Lindy’s Magpie Reads | Recent Reads December 6: a poor choice of an audiobook, plus lots of great visual narratives @lindysmagpiereads | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 48 minutes ago.
In this booktube episode, I mess up pronouns and talk about Murderbot as well as some great stories told in visual format.

00:00 Intro - Northern Fibre Arts Guild craft sale in Whitehorse on December 9, 2023

01:44 Short Story Advent Calendar standout: Beryl Bainbridge

02:15 DNF: Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England’s Kings and Queens by David Mitchell; audiobook read by the author

05:25 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🎧 System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries 7) by Martha Wells; audiobook read by Kevin Free; published by Recorded Books

08:16 🇨🇦🇨🇳 The Words We Share by Jack Wong; published by Annick

10:15 🇧🇪 Stories of the Night by Kitty Crowther; translation by Julia Marshall; published by Gecko Press

12:20 🇸🇪 The Runaways by Ulf Stark; illustrations by Kitty Crowther; translation by Julia Marshall; published by Gecko Press

14:04 🇺🇸 Pictured Worlds: Masterpieces of Children’s Book Art by 101 Essential Illustrators from Around the World by Leonard S Marcus

15:12 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (Volumes 1 - 3) by Kelly Sue DeConnick (writer); Phil Jimenez (artist), Gene Ha (artist) and Nicola Scott (artist); published by DC Comics

17:23 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇰🇷 In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee; published by First Second

21:13 Outro: Galloping Goose trail footage

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Other mentions:

When You Can Swim by Jack Wong

Mel Schuit’s interview with Jack Wong at Let’s Talk Picture Books: letstalkpicturebooks.com/2023/05/lets-talk-illustrators-247-jack-wong.html

Jules Donaldson on Kitty Crowther at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=4684

Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick