I enjoyed this biography of Shirley Jackson more than I expected, given the intimidating size of it at 19.5 hours of audio (608 pages in the bound version). The author does a fine job of blending a discussion of her life events and influences into summary and critique of her novels and a selection o...
I'll be real, I gave up on this. I can only do so many 3 page stories that follow the same format in a row. I like the uncanny and will likely come back to this in the future when I need a quick dose of it. For now, returning to this book felt like a chore and reading in that mindset isn't fair to ...
Jackson's first novel, finally put back into print (in high style) by Penguin classics. Reading a well-known author's early work is a strange experience. Of course, she had already written "The Lottery", but in the novel form her style was still developing. In the residents of Pepper Street, Jackson...
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