Reading meme and other things..

1. Reading meme...

House of X by John Hickman -- basically, Jonathan Hickman and Marvel's reimagining and repositioning of the X-men within the Marvel Verse. This review, which is more positive than my own take, pretty much spells out what is happening here.
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I'm considering grabbing Matt Fraction and Elsa Charretier's November which is due to debut in the fall. And is about how three women's lives are affected when one finds a discarded gun in her back yard.

It apparently is very layered and requires multiple reads to figure out.

Also recently read?
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* What I'm reading now?

The Cooking Gene - a Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

It's interesting. So far I'm enjoying the writing style. And it's off the beaten path for me. (I finally got burned out on the romance novels.)

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Flirting with History of Wolves (which I bought for 1.99 recently, and The Sympathizer also $1.99, and We Sold Our Souls ...also for 1.99.

And flirting with books I do not own -- such as Little Fires, November, The Chain..

I don't know what I want to read at the moment. Don't have a shortage of books to choose from.


2. What the Author of Where the Crawdads Sing Recommends and Reads

Well...reading through the article certainly explained the writer's style, and why she was great at description but struggled with dialogue, romantic relationships, and the mystery plot. She reads too much Faulkner and not enough Agatha Christie.

Also she's a huge fan of To Kill A Mockingbird and Scout is her favorite character, which explains why Kyra is a lot like Scout in narrative voice. In fact the book's structure reminds me a lot of To Kill a Mockingbird.

The problem with the literary prose stylists is well...they fall in love with their own phraseology. They are wonderful wordsmiths...but at times she feel as if you are drowning or smothered by the beautiful prose.

Don't get me wrong, Toni Morrison's Beloved is among my favorite novels, but..I did feel at times as if I were buried beneath words. I loved it. But, it does meander.
Faulkner, I probably shouldn't comment too heavily on -- since I've only read Sound and the Fury (not his best work) and The Reivers (which most haven't heard of).

I think she'd like Margaret Atwood...although Atwood may be too genre for her? Not sure.