Caroline Shea Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Caroline Shea

The Bone Season series (Samantha Shannon)* *reread https://t.co/pcH7T2Bhe3

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Wild Seed (Octavia Butler) I think I loved this one even more than Parable of The Sower & it might be my favorite take on immortality/immortal characters that I’ve read. https://t.co/6udJziok6m

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@meadwriter this!!! i love when a book feels in conversation w/ its influences/other books and isn’t afraid to be direct about it. (makes me think of Mary Shelley quoting Coleridge & her husband in Frankenstein even tho the poems hadn’t come out yet in the timeline of the book lol)

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@cautiousmonster Magdalene & What The Living Do (Marie Howe), seconding Ghost Of (Diana Khoi Nguyen), When My Brother Was an Aztec (Natalie Diaz), Half Life (Meghan O’Rourke), Steel (Alison Prine), and Repast (D.A. Powell).

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The Fifth Head of Cerberus (Gene Wolfe) a puzzle box of a book—the three linked novellas contradict, complicate, and illuminate each other. it slowly dissects the way colonialism can crush both those who rebel and those who assimilate, the way it allows those in power to decide https://t.co/tYeblUbsDS

Caroline Shea

Wild Seed (Octavia Butler) I think I loved this one even more than Parable of The Sower & it might be my favorite take on immortality/immortal characters that I’ve read. https://t.co/6udJziok6m

Caroline Shea

@cxorlando Fantasy w/ a capital F: The Unwilling (Kelly Braffet), The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (N.K. Jemison), The Mask of Mirrors (M.A. Carrick) Kushiel’s Dart (Jacqueline Carey), Winter Be My Shield (Jo Spurrier), Crimson Bound (Rosamund Hodge)(technically YA I think), (1/2)

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Two more rereads this week, both favorites that I hadn’t returned to in a while. The Seas (Samantha Hunt) and Lighthousekeeping (Jeanette Winterson). https://t.co/jMQjjDVLzm

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The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (Ursula K. Le Guin) adored almost all of these, and was surprised that I was way more into the sci-fi leaning ones than the fantasy ones. le guin’s notes at the beginning of each story were always interesting & frequently very funny https://t.co/r0SXAP1pNz

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The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin) an older poet once told me “some people write about the world, while some people write about ideas” in a tone that implied the second was inferior. i think I love Le Guin in part because she loves ideas—what does freedom mean? https://t.co/QbAKVCFh3q

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