Favorite books in no real order
â˘Gilgamesh (David ferry translation)
â˘The passion according to GH by Clarice lispector
⢠Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Burton Raffel translation)
â˘le princesse de Clèves by mme de Lafayette
â˘mrs dalloway//Orlando//the waves - all by virginia Woolf
â˘paradise lost by John Milton
â˘autobiography of red by Anne Carson
â˘the poetics of space by gaston bachelard
â˘house of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
â˘theory of colors//metamorphosis of plants by Goethe
â˘meno//symposium//republic by Plato
â˘ethics of ambiguity By simone de beauvoir
â˘invisible monsters by chuck Palahniuk
Bonus: not a book but: the wasteland by ts Elliot
Sep 24, 2024
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(in no order / hierarchy)
crush - richard siken
fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury
devotions - mary oliver (or any of her stuff)
annihilation - jeff vandermeer
we do this til we free us - mariame kaba
hunger games series - suzanne collins (the nostalgiaaa but also genuinely good)
this is water - david foster wallace (itâs a book but not technically a book i guess?)
dear god. dear bones. dear yellow. - noor hindi
this is how you lose the time war - amal el-montar & max gladstone
the prophet - khalil gibran
pride & prejudice - jane austen
the tragedy of heterosexuality - jane ward
sharp objects - gillian flynn
the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald
elite capture: how the powerful took over identity politics - olĂşfĂŠmi o. tĂĄĂwò
Sep 24, 2024
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- Being Dead, Jim Crace
- City of Glass, Paul Auster
- All the Pretty Horses, Corcmac Mccarthy
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- A Moveable Feat, Ernest Hemingway
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
- The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
Apr 15, 2024
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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Gazpacho only in the late summer, persimmons only in the winter, etc. just because we can import anything from anywhere anytime doesnât mean we should. Nothing is special if you can have it whenever you want it.
May 22, 2024
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Whenever my housemate Cody and I have to do home improvement we say âletâs play hammer and sawâ. i love playing hammer
Feb 8, 2024
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no podcasts no music no earbuds⌠sometimes itâs nice to not listen to anything and just let yourself be raw in the world for a bit
Jan 31, 2024