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I first read this #ShortButPowerful story in junior high & it has always stayed with me. 🩶🖤🩶
pickI just finished this classic short story with my students. They enjoyed it and found it shocking that it caused outrage when it was first released. As always, I enjoyed reading it and sharing it with my students.
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1. “The Lottery“ by Shirley Jackson. I first read this in high school, and it has been my favorite short story ever since.
2. OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck. George and Lennie ... 'nuff said.
3. A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens because “God bless us, everyone!“
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pickA collection of Shirley Jackson short stories! She continues to amaze and entice me. She tells so much with so few words, I am always immediately enraptured in the story. Whilst the stories themselves have overlapping themes of the nature of womanhood, being a wife, living in the home, place in society, paranoia and suspicion, etc, the stories are still so distinct and each address different aspects. (Cont. in comments 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻)
The Lottery is 75 years old today.
There are only a handful of short stories that have stuck with me throughout the years. A small fraction of which gave me a visceral reaction while reading and left me feeling haunted and remembering them.
I first encountered this short story in the 6th grade, and still 30+ years later vividly remember sitting in class and the words at the end dawning on me.
It is still 1 of the best stories I have read.
Jackson was so intuitive about life and how sometimes things go sideways and people just don't know what to do. Colloquy, an extremely short story in The Lottery, starts off vaguely with a woman asking a doctor how you know if you're going crazy. This is so perfect for these strange days we live in.
I love how well Shirley Jackson weaves the mundane sense of daily life into her stories. This is literally my every morning!!
#BookCoverChallenge
Day 279.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.
so-soThe villagers cheeriness misled me and had me hoping for a more happy outcome (despite the author being Shirley Jackson). I wish she had included more of a backstory, ie what is the purpose of the lottery?
pickUnfortunately the description of this short story ruined it for me. I was surprised that the description would plainly tell the ending. In a time when so many dystopias are popular, especially Hunger Games, this story was not that shocking even if it had not been completely spoiled for me. I see how it would have been received differently by readers in 1948.
pickNot what I expected —I thought the lottery would be for something positive.
Anyone else participating in #RIPXVI? I haven‘t participated in recent years, but it was a favorite challenge of mine when I had an active book blog. I first joined in for RIPIV in 2009! The five titles I read for the challenge that year were The House of the Seven Gables, Twilight, Her Fearful Symmetry, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, and One Foot Wrong. This year I‘ve accumulated quite a stack to choose from.
pickShirley Jackson is brilliant. She lulls you in with her descriptions of small town idyll and then smacks you over the head with her brutal reality. Imagery, metaphors, dialogues - everything is brilliant. Highly recommend
I'm posting one book per day from the ever growing unread stacks in my personal library. No description or explanation, just books I own and plan to read. #tbr
Day 35
I‘m hosting a discussion on Shirley Jackson‘s “The Lottery” today at www.theannakraft.com! Love to have you join us!
#themidnightsociety
We‘re reading and discussing spooky stories during the month of October at www.theannakraft.com! This week‘s story is “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson!
#TheMidnightSociety
Anyone else seen this yet? Whatd you think?
“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?“
Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)
Her fiction marries the ordinary with the supernatural and often speaks to inhumanities people endure. Her most famous story on the subject, “The Lottery“, was written after rural Vermont residents painted a swastika on her house (her husband was Jewish).
#womenshistorymonth #womeninliterature #thelottery #shirleyjackson #family
Here are the books I got at the library today. You may notice there are more than the 11 I referenced earlier. That's because three holds came in today as well. Yikes.
pickI really wish I hadn‘t seen a spoiler ahead of reading this short story! So I won‘t say much, other than it is a deeply unsettling tale about human nature, and blindly following along.
A definite pick! I love Shirley Jackson.
#screamathon
#pop19 : see someone reading on TV or in a movie (The Haunting of Hill House Netflix show)
Didn't take a picture but @Nevermore88 your box is on the way! This is a picture of the box we used for our production of this show. We were surprised at how many people did not know at least one or both plays (The Monkey's Paw). #basicwitchswap @Meaw_catlady @sprainedbrain
Thought I would do some reading of Shirley Jackson‘s works since we are reading her book “The Haunting of Hill House”.
Really enjoy shirley Jackson's work and the lottery really blew my mind. She really had me fooled that the lottery was something good.
Having a lot of fun already with #authoramonth. I don't think I would have ever revisited Shirley Jackson otherwise! I got this little shorty in the mail and vaguely remember reading it in school but re-reading it has left me with so many questions. Who ARE these people and what kind of world do they live in that needs the lottery? Looking forward to reading more of her works in the near future.
pickShirley Jackson and I share a birthday. Two more prompts to go. #MayMadness #24B4Monday. Finish #5. Of course this wasn‘t planned! 😂😂😂
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Since it‘s so short, I feel like anything I say about it will be a spoiler, and I think it‘s probably best to read this knowing as little as possible going in, so I‘ll just say that it‘s great, and if you haven‘t read it before, you totally should. 👍🏽
#catsoflitsy #Ember
1. I will be trick or treating with my son
2. Black cats
3. Read - I can't watch anything scary!
4. Everyone is tagged
#tuesdaytidbits @JenlovesJT47
pickDisturbing and well-crafted and really, pretty twisted. Well done, Shirley Jackson. I can‘t believe this was written in 1948. And anyone who tries to tell me that Suzanne Collins didn‘t take a bit of inspiration from this when she wrote The Hunger Games can shut their damn mouth ‘cause I ain‘t listening.
pickIf you read the Lottery, be sure to let us know what you thought. You can read our full review of this classic short story in the link. #BannedBooksWeek #litereads https://thefeministbibliothecary.wordpress.com/2018/09/29/lite-reads-review-the-...
This story has been banned and challenged many times over the years, and even caused the author and publisher to receive hate mail when it was first released. It is also widely loved and studied as a classic. Why do you think it inspires two such drastically different reaction so often (and for so long)? #litereads #BannedBooksWeek
Do you think about the characters in this story differently than you would in other stories? Does the tense mood or macabre ending impact the way you feel about the characters throughout? #litereads #BannedBooksWeek
I decided to read something for banned book week so I googled a list and saw that I‘m already reading three! Anyone else reading a banned book?
* ‘Things Fall Apart‘ was banned in Malaysia and Nigeria, challenged in the U.S.
#BannedBooksWeek #bannedbooks
Shirley Jackson sets the mood amazingly well in this short story. What do you think of the way she used that mood to build from the subtle opening to the wild ending? #litereads #BannedBooksWeek
Check out our brand new #LiteReads selection for #BannedBooksWeek with links to read (visual or audio) on our blog.
https://thefeministbibliothecary.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/lite-reads-selection-t...
Oh how exciting!! @Mommamanzi I will be updating my TBR ASAP 🤗😊
@JoScho for the tag 😊
Just finished reading this for the first time in my College English class.
It was great odd short story!
#weird #shortstory #dark
pickI have read this a few times, but I was excited to see it on my #FreakyFriday list from @FantasyChick! Lovers of creepy stories, unite! Read this over my lunch break so I could get a tally mark on the imaginary board. 😬
pickI just finished another reread this evening. I haven‘t read this one since high school. My students will be doing it, so I need to be ready to discuss. This one is so good. I know they will love it.
This awesome pillow case came in my #NocturnalBox yesterday and the Hubs bought me a pillow to put inside. Loving it! He owed me though, because he totally took the Night's Watch beanie from the box and claimed it as his own.
One book down. Hopefully the rest of my #24hourreadathon selections are more enjoyable. Next up, this short story!
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