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David McK (3649 KP) rated The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2) in Books

Jun 1, 2025  
The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)
The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)
Jonathan Stroud | 2006 | Fiction & Poetry
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Second entry in Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy, set roughly two years after the previous 'The Amulet of Samarkand', and following roughly the same outline as before in that it frequently switches point of view between that of the young magician (who, here, are the ruling - and tyrannical - class) Nathaniel, the Djinni he summons (Bartimaeus) who also happens to know his summoners real name (and thus has blackmail material over said summoner) and now also the ringleader of the Resistance Kathleen 'Kitty' Jones.

Here, Nathaniel - who goes by the name of John Mandrake - is charged with uncovering the origin of disturbances in his modern-day-ish London, which he initially blames on the Resistance before it comes to light otherwise.

Not that his fellow members of government initially believe him, or that it is being caused by a Golem being controlled by a mysterious animator ...

Almost worth reading for the footnotes/comments by Bartimaeus alone!
  
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Roxane Gay recommended Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems in Books (curated)

 
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
Danez Smith | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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"The level of craft at work in each of the poems in “Don’t Call Us Dead” is exceptional. These are poems about black men and their imperiled, impassioned bodies, what it means to live with HIV, and so much more. There is pain here but there is so much joy, so much fierce resistance to anything that dares to temper the stories being told here."

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