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Flannery O'Connor's unfinished novel is being published and I don't feel great about this. I get the interest, but maybe if she wasn't ready for the public to see it, it just doesn't need to be seen?
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/9098...
Got the call this morning that the library is opening late today because of tropical storm beta. Now there‘s time for morning reading! Be safe everyone!
1 / 25 #shortstories for 2020
• First #shortstory of 2020 complete: "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead" by Flannery O'Connor from the tagged book. As usual, I detected faint whiffs of religious hypocrisy and characters rather in need of the usual redemption. I'll try to read more Flannery O'Connor this year ?? •
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• Logging approx 8 hrs 6 mins total at the end of Day 3 of the first #BooklyReadathon. Ending with a story from the tagged book; it's good but my headache is returning so I hope to finish in the morning. Good night #LitsyLovelies •
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• Gotta love those country bumpkins...mindin they own bidnis 😂😂 •
"And as for Judgment Day," the stranger said, "every day is Judgment Day."
--"You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead," Flannery O'Connor
"The man, Buford, had a crinkled, burnt-rag face, darker than his hat."
--"You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead," Flannery O'Connor
Love that creative description
"He observed that their eyes didn‘t grab at you like the eyes of country people. Several of them bumped into him and this contact that should have made an acquaintance for life made nothing because the hulks shoved on with ducked heads and muttered apologies that he would have accepted if they had waited."
--"You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead," Flannery O'Connor
"The dead are a heap more trouble than the living."
-- "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead," Flannery O'Connor
"The dead are poor. You can't be any poorer than dead."
-- "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead," Flannery O'Connor
"The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are. There's a million times more dead than the living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive!"
-- "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead," Flannery O'Connor
• Had to look up the word "screaked" to see if it's country-talk or an actual word. Turns out, it means "to make a harsh, shrill noise." Our language continues to surprise me!! •
• The last time I read Flannery O'Connor, I was an undergraduate trying to survive a challenging English course. I read some of her famous stories, and generally enjoyed them. If memory serves me correctly, I wrote an essay about either "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" or "Good Country People." Can't remember which one it was ? Anyway, I need to revisit her work, for sure •
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My Christmas books. I bought Nine Stories with proceeds from my podcast, as well as the ‘Salem‘s Lot Blu-Ray (presents for myself!). I also received two lovely blank books. Fulfilling my goals of owning and reading all works by all three of these authors. Not shown: plethora of Kindle books also earned and gifted. 🥰 #flanneryoconnor #stephenking #jdsalinger #bucketlist #christmaspresents #bookhaul #shortstories
Finally getting to this. It‘s been a week I tell you! 🤦🏼♀️
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so-soI'm not quite sure what to say about this one. I realize this was written during a different time, but what did I just read? The stories were dark, chock full of racism, and kind of boring. I think maybe I missed something in my reading. She won the O'Henry and the National Book Awards and has an award named after her, but I honestly couldn't pinpoint what made her stories exceptional.
I live in Savannah and have been to her childhood home so it was interesting to see Anadalusia today where Flannery O‘Connor did most of writing.
1. Flannery O‘Connor
2. Joyce Carol Oates
3. Shirley Jackson
4. Tana French
5. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Flannery O'Connor's short stories are full of bizarre and eccentric characters who encounter grace in moments of shocking violence. O'Connor shows us the moment of potential transformation, but rarely whether these men and women truly change.
pickSeriously, this feels like an accomplishment. Started in June, 31 stories read in (according to Bookly) 45 sittings, finished today.
I‘ll miss Enoch Emery while reading the rest of this collection (unless he‘s come back?)
It was a mystery, although it was right there in a glass case for everyone to see and there was a typewritten card telling all about it right there. But there was something the card couldn‘t say...
( from The Heart of the Park)
Opened this intimidating brick last night
The first time I saw a picture of Flannery O‘Connor, after hearing a recording of her reading “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and thinking the voice didn‘t fit the writing, I said, “No way that story or the novel called Wise Blood (link in the comments) was written by her.” My bad for judging a book by it‘s cover, she just looks so wholesome and sweet. I now have to reread both. So good.
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pickThis powerful classic of Southern literature runs the gamut from hilarious (A Stroke of Good Fortune) to heartbreaking (The River). From near perfection (A Good Man is Hard to Find) to just plain awful (View of the Woods). I read one story a day and was sorry when I got to the end. Highly recommended!
Also, I am allergic to cats, but if I could have one, her name would absolutely be Pitty Sing!
“#riotgrams day 6! I don't read many #shortstories, but I make an exception for Flannery O'Connor. She's one of my all time favorite authors!” - Book Riot Insider @sunnyaltman
#riotgrams day 6! I don't read many #shortstories, but I make an exception for Flannery O'Connor. She's one of my all time favorite authors!
Birthday gifts from Mom, Boyfriend and myself
Parnassus haul + one more that gets its own photo. 😉 #bookhaul
Ok so I might have broken my book-buying ban today 😬 I blame #HalloweenGoesPostal for forcing me to The Strand & Alabaster Books today- how was I to resist!? Note: 2 of these books were $1/ea and all are used so that alleviates some of the guilt 😉
so-soI know this is a much-loved and highly acclaimed book and I am glad I read it but, in all honesty I felt that the reality that once was, and to some extent to this day still is (especially lately), was just seriously depressing for me 😓
pickYeah let's just say that I'll be reading Flannery O'Connor forever and ever amen. She writes haunting Southern gothic stories with beautiful, complex characters and settings the reader can feel. Most of the stories are bleak and hopeless, yet they are often filled with hope and murmurs of grace. My suggestion is to start with the story "Revelation" from the back of the book so you can get a handle on what O'Connor is doing in her other stories.
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to buy a book for its image of peacock feathers but I couldn't help myself (and my nails happen to coordinate today) #CoversInYourFaveColor #anditsaugust @RealLifeReading
If I ever decide to have kids, there's a 90% chance I'll name my daughter Flannery. #IndependentWoman #AugustGrrrl
I've been working my way slowly through the Flannery episodes of the Close Reads Podcast. Working on "Comforts of Home" today.
Odd but fitting illustrations in this #FolioSociety edition of Flannery O'Connor's A Circle in the Fire and Other Stories (not in the Litsy database).
Trying to tempt you, @Jess_Read_This 😉
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The exact title of this #FolioSociety edition is not in Litsy so I put it on the complete stories as back-up.
As a Flannery fan, I am glad I grabbed this in their sale! Interior illustrations to be posted next...
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