30 Days of Books: Day 02

[brigid]

Mirrored from brigidkeely.com/wordpress.

Day 02 – A book or series you wish more people were reading and talking about

I’m going to winnow this down to one, specific book that I wish more people were reading, although I have kind of a list going on.

In The Forest Of Forgetting by Theodora Goss is a collection of short stories. These are delicately, tightly crafted tales– artisanal, even– filled with magic and the mundane, mystery, lessons, and hidden depths. If you are a writer, this is something to be studied and learned from. If you enjoy stories, these are to be savored. And since they’re short stories, you can dip in and out as you have time.

This is one of those books that I got, fell in love with, and then gave away my only copy of. It’s one of those books where I’ve recommended it to people, to the point of buying them copies of it. I’m currently without a copy of this book as I gave mine away to someone else to enjoy, but it’s absolutely a book worth buying and worth keeping and reading over and over again.

Comments

[phoenix]

Oh, Theodora Goss! I haven't read that book, but now that I'm aware of its existence, I want to. I used to read her lovely quiet family-centred blog regularly - I lost the feed for it when I changed computers a while back, I should see if she still keeps it.