"A smokestack rose from the haze, and smaller stacks around it, like rough and blasted children."
Today in odd similes.
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Over the Plain Houses | 
"A smokestack rose from the haze, and smaller stacks around it, like rough and blasted children."
Today in odd similes.
"Her body felt dry and weightless, as if the physical presence of it were not hers to own, as if the woman standing stock against the door frame weren‘t a woman at all, but the dried up shell of one, like the husk the fisher spider abandoned after squeezing her new self out. There wasn‘t anything left in the husk to give it free will. A good wind and it would blow away."
Cool words I saw for the first time in this book:
-blousoning
-shivaree
-miffling
-sworping
-wingling
-murmur-fleshed
-chobbalobbed
-fittified
-mizzling
-laurely
-flaughtered
-scroudge
-mutched
-sprangled
-meandrous
"Her mother‘s piano had two keys chipped to the wood, middle C and F, right in the center, like decayed front teeth."
"He smiled now, and his smile was white and wide-spaced, and the way it landed square on her warmed her so much it alarmed her to consider her old life without it."
"Her hands splayed above and below the nail head, long-fingered and slender and traced with a blue-veined filigree that put him in mind of the tiny skeletons the plow turned up in the tousled earth, the white-laced surprise of them."
"The question suspended itself above the congregation, an enormous glass balloon that would either float or crash, depending on what Brodis said next."
And I picked up this one from a local indie press that I've had my eye on for a while.
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pickJust finished this. It's amazing how different people can see the same relationship. I loved Irenie's strength and was fascinated by Brodis' unchristian "Christian" view of Irenie's actions. I also loved the New York Times article that told how much of this story is based on truth!
pickLoved this book! Franks was able to weave a powerful story out of Appalachian folklore, religious fanaticism, social and agricultural changes all set in the western North Carolina Mountains in 1939. The strong characters of Irenie and Brodis lead the reader on a journey thru discontent, discord and misunderstanding. I love books that I can visually "see" as I read. This story did not disappoint! I highly recommend this book!
I don't know how much time I'll have for reading this year, but a girl's gotta dream, right?! My TBR stack for #readathon @DeweysReadathon
"It wasn't until much later that Brodis heard the devil in that sentence. I know. Her exact words."
Goosebumps. So many goosebumps.
Really wanted to get to this one before it came out, but I ran out of time. But today it gets its chance! I've heard marvelous things.
Appalachia, 1939, modernization aka WITCHCRAFT: "A spellbinding story of witchcraft and disobedience." -NPR. Sold!
pickA wonderful new author, published by an independent press, featuring Southern Gothic themes. Good stuff! http://cannonballread.com/2016/05/a-southern-gothic-treasure/
