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doomedbythenarrator · 9 months

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"i want to love something without having to apologise for it" - queerness, shame, desire

nelly arcan // richard siken // hozier // rené magritte // emily m danforth // richard siken // hala alyan

#webweaving #richard siken #hozier #shame #queerness #desire #tw homophobia #rené magritte #emily m danforth #hala alyan #this one i dont love #like its more what i was thinking about than something fully cohesive #but oh well

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ech0ech0ech0 · 1 year

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Becoming

Alice Oseman, Radio Silence // David Almond, The Tightrope Walkers // Will Wood, Marsha Thankk You for the Dialectics but I Need You to Leave // Dionne Brand, What We All Long For // Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea // Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance // Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

#onlyech0es #alice oseman #radio silence #david almond #will wood #dionne brand #erin morgenstern #the starless sea #jeff vandermeer #emily m danforth #the miseducation of cameron post #web weaving #book quotes #becoming #adulthood #growing up #self discovery

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haveyoureadthisbook-poll · 2 months

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#plain bad heroines #emily m danforth #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

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honey-from-hell · 8 months

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Books to Read if You want to Look/Feel like a Literary Snob

AKA dark academia and literary novels that’ll make you look smart but are also enjoyable (in my option).

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edited by Carmen Maria Machado

This is the OG vampire novel and also the OG toxic queer romance novel. Published in 1872, this book predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by 25 years. The story follows Carmilla and her increasingly possessive relationship with the protanganist, Laura, following a carraige incedent. So, yes, this is a classic, and I know these arn’t always the easiest to read. But is it less than 150 pages, it is queer, and Carmen Maria Machado’s commentary is hilarious and also helps with the reading process.

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

I feel like everyone knows this book, and it is for sure popular—and for that reason alone, I debated not adding it to this list—but I’m not sure if I would consider it overrated. It is one of the prettiest books I have ever read and it is objectivly good. It is a retelling of the Trojan War told from Patroclus’ point-of-veiw and focuses on his relationship with Achilles. And for sure, if you get one of the pretty editions, you will look like a snob.

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

This is the most pretenious novel I have ever read. It has its issues, don’t get me wrong, and its preteniouness is one of them. Regardless, it is quite the compelling novel with an interesting cast of characters and a solid twist at the end. TAS is about a group of six young adults who are in the process of becoming part of a secret society that protects the suposidly burned contents of the library of Alexandria. Their intiation process consists of eleminating one of the chosen six.

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

This 600+ page book is not nearly as prentious as it appears, but I imagine if you’re just wanting to look like you’re into literary horror, this is the book for you. It follows two different timelines and is a bit trippy to think about. It is a book about a book that is in the process of being made into a movie based on real-life events. It is mildly creepy, very well written, and gloriously feminist and queer.

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom

I havn’t read many feminist books written by men, but this one does a solid job, and I’m kind of mad about it. This wonderfully atmostspheric tale takes place in 1666 Conneticuit. It is full of magic, witchcraft, demons, and staight white bible-thumpers getting what they deserve. Also, yes, we are all into the goat man. It’s okay.

These Violent delights by Micah Nemerever

Listen, it's bleak, but in a way that's fascinating and intriguing, and you don't want to put it down. It's about two boys who are the smartest people in the room—one alienated, grieving, and awkward, the other popular, personable, and easy-going. Their friendship turns towards an intense relationship where their toxic sensibilities take a turn for the violent. The question: can they get away with it?

These are not peak snob, but they are the ones I have read/listened to that I would recommend if you're in the mood for something a bit pretentious.

#carmilla #j sheridan le fanu #carmen maria machado #the song of achilles #soa #madeline miller #the atlas six #olivie blake #plain bad heroines #emily m danforth #slewfoot #slewfoot: a tale of bewitchery #brom #these violent delights #micah nemerever #books #queer books

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ink-pocket · 4 months

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And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed Just to get it all out what's in my head And I, I'm feeling a little peculiar And so I wake in the morning and I step outside And I take a deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs "What's going on?"

#cameron post #the miseducation of cameron post #2018 movies #2018 film #4 non blondes #emily m danforth

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thereadingchallengechallenge · 11 months

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JOMP BPC - May 15th - Time Period

I’m not a big fan of historical fiction but I love reading books set in the 1990s, especially about queer kids living in the 90s, because it helps me contextualise some of my experiences growing up as a queer kid in the 2000s and 2010s. I’d highly recommend these three 💖

#tucker shaw #andy mientus #emily m danforth #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits #when you call my name #fraternity #the miseducation of cameron post #lgbt books #gay #lesbian #bisexual

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alegriavida · 1 year

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Plain Bad Heroines || Emily M. Danforth

My bright smile haunts no one. I shoot no opaque glances from my eyes, which are not like the sea by any means. I have never eaten any viands, and my appetite for what I do eat is most excellent. And my voice has never yet, to my knowledge, been full of tears. No, I am not a heroine.

#plain bad heroines #emily m danforth #books #mood board #aesthetic #mood boards

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sapphic-book-tournament · 10 months

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#the miseducation of cameron post #emily m danforth #the color purple #alice walker #lesbian novels #lesbian books #lesbian stories #lesbian characters #lesbian #sapphic stories #sapphic characters #sapphic book tournament #sapphic fiction #sapphic books #lgbt characters #lgbt books #Lgbtq #Lgbt novels #lgbtq characters

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thebanishedreader · 6 months

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"It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all."

The Miseducation of Cameron Post | (Emily M. Danforth, 2012)

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futureghost97 · 10 months

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if I finish this book tonight (i will) that’ll be 3 books in less than a week 🤓 a mentally well molly is a molly who reads!

#my stuff #molly reads #this week:#A Touch of Jen #Beth Morgan #Bunny #Mona Awad #Plain Bad Heroines #emily m danforth

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buniyaad · 2 years

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Merritt being the most cringeworthy budding queer in the current era Plain Bad Heroines Society is so embarrassing. I know she’s jealous of Audrey for clicking with Harper, but sis, simmer down. She reminds me of the baby gays you need to herd towards one table during an outing, because if they cut loose, they’ll embarrass you and the entire homo friend group in front of another, unassociated homo friend group 😩

#i know she’s mentally ill but her mouth #dead lord her mouth #she’s lucky audrey’s got PR training otherwise she woulda gotten slapped for her smartass mouth by now #plain bad heroines #emily m danforth #real talk #book hoe

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666ftunderthestars · 4 months

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Idea:

okay so i just finished Plain Bad Heroines, and i had an idea for a movie adaptation of it that’s incredibly infeasible, but would be the weirdest most layered meta shit ever (spoilers for the book under the cut)

okay so i think the way to go about an adaptation for maximum chaos/confusion would be to adapt Merritt’s novel she writes about the production of the Happenings at Brookhants movie, because now you’re adapting a fake novel made about a parody of a fake movie (bc she changed the names for plausible deniability) which itself was a meta movie about the filming of a cursed movie, all of which is contained within the pages of an actual fiction novel. so now you have a movie about a movie which is actually two separate movies which are going to be stitched together into one movie, none of which is real. then to make it extra confusing and meta, the end credits pan out to reveal all of this movie you just watched was playing in a theater, empty except for three girls sharing a bucket of popcorn. when the lights in the theater come on, you see that they look suspiciously similar to the three main protagonists of the movie you just watched.

#plain bad heroines #emily m danforth #books #movie idea #idk it just seems like a fun idea #like it couldn’t ever actually be made and it would be confusing as hell if it did #but like #imagine

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just-a-bookish-reader · 1 year

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November 20, 2022 - Book Haul

I'm trying to post daily! So here's an update on yesterday's bookish things. I met up with a friend at a local bookstore which god I love them so much more than Barnes and Noble. (Both the friend and the local bookstore) Anyway, who's ready for a haul?!

"A stunning new work of historical fantasy, J. M. Miro's Ordinary Monsters introduces readers to the dark, labyrinthe world of The Talents England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness —a man made of smoke.

Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a lifetime of brutality, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When two grizzled detectives are recruited to escort them north to safety, they are forced to confront the nature of difference, and belonging, and the shadowy edges of the monstrous.

What follows is a journey from the gaslit streets of London, to an eerie estate outside Edinburgh, where other children with gifts—the Talents—have been gathered. Here, the world of the dead and the world of the living threaten to collide. And as secrets within the Institute unfurl, Marlowe, Charlie and the rest of the Talents will discover the truth about their abilities, and the nature of the force that is stalking them: that the worst monsters sometimes come bearing the sweetest gifts.

With lush prose, mesmerizing world-building, and a gripping plot, Ordinary Monsters presents a catastophic vision of the Victorian world—and of the gifted, broken children who must save it."

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(sorry for the horrible quality I'm trying to use the actual covers I have)

"The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit

Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.

Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.

A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period-inspired illustrations, Plain Bad Heroines is a devilishly haunting, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny, spellbinding, and wonderfully luxuriant read."

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"To learn what she can become, she must first discover who she is.

Katyani’s role in the kingdom of Chandela has always been clear: becoming an advisor and protector of the crown prince, Ayan, when he ascends to the throne. Bound to the Queen of Chandela through a forbidden soul bond that saved her when she was a child, Katyani has grown up in the royal family and become the best guardswoman the Garuda has ever seen. But when a series of assassination attempts threatens the royals, Katyani is shipped off to the gurukul of the famous Acharya Mahavir as an escort to Ayan and his cousin, Bhairav, to protect them as they hone the skills needed to be the next leaders of the kingdom. Nothing could annoy Katyani more than being stuck in a monastic school in the middle of a forest, except her run-ins with Daksh, the Acharya’s son, who can’t stop going on about the rules and whose gaze makes her feel like he can see into her soul.

But when Katyani and the princes are hurriedly summoned back to Chandela before their training is complete, tragedy strikes and Katyani is torn from the only life she has ever known. Alone and betrayed in a land infested by monsters, Katyani must find answers from her past to save all she loves and forge her own destiny. Bonds can be broken, but debts must be repaid."

#ordinary monsters #j.m.miro #night of the raven dawn of the dove #rati mehrotra #plain bad heroines #emily m danforth #book haul #new mexico #santa fe #local bookstore

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libinih28 · 7 months

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Kind of slick to have these yellow jackets, or wasps (white anglo-saxon protestants) killing women. Very on the nose

#emily m danforth #plain bad heroines

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sawreadreviewed · 2 years

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Plain Bad Heroines, ginger tea, and clashing patterns.

#plain bad heroines #emily m danforth #wlw lit #tomes and tea #adultbooklr #adult booklr

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nerdynatreads · 2 years

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book review || Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

video review || Still Riding That Wave -- June Wrap Up || 10 books!

Wow, okay, I can’t decide on my feelings here. This was so slow, so character-driven for a large majority of the book, with a creepy atmosphere and an underlying mystery, but it felt like we really didn’t get ANY development of it after the initial setup until 400 pages in!

The character work was great. All of the women were distinct, I never mixed up who was who, they each had their own voices with a tone to match. However, I feel like there were some elements given to each of the women that ended up not really being necessary and just added extra page time. For example, Harper’s mother’s alcoholism or Aubrey’s mother, Caroline’s, fall from fame. These might have added some depth to both Harper and Aubrey in terms of background, but I felt they weren’t especially necessary. I do think that the POV shifts could sometimes be confusing when many of the women were with one another, making it hard to keep straight who’s minds we were in, which did cause issues with consistency. My favorite perspective was definitely Alex in the past. I felt as though I really knew Alex, and understood her motivations and views, but her perspective also was so unsettling and, for quite some time, had the most development of the mystery.

If I’m being honest, I think the entire present-day plot line probably could have been cut and I would have enjoyed this more. I didn’t particularly care for Harper, Aubrey was fine, and I didn’t like Merritt, but all in all, it felt like this entire half of the story was just used to build suspense, further creep you out, and make you more intrigued by the mystery in the past. This could have been successful if the ending reveal was played right, but they had no part in it! The reveal felt very true to the entire story that had been laid out and I quite enjoyed it as a twist, but it felt so rushed and really cemented the present-day timeline feeling unnecessary. The final chapter with Harper, Merritt, and Audrey was, once again, creepy, but it didn’t give me a satisfying ending.

3.5 / 5 stars

#book review #plain bad heroines #plain bad heroines by emily m danforth #emily m danforth #book #book recs #book recommendations #mystery books #horror books #lgbt+ book #sapphic books #booktube #booktuber #book youtube #bookblr #booklr #book tumblr #studyblr

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