#barbara comyns

[trentsgirlfriend]

[rherlotshadow]

'A Touch of Mistletoe' by Barbara Comyns

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The House of Dolls | Author: Barbara Comyns | Publisher: Turnpike Books (2020)

[writerly-ramblings]

Books Read in March:

1). Garments Against Women (Anne Boyer)

2). Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Barbara Comyns)

3). Enter Ghost (Isabella Hammad)

4). During the Reign of the Queen of Persia (Joan Chase)

5). Animal, Vegetable, Junk (Mark Bittman)

6). The Gospel of Orla (Eoghan Walls)

7). State of Wonder (Ann Patchett)

8). Occasional Prose (Mary McCarthy)

9). The Hero of This Book (Elizabeth McCracken)

10). The Tea Ceremony (Gina Berriault)

11). Double Blind (Edward St. Aubyn)

12). Rapture (Susan Minot)

13). Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work (bell hooks)

14). The Friend Who Got Away (ed. Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell)

15). The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood (Belle Boggs)

16). Birnam Wood (Eleanor Catton)

17). How to Think Like a Woman (Regan Penaluna)

[neonpajamas]

After Our Spoons

after Barbara Comyns

“You married a newt!” said the nuisance to the bride. She did not cry. She pocketed an artist and they made bohemian babies. Crazy and tender and kind. Later, she wrote by bedside feather, bills untethered, framed paintings unwashed. With a cloth she dunked her eggs in gasoline, said the bleached cream rid the shells of mildew, voodoo, worry. Her audience nodded along. The evening a firework, the nighttime a dog.

[lionofchaeronea]

If anyone's looking for a fiction recommendation, I just finished an exceptional novel from the 1980s, The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns. It's based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, but it completely recontextualizes that story and subverts it in astonishing ways. The novel may not be for everyone -- it breaks a number of the "rules" of good fiction -- but I found it unforgettable.

[hairtusk]

also: began reading the vet's daughter by barbara comyns just before lunch, and finished it in one sitting before supper. i can't remember that last time i devoured a novel in one sitting; certainly not since childhood. i hope to spend many of my august days this same way <3

[ladyniniane]

D'autres personnes ici qui font le pumpkin autumn challenge 👀 ? Je serais ravie de voir vos listes et de discuter un peu lecture !

(Liste des livres sous la coupe)

-Roman de ronce et d'épine, Lucie Baratte

-Le bracelet de jade, Mu Ming,

-The city of glass, Nghi Vo

-La Première-Née, Amy Harmon (déjà lu)

-The teller of small fortunes, Julie Leong

-La morelle noire, Teresa Moure

-Arte 19, Kei Okhubo

-Ceux qui changent et ceux qui meurent, Barbara Comyns

-La maîtresse des ombres, Eric Bony

-Les possédées, Johanna Van Veen

-The chatelaine, Kate Heartfield

-We who are about to..., Joanna Russ

[virgin-martyr]

Book Recommendations

If You Like We Have Always Lived in the Castle, You Should Try… The Vet’s Daughter by Barbara Comyn’s O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi  When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill My Sweet Audrina by VC Andrews

If You Like Anne Carson, You Should Try… These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy Waiting for God by Simone Weil Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz Bluets by Maggie Nelson

American Gothic + Girlhood  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Logic by Olympia Vernon Heaven by VC Andrews Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn  The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

Female Friendship — Obsessive, Brutal, Erotic Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy  When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan La Fanu 

Female Mysticism Matrix by Lauren Groff City of Incurable Women by Maud Casey From Virile Woman to WomanChrist by Barbara Newman The Female Mystic by Andrea Janelle Dickens Maps of Flesh and Light edit. by Ulrike Wiethaus

On Excess and Asceticism Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind  The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Bynum 

If You Like The Haunting of Hill House, You Should Try… White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi  The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Antinatalism — Against Being Born We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver  Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Tess of d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy The Trouble with Being Born by Emil M. Cioran Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 

[floggingink]

beloved @nimmieamee tagged me to list 9 books to read in 2025. i hope she loves barbara comyns! here are my own plans...

i'd love to know about some other cool customers, including @gingertumericlemon, @yeats-infection, @uwusillygirl, @joansblondells, @hellcheerocracy & @chrissy-n-eddie. what's on those shelves!

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Sisters by a River | Author: Barbara Comyns | Publisher: Virago (2013)

[mumintroll]

14 + 22 pls!🌿✨

14. Favorite book you read this year?

i loveddd the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson!! + some honourable mentions to the vets daughter by barbara comyns, the journals of sylvia plath & my cousin rachel by daphne du maurier :)

22. Favorite place you visited this year?

answered here <3