Litsy

#25Alive!

I can‘t choose just one #AuthorYouLove so I am going for 5 authors that over the past year or so I have “discovered” & now love. I‘m on a quest to read all of their work or if I have, I‘ll continue to read any new work they put out. 📚📚📚

-T.J. Klune
-T. Kingfisher
-Sherry Thomas (Lady Sherlock Series)
-Richard Osman
-Abby Jimenez

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Booksblanketsandahotbeverage Yay! I just finished

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

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mcctrish I love all of these people 2mo

Eggs Great choices👏🏻 2mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️📚❤️ 2mo

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lil1inblue

The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master | Henry James

#daysdevotedto #kindness

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

dabbe 🤎🍁🧡 4mo

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MaureenMc

Foreign Bodies | Cynthia Ozick

pick

A dysfunctional family story which is apparently a retelling of James‘ The Ambassadors, which I haven‘t read. I mostly enjoyed reading about the interplay between these characters who, although they are family, are essentially strangers, but end up wreaking all kinds of havoc in each other‘s lives.

AmyG Ooooo I love dysfunctional family stories. Stacked. 5mo

sarahbarnes What @AmyG said! And I love the cover. 5mo

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mom2bugnbee

The Bostonians | Henry James

Once again, I've been away & I'm back. ☺

It's been a busy season - in May, my older daughter graduated from Boston University & my younger daughter finished her freshman year at Dean College. I'm teaching a summer course right now which is keeping me quite busy, but in two weeks I will have much more time on my hands! I've missed you, Littens! Here's to being more consistent on the beat social media platform ever! ♥

tpixie Congrats 🎈 9mo

Amiable Yay, Terrier! Congrats! 9mo

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vivastory

Wild Nights! | Joyce Carol Oates

Wild Nights is JC Oates' collection of stories on the final days of five American authors (Poe, Dickinson, Samuel Clemens, Henry James & Hemingway). Oates frequently explores the disparity between the public perception & the real life of the author (esp in the case of Clemens & Hemingway where they are performing the parts of Twain & Papa in public). There is also a great deal of ambiguity in each story. The first one, Poe Posthumous could (CONT)

vivastory be interpreted as a science experiment gone horribly wrong. One could also make a compelling argument that the entire story is imagined by Poe as he died from rabies. Then there is the very uncomfortable story about Twain. The collection has a fantastic preface by Oates, which is a sort of essay on the art of the short story. I loved this imaginative collection & agree with the NPR quote on the back, “The triumphant paradox here is that (CONT) (edited) 12mo

vivastory in their dying Oates brings these writers ferociously back to life.“ 12mo

Tkimsal Oates is sometimes challenging but, for me, always worth the effort! 12mo

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vivastory @Tkimsal I haven't read her novels, but I love her short stories. 12mo

LeahBergen Well, this sounds interesting! 12mo

Hooked_on_books What @LeahBergen said! 12mo

Branwen Okay, Joyce Carol Oates is usually such a hit or miss with me - but your review really makes me want to check this one out! 12mo

vivastory @Branwen I've only read her stories which I've had a lot of luck with. Her story The Doll-Master has stuck with me years after reading it. It's one of the creepiest I've read. I also really liked the anthology she edited American Gothic 12mo

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giulia.mosna

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction | Henry James

bailed

Il primo romanzo breve della raccolta, "The turn of the screw", non mi è dispiaciuto, anche se anche in questo caso (come per "The Haunting of Hill House") ho preferito decisamente la serie di Mike Flanagan rispetto al libro che l'ha ispirata. "Washington Square" invece mi ha fatto passare la voglia di finire il libro.
I didn't mind the first short novel contained in the book, "The Turn of the Screw", but in this case too [...]

giulia.mosna [...] (like with "The Haunting of Hill House") I liked Mike Flanagans show much more than the book it was inspired from. "Washington Square", on the other hand, made me not want to finish the book. 12mo

iaietta Non sapevo ci fosse la serie! Me la guarderò 12mo

giulia.mosna @iaietta la serie ha un titolo diverso dal libro - "The Haunting of Bly Manor". Comunque consigliatissima, una delle mie serie preferite. 12mo

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