Terri-Jane Dow

1 month ago | theskinny.co.uk | Terri-Jane Dow

Book title: Stag Dance Author: Torrey Peters Following her Women’s Prize-nominated 2021 debut Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters is back with Stag Dance, a quartet of genre-defying stories which explore the possibilities of gender and identity. Infect Your Friends And Loved Ones starts strong with a full-on gender apocalypse; in a dystopian future, a not-quite-accidental contagion means that people are no longer capable of sex-hormone production, and must each choose their own gender.

Jul 8, 2024 | cursiveknives.substack.com | Terri-Jane Dow

Off we go again! Our next buddy read is Angela Carter’s incredible 1984 novel, Nights at the Circus, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (and the Best of the James Tait Black award), one of David Bowie’s 100 must-reads, and a gorgeous, postmodern lead into the fairy tale course I promise is coming before the end of the year.

Jul 2, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Terri-Jane Dow

Book title: Misrecognition Author: Madison Newbound Single after the breakdown of a relationship with a couple who were also her employers, Elsa is back in her childhood bedroom with very little to do. She retreats into her phone, using “the social media site,” “the video sharing site,” and “the dating app” (Newbound chooses not to name Instagram, YouTube or Tinder, but describes the UX of each in minute detail), rather than reaching out to friends or her worried, non-judgemental parents.

Mar 31, 2024 | cursiveknives.substack.com | Terri-Jane Dow

Hello!Can you believe it’s the end of March, because I truly cannot. I also am finding it a very strange thing to wrap my head around the fact that Easter does not mean Spring, it means Autumn, which is… odd. Ha. The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane BradleyThis isn’t out till May but get it preordered already because it’s really good fun. I reviewed it properly on Instagram, but I’m including it here too because I cannot overstate how much I enjoyed it.

Oct 24, 2023 | theskinny.co.uk | Terri-Jane Dow

Book title: Death Valley Author: Melissa Broder Following Milk Fed and The Pisces, Melissa Broder’s third novel, Death Valley, sees a woman arrive at a motel in the Californian desert, where she’s hoping to escape from the realities of her life for a little while: a comatose father in the ICU, a chronically ill husband who is becoming more and more reliant on her, and a looming book deadline.