Joyce Carol Oates – luce [is reading]

November 8, 2020

Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates

As I highly rate Joyce Carol Oates I was quite looking forward to Cardiff, by the Sea, a collection of four novellas ‘of suspense’. While I have only read a few of Oates’ works Patricide, a novella of hers, is a favourite of mine. The novellas collected in Cardiff, by the Sea have more in…
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3 STARS, 3rd pov, abuse, Adult, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, bad love, Cardiff by the Sea, collection of short stories, dark, family, female authors, feverish, GOTHIC, HORROR, illness, Joyce Carol Oates, mental health, Mia Dao, NOVELLA/SHORT STORY, Phantomwise, published in 2020, rape, read in 2020, sexual assault/abuse/rape, short stories, SUSPENSE, The Surviving Child, THRILLER, toxic relationships, trauma, violence against women
October 4, 2020

Schoolhouse Gothic by Sherry R. Truffin

Schoolhouse Gothic, Sherry R. Truffin’s first monograph, is one of the first studies to address the role of the educational system in twentieth-century Gothic fiction. The work reveals Truffin’s in-depth understanding of the Gothic genre, its origins, methodologies and implications, focussing in particular on a branch of Gothic she terms ‘Schoolhouse Gothic’.In Schoolhouse Gothic, Truffin…
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2 STARS, GOTHIC, Jeremy Bentham, Joyce Carol Oates, literary criticism, Michel Foucault, Nonfiction, PUBLISHED IN 2008, read in 2018, Schoolhouse Gothic, Sherry R. Truffin, STEPHEN KING, TONI MORRISON
June 2, 2019

SOLSTICE : BOOK REVIEW

Solstice by Joyce Carol Oates ★★★✰✰ 3.5 stars “I never change, I simply become more myself.” At its core this is a dizzying tale of the fraught and destructive relationship between two solipsistic women. A labyrinthine narrative follows characters that are mired in their own ambivalence. Until her divorce Monica Jensen was quite comfortable in…
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1980s, 20th century, 3.5 STARS, ALIENATION, America, AMERICAN AUTHOR, ART/CREATIVITY, ARTISTS, bad love, beautiful prose, Contemporary, DEPRESSION, female authors, female doubles, female friendships, friendships, Joyce Carol Oates, LITERARY FICTION, Novel, obsession, psychological, PUBLISHED IN 1985, READ IN 2019, REVIEW, Solstice, SUSPENSE, toxic relationships

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Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates

Schoolhouse Gothic by Sherry R. Truffin

SOLSTICE : BOOK REVIEW