{"id":694,"date":"2015-05-24T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2015-05-24T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T16:53:08","slug":"sunday-recs-art-limestone-berries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2015\/05\/24\/sunday-recs-art-limestone-berries\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday recs: art lessons, limestone, berries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two poems and a story today. <\/p>\n

First, an oldie but goodie from 2010: “Art Lessons<\/a>” by Yoon Ha Lee (in Stone Telling<\/em>). This is a really good poem, witches’ daughters transforming into a great feminist punch.<\/p>\n

Then something more recent, from February this year: “Limestone, Lye, and the Buzzing of Flies<\/a>” by Kate Heartfield (in Strange Horizons<\/em>). This story is vivid, strange and lovely. Such a strong summer atmosphere, with the weirdness creeping slowly in. <\/p>\n

Finally: “Chant for Summer Darkness in Northwest Climes<\/a>” by Neile Graham (in Goblin Fruit<\/em>, the same summer 2014 issue I have “Sorrow-stone” in). This is utterly gorgeous! The atmosphere reminds me of a Finnish summer (which is finally almost upon us!), the mysterious white-night countryside and berries bursting on the tongue.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Bonus book rec – well, series rec actually – Jo Walton’s Small Change<\/em><\/a> series (Farthing, Ha’penny, Half a Crown<\/em>). I just finished reading Half a Crown<\/em> today and was in tears at the end. A chilling vision of an alternative Britain where fascism has reared its ugly head. But they weren’t depressing books, although they did make me feel that heart-clenching horror I always do when I think how inhuman people can become because they simply don’t care enough to defend those who are weaker. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two poems and a story today. First, an oldie but goodie from 2010: “Art Lessons” by Yoon Ha Lee (in Stone Telling). This is a really good poem, witches’ daughters transforming into a great feminist punch. Then something more recent, from February this year: “Limestone, Lye, and the Buzzing of Flies” by Kate Heartfield (in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6,19],"tags":[87,162,93,9,31,163],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage","category-poetry","category-short-stories","tag-jo-walton","tag-kate-heartfield","tag-neile-graham","tag-novels","tag-recs","tag-yoon-ha-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}