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the way κηδεύω (lit. “to care for”) can mean both “to marry” and “to bury”… κῆδος really is the source of the best and most pointed puns in greek tragedy
medea calls herself ᾗ χρῆν… νύμφῃ τε κηδεύουσαν ἥδεσθαι σέθεν “the one who should have delighted in *caring for* your bride” which means “connecting myself to her through your marriage” and also “overseeing her marriage to you” and also “tending to her dead body”
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i come back from a book and its like how the hell are you people just going on like this. didnt you read the book with me. how is the real world so disconnected from the whole book world i just experienced
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my studygram - where I post my journal and snippets of my hapless life as a student
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And acoustic "Honesty" never ages
tell me what to do shinee is like one of the only songs ever
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Every book in the History of Literature summed up in a single sentence
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🎃 Horrortober Challenge + Backlogathon 2022 📚
🔮 13th October: Do you believe in Friday 13th superstitions?
I don't believe in Friday 13th superstitions, no. But for some reason the broken mirror = bad luck superstition is really strong for me 🤷🏽♀️. Someone has put a broken mirror in our apartment building's hard rubbish collection, and it's been sitting to the side for a month, and it's SO UNNERVING >.< (And I wasn't even the person who broke the mirror!!!)
As part of @pastelhorroracademia and @logarithmicpanda's reading challenges, I've started a book of short stories by Barbara Baynton. This collection depicts the harsh life and ever-present fear (of personal safety, of physical health, of your child's safety) of living as a (white) female in rural Australia at the turn of the century. As Helen Garner writes in the Introduction, Baynton's stories "are driven by a contained, contemptuous rage that no woman of spirit can fail to recognise, or to share." It's not surprising that, in 1902, Baynton had to go out to London to get her stories published. White Australians, it seems, didn't want to see the mirror of their own society - even if it was only fiction.
#HorrortoberChallenge#backlogathon22#barbara baynton#australian author#bush studies#fiction#horror fiction#bookblr#studyblr#reading challenge#coffeebeanclaire
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🎃 Horrortober Challenge 🎃
12th October: Tea or coffee while reading?
It depends on the time of day ^_^ When I read a book in the morning, it's always coffee ☕. But if I read a book after midday, then I'll have tea. Black tea, green tea, herbal tea - that depends on what mood I'm in 🍵. These days rooibos is my go-to tea.
Also I finished Dry the other day (I think it was mentioned in a Ruby Granger video and that's why I got it from the library). I enjoyed it because it was easy to read, but - and this will be totally weird - but I think the end could have been a bit sadder? I would have believed it. But I guess the sad part r.e. Kelton's family kind of hit hard the most.
#HorrortoberChallenge#reading challenge#Dry#ya fiction#what is this genre?#it isnt post-apocalyptic but its like#altworld#altearth#bookblr#books#productivity#coffeee
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Thanks for the recommendation! I've just literally this second finished a request for it at the library ^_^
This was such a good read for spooky season! What Big Teeth definitely has some very strong influences from The Addams Family. But I also got some Coraline and The Haunting of Bly Manor vibes. With every passing page things got darker and creepier and it was all just delightfully dreadful. It was a lovely and spooky read.
I loved that at the start of the book every member of this monstrous family seemed relatively harmless. And then they started showing their fangs. Things got progressively darker the more you learned about the family. There were so many things were lurking just beneath the surface with this book, from murders to eldritch terrors. The last 75 pages or so of What Big Teeth are truly the most amazing part of this story. I could not put the book down for anything. Oh and then!! Then it dropped a huge bomb on the story and it ended. I was screaming!!! 😵💫
Honestly this book was just delightful! I really loved that we got bi, gay, and sapphic rep in a horror setting. I think my only complaint is that this book moved very slowly. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I just like my books to move a little faster. All in all this was a solid book and I’m giving it a four out of five stars. Beware of that ending though! 😳
TL;DR: read this book right now!!!
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🔮 10th October: Name a horror title that has some academic themes and that you can totally recommend
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova!
This is one of those books that I've had for years and don't quite remember how I acquired it, but when I finally read it in 2020 it was WOW. I mean, the pandemic was happening so I think I was really desiring a book through which I could do some imaginary travelling (Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, England.... ^_^). I remember being glad it was a long book because I was enjoying it so much!
I have since read reviews that say the plot is a bit loose, but if you're the kind of person who likes taking time to smell old books, or writing notes by hand, or chasing singular references to obscure things all over the internet... Well then this book kind of puts on a pedestal that life but as a cool plot. Oh, and there's vampires too!
#HorrortoberChallenge#dark academia#the historian#elizabeth kostova#bookblr#no kidding the main character copies out whole passages from ancient books into a notebook because a) no camera phones b) no scanners
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🔮 8th of October: Did you ever experience something supernatural?
Nope. I've never experienced ghosts, fae, rooms that just chill you to the bone as soon as you walk in. Nothing.
To be honest, I'm still grasping how incredible nature is - the planets, gravity, birds that fly, soil that nourishes plants. I know that there are experts in all these fields, but the ultimate why of 'why does nature do that?'... That why still feels supernatural to me.
Also, The Haunting of Hill House (first published 1959) still reads SUPERBLY today. I have SO MANY thoughts on Eleanor and Theodora's relationship 🤓 🧐 particularly its giddy-school-girl overly affectionate beginning and its knife-sharp middle.
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#HorrortoberChallenge#backlogathon22#the haunting of hill house#shirley jackson#bookblr#reading challenge#horror fiction#coffeebeanclaire
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05.10.2022 🌥️ lunlun's reading challenge day 1
better late than never! currently i am reading babel by r.f. kuang and i am absolutely gobsmacked in the best way. a lot of people recommended it and truly, my inner linguist is having so much fun with this book :)
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, photographer, journalist and traveller. She dressed androgynously from an early age on and was often mistaken for a young man. One of her friends, Marianne Breslauer described her as “Neither a woman nor a man, but an angel, an archangel.”
Schwarzenbach has written multiple books and has documented the rise of fascism in Europe and her travels to various European countries with her photographs.
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🔮 6th of October: What is your favourite kind of monster? (vampire, witch, fae etc.)
I've been reading The Odyssey recently, and because of that, right now the Cyclops is my favourite monster ^_^. I think it's totally fair and justified that the Cyclops ate Odysseus' men because Odysseus and his crew just WALTZED into the Cyclops' cave and ate all his food! Like, hospitality in the ancient world is one thing, but Odysseus was just a bastard in that case.
I used to like vampires because I would read my mum's collection of Anne Rice books, but Twilight and Vampire Diaries ruined the vampire concept - vampires are now tame and pretty -_-
Actually there is one light recently in vampire literature.... But I'll recommend it on October 10th ^_^
#HorrortoberChallenge#backlogathon2022#the odyssey#definitely written before 2010 hehehe#although i want to read Emily Wilson's translation ^_^#bookblr#reading#epic novel#cyclops#backlogathon22
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