"There's something we left on the windowsill..."

[eldritchhobbit]

This week's StarShipSofa includes the second installment of my three-part "History of the Genre" special about reading Harry Potter in a Native American context. If you listen, I hope you enjoy!
Part 1 is here on Episode 340
Part 2 is here on Episode 345
A complete list of links for my podcasting work to date is available hereIn other news, I

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[eldritchhobbit]

Newsprint nails! I have a friend who will go nuts for those.

Aw, thanks! They're ridiculously easy to do.

I'll be interested to hear what you thought of the book once you've read it. I listened to it as an audiobook a few years back.

Oooh, I'd be interested to hear what you thought, too! The author is going to be a writer in residence for LRU in the spring semester (and the university's drama group will be performing The Crucible as a tie-in), and so I wanted to go ahead and read this. Here is the review I ended up posting at Goodreads (where I gave the novel 3 of 5 stars):

During her oral exams for Ph.D. candidacy at Harvard, Connie's advisor asks her the following about her understanding of the colonial American witch trials: "Have you not considered the distinct possibility that the accused were simply guilty of witchcraft?" Here lies the major premise of The Physick Book of Deliverance DaneNo, Connie hadn't considered this possibility, and she doesn't take it seriously when Professor Chilton raises it. After passing her orals

[eldritchhobbit]

Yes, yes!!! I agree with all of this.

I would really have enjoyed a lot more historical bits, especially if they could be more gritty.

That's a perfect description of my reaction, too.

Howe fingers Chilton very, very early in the story

She does. More than once I wondered if it was reading it through my own graduate experience too much (of course the baddie is the advisor! LOL), but no, if it walks like a villain and talks like a villain... it's the villain.

And LOL, you're not the first grad student to comment on the reality of Connie's Ph.D. experience.

Oh man, that luncheon at the Faculty Club under the watchful eyes of impeccably mannered and quietly pitying butler waiter was excruciatingly familiar. I lived that very lunch, LOL.

[wellinghall]

I love your nails :-)

[eldritchhobbit]

Aw, thanks very much! :D It's freakishly easy to do, thank goodness. I think I may make this my "go to" manicure for the foreseeable future.