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#AlphabetGame
Title that begins with the letter V
Several noteworthy candidates for V: Han Kang's The Vegetarian. An unforgettable story of Yeong-hye's decision to stop eating meat & the ramifications that her “passive rebellion“ will have, Karen Russell's fabulist story collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove, one of my most frequently rec story collections. Barbara Comyns' The Vet's Daughter, a brilliant, & terrifying domestic gothic👇

Erdrich's literary allusions are pretty clever in The Sentence 📚📚

So intense.

This was my first Flannery O'Connor...and I was blown away by the writing. So happy this was part of the #readingwomens2018challange. I never would have picked this author up on my own. 4.5 🌟

Now to knock off another challenge of the #readingwomenschallenge2018! This will be my first O`Connor.

I‘ve learned to love southern gothic. I do struggle with some of the language O‘Connor uses. I didn‘t pause to think about this until I read a book of her letters. My questions: do you consider the time period when reading a book? And are you more willing to look past flaws depending on the time period?

Francis Tarwater is raised in seclusion by his great-uncle. Tarwater's great-uncle is convinced that he will become a great prophet & his dying wish is for Tarwater to baptize the child of his cousin, a school teacher named Rayber. Tarwater moves in with his cousin & struggles against his attempts to modernize him. There are a lot of themes at work: faith vs secularism, parental influence & control, Innocence, fate vs self-determination. 👇

My reoccurring thought since I started this a couple of hours ago is, "Holy shit, how have I lived this long without reading Flannery O'Connor?!"

"The freak in modern fiction is usually disturbing to us because he keeps us from forgetting that we share in his state" ~Flannery O'Connor From my local book store. I seriously need more of her on my shelves!

Here are a few women authors who never married! #allthesingleladies #junebookbugs

A Spectacular, sharp edged and hard book. Violent, controversial and deeply disturbing, but immaculately composed with more things to talk about than should be possible out of 200 pages of book. I was so glad to reread this one, and I can't wait to talk about it tonight at Bookclub.

This is a really good book. I don't even know what to think about it except that I'm glad I read it.

Damnit Flannery, why do you have to be the literal best?

So much in this book I didn't expect. Flannery O'Connor has a dry wit that sneaks up on you. Very serious subject matter peppered with funny imagery. If one of your resolutions is to read more classics I would try her out. 👍🏻

You know you're doing something right when Elizabeth Bishop is the one blurbing your books.

I'm gonna be honest with ya...I didn't like this. It's disturbing, for sure, how people can be so tunnel-sighted, especially when it comes to religion. But I was really disinterested for the most part. To quote Simon: "It's a no from me." 74/1001 #1001Books

I'm about to start rereading this one for RoscoeBooks's Classics bookclub in two weeks. Look at me, getting a head start on things.

Also: look at that gorgeous cover!

#requiredreading #southernlit #womenauthors

The top 2 are for my classes next semester 👌🏻 and the bottom one was on clearance and since I just finished Lucy Barton I felt it was meant to be 😉

🌟🌟for it's genre, it was a classic - but I found myself SO bored and confused at points that I had to push myself to get through it.

happy mornings ❤ ...

First time reading Flannery O'Connor!