Samuel Martin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Samuel Martin

A passage from @JamesLeeBurke’s new Aaron Holland Broussard novel EVERY CLOAK ROLLED IN BLOOD (2022). #WritingCommunity, who are the writers, like or unlike Burke, who write both genre mysteries (#crimefiction) and big ‘M’ Mysteries: about both physical and metaphysical #mystery? https://t.co/UDrXOwu00S

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A student from last year asked for help finding a book for independent reading in another class, something good. “Like @DavidJoy_Author’s THE LINE THAT HELD US.” We tried a few intros and settled on @DanielColeBooks’ RAGDOLL. Next up: @adrianmckinty’s THE CHAIN. I like my job!

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As a writer, I often dream up frightening scenes and scenarios. Then I overhear my 6 year-old saying, “And this creature has giant claws that can split a volcano in half!” And I think, geez, my kid’s #monsters are scarier than Tolkien’s Balrog or anything in Dante’s inferno.

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Great review of @Gabino_Iglesias’s hotly anticipated new novel THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME. Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, darker than the Book of Job. I’m in. #preordered https://t.co/dyK0oXuS19

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@Alpha_Lupus Well, before David Joy’s THE LINE THAT HELD US was banned, I was teaching it as Southern Gothic, connecting it to O’Connor, and teaching literary concepts like rising action, dramatic irony, climax & denouement.

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@PSLiterary @wirelesshogan’s and Soong-Chan Rah’s “Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery” https://t.co/MZhDTmSaKV

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Looking for your next kid-friendly Christmas read? Try HIPSWITCH & HUGGLEDUG’S HOLIDAY HEIST! A rollicking holiday tale of wild animal adventure in the spirit of Roald Dahl's classic The Fantastic Mr. Fox! https://t.co/QwPtno5uwc

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This looks like a great book, featured on @cbcbooks #writersandcompany. It takes up themes about which I care deeply. About people trying to make a moral choice in the face of brutalizing religious pressures. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/claire-keegan-s-small-things-like-these-is-a-story-of-moral-crisis-heroism-and-the-human-heart-1.6426299?fbclid=IwAR3dBjKJ12Q632tCr3pFW1o2CzJ3BywUrZny9wcU_VUQ8UUxHLA6ojJgwjQ

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I keep coming back to this passage from Annie Dillard’s PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK and thinking about loving this country here below and how sometimes it’s resistance to love seems far more powerful than my ability to love it. Still, and ever, there are those glimpses of beauty. https://t.co/VYDRCIDbRB

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Just finished @adrianmckinty’s THE COLD, COLD GROUND. A crime thriller set in 1980s Belfast, in the tilt-bomb terror of The Troubles. Dark, fast-paced, funny as hell, and soaked in biblical rain and fury. https://t.co/6sXBoxT5la

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