Hello Reader, who is also a reader, and welcome to return to the week – our regular Sunday conversation with the selection of great people in the book! I woke up from a terrible nightmare last night. I have just released a book and every three pages, the publisher has inserted a twice trying to sell a wireless mouse with the movie Minecraft Jack’s Gormless, Gouty Grin on it, turning my carefully managed atmosphere into Shit! Phew. Thank God, it’s just a nightmare! Just a completely, completely nightmare.
Anyway, don’t mind all of that. The sun has turned off, and the book still exists and mostly advertising for free! Here to talk about them this week is the game producer, writer Dicey Dungeons, currently playing the founder of this festival, and the author of her husband, Holly Gramazio! Congratulations Holly! If we have a nose in your bookshelf?
What are you reading?
I have gone to half of my friend Elizabeth Lovatt thank you for calling a lesbian line, very good – it is a mix of history and memoirs Queer and a series of specific stories about a lesbian assistance line in 1990, and those who call it and volunteers there.
What did you read for the last time?
I just finished the animals of Laura Jean McKay in that country. It was set in a pandemic and it was published in 2020, this is a great or terrible time for McKay, not sure. In the book, those infected with the ability to understand animals – reading scent, posture, noise. The story is about a woman working at a wildlife park in Australia – but it turns out it is not a great place when suddenly people can understand wildlife. Anyway, she ended a big trip with a Dingo. I love it; Talking Talking animals must be a challenge to write but McKay found a really great melody for them is the type of somewhere between prose and poetry and puzzle.
What are you keeping your eyes on the next?
I am very excited about Hanna Thomas Uose, who wants to live forever, this has just been released on Thursday – it is placed at a time when a drug that significantly lasts the longevity of people who begin to be available, and it is about a couple, Yuki and Sam, where one of them decided to take medicine, and other people. I just passed the first ten pages so far but I have heard great things.
What is the quote or scene from a book that is most attached to you?
Ooh, it must be something since I was a child, I thought – The books you read when you really can stay away from your brain and make a home there. I think it is probably the scene on the trip of CS Lewis’s Dawn Treader, where Lucy used a mantra to hear what people were saying about her behind her back, and she heard one of her friends trying to impress a older girl. And basically, it ruines an unnecessary friendship, cannot overcome. I don’t know why, but that scene is really trapped with me! Whenever I want to seek evaluation of something I have worked, I just think, no, remember Lucy in a strange house.
Which book do you find yourself bothering your friends to read?
It certainly changed every year, but last year I bought many copies of Rebecca K Reilly’s Greta & Valdin and Ferdia Lennon to exploit glory for everyone. Greta & Valdin is a contemporary comedy in New Zealand, and I gave it to those who were a bit tense and worried and the people I thought would like to spend time with some characters a bit awkward, funny, really, where there would be a lot of emotions that were happening but you can be sure that nothing is wrong. And the glory exploitation is a very complete tragedy written in Hiberno-English, set in ancient Syracuse, about the theater and art and war, and I have brought it to everyone and basically only talk about this damn hell, you don’t feel how he can make it work but he does it.
Want to see someone adapted to a game?
I once heard V Buckenham (who made a pouring rain) said that she thought that Piranesi of Susannah Clarke would be a great video game, and since I wanted someone to do it. The context of Piranesi is unbelievable: an endless house filled with statues and tides, strange things to explore, continue the journey, the rhythm of the world to get acquainted, birds, fish, resources to pick up trash and live. I want to play it a lot!
Holly has a newsletter (the best way to consume the Internet) here. Who knows? If you register it, she can eventually name every book that has been written, although she doesn’t do that today, bring her into a good company with all other guests we have so far. Sometimes I wonder why I was bothered, but after that, Gouty Grin, Jack Black’s Wireless Gouty emitted from my champion -wireless wireless mouse and made everything better. Books for now!
