a nightmare but also. not great also i started fourth wing and never finished it lmao

[libraryleopard]

October reads

= reread

Saint Juniper’s Folly by Alex Crespo

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote

Always the Almost by Edward Underhill

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States by Samantha Allen

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll*

And Don’t Look Back by Rebecca Barrow

A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar by Harry Nicholas 

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

The September House by Carissa Orlando

Deephaven by Ethan M. Aldridge

Firebird by Sunmi 

Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand*

Moby Dyke by Krista Burton

The Scratch Daughters by H.A. Clarke

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

The Winter Knight by Jes Battis

The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist by Sophie Gonzales

The Devouring Wolf by Natalie C. Parker

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane

Against Heaven by Kemi Alabi

Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd

Water and Salt by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era by Chad Bennett

[werewolf-transgenderism]

i must know any and all merlin opinions please

ok this is LONG sorry I have many thoughts about this!!!!

Robert de Boron’s Merlin gives us a more in-depth look at Merlin’s odd childhood: he’s the child of a demon and a mortal woman, and the resulting magical powers that he possesses make for a childhood where he is simply out of time and out of place. He engages in a sort of “crip time” where everything collapses backwards and forwards simultaneously as he performs the tasks he needs to perform in order to fulfill his fated role, marking him as an other and not allowing him to fit neatly into the spaces he occupies in the present due to his looking toward the past and future.

Merlin as a child kind of freaks out the people around him, because he’s got all of these timelines converging in his mind and he’s got this skill for precocious speech that one wouldn’t expect from, like, a little kid. Jes Battis, reading these scenes in de Boron’s Merlin, argues, “a lot of hyper-verbal kids on the spectrum will get this portrayal of a kid who tends to unnerve adults with non-traditional language. Non-verbal kids on the spectrum run into similar problems as a result of their silence, which is never actually silence, but rather non-verbal interaction” (Thinking Queerly 35). Merlin, in de Boron’s text, is unable to connect with other kids his age due to his very apparent difference, and also finds himself often needing to withdraw from society into isolation to regulate himself, which Battis suggests we might read “as the strategy of someone who is easily overwhelmed—someone who flees to the woods in order to escape the sensory overload of court” (34).

From its medieval origins into modern medievalist adaptations, Merlins across the Arthurian tradition also experience an inherent neuroqueerness coming from the prophetic position they occupy. Merlin simply does not interact with the world in the same way that other people do—he can’t, when he’s got the anxieties of the past and the future weighing on him at all times, lifetimes of knowledge condensed into one person who is necessarily both within and outside of himself. He’s unpredictable, a bit unhinged, and often, as a result of his prophetic and magical powers, he’s seen by others as cold, unfeeling, and uncaring, but that couldn’t be further from the truth—he’s bursting with lifetimes of feeling that he simply cannot express in ways that are easy for those around him to interpret. (And here is where I go on my personal tangent about the inherent feeling of being out of time/out of place as an autistic person interacting with a neurotypical world that is simply not made to accommodate the ways we differ from the norm. I’ve been told I’m unfeeling and emotionless and that I speak weirdly and think in ways that don’t make sense to allistic people and I just!! have to scream!! I am SO full of feelings and emotions and love, etc., I just don’t express myself in the same ways as allistic people do!)

Merlin, across traditions, displays a neurodivergence where he’s always out of place, engaging in the kinds of neuroqueer rhetoric that M. Remi Yergeau describes as coming into being “through movement and the residues of movement, through creeping, sidling, ticcing, twitching, stimming, and stuttering” (Authoring Autism 76). Think of Sword in the Stone Merlin! He’s always stuttering, always having difficulty expressing his ideas verbally, always running into communication failures because he’s got so much knowledge from so many times and places bouncing around in his head that he simply interacts with the world in different ways from others who don’t share these experiences. Or even Merlin Merlin, with all his gumby awkward weirdness that he’s always getting into trouble with because of his magic and his destiny! Merlin’s a weird little guy, variously mad, always misunderstood, always living through a world that’s not made to accommodate his ways of thinking and being—which echoes, for me, the experience of being autistic SO clearly.

[dreamertrilogys]

have u heard of the book the winter knight by jes battis? it seems up ur alley bc its based on arthuriana and i'm curious what u think about it

i haven’t BUT it seems very cool i’ll def check it out when i can :)

[profiterole-reads]

The Winter Knight by Jes Battis

The Winter Knight by Jes Battis (Occult Special Investigator as Jes Battis, Parallel Parks as Bailey Cunningham) was a lot of fun. Hildie, a Valkyrie, investigates the murder of one of the Knights reincarnated in Vancouver. Wayne, the reincarnation of Gawain, and his family are stuck in the middle of that investigation.

This is now one of my favourite Arthurian retellings. I've read a few and there are many more out there, but this one was very refreshing. I especially liked the academia aspect: several characters are students, teachers or administrative personnel.

Hildie is biromantic asexual, Wayne is queer and autistic, Kai (a runesmith and Wayne's best friend) is a bisexual trans woman. There's f/f and m/m, as well as mentions of polyamory.

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Some writers put their own spin on the legends of King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table. Others write supernatural / paranormal detective stories. In my interview with writer Jes Battis, they explain why they did both in their urban fantasy mystery novel "The Winter Knight." 📖⚔️🔎

[queer-ragnelle]

I want to like The Winter Knight by Jes Battis more than I do.

Really dislike the Hildie POV and so much information is just told to me outright rather than crafting scenes between characters to show behaviors and allow the reader to draw conclusions from there. Also the fear of getting specific with reincarnation AU—Morgan has multiple PHDs, but what are they in? If her only trait is “girlboss” that’s pretty boring and shallow no matter how feminist a spin it tries to be. If she follows a different set of rules from the knights, in what way? Show me! Don’t just tell me about it in passing. In that case, I don’t care, and start to skim. One scene between Morgan and her assistant [Sir] Bert[ilak] would give me all I need to know about the contrasting stance between necromancers and knights in this universe by illustrating the specificity of it. Instead Hildie just says “Morgan is different.” Might as well leave it blank with nothingburger lines like that.