“I disliked having a fork pointed at me and I disliked the sound of the voice never stopping; I wished he would put food on the fork and put it into his mouth and strangle himself.”
* ‘We Have Always Lived In The Castle’ by Shirley Jackson tells the story of the three survivors of a Blackwood Family Murder [SCREAMS!!!], and it’s literally one of the greatest I have ever read. The survivors are, from age of oldest to youngest; Julian aka Uncle Julian, Constance aka Connie, and Mary Katherine aka Merricat…there’s also Jonas the cat! It’s really cliché to say things like, “not everything is what it seems,” or “there are multiple sides to a story,” but with this classic by Jackson these cliches are actually very true and that’s what makes this novel so fucking good. Also, the story is told through the first person perspective of Mary Katherine Blackwood, who, being so young, gave a youthful rhythm to a novel about death and MURDER [SCREAMS AGAIN!!!].