Three Atmospheric Books

Is that a Peter Pan Silhouette in the background :~) Nice Bookish Saturday Review !

The Shirley Jackson Award sounds like something up Sush's alley! Neat to hear about these books.

The Hole sounds really good, but it also feels like it would be a challenge for me to get through.

Some one had THE HOLE on you tube but of course it's gone. Hopefully will find it one one of many channels out there or buy a used copy of the book. Also want to read the other books you recommended. I love magical realism and folk lore type books. This is the first time I listened to your channel and loved your commentary. Beautifully done. KUDOS!!!! Subscribed and liked! Also could listen to you read as you have a soothing voice. Would you consider reading a book you love?

I just read, and then re-read, The Night Ocean and was surprised by how good it is! The writing is very intelligent, and mysteries abound and I got befuddled by the compelling narratives, one after another, or one inside another inside another that all turned out to be untrue. The identities were both real, as in real historical writers, and deliberately, maliciously false. It has hilarious scenes, as well as the versatile writing, very adept. It's a mystery unraveled partly by the narrator of the book, Marina, and partly by the disastrous errors of her husband Charlie. It's about literary fandom, specifically the weird horror genre and H. P. Lovecraft and the infighting of the devotees to outdo each other. And it is about the night ocean underlying all human knowledge, that floats on the unknowable but powerful ocean of human motivation which can indeed be dark. A last page positivity is the surprise ending – I'd considered the narrator doomed! I will look up more Paul La Farge books. Thank you for the recommendation, Andreea. Next: The Bone Mother!

Your really something, I could listen to you all day. I’d love to know more about you. Have you done a video about yourself and background?

the hole sounds so good, and the night ocean also seems interesting. i didnt love the hp lovecraft that i have read, i felt like most stories started out great and then ended disappointingly

I am trying to read 5 books at the present (down from 7) so I can't get going on any of these three but they all sound like ones I'd enjoy. Atmosphere is so wonderful, though some atmospheres are just too negative for me. I'm about crazy enough to always have felt that there's some secret dimension to this very world we're in, and that dimension is magical in exciting ways. So I'm drawn to mood books like The Night Ocean, and the others. Romania . . . made famous by Bram Stoker, yes? Old photos of one's rels (mine) are nearly always weird, so weird you know they must be genuine, in the truth stranger than fiction file.