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This is actually just a list of my favourite reads so if you do check them out maybe I'll fall in love with you...
-The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
-At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
-Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
-This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
-Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
-Foster by Claire Keegan
-Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
-Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
-Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
-Everything Salley Rooney and George Orwell :P
Jan 23, 2024
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Favorite books in no real order
•Gilgamesh (David ferry translation)
•The passion according to GH by Clarice lispector
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Burton Raffel translation)
•le princesse de Clèves by mme de Lafayette
•mrs dalloway//Orlando//the waves - all by virginia Woolf
•paradise lost by John Milton
•autobiography of red by Anne Carson
•the poetics of space by gaston bachelard
•house of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
•theory of colors//metamorphosis of plants by Goethe
•meno//symposium//republic by Plato
•ethics of ambiguity By simone de beauvoir
•invisible monsters by chuck Palahniuk
Bonus: not a book but: the wasteland by ts Elliot
Sep 24, 2024
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- Metamorphosis, Ovid (trans. Stephanie McCarter)
- Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Andrea Lawlor
- Union!, Ish Klein
- To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, Herve Guibert
- Lovers’ Discourse, Roland Barthes
- Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russel
- Address Book, Sophie Calle
- The Selected Stories of John Cheever
- Madness, Rack, and Honey, Mary Ruefle
- Empty Wardrobes, Maria Judite De Carvalho
- Mercury, Ariana Reines
- Look, Solmaz Sharif
- The Recognitions, William Gaddis
- Stranger, Baby, Emily Berry
Frank O’Hara, Sam Sax, Philip Larkin, Kiki Petrosino, Sandy Florian and myself are among the many other writers who I love.
Sep 25, 2024
I answered someone’s ask with my favorite books but thought I would make a post with them, too. I’m a pretty strict book rater, so I don’t have a ton of five star books but I’m going to list a few of my favorites in a variety of genres in case you haven‘t read them yet. I’m going to link a couple that I especially loved:
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut - This is one of those books that if I could read any book for the first time again, it would be this one.
We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin - Such an amazing book, mystery/thriller/contemporary suspense.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - This one is true crime and it kind of broke my heart but that’s also how you know the writer did a good job sometimes, especially with non-fiction.
Crush by Richard Siken - This one is one of my favorite poetry collections. I also love the collected poems of T.S. Eliot for poetry.
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh - The story of a young sociologist studying a Chicago gang from the inside. This is a very unique read.
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle - If you haven’t already read it, it’s such a good read. I know Sherlock Holmes is something that’s been re-adapted so many times in media but the actual books are so well-written, fun, witty.
And if you read one of these you totally have to come back and let me know what you thought!
Jan 21, 2025
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an unabashed attack on industrialization and our fetishization of “progress”… just the pinnacle of art that fucks with my head in the best way possible
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my username - abllzinyojawz
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There's no one quite like Lynch but these are all still very interesting filmmakers (I'm sorry if you've already heard of them)
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