Rec | HERE ARE SOME I’VE LIKED

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Fiction: In Watermelon Sugar-Richard Brautigan. Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada. Death in her Hands-Ottesa Moshfeg. Mist-Miguel de Unamuno. Animal-Lisa Taddeo. This is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill. Death With Interruptions-José Saramago. The Family of Pascual Duarte-Camilo José Cela (This one is extremely violent and graphic, so beware). Flowers in the Attic-V.C Andrews. 100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel García Marquez. Non-fiction: Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs. Educated-Tara Westover. I’m Glad My Mom Died-Jennette McCurdy.

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May 30, 2024

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Joan Didion. Camila Sosa Villada. Mona Awad. Ottessa Moshfegh. Yukio Mishima. Mary Gaitskill. Books I'm currently reading and liking so far: A Little Life-Hanya Yanagihara. Carmilla-Sheridan Le Fanu. Hunger-Martín Caparrós. Books I've read in the past and liked: Mist-Miguel de Unamuno. Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada. Bunny-Mona Awad. Death In Her Hands-Ottessa Moshfegh. My Year of Rest and Relaxation-Ottessa Moshfegh. Animal-Lisa Taddeo. This Is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill. Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs. Cultish-Amanda Montell. So You've Been Publicly Shamed-Jon Ronson. Rosario Tijeras-Jorge Franco. Educated-Tara Westover. Maus-Art Spiegelman.

@mariamaria

Sep 24, 2024

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donating books to your fav library

The books I'm donating + the reasons I'm giving them away: Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne: Picture this. I'm a child whose father used to be rich in the 1800s. "Papa, would you read to me before a I get tuberculosis?" my father would always read me this story before bed. When he died, my evil uncle took all the fortune for himself, leaving me to die at an orphanage. Except I didn't die. I got hired to do forced labor for a mine. With only but this book to entertain myself. This is the only way I could see myself liking this book. No internet. Children without phones, inhaling the dust of the mines they're under. Very boring otherwise. Beautiful edition, though. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray: One thing about me from the past? I would read anything that claimed to have sold millions of copies out of simple curiosity. The only thing I registered from this book, is that you need to speak to men like they're babies. El Almohadón de plumas y Otros Cuentos, Horacio Quiroga: a short story collection, mostly about death. This Uruguayan author has been compared to Edgar Allan Poe. No idea if he also married his underage cousin. I liked maybe two or three stories out of the 12 that are in this book. Very boring. Not worth keeping. La Rebelión De Las Ratas, Fernando Soto Aparicio: I consider this book to be very important because it displays a heartbreaking depiction of poverty under capitalism in Colombia, particularly when gringos first arrived to this country, entitled already, to the mines they would extract resources from. It's a heartbreaking and emotional thing when the author talks about poverty, but it gets constantly disrupted by the severe Madonna-whore complex he got going on, especially when he wants to talk about tits. It's giving "she breasted boobily down the stairs". Soy Una Tonta Por Quererte, Camila Sosa Villada: Another short story collection. Wasn't for me. Loved her book Bad Girls: A Novel and I've recommended it before. I don't think short stories are for me, unless there aren't many. I liked two or three stories. The rest were fine but I didn't love. Untamable, Glennon Doyle: I read it and liked it. It's messy and interesting enough. Got it. It's time for someone else to get it. Heaven, Mieko Kawakami: The descriptions of bullying in this book are very brutal. Maybe this is a cultural shock, but the problem is that they're so matter of fact, I struggle to care. It's almost as if the author distances herself by having it be examined under a very clinical lens.

@mariamaria

Apr 3, 2025

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poetry, non-fiction, some fiction

- 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.