Sign in with Facebook
Rilla’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Rilla’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Rilla Askew’s Followers (129)
2,708 books
|
110 friends
750 books
|
63 friends
376 books
|
24 friends
1,420 books
|
95 friends
1,349 books
|
491 friends
641 books
|
59 friends
129 books
|
60 friends
1,021 books
|
39 friends
More friends…
Rilla Askew
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Member Since
July 2012
To ask
Rilla Askew
questions,
please sign up.
Popular Answered Questions
|
Kind of Kin
—
published
2013
—
18 editions
|
|
|
Fire in Beulah
—
published
2001
—
12 editions
|
|
|
The Mercy Seat
—
published
1997
—
16 editions
|
|
|
Harpsong (Volume 1) (Stories & Storytellers Series)
—
published
2007
—
6 editions
|
|
|
Prize for the Fire
|
|
|
Strange Business
—
published
1992
—
8 editions
|
|
|
Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place
by
—
published
2017
—
3 editions
|
|
|
The Hungry and the Haunted
|
|
|
The Best Small Fictions: 2019 Anthology
by |
|
|
The Low Valley Review - Issue 1, 2015
|
|
What's True. What's Not.
As an historical novelist I'm devoted equally to the historical record and to my own creative imaginings. Above all, I'm devoted to story. If I know the facts (and I work very hard to know them), I won't change them. Sometimes, though, to make the story work, I find I have to leave out some of the facts. My next few blog posts will be about what's factual in Prize for the Fire, what's been imagine
Read more of this blog post »
Rilla’s Recent Updates
|
Rilla
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| NOPALITO, TEXAS is a collection of linked stories centered in a small South Texas town, but it’s so much more than that. Collectively the stories have the richness and complexity of a novel; individually they are so propulsive and story-driven you fe ...more | |
|
"I loved this book of short stories! It’s so enjoyable to read about the relationships shared by the towns people of Nopalito. I couldn’t put this book down every character became someone I knew and cared for. Being from Texas I’ve known plenty folks "
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
"We chose this title for our book group. The conversations it has sparked have been like many scenes in this book: consequential, nuanced, and intertwined. “Everyone’s got the blues” in Nopalito, Texas, so while it isn’t a collection of happy stories,"
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Rilla
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| NOPALITO, TEXAS is a collection of linked stories centered in a small South Texas town, but it’s so much more than that. Collectively the stories have the richness and complexity of a novel; individually they are so propulsive and story-driven you fe ...more | |
|
Rilla
is now following Scott Wiggerman's reviews
|
|
|
Rilla
is now following
|
|
|
Rilla
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| I'm so enamored of this book. Benjamin Myers is such a fine poet--one of the finest working today, in my opinion. Ranging from wryly humorous to wrenching, these poems collectively paint a portrait of what wounds and sustains us, whether the source i ...more | |
|
Rilla
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| I really can't say enough about how much I love this book. It tells the story of one week in the life of a directionless, keenly observant, unsettled young man. Set in 2018 at the time of an historic, statewide teachers' strike at the Oklahoma State ...more | |
|
Rilla
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| Red Clay, Running Waters is an epic, well-researched historical novel. It's also, at heart, a love story--both about the love between John and Sarah Ridge and also John Ridge's love for his people--but I wouldn't call it an historical romance. Rather ...more | |
|
Rilla
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
“We didn’t get anything done! She looked around vaguely, then wandered along the corridor to the”
― Kind of Kin: A Novel
― Kind of Kin: A Novel
Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicks On Lit: Black History Month Recommendations? | 21 | 81 | Apr 17, 2011 12:25PM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: Her Royal Orangeness - Frequent Flyer | 43 | 88 | Aug 16, 2011 09:18PM | |
| The Lost Challenges: March Scattergories | 65 | 64 | Apr 01, 2013 01:15PM | |
| The Lost Challenges: March Cable Channel Challenge-Nick Junior | 30 | 57 | Apr 01, 2013 03:31PM | |
| The Lost Challenges: R2: Rapid Readers Scavenger Hunt -Items Claimed | 360 | 110 | Apr 08, 2013 10:01PM |
“When you fall in love, you fall in love with yourself, when you kill yourself, you kill someone else.”
―
―
“As a people, we have been tolled farther and farther away from the facts of what we have done by the romanticizers, whose bait is nothing more than the wishful insinuation that we have done no harm. Speaking a public language of propaganda, uninfluenced by the real content of our history which we know only in a deep and guarded privacy, we are still in the throes of the paradox of the “gentleman and soldier.”
However conscious it may have been, there is no doubt in my mind that all this moral and verbal obfuscation is intentional. Nor do I doubt that its purpose is to shelter us from the moral anguish implicit in our racism—an anguish that began, deep and mute, in the minds of Christian democratic freedom-loving owners of slaves.”
― The Hidden Wound
However conscious it may have been, there is no doubt in my mind that all this moral and verbal obfuscation is intentional. Nor do I doubt that its purpose is to shelter us from the moral anguish implicit in our racism—an anguish that began, deep and mute, in the minds of Christian democratic freedom-loving owners of slaves.”
― The Hidden Wound
