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I haven't stopped thinking about Eight Days Of Luke by Diana Wynne Jones since I read it.
To summarize, Eight Days Of Luke is, ultimately, about an boy who's blamed for everything (David) befriending a magical boy who's blamed for everything (Luke), and the two of them standing by each other and protecting each other in order to save not only Luke from unjust punishment but also David from his family.
It's also about this ancient and powerful being (Luke) befriending a lonely Just Some Guy of a boy (David) and going, "You. You're my person, and I think you're a miracle I will never be able to pay back, for all my power, and I will hold off the heat of an ever-burning fire for you." while that lonely Just Some Guy of a boy looks back at him like, "You. You're my person, and you're the greatest and most terrifying person I've ever met, and I will walk through ever-burning fire for you."
Luke holding off the heat of the flames for David, so David to fetch back an item Luke has been accused of stealing, is going to haunt me for all time. It makes my heart quake just thinking about it.
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Stories of women told by women: Elena Ferrante, the New York Timesbestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults, recommends 40 twentieth-century female writers.
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I’m reading YA books atm because I’m tired of struggling through boring parts of books. YA gets to the point, and at the moment that’s what I need in books.
I just finished jasper ffordes last dragonslayer series, and started terry pratchetts nation. Obviously I need more recs though.
#This is so sweet#Thank you#I'm saving it so I can check them all out#Ya books#Some of these are already on my to read list#Which bodes well for the rest!
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Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Text ID: —to fill myself up. I always feel like I’m eating when I’m reading. And the need to read (etc. etc.) is like an awful raging hunger. So that I often try to read two or three books at a time.
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“Most books contain at least one terrible thing, although often they contain many, and some carry inside of them previously unthinkable tragedies, holocausts, decimations, and heartbreaks. To read a book is to acquire the manifest of a ship full of trouble. Books hold perversions and prejudices and are as ample as the law as containers for murder, heresy, and lust. Books do worse than contain the worst—they expose it in themselves. They unravel. They self-defeat. They disappoint, devour time, disrupt space, distort chronologies. The good ones haunt like ghosts,”
— Anne Boyer, from “Take Up and Read,” in A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
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book of the year so far, which i could not recommend more highly to others despite the fact that it feels like it was written specifically for me and me alone: The Employees, a polyphonic nonlinear Danish scifi novella about non-human personhood and the struggle for solidarity in resistance to capitalism, originally inspired by a sculpture exhibition. i may have been made, but now i'm making myself.
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every horror writer in history wanted what the 19th floor subplot in the Wayside School books had
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There’s got to be a term to describe that like. Extremely specific era of children’s literature where all the books were novellas printed on low quality paper, pumped out on a near monthly basis, and made for series that sometimes stretched into hundreds of books
Animorphs. Goosebumps. Bailey School Kids. Babysitter’s Club. Magic Treehouse. Series that plague public libraries and second hand book stores to this day. A genre that was nearly wiped out overnight by the success of Harry Potter, and the newfound desire for kids to read long form literature
It was like pulp fiction for kids
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yes i annotate my books & say really smart things [draws hearts and frowny faces when called for]
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Ella is an astrophysicist struggling with her doctoral thesis in the “country of the present” but she is from the “country of the past,” a place burdened in her memory by both personal and political tragedies. Her partner, El, is a forensic scientist who analyzes the bones of victims of state violence and is recovering from an explosion at a work site that almost killed him. Consumed by writer’s block, Ella finds herself wishing that she would become ill, which would provide time for writing and perhaps an excuse for her lack of progress. Then she begins to experience mysterious symptoms that doctors find undiagnosable.
!!!!! where are my meruane fans
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Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986)
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in which i recommend books like the netflix algorithm
you wanted it, you got it, babes! caveat: this list is long (seriously, sorry about the length) and i can’t write blurbs for everything, but i highly recommend going and looking at anything that sounds interesting. some books will fall under multiple headings, so i’m listing them twice. i am linking to their purchase pages on bookshop.org, because amazon sucks and bookshop helps support indie booksellers, but if your local indie bookstore offers delivery or curbside pickup, buy it there. and i’m trying to keep this list confined to pretty recent titles, so even though a few older ones might slip in there, it’s definitely centered on releases from the past few years. okay let’s do this.
if you want a book that feels like a primal scream:
godshot by chelsea bieker
the book of joan by lidia yuknavitch
girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo
her body and other parties by carmen maria machado (short stories)
trust exercise by susan choi
my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell
the rehearsal by eleanor catton
indelicacy by amina cain
the answers by catherine lacey
the mars room by rachel kushner
the love affairs of nathaniel p. by adelle waldman
if you want clever social commentary and/or hilarious female protagonists:
you too can have a body like mine by alexandra kleeman
the new me by halle butler
queenie by candice carty-williams
prep by curtis sittenfeld
the idiot by elif batumen
my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh
oksana, behave! by maria kuznetsova
where’d you go, bernadette by maria semple
convenience store woman by sayaka murata
nothing to see here by kevin wilson
made for love by alissa nutting
the pisces by melissa broder
the herd by andrea bartz
if you want to start reading the unhinged women canon (not all recent):
mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf
the awakening by kate chopin
we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson
gone girl by gillian flynn
rebecca by daphne du maurier
white oleander by janet fitch
cousin bette by honore de balzac
wide sargasso sea by jean rhys
play it as it lays by joan didion
the piano teacher by elfriede jelinek
valley of the dolls by jacqueline susann
postcards from the edge by carrie fisher
if you liked the secret history:
if we were villains by m.l. rio
social creature by tara isabelle burton
the basic eight by daniel handler
the incendiaries by r.o. kwon
bunny by mona awad
hex by rebecca dinerstein knight
if you like speculative/dystopian fiction:
the dreamers by karen thompson walker
the book of joan by lidia yuknavitch
severance by lin ma
gold fame citrus by claire vaye watkins
the farm by joanne ramos
followers by megan angelo
the power by naomi alderman
the glass hotel by emily st. john mandel
if you want a book that reads like a good fanfic:
normal people by sally rooney
fame adjacent by sarah skilton
stay up with hugo best by erin somers
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid
circe by madeline miller
the nobodies by liza palmer
evvie drake starts over by linda holmes
if you like dark stories about complex relationships between women:
my sister, the serial killer by oyinkan braithwaite
baby teeth by zoje stage
dare me by megan abbott
eileen by ottessa moshfegh
social creature by tara isabelle burton
the worst kind of want by liska jacobs
the girls by emma cline
oligarchy by scarlett thomas
devotion by madeline stevens
baby by annaleese jochems
marlena by julie buntin
bunny by mona awad
necessary people by anna pitoniak
if you like stories about complicated families:
red at the bone by jacqueline woodson
the care and feeding of ravenously hungry girls by anissa grey
mostly dead things by kristen arnett
bee season by myla goldberg
bowlaway by elizabeth mccracken
everything i never told you by celeste ng
the nest by cynthia d’aprix sweeney
the grammarians by cathleen schine
ask again, yes by mary beth keane
if you like smart and thoughtful books about relationships between women:
my brilliant friend and the neapolitan novels by elena ferrante
such a fun age by kiley reid
gingerbread by helen oyeyimi
the female persuasion by meg wolitzer
the burning girl by claire messud
expectation by anna hope
the animators by kayla rae whitaker
if you want something queer that isn’t YA:
my education by susan choi
permission by saskia vogel
mostly dead things by kristen arnett
real life by brandon taylor
after dolores by sarah schulman
patsy by nicole dennis-benn
wilder girls by rory power
enter the aardvark by jessica anthony
less by andrew sean greer
exciting times by naiose dolan
you just want something good and are willing to take a chance on one of these books i love (these are not all recent, i just like them a lot):
dept. of speculation by jenny offill
the interestings by meg wolitzer
godshot by chelsea bieker
play it as it lays by joan didion
the bonfire of the vanities by tom wolfe
wolf in white van by john darnielle
things you would know if you grew up around here by nancy wayson dinan
sex and rage by eve babitz
wise blood by flannery o’connor
leading men by christopher castellani
saint x by alexis schaitkin
the cosmopolitans by sarah schulman
lake success by gary shteyngart
odds against tomorrow by nathaniel rich
the great believers by rebecca makkai
good citizens need not fear by maria reva (short stories)
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«At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way—one page at a time. We use the Scribe, a book scanner our engineers invented, along with the software that it runs. Our scanning centers are located in universities and libraries around the world, from Boston Public Library to the University of Toronto to the Wellcome Library and beyond. Eliza is one of our fastest and most accurate scanners. Next she will execute quality control checks and fix any errors. Then she ships the book back to our Physical Archive for long-term preservation. Now imagine this: scanners like Eliza have done this 2,000,000 times. That’s what it takes to provide you with a free digital library.» – Plus Internet Archive’s Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes, by Chris Freeland, February 3, 2021
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JSTOR still isn’t free, that’s a bummer, but here are the websites I use to get eBooks! If you’d like to support an author you admire, that’s fine, and if you’d like to go through the library system, that’s fine too. I’m just a vigilante weirdo who hates long wait lists and encouraging a garbage publishing system! Also, we’re all stuck inside so we might as well pirate.
add more if you know of any more!
mobilism, this is where i got most of my ebooks from! you should also download an ebook reader onto your phone and your computer, depending on where you want to read. i recommend moon reader for your phone and calibre for your computer. you will need to sign up to get access to the downloads/forums but they don’t send any annoying emails, and the free trial for premium is pretty great!
Z-Lib: also really great, but they have a download cap of five per day. you can get more if you share a post to facebook or donate a small amount. very rarely disappoints and if i can’t find something on mobilism or vk, i know i can find it here.
Lib-gen, i don’t use it that often but it’s very good. real quick, just to make sure it worked well and had sort of Obscure Offerings, I looked up a book I’ve been hunting down (the novelization of the Batman: Knightfall arc …) and it was there! Amazing!
VK’s BOOKS & MOVIES in English Board and VK’s English Bookland: I wouldn’t recommend these to people who are new with pirating things, but if you know how to work it it’s really good! These two boards let you suggest books/ask someone to find you a book, and can search around through their very large databases. They do tend to repeat the same books in their posts sometimes, which means you’ll have to do a lot of scrolling/filtering out.
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