Pub Day! Marlowe Banks Redesigned by Jacqueline Firkins
Happy Publication Day to Jacqueline Firkins and her newest work, Marlowe Banks Redesigned . Check out my original review of Marlowe Banks here and then get your copy!
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Early Review: Marlowe Banks Redesigned by Jacqueline Firkins
Marlowe Banks, Redesigned by Jacqueline Firkins Pub date: Oct 25, 2022 // ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ // Marlowe Banks is an overworked, under appreciated production assistant on a TV show filming in LA with dreams of one day becoming a costume designer. She has a run-in with grumpy actor Angus on set and things don’t really get off on the right foot. They eventually get to know each other through working together but it takes extra work for Marlowe to excavate the real Angus Gordon from all the publicity she reads about him in magazines and online. Even though this is a romance, the main story arc of the book is more about Marlowe’s journey in discovering who she is, what she wants in life, and figuring out how she’s going to get it. It has more emotional depth than a typical romcom and explores many important topics. Aspects of the book remind me a little of Katherine Center’s The Bodyguard and Ava Wilder’s How To Fake It in Hollywood, both of which I loved. The blurb totally sold me o...
Review: Galatea by Madeline Miller
Galatea: A Short Story by Madeline Miller Originally published July 2013 This edition published March 2022 ☙ ☙ ☙ First, click here for a quick primer on the Pygmalion & Galatea myth. Pygmalion was a sculptor. He created in statue form the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen and fell in love with her. Then Aphrodite brought her to life. It is a tale that has been told and retold over the centuries by artists such as Ovid, Rodin, George Bernard Shaw, and many others. If you've seen My Fair Lady, you've seen an interpretation of it. Here, Miller's Galatea , as she states in the afterword, is a response to Ovid's version in his Metamorphosis, which has rather misogynist undertones. In Miller's version, we discover that Galatea (living in a slightly more modern, if unspecified, time period) has spent the last year hospitalized, being told to rest, continuously gaslighted and tranquilized by medical staff. Her husband (Pygmalion) comes to visit but isn't ...