Rachel King Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Rachel King

"Marissa was of the mind that people who smoked but quit early, or better yet, tried briefly but for whom it never clicked, were much more to be trusted than people who had never tried it at all." #SundaySentence Un-ruined a novel by Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva @MalarkeyBooks

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@melmatthewson Haven't read it yet but Rough House a memoir by Tina Ontiveros from OSU Press might be a good one. Details a specific but common family story in this region.

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"I tried to pretend that the world contained only me and cheese, which, frankly, is how the world *should* be." #SundaySentence from the funny and insightful YA novel The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by @isaacblum_

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@RosebudBenOni Smoke by Dorianne Laux and Talking to My Body by Anna Swir gave me permission to write how I wanted to write. Early Occult Systems by BH Fairchild made me realize why I left home. Human Wishes by Robert Hass and Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert made me want more out of life.

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Worth noting that according to Gabriel García Márquez's Paris Review interview, all (five I think) of his books before One Hundred Years of Solitude sold fewer than 700 copies.

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@RosebudBenOni Smoke by Dorianne Laux and Talking to My Body by Anna Swir gave me permission to write how I wanted to write. Early Occult Systems by BH Fairchild made me realize why I left home. Human Wishes by Robert Hass and Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert made me want more out of life.

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@RosebudBenOni Smoke by Dorianne Laux and Talking to My Body by Anna Swir gave me permission to write how I wanted to write. Early Occult Systems by BH Fairchild made me realize why I left home. Human Wishes by Robert Hass and Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert made me want more out of life.

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@KathleenMRooney I'll throw Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey and Just Above My Head by James Baldwin into the ring. @AmericanGwyn did a bracket on it on here over the holidays and As I Lay Dying won.

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@huaxixyz My linked collection Bratwurst Haven has several hopeful stories according to writer Mary Kay Zuravleff. We discuss it around min 23 in this video at Politics and Prose. I also mention the stories of Barry Lopez and Ron Carlson. https://t.co/mGGGtDsDqd

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@nw_review Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor was the first book that made me cry, summer before fourth grade, then I started writing a few months later. So possibly that one.