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hopecomesbacktolife · 1 year ago

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I’m reading the first book in a trilogy of Librarians novels (I was so overjoyed to discover they exist omg) and I just. Jacob Stone being the absolute best, ily ily ily

-from The Librarians and The Lost Lamp by Greg Cox

not only does he write in the character’s voices so incredibly spot-on and well, but this is one of the most refreshingly non-exoticizing, non-othering, even (incredibly!) culturally appreciative (not appropriative) depictions of Arab and Persian culture/art/land/history I’ve ever seen from a white, American author, which is just such a literary breath of fresh air!

I’ve only read about a third of the book so far so I can’t speak to the whole thing yet, but wow, for a book based on a show that didn’t always do.. great.. with respectful handling of nonwestern/non-European cultures, this is so amazing to see ♡

#book quotes #the librarians #the librarians and the lost lamp #anyways I’m enjoying this one so much and incredibly appreciative of how respectfully and even dare I say us-critically Greg Cox is writing #this book just 10/10 so far #like literally the passage above is actually criticizing the commercialization exoticizing othering careless disrespect that is too common a #and I just ?? it’s so refreshing and nice to see in a book #and ofc giving these lines to Jacob stone is so perfect because he WOULD say that he WOULD care <33 #ps seeing the word “mishmash” in the context of discussing Islamic architecture #totally had me misreading it as “mishmish” at first 🍊 (<- closest thing to an apricot emoji I could find lol)#personal

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