anyone read Flannery O'Connor? I've heard good things but mostly from Americans. Anyone recommend anything by him?
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He's a she! And yes, Wise Blood is amazing - one of my favourite books. Her short stories are great too. Haven't read her other novel.anyone read Flannery O'Connor? I've heard good things but mostly from Americans. Anyone recommend anything by him?
hah, well I guess that's the first thing I've learned in 2017. CheersHe's a she! And yes, Wise Blood is amazing - one of my favourite books. Her short stories are great too. Haven't read her other novel.
added you!Finished Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band the other morning. I liked it a lot, she doesn't couch her opinions in terms that would make them more palatable to men, though her descriptions of certain situations verge on wilful ignorance at times. I've got a review up on Goodreads if anyone wants a goo.
You know I read that a few years back and it did almost nothing for me :/I picked up Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit on a W section whim in the library before christmas.
I was expecting it to be a bit heavy, but it was a super enjoyable read. Really like a Witches based Discworld. Full of spunky old girl english humour.
How did you get on in the end?
I read this last week, a much uglier edition I got from the library (Wordsworth Classics BLUGH). It was extremely good, if quite difficult in parts, I feel i'd need to go back and read some of it again. I had to read a bit of an explanation to fully understand how all the stories linked up; I mean I got a fair amount of it, I think, but definitely not all of it. I loved how she jumped from the minds of character to character seamlessly as they interacted with each other (in physical space).
It's interesting how she partly wrote it because she hated Ulysses, apparently she saw Joyce as too much of a LOOK AT HOW SKILLED I AM AT WRITING writer, which he definitely 100% is. Mrs. Dalloway is much, much more refined and subtle (and shorter), there's no experimental fireworks drawing attention to themselves and it all just fits together beautifully.
I'm gonna take a breather for a while and then read some more.
Dion Fortunes the sea priestess first published in 1935. I am not to far into this but there are some ideas like past lives clairvoyance reincarnation etc. The two main characters perhaps know each other from a past life ? I suppose she can be listed with other turn of the previous century mystic types. I am enjoying anyway it is light enough reading.
I know this is daft, but I think I liked it / accepted it more precisely because it was a beautiful edition I had. I find this a lot with books. Ugly or dull covers, whether consciously or unconsciously, provide too much of a negative distraction.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Junot Diaz. Pretty damn good. Very entertaining
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