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Post by hi224 on Sept 15, 2018 6:56:05 GMT
my all time favorite actually is Shirley Jackson as well.
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Post by dirtypillows on Sept 15, 2018 8:08:45 GMT
Nice!!! Please share, hi224, what are some of your favorite short stories of Shirley Jackson's?
Of course, "The Lottery" is EXCELLENT. God, so bonechilling and once you read it, you can never unread it. But my all-time favorite is "An Ordinary Day, With Peanuts". It just captured Miss Jackson's special charms like no other, and that last three of four sentences, when all is revealed.... well, it's not the kind of horror that "The Lottery" brings, but, my gosh, I still got that same chill, reading this woman's point of view, and I knew right then and there that Shirley Jackson was the most honest person on the planet! lol!
Other short stories of SJ's that I love
"Mrs. Melville Makes a Purhcase" (hilarious) "The Night We All Had Grippe" (top, top notch Jackson, breathtaking funny) "Trial By Combat" "Come to the Fair" (a big huge sweet tear-jerker, just lovely) "The Possibility of Evil" "I.O.U." (there was something so sweet and so special about the very ending of this one, that upon reading it I unexpectedly burst into tears) "Deck the Halls" (another very touching one, she could spin gold out of next to nothing) "The Wishing Dime" "Party of Boys" (what a good handle she had on the typical 12 tear old boy! I cannot imagine her children not adoring her.) "The Lottery" "It Must Have Been the Car" "My Grandmother and the World of Cats" "What A Thought" "Dinner for a Gentleman" "About Two Nice People" "The Friends" "Family Magician"
So is that "Uncle Charlie" in your avatar? God, he was a handsome man.
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Post by kaleamahalo on Sept 23, 2018 0:58:18 GMT
I loved the lottery when I read it in high school. I will have to check out some of her other stories.
I know it’s a cliche, but I do love Jane Austin.
My guilty pleasure is Jodi picoult
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Sept 23, 2018 18:53:56 GMT
Ursula Le Guin
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Post by hi224 on Sept 23, 2018 20:22:44 GMT
I looked at my friend said wtf when he never recognized shirley jackson as well lol.
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Post by kaleamahalo on Sept 25, 2018 0:47:50 GMT
I saw a few weeks ago they were making Nine Lives into a movie.
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Post by cooly44 on Sept 25, 2018 22:13:18 GMT
I don't divide authors into male or female. I have authors I like, period.
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Post by lunda2222 on Sept 30, 2018 20:19:07 GMT
Robin Hobb, the name is so androgynous I had no idea she was a female when I started reading her. I simply assumed she was a male at first since I usually identify another unknown person with my own sex.
Not that the sex of the author matters to me. What does matter is how well an author writes.
I also enjoy reading J.K. Rowling.
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Post by sostie on Oct 5, 2018 10:39:57 GMT
A M Homes
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 6, 2018 14:38:06 GMT
There are plenty of female authors i like, but i don`t really have one favorite
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 6, 2018 16:07:46 GMT
I agree with poster who listed Ursula Le Guin
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Post by llanwydd on Oct 6, 2018 17:20:46 GMT
Agatha Christie
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 6, 2018 19:24:08 GMT
MARY SHELLEY
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Post by rudeboy on Oct 7, 2018 0:17:29 GMT
Looking only at contemporary authors, I am currently a huge fan of Hanya Yanagihara, having read and loved both of her novels to date - The People in the Trees and A Little Life.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 7, 2018 19:21:08 GMT
Looking only at contemporary authors, I am currently a huge fan of Hanya Yanagihara, having read and loved both of her novels to date - The People in the Trees and A Little Life. I like her.
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Post by Larcen26 on Oct 8, 2018 21:06:42 GMT
Agatha Christie Octavia Butler
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Post by RomyLovesMick on Dec 19, 2019 6:13:03 GMT
Too many to list, but Jane Austen, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Charlotte and Emily Bronte, and Virginia Woolf are particular favorites. Willa Cather wrote unparalleled novels about frontier life and the immigrant experience in America. Then there's the wicked wit and wisdom of Flannery O'Connor. Who else could write a screamingly funny story about a family that ends up murdered by an escaped prison convict? No one but O'Connor. Read her story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Read all of her stories, and her two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away, read her book of essays Mystery and Manners, and finally read her collected letters.
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Post by The Lost One on Dec 19, 2019 9:59:02 GMT
Tanith Lee Ursula Le Guin Charlotte Bronte (caveat: I've only actually read Jane Eyre so far)
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Post by novastar6 on Dec 19, 2019 13:14:57 GMT
Mary Roberts Rinehart.
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Post by RomyLovesMick on Dec 20, 2019 3:18:33 GMT
Too many to list, but Jane Austen, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Charlotte and Emily Bronte, and Virginia Woolf are particular favorites. Willa Cather wrote unparalleled novels about frontier life and the immigrant experience in America. Then there's the wicked wit and wisdom of Flannery O'Connor. Who else could write a screamingly funny story about a family that ends up murdered by an escaped prison convict? No one but O'Connor. Read her story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Read all of her stories, and her two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away, read her book of essays Mystery and Manners, and finally read her collected letters. Wonderful post, Eowyn. There are so many really great ones, aren't there? Willa Cather happens to be my personal favorite for a variety of reasons, not least her talent. But you've made me think of two more I really treasure: Eudora Welty and Doris Lessing. I tend to love artists who write about the people and the places they know and love.
Hi Spider - I love Welty and Lessing, too. One of the reasons I don't make lists like these is that I always fail to mention someone - and shame on me for not including Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. My bad! Here's Eudora Welty reading her story Why I Live at the P.O. I love her voice, and it's such a wonderful and funny story.
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