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Shirley Jackson Month
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DMed: Battle of the Bards, Banshee Bride, NPSG, Clockwork Sienna, The Witch is Dead Playing: Ozbox Souptoot Played: Fioravanti-Anya-Ripper-Malyth, Ingetrude Frostblossom, Myrrh the Burned, Primble Thorne, Ozbox, Ferrar, Burnapolia Bronkus Last edited by Fillyjonk; Oct 6th, 2023 at 11:00 AM. |
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Hooray! I have read We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, and the collection that "The Lottery" and "The Daemon Lover" are in, but my youngest child has become obsessed with the other novels and I have had them pressed into my hands on several occasions in the last year. So, I'm going to start with The Bird's Nest. Might do a rewatch of the Netflix Hill House just because.
SPOOP ON.
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I think that reading Shirley Jackson is kind of like getting slowly but insistently pinched on the back of the upper arm.
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Yes. And you LIKE it.
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One of my favorite Independent Bookstores just posted this:
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”—Shirley Jackson, “The Haunting of Hill House.” This is what a perfect opening paragraph looks like.
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Hi all - I'm going to try following along with the book club. I've been meaning to start reading more, and it looks like a fun list of authors the group has been reading.
Somehow I managed to make it through school without reading The Lottery. I just read it, and it's pretty great. It's all the more disturbing because as you read the story, you think to yourself, "Yep, this is all fairly accurate." And then you finish the story and go straight back to your own life full of its own thoughtless cruelties and veneers of normalcy. I've just started reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Shirley Jackson does seem to have an acute awareness of "unspoken things beneath the surface" and "all is not right, although it seems to be." I'm only a few pages in, but have already stumbled across a few wonderful passages, like this one: Quote:
Really great stuff... I'm looking forward to seeing where the story goes. |
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ooof
I went and reread the lottery -- I had forgotten how normal and fine it all is, and how it made my chest squeeze shut because that fine normalness means it can't be fixed or challenged. Green grass, blue sky, ho hum, now we do this... My country is in a culture war right now, and it is just fruitless as they all are; the young win, eventually, because the old die, but my god how the old fight, and then the young get old and do the same thing. It's hard to be a herd animal with enough gray matter to KNOW we are herd animals but not enough to stop doing dumb herd animal things. She is great.
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Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster.
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Quote:
"There are few things that Republicans and Democrats agree on. But one area where a significant share of each party finds common ground is a belief that the country is headed toward failure." (link) So of course the kids are spitting off the edge of the world (gotta love the apocalypse mobile)... And with that, I'm going to make another cup of coffee (and try not to think of what it took to get the coffee beans to me). |
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Hey guys… Sorry November is late. As some of you know, cheerio and I are doing nano.
We also didn’t get a lot of suggestions… We’re kind of thinking about children of blood and bone. Anybody read that? excuse my complete lack of punctuation I’m voice to texting!
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