Stepping out of my sci-fi and fantasy roots netted me two really great reads in the form of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and James by Percival Everett #BookSky 💙📚🪐📚🖋️📚 - ThreadSky

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shadowsofthot.bsky.social • 10 days ago

Stepping out of my sci-fi and fantasy roots netted me two really great reads in the form of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and James by Percival Everett #BookSky 💙📚🪐📚🖋️📚

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danireads.bsky.social•10 days ago

James was phenomenal

shadowsofthot.bsky.social•10 days ago

James had me in tears and made me want to learn more as a southern person

jmsmith84.bsky.social•10 days ago

I finished James yesterday and immediately slapped it on my coworkers desk and insisted she read it right away. I absolutely loved it.

shadowsofthot.bsky.social•10 days ago

As a person who grew up in the south where the history of slavery was barely taught to have a fictional characters from a kids book just slap you over the head with how much you didn’t know…. James was a catalyst for me

enbyemu.bsky.social•10 days ago

You wouldn't consider Piranesi to be fantasy?

shadowsofthot.bsky.social•10 days ago

It’s odd cause I do. But also tags on sites say literary fantasy it kinda occupies two realities which considering the story is apt

enbyemu.bsky.social•10 days ago

Interesting. I definitely need more literary fantasy in my life, though.

shadowsofthot.bsky.social•10 days ago

I agree

enbyemu.bsky.social•10 days ago

What website had that as a single tag? I need to peruse that list!

Also, if you just want a recommendation, I would highly recommend The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. I bet that would count as literary fantasy.

shadowsofthot.bsky.social•10 days ago

Also I’ll add that to my tbr

shadowsofthot.bsky.social•10 days ago

Well it might not be a singular one but I know that on StoryGraph in my stats it has it under literary and fantasy

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