bookshop Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 Hi, all! I recently read Ruth Ware's thriller The Death of Mrs. Westaway (which was really enjoyable, I recommend it!). The main character is a professional tarot reader and the book is rife with tarot symbolism, as well as lots of meditation about tarot's power from a skeptical perspective, which I appreciated a lot. It reminded me that at one point years ago I ran across a Young Adult novel called Andromeda Klein https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10863462-andromeda-klein that I had enjoyed, and got me thinking about other fiction involving tarot. I know lots of people really love the Raven Cycle, and Stiefvater made an accompanying tarot deck that's really popular. And there are lots of books in this Goodreads list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5230.Stories_Where_Tarot_Reading_Plays_A_Role that I'm not familiar with. Do you guys have recs for other books where tarot plays a major part? https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5230.Stories_Where_Tarot_Reading_Plays_A_Role
Raggydoll Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 ‘The Fortune Teller’ comes to mind. It was good! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31450952-the-fortune-teller
AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 some listed here https://www.thetarotforum.com/tarot-in-media/tarot-novels/ moving book offer to open forum, now that I have them out :)
bookshop Posted February 7, 2019 Author Posted February 7, 2019 Oh, thank you for pointing me to that topic! Still finding my way around these parts. :) Raggydoll[/member] i'm definitely adding that book to my TBR pile. AJ-ish/Sharyn[/member] thank you very much! I'm a little behind in my reading and trying to get rid of a lot of my paper books atm but I'll let you know if I make room for them!
Cookie Posted February 8, 2019 Posted February 8, 2019 The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams is a tarot classic, published 1932 There is a symbolic scene in the book where the cards dance together on a round table with the Trumps on the inside and the minors outside, but dancing in a huge circle with each other, some going one way round some the other, then moving to the next card. All the cards hum their own frequency and together give off a golden light. In the center is The Fool, the only card that is not waltzing in this dance of infinity ... he is the Master of Ceremony. The Fool directs everything, although to the woman observing it looks like he does nothing.
RavenOfSummer Posted February 8, 2019 Posted February 8, 2019 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. I loved this book! I believe there was actually a deck created by the author based on the book, but it's very hard to find now...I've never even seen pics of it. (Also, she has a new book due out later this year...her first since The Night Circus!) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. I've only seen the mini-series and haven't yet read the book, but I'm pretty sure the use of tarot in the screen version is drawn from the original story. Really loved this as well, at least the mini-series version!
Guest Night Shade Posted February 8, 2019 Posted February 8, 2019 The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards is really good. It's an urban fantasy about the last surviving nobles of Atlantis, who are the embodiments of the Major Arcana cards. The story itself really doesn't have anything to do with Tarot, though.
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