Ms. Malone appears to be wandering in some sort of African veldt.
p. 225:
The more she learned, though, the more difficult it became, as each new thing she found out suggested half a dozen questions, each leading in a different direction.
Preach!
The Amber Spyglass: Mary Malone
April 28, 2018 at 3:43 pm (Books, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended)
Tags: fantasy, His Dark Materials, novel, Philip Pullman, reading lists, Saturday
In Honor of Independent Bookstore Day, 28 April 2018: Novelist Lillian Howan Lists Her Favorite Books
April 28, 2018 at 2:59 pm (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Books, Links, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, short story collections, Women Writers)
Tags: Asian American Writers, book lists, fiction, interviews, Literary Magazines, novel, poetry, Saturday, The Lost Language, University of Hawaii
Lillian Howan is the author of the recently published novel, The Charm Buyers. (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017). She spent her early childhood in Tahiti and later graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She is the editor of Wakako Yamauchi’s collection, Rosebud and Other Stories (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2011). Her writings have been published in the Asian American Literary Review, Café Irreal, Calyx, New England Review, Vice Versa, and the anthologies Ms Aligned 2 and Under Western Eyes. Lillian will be reading as part of the Ms. Aligned 2 panel at the Hawai’i Book and Music Festival on Sunday, May 6, at 11 am.
About her list, Lillian says:
- This list of my recommended books is incomplete in the interest of space – I apologize for any omissions! I’d gladly send a list of 500 recommended books by women authors and poets.
Lillian Howan, Author of The Charm Buyers
FICTION
Green Island, Shawna Yang Ryan
Home, Marilynne Robinson
Island of Shattered Dreams, Chantal Spitz
Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
Steelies and Other Endangered Species, Rebecca Lawton
Swimming in Hong Kong, Stephanie Han
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Lydia Davis
The Complete Stories, Clarice Lispector
The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
The Lost Language, Marianne Villanueva
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (the 2016 edition features an excellent introduction by Edwidge Danticat)
Women Without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur
GRAPHIC NOVEL
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, Thi Bui
POETRY
Conjugated Visits, Diane Kirsten Martin
Dream City, Karen Carissimo
Invisible Gifts, Maw Shein Win
Power Made Us Swoon, Brynn Saito
She Had Some Horses, Joy Harjo
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, Lucille Clifton
The Complete Poems, Anne Sexton
The Darkened Temple, Mari L’Esperance
This House, My Bones, Elmaz Abinader
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 