#juliaarmfield

#SaltSlow is tugging me to places I didn’t know I could exist in. I’m in absolute awe of Julia Armfield’s writing. Thanks for the advance copy @kishani and congratulations on publishing this brilliant work, it’s everything and more.

Current read 📚 I am obsessed with ocean/water themed stories 🥰 #read #readingnow #juliaarmfield #ourwivesunderthesea #curiosityboughtthebook #ocean https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFRxprrxOf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Just finished reading this. I can’t help feeling that the ending is a metaphor for raising children 😭😭😭😭😭 #juliaarmfield https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci3BJgho2t_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I received an advanced reader copy of Our Wives Under the Sea from Flatiron Books via NetGalley, in return for my honest opinion. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield is a story about the love, marriage and surviving life’s ups and downs. Leah has recently returned from a failed deep-sea mission. Miri, Leah’s wife, is happy to finally have Leah back home but has noticed that Leah is different. Miri can’t get Leah to open up about what happened while she was stranded on the ocean floor, but Miri thinks Leah may have unknowingly brought something back with her. This was an easy to read, unique story that’s perfect for sci-fi fans. Our Wives Under the Sea is available today, July 12, 2022. Goodreads Rating: 3/5 stars #juliaarmfield #ourwivesunderthesea #netgalley #arcs #advancedreadercopy #sciencefiction #scifi #sciencefictionbooks #readin2022 #flatironbooks #whatthebook #bookreviews #readersofinstagram #bookaholic @netgalley @flatiron_books https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf7xIbNrL1I/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖉𝖊𝖊𝖕 𝖘𝖊𝖆 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝖍𝖆𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊: 𝖆 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖊 𝖎𝖓 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖙𝖔 𝖊𝖝𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖉𝖆𝖗𝖐𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘." - Julia Armfield 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 There is a scene in a film I saw only once, as a child, that has stayed with me always. The film was about freediving and I think that it was French. In my mind, the scene takes place in a hotel bedroom. On the bed, one of the divers is suffering with the bends; on land he is haunted by the ocean. In a nightmare, hallucination, or visual metaphor for madness, the room fills with water. It is a suffocating, horrifically beautiful scene. It has the perfectly breath-halting oxymoronic quality created when horror and beauty serenely stand hand in silent hand. As I say, I saw the film only once and the scene I describe is as it remains in my mind. I am not sure I want to risk the enduring impression with the reality of a rewatch... 🌊 Instead, I celebrate in this same atmosphere created elsewhere. In adulthood I first found it in 'The Underwater Welder' by @jefflemire - a stunning graphic novel that I recommend highly. I found it next in @djdaisyjohnson's weird, watery tales of the 'Fen' - again I recommend, highly. 🌊 @my.dark.library recently tagged me to share my favourite first lines in fiction. I love the oppressive opening introduction to house as character in 'The Haunting of Hill House', 'Rebecca' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. Today, with the coastline close, I strayed only far enough from home to collect this highly anticipated read from the library. I am only two chapters in, but I feel that feeling rising in me - that same suffocating, drowning delight. According to our King @florence herself, 'Our Wives Under the Sea' promises to float "fluidly between horror story and love story, the gorgeous and the grotesque." What better book than @juliaarmfield to dive into this #pride🌈 ? ⚜ Have you read Our Wives? Where is your wife? Are they under the sea? . #juliaarmfield #generallygothic #ecogothic #bookstagram #horrorreads #lgbtqi #lgbthorror #predeceased #spookynerd #bookworm #bookrec #currentlyreading #ourwivesunderthesea (at Under The Sea) https://www.instagram.com/p/CerGTOyrgLm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔: 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑡 𝑆𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑏𝑦 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑎 𝐴𝑟𝑚𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑 · · · 𝐻𝐴𝑃𝑃𝑌 𝐹𝑅𝐼𝐷𝐴𝑌!! 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑚𝑦 𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑙 𝑀𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑢𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒? 𝐺𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝐼𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑒𝑠𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐. · · · #bookpost #currentlyreading #saltslow #juliaarmfield #fiction #shortstories #instabook #fridayvibes #instabook #bookstagram #bookblogger #kindle #ebook #bibliophile #igreada #aesthetic #fallreading #losersclub #tgif https://www.instagram.com/p/CH1tpsIAEyU/?igshid=1snoa6v024v5q