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It’s easy for me to accept that I am bacteria, or a parasite, or cancer. It’s easy for me to accept that my life is trivial, and that I am a speck of dust. It is hard for me to accept that for the people around me, however. It’s hard for me to accept that my brother’s life doesn’t matter, or that old women who die don’t matter, or even that rabbits or cats don’t matter. I feel simultaneously intensely insignificant and hyperaware of how important everyone is.
-Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
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— everyone in this room will someday be dead
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Ok can people talk about Emily Austin more please???
I read Interesting Facts About Space after reading Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and oh my god!!
I’ve never read a book more brutally honest about existing before. Also I really just understood the flow of thoughts from both Gilda and Enid. They both felt very real to me. I *highly* recommend these books if they look even remotely interesting to you!!
Austin is very rapidly becoming one of my favorite authors!
#emily austin#everyone in this room will someday be dead#interesting facts about space#books#queer books#bookblr#book review#book recommendations#oh my god I cannot stress enough how much everyone should read these#I could talk about them for hours
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Narrowed it down to my top 7 reads out of 64 from 2023 📚🎉
#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo#taylor jenkins reid#the chronicles of between#ll starling#assistant to the villain#hannah nicole maehrer#emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries#heather fawcett#nettle and bone#t kingfisher#everyone in this room will someday be dead#emily austin#all systems red#martha wells
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Of course I'm a fraud. The fact that I'm able to carry myself through life without being crushed beneath the psychological weight of being alive proves that I'm a con artist. Aren't we all con artists?
Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead Summary:
A lesbian with severe anxiety accidentally gets a job as a secretary for a church. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever read
The Sun and the Star Summary:
A Nico di Angelo solo book
Nico di Angelo is pretty familiar with the realms of death, being the son of Hades and all. So when a desperate voice starts plaguing his dreams, Nico is convinced it's coming from the Underworld and belongs to an old friend - a reformed Titan called Bob. Then an ominous prophecy leaves Nico in no doubt - Bob needs his help and Nico must rescue him.
Of course Nico's boyfriend, Will Solace, the son of Apollo (the god of light) insists on joining the quest too. But can will even survive in the darkest part of the world? And what does the prophecy mean when it says that Nico will have to leave something of equal value behind?
As Nico faces demons both internal and external, his relationship with Will is tested to its very core. Can love find its way, even through the depths of hell?
#everyone in this room will someday be dead#emily austin#the sun and the star#tsats#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#pjo#nico di angelo#rick riordan#mark oshiro#lgbt books#lgbt literature#queer books#queer literature#lgbtqia#poll
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playlists I made for all these books (and more!!) can be found here :)
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“Other times I fixate on how endearing people are. We sleep on soft surfaces; we like to be cozy. When I see cats cuddled up on pillows, I find it sweet; we are like that too.”
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
Today's sapphic book of the day is Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin!
TW for death mentioned in summary (also a prevalent theme throughout the book)
Summary: "Gilda, a twenty-something lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.
In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman, who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence."
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Once again here to hype up Emily Austin. If you like queer lit and books with a focus on mental health I think you might like her! This is her second book and I preferred the first one (Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead), but this one was quite good as well. I also think she’s the perfect author to fill the gap between YA and Adult Lit. I have read few books that better encompass what it’s like to be a twenty-something.
…fyi if your library/bookstore labeled this as “romance” also just ignore that tbh. Romance is a subplot but it is not the main focus at all, lmao. I would not call it a romance. It is New Adult Fiction.
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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SPACE - EMILY R. AUSTIN REVIEW
Title : Interesting Facts About Space
Author : Emily R. Austin
Genre : Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Queer Lit
Released : 2024
Enid's daily life can't be separated from these two things: space and true crime podcasts. From mars to black holes, she always has interesting space trivia at the top of her mind. She often finds herself in circumstances where she and other people are at odds, and the murder stories podcast is one reason she can manage getting by. She also goes on a lot of dates with women from dating apps. One day she receives a phone call from a stranger that resulted in an unexpected sequence thereafter. Although she would rather stay out of other people's business, it appears that misfortune follows in her direction. On top of that she is not only in the middle of rekindling her ties with her family, she also noticed that one of her neighbors has been acting strange recently. With so many things happening in her life, things are getting worse when she feels like she’s slowly losing control.
Set in modern day where there’s a certain stereotype about women who listen to true crime podcasts, I was dreading that this book will turn to a path I don’t particularly enjoy. Because my past experience with modern internet phenomena used in a book is not so great. Having finished the book, I think I can trust Emily Austin to handle that in a careful manner. As per Emily Austin style, the premise of the story tends to be simple yet the actualization is rather grim and gloomy. That’s why before starting this book, it’s best to check the trigger warnings first then tread carefully.
This book made me realize that it's impossible to make everyone understand me. It doesn’t matter how much or how little I explain about what’s going on inside myself to people; some people won't be satisfied by my explanation. It stings, but that’s just how the world works. Like Enid, who exhibits symptoms of autism throughout her life, she can’t speak her mind without portraying it in a way that other people can accept. People’s reactions to her authentic self are often furrowed eyebrows and awkward smiles. To avoid over-explaining herself that will just make the situation worse, she develops a way to camouflage. There’s this persisting feeling that the way that she is unfit for the world.
“I worry that I am a shell for something bad. That deep down, in the spot where most people keep their souls, I keep a weird little bug.”
This narrative is a constant thing that exists in her head. Because we exist in her head, we are provided with her train of thought which explains why Enid behaves the way she does. But even after mastering the art of blending in with society, she is still misunderstood by people around her.
Enid is a complex character who displays a mix of traits, trauma, and coping skills she acquired after negative past experience. She’s written to be so unbelievably real, as if Austin finds Enid’s diary on a random Tuesday, then makes it a novel.
What I’m trying to say is, the characterization of Enid is so intricately refined. From the way she talks to herself, how she presents herself in front of other people and why she does it, the slow walk to self-awareness, to how she finally finds herself, all of that feels so psychologically intimate?? Maybe because I ‘m very familiar with the themes this book brought up, that’s why I’m totally absorbed in the story. I guess because of this reason too, this book will hit harder for some than others.
The plot itself isn’t some grand twisty storyline or anything, but it integrates well with what the characters are dealing with. To me the pace is well-timed, not wonky at all. The dynamics between the characters are okay, and the humor is without a doubt, well delivered. Enid is so neurotic, her mind is a mess to the point that her absurd thoughts sound so hilarious to me like she’s so me fr. Meanwhile the mystery aspect itself is not what you expect. I don’t want to spoil it, just know that it left me with emotional damage which I should be compensated for.
I wish I could articulate myself better because some passages in this book made me feel like screaming crying throwing up munching the wall, you know what I mean?? The nuance in the daughter-mother relationship, half sisters and abandoned kid, relate that to Enid’s relationship with people, it’s just so good. I love this book a lot. It’s a great book. I highly recommend this to everyone.
My only complaint is, Emily Austin’s characters need better names.
Last, I hope she keeps getting bright colorful covers for her novels, I think it’s funny.
FAVORITE QUOTES
“But there are some fears that are rational. It’s reasonable to be afraid of murder, or to feel troubled about existing as a speck on a space rock floating in colossal, silent darkness. Those are rational fears. They’re both fears that can’t really be faced. How am I supposed to cope with fears like that? I thought the only option was to be delusional. I thought everyone coped by imagining reality isn’t what it is—by ignoring the threat of murder, or by forgetting we’re in space—or by doing what I do. By repeatedly exposing yourself until the threats feel familiar, the shock wears off, and you’ve conditioned yourself to find what scares you pacifying.”
“It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things.”
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