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<div>The title, BOG QUEEN, is 100% what caught my attention at first (especially having read and loved The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister), and then I realized it was the next book from Anna North. I'd read and mostly enjoyed Outlawed, and I liked Bog Queen a whole lot more.<br><br>Couple of things bugged me though: Do we ever learn Bog Queen's name? Why do all the other people in the past get a name, but she doesn't? (Or if she does, why is it mentioned infrequently enough that I cannot recall?)<br><br>Also, occasionally, the chapters set in Bog Queen's time (50-ish BCE) have some dialogue anachronisms that snagged (calling someone a "weak, pathetic loser" may be accurate in feeling, but it would be phrased differently, yes?), but maybe I'm still too much in the world of Nicola Griffith's Menewood. That book is not set at the same time (600-ish CE), but there are some similarities. Both involve young women on the island eventually known as Great Britain, thrust into leadership positions and consulting with kings and trying to avoid war.<br><br>In the 2018 storyline, Agnes is an American woman who was all too ready to let the men in her life make her decisions for her, and her taking this job in England is the first time she's broken free of that. Does she come to any realizations about this? <spoiler>Not really. Instead she thinks about how it's because it's comforting to do the "easy" thing. Girl, your dad and boyfriend were plotting when you would have children! And you've never called them on it! You just went to England, found a body in a bog, and decided to get frisky with an environmental activist who seems just as "What I decide matters" as your ex! Some perspective, please!</spoiler><br><br>Still, I was invested enough in the story, even if I wanted more of the actual title character.</div>

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Finished reading 旅人ーある物理学者の回想 [Tabibito: Aru Butsurigakusha No Kaisō]

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Rated Beyond the Gender Binary 10/10

<div>A perfect book for :</div><ul><li>anyone wanting to read more nonbinary voices</li><li>people who would like introductory information about those who are gender nonconforming</li><li>teens who would like to have conversations with the people in their life (and maybe the inner doubting voice in their head). </li></ul><div><br>This is a quick read, clearly written, and it does a great job dismantling misconceptions.</div><div><br>I know this book has been challenged in at least one school system (though thankfully the challenge was rejected), and it's beyond frustrating that we're still fighting for people to freely exist and access the information they need.</div>