rec me books, o reading page?

[fiachairecht]

I like disastrous obsessive girls and unreliable narrators and settings-that-are-characters and psychological horror, among other things. non-dude authors preferred. the last book i finished was the haunting of hill house (shirley jackson), am currently reading the bear and the nightingale (katherine arden), next will probably be the traitor baru cormorant (seth dickinson).

also if you're wondering if i type the vast majority of my book-question posts on my phone while lying on the floor of my favourite indie bookshop you would be correct, excuse the typos my screen is too small to show me and autocorrect may catch and may make worse.

(the problem, you see, with dreamwidth moving so quickly these days, is that i keep forgetting who mentioned excellent-sounding books and then because i am bad at remembering to add them to my memories, i also forget where they are! and the last four pages of my reading page are all today!)

ETA: wow yes you all have super great taste and also apparently strong feelings on twin peaks? i have never seen the show but i am delighted by that spinoff discussion. i am definitely set for my next few library trips now :D

Comments

[havocthecat]

Thank you!

Also, frankly, this entire post has helped to reassure me that the character in my original fiction who is utterly terrible and manipulative (uh, because she cares?) should be allowed to be utterly terrible and manipulative.

I've spent two scenes shoehorning her into being a better person (after she blackmailed someone) and why am I bothering? WHY?

Let her keep the news that her girlfriend's entire livelihood has burned down to herself because it would mean more time with them. Obviously, she's doing it "to keep them safe," not for any other, more selfish reasons. (She's totally doing it for more selfish reasons.)