#I read books

[lukes-curls]

finished rooney’s intermezzo this morning. WOW. i adore the way she wrote it (i said what i said) idc if it’s controversial. the experimental prose, short sentence, lack of punctuation marks appeals to the brainrot part of my brain that reads and consumes in this hungry, relentless way. i have always been a rather insatiable, quick reader but i devoured this novel like i had been starving before. pages consumed with bad table manners— chewing with my mouth open, licking my fingers afterwards.

and oh my god the people in this piece. as the certified little sister (acknowledge your privilege, little girl!) i felt so much reading this. the strange disappointment that goes unsaid. the strange love that goes unsaid. knowing your siblings did the best they could when ur parents inevitably grow tired of being a parent and perhaps marriage breaks down or someone simply checks out (parenting is hard) so your siblings (who probably resent you a bit in theory for being little) in all their three/ten/thirteen (true story) years more on this earth take to protecting you. that felt rather self-insert oops. knowing said effort and love and care does not mean they are unflawed (yes, i’m talking about peter telling ivan he had the pup sorted when he did not in fact have the pup sorted and so it fell into ivan’s lap thank god and he handled it out without any acknowledgment or thanks because peter was ‘handling’ it and so he did (it was SO much more than a dog)). i’m also talking about the weird entitlement they feel over you. your achievements are indirectly theirs, too, because without them you would have never picked up chess or gotten good at something. and the strange guilt they feel for abandoning their little sibling in the house they have a new reprieve from. and i pity those who don’t get to experience the sibling dynamic; those who don’t know what it’s like. there’s so much there.

also can we talk about the women in this book? i love margaret and i love annie and i love sylvia and i love naomi and i adore them all together though i will admit that there were times i grew incredibly frustrated to the point my cheeks got hot because they really need to simply stand up sometimes. like STAND UP! but that’s to be expected. also it did take me a while to get used to them being perceived by men; their limits assumed, their softness assumed, their vulnerability assumed (which is flawlessly executed by sally, oh my goodness). i love the unconventionality imposed by naomi and sylvia loving one man. i love how much peter loves women. everytime i felt emotionally about an event in the book (i had to walk away when peter hadn’t exactly told his girlfriends what was going on and he was cheating on them (call a shovel a shovel) until it was like overtly acknowledged and established by them all that it was a poly situation happening but this also rubbed me the wrong way a bit because why does peter need to have his sexual desires met (i’m talking about being bossy with naomi and sweet with sylvia) and his emotional or domestic desires met simultaneously like this man really got the best of both worlds and this made me upset cause he’s literally a man but i think this is my own issues. to circle back to my point— i would have these big feelings about what should be happening and then something would occur and i would see more of what was really going on and it suddenly mattered less that peter was getting the best of both worlds because sylvia and naomi understood perfectly well what was going on. idk i guess what i mean is i felt this initial impulse to feel a certain way which was soon corrected by me experiencing the narrative, peeling back that layer and that’s a lot like life i guess. that is what sally is so good at doing. writing something that is so much like life.

and the way sally structurally screams ‘art is just a pastiche of everything an artist loves’ or whatever they say (let’s sort it out on the remix) by putting the direct excerpts she stole (endearingly) at the end— bits and pieces even the smartest kid couldn’t pick apart with absolute certainty without some sort of external help. the fact these external pieces blend so seamlessly just proves her point. and i want to mention the length. the stream of consciousness. the hypocrisy. emphasis on catholic guilt. there is so much packed into this little novel. it is so much more than a silly little read though even if that is the idea you walk away with then you’re also so right?

anyways these are my initial silly thoughts, there are lots more but this is a long ass post. pls talk to me about it. i can’t wait to check the tag without fearing i am spoiling anything 🍽️

[ninsiana0]

Read PALADIN'S HOPE by T. Kingfisher if you love doctor dramas, *buddy-cop narratives, mysterious corpses, secret powers, vegetarians, being trapped in a maze, definitely not kissing your hook-ups, cross-cultural exchanges of knowledge, deadly obstacle courses, pretty men & apples.

*A gnole definitely says ACAB, tho

[midiosaamor]

i would literally be the best boyfriend if i was a boy

[visioncody]

Visions of Cody (wr. 1951) (pub. 1972)

—Jack Kerouac

[sasha4books]

Happy Black Poetry Day

5 Black Poets on the TBR List:

Maya Angelou

Dudley Randall

Amanda Gorman

Claude McKay

Nikki Giovanni

[geooo0o]

☯︎☔︎⋰ 𖤐 ⋱☔︎☯︎

𝙶𝚎𝚘'𝚜 𝙷𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚎🦇

Information:

Pre-warning: my mother ( @hiro--aoki ) will bite you if your mean to me

Name: Georgie/Geo

Age: 13 (year 9)

Likes: Candles, my cat, nature walks, being alone, watching movies such as: the breakfast club, heathers, the twilight saga. I like both the movie heathers and the musical. My favorite actress is Winona Ryder, my favorite actors are Jeffery Dean Morgan, Penn Badgley and Evan peters.

Dislikes: People who ruin books or do not care if they get ruined (if you put them on your windowsill, make sure to wipe up condensation otherwise it will ruin your books), people who are rude to others for no reason, Taylor Swift (I don't know why. I just do not like her), people who discriminate any religion, sexuality and gender just for being who they are.

Hobbies: Reading, art, walking :D

Music I adore: The smiths, 'emo' music, nu-metal, baby metal, mitski, Lana del Rey, Chappel Roan, the twilight soundtrack, songs from musicals and even more but I will not bore you with that!! :)

Extra: I am the youngest sibling out of my 4 siblings, i am a very weird person, so be warned. I draw a lot, I may post some of my drawings!! Ask me questions I'm begging🙏 I will answer unless it's weird, which brings us too:

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WARNINGS:

‼️ please do not interact with me through dm's if you are going to be creepy/weird (I have had someone dm me saying that: "you need someone to dom you", it is weird, please don't do that). I warn you again that I am a minor, and seriously not interested in anything of that sorts, it is very very creepy and weird.‼️

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More info about me:

I am British 🇬🇧

I swear a bit in my blogs, so don't read if you don't wanna read that<3

I love all of my moots, don't be afraid to interact with me!!

As I said, I do art :) I am a traditional artist, and willing to do commissions!!

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THATS IT!! THANK YOU FOR READING MY LOVELIES, ENJOY MY BLOGS 🦇💗

[cheryl-carol-cherlene-tunt]

Why do people get so obsessed with the idea of celeb couples faking their relationships for the media? You realize what you are suggesting is still a tropey romantic comedy?

[szamaisflyingsolo]

Next stop - DIFFERENT SEASONS.

Cool and classy.

UPDATE - finished this morning. How I love the stories, how I cherish the atmosphere.... THE BODY is my since forever favourite story - hot summer reading, sweaty adventure. Never enough.

I will stay in this gold and green realm for a moment longer.

I will breath deeply and escape the prison of my mind. I am a sort of an apt pupil I guess.

[katruna]

[winter-tospring]

The lathe of heaven, chapter 11

This mess. Going back a few steps back, a few dreams back to when Heather was Heather and not a pale version of herself. The Heather who was George's wife wasn't the Heather of before, and though he misses her, it's better to see her now in all her vibrancy of character, than nowhere at all but in his overlapping memories.

It's sweet, he wants to be in her life again, and like movies where characters lose their memory, he knows her, and will try again, to be in her life.

He sounds more serene. I don't know if his dreams really stopped coming true. He's not as stressed about it anyway. And what happened when he slept where the alien led him and he said the alien words? The world didn't change, and dreaming was pleasant. Did the aliens help? The aliens seem to help him continuously to find calm and understanding, through what's lost and caught in translation.

Haber ends up in an asylum, after pursuing his dreams too far. Everyone is terrified of him, the person who made this chaos happen.

It doesn't feel like the story is...resolved, but I don't think it essentially needs to? Things will change again some way, endlessly. I'm happy George is somewhat at peace, though. He deserves it.

I don't know what else to say, I'm really curious what others have to say about the end or the story in general.

Haber pushed the world into a nightmare and George dialed it back to a...realistic? Logical, nightmare. Mess of a world, but with connections that keep the world together. In that way, people can move forward, and move the world with them. Hm.

[ninsiana0]

Read INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE by Anne Rice if you love recalling the past, grave mistakes, small things, New Orleans, chasing rumors, theatrics, asexual relationships, disconcerting dynamics, ruminating on evil, Paris, sad boys, revenge, losing your humanity & tape recorders.

I was deep, deep into The Vampire Chronicles as a child, after reading INTERVIEW in 5th grade (definitely not age appropriate, but definitely instrumental in my own understanding of sexuality & gender, as well as general melancholy & aesthetics).

It was wild rereading it again after all these years. It's definitely more explicitly queer than I remember/realized, and the asexual vibes were something I don't think I ever clocked before. It felt like reading it for the first time.

[postsecretsalone]

[visioncody]

Visions of Cody (wr. 1951) (pub. 1972)

—Jack Kerouac

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[baalzebufo]

so the book of bill is pretty good

[kate-bot]

billford comic i made while i was hungry >:3