Marvin Shackelford Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Marvin Shackelford

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

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Marvin Shackelford

A fourth book in 2023: Joe Abercrombie’s THE BLADE ITSELF. Often recommended. I liked it. Abercrombie’s prose is kind of dull, and the whole book reads like a 500-page prologue, no narrative arc whatsoever, but the characters are very likable. Or at least interesting. World, too. https://t.co/orh2zNRGKL

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Good evening, my 33rd book of the year is Kazuo Ishiguro’s WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS. I enjoy Ishiguro’s writing, but there’s something in this narrative that feels kind of disconnected so that I’m constantly wondering if I missed something along the way. https://t.co/T1dbIdAH7Y

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Good evening! For my 42nd book of the year, I’m headed to Jorge Luis Borges’s COLLECTED FICTIONS for THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS. Of my many heresies committed as a short-story writing MFA haver, perhaps the greatest is never having read Borges beyond an anthology entry or two. https://t.co/FOpn9APCNr

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@DeletedSharon That’s actually kind of fabulous in a cringey boomer sort of way. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18

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Good evening. My 24th book of 2022 is Steven Erikson’s REAPER’S GALE, seventh Malazan Book of the Fallen entry. I swear, these books get longer as they go… Back to Lether, hundred pages in and feels like a slow start somehow—lot of characters doing I’m not quite sure what yet. https://t.co/UnkNZfBHRu

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4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. 5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works. 6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.

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@DeletedSharon That’s actually kind of fabulous in a cringey boomer sort of way. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18

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Good morning from Birmingham, AL, where my brother is FINALLY seeing a specialist for his super-rare condition, and my 47th book of the year is Andrew Siegrist’s WE IMAGINED IT WAS RAIN. Bit miffed no one told me about this charming collection of stories from a fellow Tennessean. https://t.co/DL9lm3cNBr

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Good afternoon! Sitting here hoping and praying this rain will blow on in, and my 27th book of the year is Philip K. Dick’s DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?. Spotted on shelf yesterday and felt an urge; can’t explain. Maybe because it was BLADE RUNNER’s anniversary? https://t.co/f07a11DTHB

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