I'd recommend all my latest summer reads 😊 Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson; Jeeves and the King of Clubs, and Jeeves and the Leap of Faith by Ben Schott; Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa; and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson.
I adore James, have 8 shelves of vintage editions plus most of the fiction pbk + biographies + criticism. I discovered Washington Square in JHS and fell in love. And the Shirley Jackson is brilliant--my students loved it both in creative writing and mystery classes.
I just picked up a Norton Critical edition at a thrift store of James’s shorter work! I’m excited to get to know him. And agreed about Shirley Jackson. She was an unexpected (for me) delight!
If you can find an old edition of his Americans and Europe collection, published by Riverside, it's great. Ditto any collection of his artist tales. And his ghost stories are good, too, though I prefer Edith Wharton's.
I'd recommend all my latest summer reads 😊 Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson; Jeeves and the King of Clubs, and Jeeves and the Leap of Faith by Ben Schott; Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa; and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson.
Tress is on my pile of books to read! Thanks for the recs, Kimberly :-)
I adore James, have 8 shelves of vintage editions plus most of the fiction pbk + biographies + criticism. I discovered Washington Square in JHS and fell in love. And the Shirley Jackson is brilliant--my students loved it both in creative writing and mystery classes.
I just picked up a Norton Critical edition at a thrift store of James’s shorter work! I’m excited to get to know him. And agreed about Shirley Jackson. She was an unexpected (for me) delight!
If you can find an old edition of his Americans and Europe collection, published by Riverside, it's great. Ditto any collection of his artist tales. And his ghost stories are good, too, though I prefer Edith Wharton's.