I love really poetic prose and I love books that really take time to describe the minutiae—nature, food, textures, somatic experiences of characters.
When I think of beautiful writing, I think of Mary Oliver, Ursula K. LeGuin, Ocean Vuong, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Haruki Murakami, and Virginia Woolf.
I love books with magical realism, dream-like, fantasy, or sci-fi elements, but open to any fiction books that are both chill and beautiful.
I’d like to feel like the book’s prose invites you to really slow down and notice and savor, like a Mary Oliver poem.
I just read Becky Chamber’s Psalm for the Wild-Built & Prayer for the Crown-Shy, and I feel like they checked a lot of these boxes but I felt myself longing for even more robust poetic prose.
by ransominavoice