hello #booksky - what is your favorite book you feel like no one has heard of/have never seen anyone talking about?
no self-/friend promos. i want organic, home-grown random recs.
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no self-/friend promos. i want organic, home-grown random recs.
💙📚
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ive introduced the trilogy to a few folks but i havent seen anyone else talk about it
(from "Blue Monday" by Wakoski)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46663/blue-monday-56d2269d7b489
jacaranda—fallen blue and gold flowers, crushed into the street." !!! oof
If you don’t like video games, it’s medieval horror meets HBO’s The Last of Us.
It is truly exquisite world-building. The two last real magicians in England navigate the Napoleonic Wars and each other. Lore is built through sometimes page-long footnotes. I will never shut up about this book.
I read it earlier this year. I may need to read it again soon.
* (technically one of my good friends is also in this fanclub. Ok but it’s a very small fanclub I promise)
J. P. Donleavy
1. Fall On Your Knees by Anne Marie Macdonald
2. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
3. Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Happened_in_Boston%3F
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nog_(novel)
I'm also cheating a little because this is chapters from 2 separate places but the 'Nature of Gothic' chapter included here is practically revelatory. In amongst the architecture lesson are some gems about life and craft.
But I remember naming it as one of my favourites all throughout my upper teens, so keen to see if it holds up!
i might have to read it
The midpoint especially sticks in my mind 😉