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asoftepiloguemylove · 1 year

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home is the first grave

Karen Russell St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves / unknown / @/southern-gothic-decay (on tumblr) / Adonis (tr. Khaled Mattawa) excerpt from Body, "Selected Poems" / unknown / Mary Oliver Metamorphosque / Nikki Giovanni excerpt from Adulthood II, "Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day" / Warsan Shire excerpt from Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems / Team Dresch Uncle Phranc / @/elsiewarrenswords (on tumblr) / Wych elm Susan Smith

i. Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

[ "her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bedspread and shrieking, 'I wanna go home! I wanna go home!' Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home." ]

ii. unknown

[ "FUCK YOU IF YOU EVER TOUCH ME AGAIN / I'LL SHOVE MY HANDS DOWN YOUR THROAT / AND RIP OUT THE VERY HEART YOU STOLE FROM ME / UNTIL YOU CAN'T BREATHE AND THE HAUNTING / IMAGES FILL YOUR BRAIN AND THE BUGS / EAT YOUR REMAINS THERE WILL BE NO / REMORSE FROM ME AND I HOPE OU ROT IN THE GRAVE / YOU STOLE MY CHILDHOOD FROM ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT" ]

iii. @/southern-gothic-decay

[ "2. You can always make things more difficult. Draw it out. Make it interesting. Oh, you don't want to follow someone else's blueprints? Oh, you want to create something new? Too bad. We can't all be architects. Some of us were born to lay the bricks. Some of us were born to hide the bodies. You've been building this house since you were born, just like your father. Just like your father, you will not live to see it finished. The house has been a nursery. The house has been a burial site. The house is swallowing bodies before the blood has dried. Your inheritance is a knife's edge. Your inheritance is a culling. When the time comes, even your coffin will be a family heirloom. Come, make sure the measurements are right." ]

iv. Adonis (tr. Khaled Mattawa), Body

[ "And his ghosts said: Let's move on / Before the body is piling itself upon itself / secret by secret / Rot is also a heart / rot is also childhood / rot is also what love is" ]

v. Mary Oliver, Metamorphosque

[ "In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be." ]

vi. Nikki Giovanni, Adulthood II

[ "There is always something / of the child / in us that wants / a strong hand to hold / through the hungry season / of growing up" ]

vii. Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

[ "Mama, I made it / out of our home / alive, raised by / the voices in my head." ]

viii. Team Dresch, Uncle Phranc

[ "My mom says she loves me / But i don't think it's love / Cause she only loves me / When i act just like she does // And that's emotional blackmail" ]

ix. @/elsiewarrenswords

[ "I think that's what happens when you've lived a lonely childhood. You get too attached to people as you get older, in the hope that they'll give you the care and love that you missed out on and never leave you." ]

x. Wych elm, Susan Smith

[ "Why'd you do this to me / I was your baby / You made me" ]

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bookcoversonly · 9 months

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Title: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves | Author: Karen Russell | Publisher: Vintage (2014)

#books #St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves #Karen Russell

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devilsskettle · 8 months

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Swamplandia! by Karen Russell / Home from Beetlejuice / Haunting Olivia from St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

#idk. whatever #karen russell is so brilliant and writes grief in a way that makes me. hmmmmmm.#karen russell #swamplandia!#st. lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves #beetlejuice #anyway the idea that you can love someone enough to go to the underworld to find them again only to realize that death is so vast #and eternal that you will never be able to find the person you love in it. fields of asphodel

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punkass-diogenes · 2 years

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The pack was worried about Mirabella. Mirabella would rip foamy chunks out of the church pews and replace them with ham bones and girl dander. She loved to roam the grounds wagging her invisible tail. (We all had a hard time giving that up. When we got excited, we would fall to the ground and start pumping our backsides. Back in those days we could pump at rabbity velocities. Que horror! Sister Maria frowned, looking more than a little jealous.) We'd give her scolding pinches. "Mirabella," we hissed, imitating the nuns. "No." Mirabella cocked her ears at us, hurt and confused. Still, some things remained the same. The main commandment of wolf life is Know Your Place, and that translated perfectly. Being around other humans had awakened a slavish-dog affection in us. An abasing, belly-to-the-ground desire to please. As soon as we realized that others higher up in the food chain were watching us, we wanted only to be pleasing in their sight. Mouth shut, I repeated, shoes on feet. But if Mirabella had this latent instinct, the nuns couldn't figure out how to activate it. She'd go bounding around, gleefully spraying on their gilded statue of St. Lucy, mad-scratching at the virulent fleas that survived all of their powders and baths. At Sister Maria's tearful insistence, she'd stand upright for roll call, her knobby, oddly-muscled legs quivering from the effort. Then she'd collapse right back to the ground with an ecstatic oomph! She was still loping around on all fours (which the nuns had taught us to see looked unnatural and ridiculous--we could barely believe it now, the shame of it, that we used to locomote like that!), her fists blue-white from the strain. As if she were holding a secret tight to the ground. Sister Maria de la Guardia would sigh every time she saw her. "Caramba!" She'd sit down with Mirabella and pry her fingers apart. "You see?" she'd say softly, again and again. "What are you holding onto? Nothing, little one. Nothing."

"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell

#my art #st lucy's home for girls raised by wolves #karen russell #book art #illustration #copicdrawing #girlhood

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idont-even-know-anymore · 9 days

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She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bed sheets shrieking, " I want to go home I want to go home!" Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home.

Karen Russell

#quotes #St Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves

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queen-of-weird-girl-nation · 30 days

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forever thinking about st Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves

#think I might be a therian #lol #st lucy's home for girls raised by wolves #it’s so good

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natto-axolotl · 1 year

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love realizing i had a "Just Like Me" moment of such magnitude that the prose piece i did ended up straying pretty far from everyone else's interpretation/view of it

#natto blabbos #speech and debate #''this story is about the loss of innocence that comes with growing up'' TO YOU.#to me it is about that and the pain of living between cultures and having to abandon family for it at points #piece is st lucys home for girls raised by wolves by karen russell if anyones interested

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asecondglassofcinnamonwine · 1 year

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Daughters of a Coral Dawn by Katherine V Forrest

A group of part-alien lesbians decide to pull up the stakes and leave Earth to found their own society on a planet in a different solar system with their synthetic insemination drug to have babies without men. Then years later a spaceship with a mostly-male crew ends up touching down on their lesbian utopia, but there is one woman in the crew that causes all kinds of lusts in the Very Special Leader of the Lesbian Utopia.

Ty for the rec, Tor.com. I had a great time reading about how beautiful and perfect a lesbian separatist society could be, how Very Special Our Lesbian Leader is, and allllllll the descriptions of titties. Could have done with less sexualization of minors.

#cinnamon reads of 2022 #currently reading: dandelion 1 #next up: st lucys home for girls raised by wolves #a short story collection

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mysterieuxclairdelune · 1 year

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{Chelsea Dingman, from "Psychogeography," published in The Los Angeles Review/ Anne Sexton/ Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls - Raised by Wolves/ Abraham Verghese/ Naguib Mahfouz/ Clementine von Radics, Poem: Courtney Love Prays to Oregon/ Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project/ Fatimah Asghar, from "How'd Your Parents Die Again?" published in The New York Times Magazine/ John Murillo, Poem: Mercy, Mercy, Me}

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tarotenvelhecida · 1 year

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pick a card– which book speaks to your soul?

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.

—Conversations with James Baldwin.

this is my love letter to all the bookworms in the tarot community— pick a pile & i'll give you a list of genres + book suggestions carrying important messages to you.

I. THE FIRST

To the daydreamers and the escapists; to the ones that need to rest before following what you need follow.

RELEVANT GENRES & CONCEPTS– fiction in general; romance; fantasy; fairytale; poetry; ‘happy ever after’ endings; hopeful endings; fantasy; magic; dreamy.

AUTHORS – Ursula K. Le Guin; Louise Gluck; Mary Oliver; Jane Austen.

BOOKS FOR YOU–

‘The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 – Molly Peacock'

‘Good Bones – Maggie Smith’

‘If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho – Translation by Anne Carson’

‘Owls and Other Fantasies – Mary Oliver’

‘Dog Songs – Mary Oliver’

‘Emma – Jane Austen’

‘Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones’

‘The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’

‘Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather’

‘Sonnets from the Portuguese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning’

‘The Hawk and the Dove – Penelope Wilcock’

‘The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright’

‘The Ink Dark Moon – Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu’

‘Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll’

‘The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf’

‘Little Women – Louisa May Alcott’

‘Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery’

‘Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins – Emma Donoghue’

II. THE SECOND

For the ones that carry the ache to learn and know everything; to the ones bored with life's commodities & seriousness. For the ones that question everything around them – as they should do.

You do not need to fit in. Don't change yourself for other people. If they want to see you this way, then become the proud witch in the edge of the woods.

RELEVANT GENRES & CONCEPTS– books on 'niche' knowledge; science; philosophy; true crime; drama; scandalous romances; adventure, magical realism; YA thriller & horror; comedy & sardonic comedy; ‘controversial’/'weird' books.

AUTHORS– Carmen Maria Machado, Kate Moore, Grady Hendrix.

BOOKS FOR YOU–

‘My Sister, The Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite'

‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales – Oliver Sacks'

‘St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves – Karen Russell'

‘Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife – Mary Roach’

‘The Hitchhiker Guide to Galaxy – Douglas Adams'

‘Inferno – Dante Alighieri'

'Magic for Beginners – Kelly Link'

‘Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls – N.L. Shompole'

‘Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found – Frances Larson’

'The Woman They Could Not Silence – Kate Moore'

‘The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams'

‘She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women – Jennifer Wright’

‘Anatomy: A Love Story – Dana Schwartz'

‘Pretty Dead Queens – Alexa Donne'

‘I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy'

'Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus – Bill Wasik'

‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina – Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’

III. THE THIRD

You need to put your sadness somewhere. If you can't, remember that someone has done it before – and transformed it into a story. Let the words you'll read be the resting place for whatever you're feeling right now; let yourself remember that not even your pain is lonely in this world.

RELEVANT GENRES AND CONCEPTS— poetry; gothic horror; thrillers; murder mysteries; tragedies; cathartic stories; biographies.

AUTHORS– Shirley Jackson, Osamu Dazai, Clarice Lispector, Sylvia Plath.

BOOKS FOR YOU—

'The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion'

‘The Dead – James Joyce'

‘What The Living Do – Marie Howe'

‘The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector'

‘Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector’

‘Some of Us Did Not Die – June Jordan'

Somewhere Towards the End – Diana Athill'

‘We Have Always Lived in The Castle – Shirley Jackson'

'Heaven: A Novel – Mieko Kawakami'

'Journal of a Solitude – May Sarton'

'Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte'

'Grief is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter'

‘Carrie – Stephen King'

'Of Dogs and Walls – Yuko Tsushima'

'Frankenstein – Mary Shelley'

'The Stepping Off Place – Cameron Kelly'

'Letters to Milena – Franz Kafka'

‘Beloved – Toni Morrison'

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strawberryswitchblader · 1 year

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#ok going to tag an uncharacteristic amount now everyone look away #poetry #web weaving #words #parallels #art #that first quote makes me go insane everytime btw #greatest hits

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shelleyduvallsfaerietaletheatre · 17 days

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Book log so far this year:

Fruiting Bodies, Kathryn Harlan ☆☆☆☆

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter ☆☆☆☆☆

The Girl and The Ghost, Hanna Alkaf ☆☆ & a half

currently: St Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves, Karen Russell (30%)

What have you all been reading??

#mutuals if you have any recs pls feel free to shoot #trying to get in at least 1 new read a month #i love short story anthologies and mainly like horror + scifi but am also looking to read more non-fiction #i wanted to like TGATG so much more but that took a uhhh unfortunate turn #author made some Choices :/#St Lucy's is a 3-ish star so far--hopefully the remaining stories will improve as they go #2024

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telecuckoo · 4 days

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what is home?

marlena, julie buntin // salvare la faccia 1969 // salvare la faccia 1969 // x-23 (2018) issue #2 // for woman who are 'difficult' to love, warsan shire // st. lucy's home for girls raised by wolves, karen russell // x-men: phoenix warsong (2006) issue #3 cover // x-men: phoenix warsong (2006) issue #3 // on believing, hanif abdurraqib (the paris review) // the gifted s02 x e06 // f they come for us, fatimah asghar

#៹ㅤ... 𝐂𝑢𝒞𝚔𝕆𝔬 ... aes.#im an emo wreck about them!#webweaves.

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elskanellis · 8 months

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book questions! @boxboxlewis tagged me and I cannot ever resist her allure....

An estimate of how many physical books I own: I just did some math with the IKEA catalog and it's about 14.5 linear meters (about 48 linear feet).

Favorite author: Shirley Jackson.

A popular book I've never read and never intend to read: Where the Crawdads Sing (stealing Kate's answer).

A popular book I thought was just meh: Gone Girl.

Longest book I own: War and Peace.

Longest series I own all the books to: by number of pages it's Harry Potter, by number of volumes it's A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Prettiest book I own: The "Pennyroyal" Bible, which is the KJV with woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser.

A book or series I wish more people knew about: Someday I will find someone else who has read and loved Little, Big by John Crowley.

Book I'm reading now: St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell; and re-reading The Locked Tomb (currently halfway through Harrow).

Book that's been on my TBR list for a while but I still haven't got around to it: Picnic at Hanging Rock. It's short! I should read it!

Do you have any books in a language other than English: Quite a bit in Spanish, a few in French, can't think if there are any others and if there are it'd be for novelty only.

Paperback, hardcover, or ebook?: the format of my heart is truly mass-market paperback. I overwhelmingly read library books on an e-reader.

no-pressure tagging @skeptiquex @teledild0nix @thehoneybeet @thosefarplaces @citrusses if you want to!!

#tag game #books books books

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libraryoflanie · 10 months

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“She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bedspread and shrieking, “I wanna go home! I wanna go home!” Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home.”

Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

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cursed-and-haunted · 7 months

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Was it St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves?

Yes! That's it! Thank you

#asks #that was going to bug me if I couldn't remember the name

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