(And I’m a total snob right along with you there – I won’t watch until I’ve read!!) Book Discussion Did the format of the book work well for you? Don’t know how to explain that feeling really. Although I still felt conflicted about Lovecraft Country being by a white writer. So, when I saw HBO had made a series of this book, I thought maybe I really would give it a go. Later I found out he was an objectionable scrap of humanity too, and that put an end to that.īut, as you’ve mentioned Maryam, there’s quite a lot of great writing about now that’s riffing on Lovecraft’s ideas, and I find that interesting. I’ve only tried to read one Lovecraft story (a long while ago and I don’t remember what it was called), but I hated his writing so much I DNF’d it. Mayri: I thought this book looked interesting when I first saw it at the library, but was wary of reading it because … Lovecraft. I also have to mention that I would like to watch the HBO show but since I’m a “read the book before watching the show” snob, I will probably watch it after our buddy read! I have only read one Lovecraft story (I think it was called The Tomb) and to be honest, knowing he was a racist dude, I don’t think I will read other works by him. I didn’t know a lot about it (I didn’t even know it was set during the Jim Crow era!) but I have read a bunch of amazing Lovecraft-inspired stories ( Ring Shout, Beneath the Rising, The Ballad of Black Tom) in the last few years and I would like to see another take on Lovecraftian horror. Maryam: I didn’t really have any sort of expectations regarding the book but I have heard great things about it since its release. Do you have any? What made you want to read the book? Have you read any Lovecraft? Pre-Read Questions I know we have both started this book but I thought it would be nice to talk about our expectations. You can read the first part here and I highly recommend that you check the second half of the discussion on Mayri’s blog the Bookforager. Since we had a lot of things to say about this book, our discussion is split into two parts.

Last year Mayri and I read buddy-read Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh together and we had so much fun that we decided that we needed to read more books together! 😀 Our first buddy-read of the year was Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, a series of interconnected Lovecraftian tales following the members of a black family who are trying their best to live as well as they can during the Jim Crow era.

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