Extra Credit
Besides what you have to read, are you currently face deep in some fun-reading? Here are some Postmodernist faves of mine.
I'm wrapped up in the "Wheel of Time" series. Thanks, KB! I really need to know how Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World is going to resolve! It's a postmodern blend of fantasy, gritty reality, futuristic dystopia, and folksy love stories. Fabulism is where my postmodern heart is right now...
Last week I finished The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride. This is a mash-up of secret lives, secret wells, and generational joy. I'm still not over the ending. Thank you, Monkey Pants. IYKYK.
Last year I read The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. He's a well-known nonfiction writer, but this book is a Postmodernist paella of temporal distortion, historiographic metafiction, hyperreality, and black humor. This has magic, Harriet Tubman, and some of the most beautiful prose I have read.
Another book I recently read, coincidentally similar in setting, is The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. This one does with the legends surrounding America's Underground Railroad what Quentin Tarantino does with the Manson murders in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It's part gritty history, part fabulism, lots of wish-fulfillment, and all terrific.
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"Throne of Glass" - Sarah J. Maas
The series that I have been reading for quite a while is the "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas. The series is about an eighteen year old girl who was once held captive, fighting to save the country that she lost as a little girl. Though the series has multiple elements, the most prevalent is magical realism. For example, the main character has the ability to control fire and those surrounding her also were gifted with some sort of power. Another example is the antagonist breaking the barrier between worlds only to try and take over the one that the story takes place in.
Would 10/10 recommend this series if you love fantasy, wars, love and being able to get lost in a good book😆