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⌈ Secret Post #2383 ⌋

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02. [SPOILERS for Hawaii Five-O]

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03. [SPOILERS for Ashes to Ashes/Life on Mars]

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04. [SPOILERS for A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones]

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05. [WARNING for rape]

[Russell Brand]

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06. [WARNING for sexual assault]

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07. [WARNING for chan/shota]

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08. [WARNING for emotional abuse]

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09. [WARNING for rape/dub-con]

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10. [WARNING for incest]

[Fosters]

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I just recced the hell out of this to some coworkers today so this is great timing.... one of my favorite books ever is A.S. Byatt's Possession. It's basically a literary mystery -- two English lit grad students studying two Romantic-era poets discover clues that suggest the two poets (never before known to interact) actually had a love affair, and they piece the clues together through the poets' poetry, letters, journals, and other artifacts. The book alternates between the present action with the grad students and the past action with the poets. A.S. Byatt is an insanely sensitive and elegant writer, AND she also accomplished the amazing feat of recreating the poetry of these fictional writers, one sort of in the style of Tennyson/Coleridge, the other sort of in the style of Christina Rosetti/Emily Dickinson. She's just a genius, and the book is gripping and fun, and I am in love with the character of Maud. Nobody writes "icy on the outside, passionate on the inside" characters like Byatt does.

That's my favorite book too. :) It really encapsulates everything about why I decided to be an English professor.

Have you read any of her other work? I adore her short stories. I think Angels and Insects is brilliant.

Yes! I've read (let's see) The Game, Sugar and Other Stories, Angels and Insects, The Djinn in the Garden, The Matisse Stories, Elementals, The Little Black Book of Stories, and The Children's Book. I've wanted to get into her 4-book series that starts with The Virgin in the Garden, but I just...couldn't get interested for some reason.

I like her short stories (especially Angels and Insects!), but I think Possession is my favorite thing she's ever written. It's satisfying on so many levels. :) Yay for it being your favorite book, too!

I read the first two of that series and then lost interest myself. That was years ago, though. It's on my agenda to re-read them at some point.

I absolutely adored Elementals. That story where the woman turns to stone--fantastic.

How do you feel about Margaret Atwood? I love her as well and I think her writing has such a kinship with A.S. Byatt's writing.

ME TOO. (OMG, that was the other author I was reccing to my friends today!) Yes, I see that kinship, too -- she's another one who writes very cerebral, emotionally reserved women very insightfully, and has a similar elegant command of the English language.

My favorite of hers is either The Robber Bride or Alias Grace. In her case, I find her earlier work really hard to get into -- I read Bodily Harm in college and it made me physically ill (I think that was actually the book that got me to break my rule of having to finish every book I start). Alias Grace seems to me to be her masterpiece, in that all of her talents are in full bloom and all of her weaknesses are quieter than usual. Occasionally she can get snide and, well, bitchy, in her tone of writing, which irritates me, but there was very little of that in Alias, Grace.

I've never read Bodily Harm, but I have read the other books you mention, and they're awesome.

I think my favorites of her novels are The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, and its sequel The Year of the Flood. What I love most, though, are her short stories. Bluebeard's Egg is one of the finest collections of short stories I've ever read (but I've always been a sucker for reworkings of fairy tales).

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