#Marie Rutoski

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My Favorite Books that I Read as a Kid 1/

Runemarks (Joanne Harris) / The Cabinet of Wonders (Marie Rutkoski) / Eragon (Christopher Paolini) / Sabriel (Garth Nix) / Skullduggery Pleasant (Derek Landy) / Malice (Chris Wooding) / East (Edith Pattou) / Inkheart (Cornelia Funke) / Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (Alison Goodman) / The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)

[victoreli]

the winternight trilogy by marie rutoski//these hands if not gods by natalie diaz//she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan//on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

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5 9 books to read in 2022

tagged by @swallowedabug!

1. in the dream house - carmen maria machado

2. the traitor baru cormorant - seth dickinson

3. the hollow heart - marie rutoski

4. ancillary justice - ann leckie

5. the jasmine throne - tasha suri

6. the long away to a small, angry planet - becky chambers

7. and shall machines surrender - benjanun sriduangkaew

8. sapiens - a brief history of humankind

9. nona the ninth - tamsyn muir

10. the grief keeper - alexandra villasante

tagging: @elsas @degenerate-perturbation @vidiabell @pastramis @wahooty @transcendrealms and anyone else who thinks books are neat!

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49, 50

Salut!

49. Worst book you’ve ever read??

“The Winner’s Curse” by Marie Rutoski. Idk it’s been sooo long since I haven’t read any young adult thing (like, three years) but I can clearly remember while reading I just couldn’t turn a page at all! It seemed so dull and predictable. Maybe it’s because I read so many young adult novels in the past that everything seems the same now. People seem to like it, I’ve always hated anything mainstream anyway.

50. Do you read classics?? If so, what’s your favourite??

Yay, I do! I’ve got a bunch of favourites but I’m only going to give some. Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” (the character I can relate the most, ever), Zola’s “Nana”, Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”, and Gaskell’s “North & South”. I also want to count in some modern classics: “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Kundera and “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” by Fowles.

let’s talk about books

[bookofmirth]

Writing style wise, who are your favorite living authors?

I love this question so much, thank you!!! Also sorry it took me a few days, I knew it was going to take me a bit. I have a bookshelf on Goodreads here for books where the prose really struck me. But here are the living authors whose writing style in particular I enjoy. I also explained what kind of stuff they write.

Jeannette Winterson - memoirs, thinly-veiled autobiographical fiction about being a lesbian. Also a retelling of A Winter’s Tale.

Sarah Perry - historical fiction, but also based on obscure myths (Melmoth had a really creepy ending!)

Jeff VanderMeer - Sci-fi/speculative fiction, can be very dense because you get dropped into these post-apocalyptic worlds and you don’t really know how it got like that. Also a bit creepy. The word “uncanny” comes to mind, in the psychoanalytic sense.

Marilynne Robinson - domestic, contemporary fiction that sounds like if prose wanted to be poetry or poetry decided to be prose.

Hilary Mantel - historical fiction, I’ve been waiting for four years for her to finish her trilogy about Thomas Cromwell.

Sarah Waters - mostly historical fiction, mostly about lesbians

Catherynne Valente - fantasy/sci-fi/??? Her writing can also be dense, but Deathless is gorgeous.

Frances Hardinge - Middle grade fantasy and historical fiction.

Daisy Johnson - I enjoyed her short stories better than her novel, but she can write a sentence that forces you to stop and stare at it for sheer beauty.

Madeline Miller - retellings of Greek myths, deceptively simple.

Fatima Farheen Mirza - she only has one book out right now (about a Muslim American family) but A Place For Us is one of my favorite books of 2018 so far.

Marie Rutoski - YA fantasy. I can’t wait for her new book to come next summer!

Maggie Stiefvater - YA fantasy.

Michael Ondaatje - historical fiction, largely about WWII from what I can tell.

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I AM DISTRAUGHT

[bookofmirth]

Top three underrated books/series

Underrated! Ok I have some good ones

1) The Queen of the Tearling, by Erika Johansen. I was actually thinking about rereading this before the year is up. Her writing is a bit dense and there is a lot of violence, but the world is amazing! It’s fantasy but speculative but fantasy. It’s how @my-name-is-fireheart and I met!!!

2) The Winner’s trilogy by Marie Rutoski. I’ve posted about this in the past but it’s just. So well written. I favor writing and stories that focus on feelings more than plot, but this has BOTH! I feel so many things but I’m also on the edge of my seat!

3) Also instead of two books or series, how about two authors: Mindy McGinnis, who writes YA but in very diverse genres within that, and Sara Taylor, who writes literary fiction that is so poignant and timely.

I’m cheating a bit haha top three anything

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top three quotes?

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers” - LM Montgomery

“Sometimes, I think, you can look at a person and know they are full of words. Maybe the words are withheld due to pain or privacy, or maybe subterfuge. Maybe there are knife-edged words waiting to draw blood.” - Madeleine Thien

“As he spoke, it occurred to her that maybe he, too, felt like two people, that maybe everybody does, and that it’s not a question of whether one’s damaged, but of how easily or not that damage is seen.”- Marie Rutoski

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anticipated releases of 2018

Here it is! The books I am looking forward to that are coming out next year. Some of them are parts of series, some are standalones, there is a mix of genres including fantasy and literary fiction, and all of them are things you will hear me squeeing about in the coming months. I put them in order to release date, not how much I am anticipating them (though if you listen hard enough, you might hear me screaming about Iron Gold and ToG7 from wherever you live in the world).

(PS, these release dates are all based on the US, and a couple of them are already out elsewhere)

Cruel Prince, by Holly Black (January 2nd)

Beneath the Sugar Sky, by Seanan McGuire (January 8th) Please read this series, for the love of all that is holy.

Iron Gold, by Pierce Brown (January 16th) Please ignore me screaming as I reread the Red Rising trilogy in preparation for this.

The Silent Companions, by Laura Purcell (March 6th) this is cheating, as it is out in the UK and I bought it while there. It’s a creepy historical fiction and I picked it up because of the cover, and then the comparison to The Little Stranger made me buy it.

Obsidio, by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (March 13th). Illuminae #3 whoot

First Person, by Richard Flanagan (April 3rd) ok so this one is also cheating, it’s already out in the UK and I bought it while I was there *grins*. Flanagan won the Man Booker prize in 2014 for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and I really loved it.

Given to the Earth, by Mindy McGinnis (April 10th) This is a sequel and I haven’t read the first book (Given to the Sea) but I will read anything she writes.

A Reaper at the Gates, by Sabaa Tahir (April 24th)

A Court of Frost and Starlight, by Sarah J Maas (May 1st)

Neverworld Wake, by Marisha Pessl (June)

Florida, by Lauren Groff (June 5th) Fates and Furies was so good, I want to see what else she has to offer.

Throne of Glass 7, SJM (September 9th)

Nevernight #3 (untitled as of now), by Jay Kristoff. There is no release date, only my hopes and dreams.

Vengeful, by V.E. Schwab - also no release date, but as this is the follow-up to Vicious, I need this like, yesterday.

Matryoshka, by Catherynne M. Valente. No release date. This was on my list for 2017. Where is it??? It’s a companion to Deathless.

Untitled project by Marie Rutoski. No release date, but I will literally read anything this woman writes, and Goodreads has this as 2018, so I’m going with it.

I’ll probably update this list in a few months, as this focused on things coming out in the first half of the year. No doubt I will find out about others eventually!

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Could you recommend a series for someone who enjoys ToG/ACOTAR series? I like the fantasy aspect along with SJM’s writing style, but am dying for a new read. Thanks 😊.

Yes! Absolutely! I have a shelf dedicated to my favorite series, actually, and along with SJM’s books, I have a couple others:

The first one is the Winner’s trilogy by Marie Rutoski. Except there isn’t any magic/fantasy elements really, but the characters are so complex and the writing is beautiful and it balances that with a well-paced plot and there are so many OMG moments and you might think you’ll die. It’s one of those series I had to talk to someone about as I was reading it.

If you really want the fantasy, then the Queen of the Tearling series by Erica Johansen is amazing. I will warn you, there isn’t much romance, the writing style is quite a bit more dense and so harder to get through, and it’s pretty violent in a stomach-churning way. But it’s on my shelf of favorites, I was so invested in the characters and figuring out what the heck the backstory of this world was.

Also on that shelf is Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom, by Leigh Bardugo. I feel like you can’t avoid hearing about those books on tumblr, but let me just say I cried like a sad baby who is trying to explain why she is crying and then that just makes it worse.

The last book I have on that shelf isn’t a series, but a standalone: Uprooted, by Naomi Novik. It has all the things SJM does, the fast plot and the magic, a bit of sex, and solid female friendship.

Since I can’t stop myself, I’ll also mention the Shades of Magic series by V.E. Schwab, which would be on that shelf if it could fit. It’s basically a perfect mix of all the above qualities?

And last one I’ll mention is Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. It’s quite a time investment since each book averages 600-700 pages, but he has really nice world-building, and it’s not difficult to understand. I’ve started reading his other major series like three times now and am just like “ugh information” but Mistborn is much better in terms of that, and the end. Just. The end.

I hope some of those sound interesting!