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[Nance]

Nice. Have you read The Midnight Library? That's great general fiction. Not sure I've read much magic realism. What would you recommend?

Thriller is darn hard. Hats off to thriller writers MG is fun!

I loved Midnight Library; in fact i just read it for the second time this summer and loved it just as much. My favorite magic realism author is Alice Hoffman. I found Illumination Night in a thrift store and was hooked. Also William Korzwinkle's Fata Morgana.
MG is Middle Grade, I think? That's a new term for me.
And yes, I also admire thriller writers!

 

[Pamela Jo]

I loved Midnight Library; in fact i just read it for the second time this summer and loved it just as much. My favorite magic realism author is Alice Hoffman. I found Illumination Night in a thrift store and was hooked. Also William Korzwinkle's Fata Morgana.
MG is Middle Grade, I think? That's a new term for me.
And yes, I also admire thriller writers!

To me Speculative Fiction is a better junk drawer term for those books. You can throw Alice Hoffman in there along with Midnight Library. Whereas I think most people just think about the South Americans for Magic Realism. I love '100 years of Solitude', but it's a hard act to follow and a lot of people dont like it. I've seen people go, 'Ugh I hate Magic Realism', when they actually liked Matt Haig et al...

 

[MattScho]

Hello everyone,
I just joined today and I am so happy to be here. I'm in New Orleans, USA and it's been a gorgeous sunny afternoon....and tomorrow it will freeze. Yay, Louisiana. Anyway, I look forward to this new adventure. I've heard so many good things about Litopia and here I am. Hope you all have an awesome weekend--Nance

Sunny afternoon? We in Berlin suggest this is a sign that you must write fantasy, because we haven't seen the sun since November

 

[Nance]

To me Speculative Fiction is a better junk drawer term for those books. You can throw Alice Hoffman in there along with Midnight Library. Whereas I think most people just think about the South Americans for Magic Realism. I love '100 years of Solitude', but it's a hard act to follow and a lot of people dont like it. I've seen people go, 'Ugh I hate Magic Realism', when they actually liked Matt Haig et al...

Good point. I also liked the term urban fantasy (Charles Delint), magic realism with parking meters. I liked his books a lot.

 

[Nance]

Welcome to Litopia, @Nance .

if you need any help finding your way around the site please just drop me a line.

Thank you, Jonny. Sorry for the delay in response. I'm trying to find my way around both the site and making sure my zoom camera is pointed in the right direction! You all have been most gracious and welcoming!

 

[Nance]

Sunny afternoon? We in Berlin suggest this is a sign that you must write fantasy, because we haven't seen the sun since November

 

[Nance]

It might not be fantasy. It will be mid 70s Sat with possibility of snow on Mon. That suggests goblin activity to me. Two months without sun sounds dreary and I've never imagined Berlin to be a dreary place. If course i get my impressions from Christopher Isherwood, so i may have a skewed picture.

 

[MattScho]

It might not be fantasy. It will be mid 70s Sat with possibility of snow on Mon. That suggests goblin activity to me. Two months without sun sounds dreary and I've never imagined Berlin to be a dreary place. If course i get my impressions from Christopher Isherwood, so i may have a skewed picture.

Isherwood didn't really go out during the day. Berlin is an all night city, and that was his city. The winters here are very dark, we're about as far north as Ottawa. Great light in the summer, though, sun until 10:30.
The motto of Berlin is "poor, but sexy." Dreary it is not, but it is dark. I mean, is Cabaret (based on his stories) dreary?
OTOH, for those of us beyond the clubbing age, the sun is missed.

 

[Nance]

Isherwood didn't really go out during the day. Berlin is an all night city, and that was his city. The winters here are very dark, we're about as far north as Ottawa. Great light in the summer, though, sun until 10:30.
The motto of Berlin is "poor, but sexy." Dreary it is not, but it is dark. I mean, is Cabaret (based on his stories) dreary?
OTOH, for those of us beyond the clubbing age, the sun is missed.

The stories are definitely not dreary. And a city at night brings wonderful neon images to mind.
I love "poor but sexy". Describes New Orleans too, I think. N