![]() When Life Among the Savages opens, Jackson is living in a city apartment with her husband and their two children, Laurie (a boy) and Jannie (a girl). ![]() Much more my speed! And a good opportunity to read Shirley Jackson, so I can then say that I have read Shirley Jackson. Then I heard about Life Among the Savages, Jackson’s lightly fictionalized memoir of living in a rambling old house in Vermont with her cuddly family. So, I thought, Shirley Jackson: not for me. I am not opposed to a little murder (Exhibit A: my multiple shelves of mysteries) but I like the murder to be bloodless and off the page, and ideally the victim to be someone reprehensible, so I don’t feel too badly. I like my books calming, peaceful, and if there is some nature writing, so much the better. ![]() Why? Simple – psychological suspense with horror elements is not my cup of tea. ![]() I have never read anything by Shirley Jackson, despite her sterling reputation as being one of the essential reads of the American literary landscape (and beloved by the book blogosphere). ![]()
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