#karen russell

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[bookcoversonly]

Title: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves | Author: Karen Russell | Publisher: Vintage (2014)

[bookfirstlinetourney]

Round 1

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color. Suppose I were to speak this as though it were a confession; suppose I shredded my napkin as we spoke. It began slowly. An appreciation, an affinity. Then, one day, it became more serious. Then (looking into an empty teacup, its bottom stained with thin brown excrement coiled into the shape of a sea horse) it became somehow personal.

-Bluets, Maggie Nelson

Our mother performed in starlight. Whose innovation this was I never discovered. Probably it was Chief Bigtree's idea, and it was a good one--to blank the follow spot and let a sharp moon cut across the sky, unchaperoned; to kill the microphone; to leave the stage lights' tin eyelids scrolled and give the tourists in the stands a chance to enjoy the darkness of our island; to encourage the whole stadium to gulp air along with Swamplandia!'s star performer, the world-famous alligator wrestler Hilola Bigtree.

-Swamplandia!, Karen Russell

When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.

-Circe, Madeline Miller

[mandyraine]

Author interview with poet Angela Chaidez Vincent

Hey everyone! I want to introduce you to my new friend, poet Angela Chaidez Vincent! We had such a great time sharing a table at the Louisville Book Festival this year, & I love her book, Arena Glow! Recommended for poetry lovers, horse lovers, and more!

It takes a rich and diverse mind to excel at both math and writing poetry, and author Angela Chaidez Vincent has just that sort of mind. I was lucky enough to share a table with her at the Louisville Book Festival this year where I learned that she is also a really fun person to hang out with! Arena Glow author Chaidez Vincent’s background is in mechanical engineering, mathematics, and…

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Leopard Ray

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"To be a kid requires detective work. You have to piece together the entire universe from scratch." — Karen Russell, "The Ghost Birds" in The New Yorker (2021)

[imaginemirage]

She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bedspread and shrieking, "I wanna go home! I wanna go home!" Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home.

Karen Russell

[devilsskettle]

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell / Home from Beetlejuice / Haunting Olivia from St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

[bekah-reading]

26/50

4/5

This one was a bit all over the pace. I really like this Amazon Original Series; Trespass. These are horror novels, that are focused around environmental topics. This one definitely needs to be dived into blind.

27/50

4/5

I really enjoyed and loved the writing style. This short novella was historical fiction and told through letters. I really liked it.

[assortedmelons]

Celebrity Melons

[gennsoup]

Fresh air, the sight of trees--these are birthrights and pleasures that we seem bent on extinguishing. Some animals we've turned out to be. We have never in our species' history respected Nature's limits.

Karen Russell, Sleep Donation

[faerie-aurora]

“She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bedspread and shrieking, “I wanna go home! I wanna go home!” Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home.”

— Karen Russell, from St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

[mariocki]

Hell High (Real Trouble, 1989)

"Let's get out of here while we still can."

"No."

"You're pushing our luck. She's had enough!"

"I said I'm gonna finish it."

"It's no good, man!"

"What do you owe her?"

"Look, there are limits. There are certain laws we can't break. This is real trouble, real jail. Our future!"

[nikkasqueaka]

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID: To be a kid requires difficult / detective work. You have to piece / together the entire universe from / scratch. ]

— Karen Russell, "The Ghost Birds" in The New Yorker (2021)

[judgingbooksbycovers]

The Antidote: A Novel

By Karen Russell.

[andreabadgley]

Swamplandia! I’m on a Karen Russell kick.