We’re asking our fellow TPMers to share their own personal reading recommendations: books they love or that have shaped their lives.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1402520
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1402520
I’ll add one more Kate, you should read The Flood Girls by Richard Fifield. It’s great, you will love it. It’s very much in line with your literary collection.
‘Shit Cassandra Saw’ by Gwen Kirby
You’ll love it, guaranteed.
I got turned on to this via this NPR interview with the author…
I’ll ponder recommendations but for now, I feel the need to call out the wonderful use of “barbaric yawp”. Brilliant nod to classic poetry and masterful use here.
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Love We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Ordered Where the Wild Ladies Are.
I have just finished Seth Dickenson shattering incredible The Traitor Baru Cormorant: first of a trilogy:
Her mother Pinion knows the hunt and the stars. Her father Solit knows the smithy and the telescope. Her father Salm knows how to kill, and why no one ever should. She loves them more than anything. She loves her home, island Taranoke, the warm place at the center of the world.
“Smart. Brutal. Gut-wrenching. You’ll be captivated from the very first page. Dickinson is a sly, masterful writer who pulls no punches. Get ready to have your heart ripped out through your throat.” — Kameron Hurley
“…a poet’s Dune, a brutal tale of empire, rebellion, fealty, and high finance that moves like a rocket and burns twice as hot. The Traitor Baru Cormorant is a mic drop for epic fantasy.” —Max Gladstone
Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru will look up from the sand and see red sails on the horizon.
A story of machiavellian politics and a drive of a girl savant to rise in the colonial empire that has wrecked her island home. What might one do to gain the power to redress her wounds?
A powerful first novel. It made me eager fot the followup.
One of the most laugh-out-loud books I’ve read in years was Kaitlin Moran’s “How to Build A Girl” (2014). It also contains a lot of poignant coming-of-age moments, but definitely stays on the lighter side.
Great Shirley Jackson fan here. The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived
In the Castle are tied for me as my two favorite stories. Not just Shirley Jackson stories; stories period.
Very nice to see some love for short stories here! I will have to check out Where the Wild Ladies Are. Currently reading Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector. An all-time favorite for me would be Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates.