Anyone have a favorite female author at all?
Sept 15, 2018 8:08:45 GMT
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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.
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.