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fandomsecrets2014-05-02 06:39 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2014-05-02 06:39 pm
[ SECRET POST #2677 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2677 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[The Scribbler]
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[bioshock infinite: burial at sea]
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[True Detective]
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[fire emblem/super smash bros]
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[World of Warcraft]
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11.
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12. [SPOILERS for Hannibal]
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13. [SPOILERS for Bioshock: Infinite]
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14. [SPOILERS for Game of Thrones]
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15. [WARNING for rape/abuse I'm assuming? Ramsay/Theon stuff]
http://i.imgur.com/Xo0GSkI.png
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16. [WARNING for mental illness/hospitals]
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17. [WARNING for depression]
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18. [WARNING for eating disorders]
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19. [WARNING for rape]
[Game of Thrones]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #382.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Book Club
(Anonymous) 2014-05-03 01:54 am (UTC)(link)I've only read a few chapters into this, but I'm absolutely loving it. The prose is beautiful and the characters are being fleshed out in wonderful ways with their own individual histories, desires, personalities and passions - even characters you wouldn't expect to be - but non of it is expository but rich and engaging. And it's just such a different premise to use a golum and a jin as the mythical creatures and the author is doing a fabulous job of conveying how alien they are while making them relate-able and sympathetic, but also having interesting human characters alongside them.
The official summary sounds like a sort of romance novel, but the two leads seem far from meeting and are engrossed in their own trials and experiences, and seem like they will be for awhile, and I'm eagerly looking forward both to seeing what they do separately and to their inevitable meeting.
Right now I don't think I can rec this book enough, though as I said, I'm not yet half-way through it, so I can't speak for the rest of the book.
Summary:
"In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.
Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free
Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale."
Re: Book Club