Emily Soderberg
@emilysoderberg.bsky.social
Author and aerialist. She/her. emilysoderberg-books.com
How to Talk to Your Dog About Murder:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799916/how-to-talk-to-your-dog-about-murder-by-emily-soderberg/
How to Talk to Your Dog About Murder:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799916/how-to-talk-to-your-dog-about-murder-by-emily-soderberg/
This is a fabulous and delightful strange book! So excited to see it getting some love!
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is a fabulous and delightful strange book! So excited to see it getting some love!
It feels like he's perpetuating the idea that there's a clean, unbroken line between ancient Greco-Roman sources and British civilization, but that Jewish, North African, Iberian sources are strange outliers that we should only pay attention to for a dose of novelty.
July 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It feels like he's perpetuating the idea that there's a clean, unbroken line between ancient Greco-Roman sources and British civilization, but that Jewish, North African, Iberian sources are strange outliers that we should only pay attention to for a dose of novelty.
Herodotus and Ovid aren't writing in English, so how come they didn't get Greek or Italian accents, if he felt compelled to do a voice for a "Moorish Jew," as ibn Yaqub is described in the text?
July 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Herodotus and Ovid aren't writing in English, so how come they didn't get Greek or Italian accents, if he felt compelled to do a voice for a "Moorish Jew," as ibn Yaqub is described in the text?