#Mari Adania

[gastronominho]

Mercado de Pinheiros promove a "Noite no Mercado"

Mari Adania e Fábio Sinbo, de casas como Manduque e Feliciana, se unem a Rodrigo Oliveira, do Mocotó, para elaborar um menu harmonizado

Mari Adania e Fábio Sinbo, de casas como Manduque e Feliciana, se unem a Rodrigo Oliveira, do Mocotó, para elaborar um menu harmonizado O Mercado Municipal de Pinheiros está organizando um jantar para trinta pessoas no dia 10 de setembro, nas dependências do entreposto. Com o intuito de arrecadar fundos para as ações de revitalização do Mercado, o evento será organizado pelos restaurantes…

[loudrats]

Loud Rats Book Club 2023

This year the rats became literate!

We suggested a number of books each month and then voted on one to read (somehow Fish managed to read all 12 of them… wild!). The ones in red are the winners, but there are some other really good books in there.

Hopefully you can find your next favourite read below! :)

January

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

Pirates and Prejudice by Kara Louise

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

February

Adua by Igiaba Scego

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

March

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Humans by Matt Haig

Cane by Jean Toomer

Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (#1 Broken Earth Trilogy)

Young Mungo by Douglas Stewart

April

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrel

Dubliners by James Joyce

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

May

Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

June

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill

Swimming in the dark by Tomasz Jędrowski

Girls like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 17 by Jeff Kinney

Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

July

Kid Youtuber 9: Everything is Fine by Marcus Emerson, Noah Child

Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella

Hit Parade Of Tears by Izumi Suzuki

When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book by Naja Marie Aidt

Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Mapping the Interior by Stephan Graham Jones

August

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Small Game by Blair Braverman

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi

September

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

October

Linghun by Ai Jiang

Eyes Guts Throat Bones by Moira Fowley-Doyle

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley

Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić

Kindred by Octavia Butler

November

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Life For Sale by Yukio Mishima

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Liberation Day by George Saunders

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

December

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

[brandonshimoda]

THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023

*I read it before

**I read it more than once this year

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Common Grace

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English

Alison Lubar, It Skips a Generation

Atef Abu Saif, The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary

Brynn Saito, Under a Future Sky

Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

*Carolina Ebeid, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior

Chanté L. Reid, Thot

*Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Christine Shan Shan Hou & Vi Khi Nao, Evolution of the Bullet

Christopher Okigbo, Labyrinths (with Paths of Thunder)

Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Dionne Brand, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun

*Dionne Brand, No Language is Neutral

Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive

Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father, translated from the French by Lorin Stein

**Emily Lee Luan, 回 / Return

Erin Marie Lynch, Removal Acts

Fady Joudah, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

Farid Tali, Prosopopoeia, translated from the French by Aditi Machado

Gabriel Palacios, A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth Is Sign (coming out 2024)

Ghayath Almadhoun, Adrenalin, translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

Hauntie, To Whitey & The Cracker Jack

Hervé Guibert, To the friend who did not save my life, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Hiromi Ito, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, translated from the Japanese by Jon L. Pitt

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

*James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

James Fujinami Moore, Indecent Hours

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Jawdat Fakhreddine, Lighthouse for the Drowning, translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Jed Munson, Commentary on the Birds

Jennifer Hayashida, A Machine Wrote This Song

Jenny Odell, Inhabiting The Negative Space

Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense

*Joy Kogawa, A Choice of Dreams

Joy Kogawa, A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems

**Joy Kogawa, From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems

Joy Kogawa, Gently to Nagasaki

*Joy Kogawa, Jericho Road

*Joy Kogawa, Obasan

Joy Kogawa, The Rain Ascends

Joy Kogawa, The Splintered Moon

*Joy Kogawa, Woman in the Woods

Juan Felipe Herrera, Akrílica, eds. Farid Matuk, Carmen Giménez, Anthony Cody

Kamo-no-Chomei, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World, translated from the Japanese by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins

Keorapetse Kgositsile, Collected Poems, 1969-2018

*Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Kōno Taeko, Toddler-Hunting, translated from the Japanese by Lucy North

Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary, as told to George Hajjar

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Kaan and Her Sisters

**Lindsey Webb, Plat (coming out in 2024)

Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

Liyana Badr, A Balcony over the Fakihani, translated from the Arabic by Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley

Lucille Clifton, An Ordinary Woman

*Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats

Lucille Clifton, Good News About the Earth

Lucille Clifton, Good Times

Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman

Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly’s Burden, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor, translated from the Arabic by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, You Can Be The Last Leaf, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Maya Marshall, All the Blood Involved in Love

Michael Prior, Model Disciple

*Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and Other Poems

Mitsuye Yamada, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems

Mohammed El-Kurd, RIFQA

**Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, translated from the Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif

Mourid Barghouti, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Mourid Barghouti, Midnight, translated from the Arabic by Radwa Ashour

Na Mira, The Book of Na

Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro, translated from the Japanese by Edwin McClellan

Nona Fernández, Voyager: Constellations of Memory, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Noor Hindi, DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett

The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry, edited and translated from the Arabic by A.M. Elmessiri

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kappa, translated from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell

Salim Barakat, Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Samih Al-Qasim, All Faces But Mine, translated from the Arabic by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a

Samih al-Qasim, Sadder Than Water: New & Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Nazih Kassis

*Saretta Morgan, Alt-Nature (coming out in 2024)

Satsuki Ina, The Poet and the Silk Girl (coming out in 2024)

Sawako Ariyoshi, The Twilight Years, translated from the Japanese by Mildred Tahara

Shailja Patel, Migritude

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, City of Pearls

Sharon Yamato, Moving Walls

Shivanee Ramlochan, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

**shō yamagushiku, shima (coming out in 2014)

Shuri Kido, Names and Rivers, translated from the Japanese by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander

*Solmaz Sharif, Customs

Stella Corso, Green Knife

*Taha Muhammad Ali, Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story, translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin

Terry Watada, The Game of 100 Ghosts (Hyaku Monogatari Kwaidan-kai)

Victoria Chang, Obit

*Wong May, Superstitions

THE BOOKS I'M CURRENTLY READING, THAT I HAVEN'T FINISHED YET

Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, The Portal (not yet published)

Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

Eqbal Ahmad, The Selected Writings

Essays, ed. Dorothea Lasky

Fadwa Tuqan, A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography, translated from the Arabic by Olive Kenny

James Welch, Winter in the Blood

Lan P. Duong, Nothing Follows

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Touching the Art

Preti Taneja, Aftermath

Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment

[desperatecheesecubes]

[mccoppinscrapyard]

Books Read/Listened To in 2023

* = owned

The Hellion’s Waltz by Olivia Waite (audiobook) : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Girls that Never Die by Safia Elhillo- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez (audiobook)- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

And Yet by Kate Baer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ana María and the Fox by Liana de la Rosa * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Black Roses by Harold Green III- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Patience and Esther by S.W. Searle- ⭐️⭐️⭐️

She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

In the Neighborhood of True by Susan Kaplan Carlton (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Maus by Art Spiegelman * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jewdrowski (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Cheer Up! Love & Pompoms by Crystal Frazier * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love Charade by Allie McDermid * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Yazidi! by Aurelien DuCoudray and Mini Ludvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Private Charter by N. R. Walker (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Island Wisdom by Annie Daly & Kainoa Daines - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fire from the Sky by Moa Backe Astot (eARC) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fall Into You by Georgina Kiersten - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jazz Owls by Margarita Engle * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

She Was Made for Me by Jen Morris - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

You, Again by Kate Goldbeck * - DID NOT FINISH

The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Gender is Really Strange by Teddy G. Goetz (eARC) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Well Matched by Jen DeLuca (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love Flushed by Evie Mitchell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Skip! by Sarah Burgess (eARC)- ⭐️⭐️.5

The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Home is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Her Night With the Duke by Diana Quincy (audiobook) - currently reading

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata- currently reading

You’re a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky - currently reading

[libraryleopard]

January reads

The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing, and Coming Out by William Dameron

From From by Monica Youn

All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Faebound by Sara El-Arifi

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Sugar Work by Katie Marya

Meadowlands by Louise Glück

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju

Caroline’s Heart by Austin Chant

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Bellocq’s Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey 

Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly

Our Favorite Songs by Anita Kelly

Countries of Origin by Javier Fuentes

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin

We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

We the Animals by Justin Torres

White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

The Immeasurable Depth of You by Maria Ingrande Mora

Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr

The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln

In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life by Amy Schneider

You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls by Lindsey King-Miller

[gertold]

first reads and watches i enjoyed last year: youth by tove ditlevsen, minor detail by adania shibli, being here is everything by marie darrieussecq. the cranes are flying (any kalatozov and urusevsky work just makes me insane), my tender and affectionate beast dir. emil loteanu, lilya 4-ever dir. lukas moodysson.

[matchamorphosis]

I’m going book shopping tomorrow, might you have some recommendations?

here you go! hope your shopping goes well ♡

━ norwegian wood by haruki murakami

━ the master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov

━ the art of happiness by dalai lama

━ a clockwork orange by anthony burgess

━ a river out of eden by richard dawkins

━ the divine comedy by dante

━ the idiot by elif batumen

━ five point something by chetan bhagat

━ the brief wondrous life of oscar wao by junot diaz

━ the rules of attraction by bret easton ellis

━ been down so long it looks like up to me by richard farina

━ the gate of angels by penelope fitzgerald

━ the collective by don lee

━ on beauty by zodie smith

━ I am charlotte simmons by tom wolfe

━ murals by mahmoud darwish

━ men in the sun by ghassan kanafani

━ out of place by edward said

━ one flew over the cuckoos nest by ken kessey

━ a streetcar named desire by tennessee williams

━ just kids by patti smith

━ the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

━ to the light house by virginia wolf

━ by grand central station, I sat down and wept by elizabeth smart

━ pilgrim at tinker creek by annie dillard

━ the myth of sisyphus by albert camus

━ the benefactor by susan sontag

━ a thousand mornings by mary oliver

━ 1984 and animal farm by george orwell

━ baghdad diaries by nuha al-radi

━ dead poets society by tom schulman

━ naked lunch by william s. burroughs

━ sula by toni morrison

━ the four agreements by don miguel ruiz

━ not that bad by rachel gray

━ the art of thinking clearly by rolf dobelli

━ the invisible life of addie laroe by v. e. schwab

━ the mystery of love by don miguel ruiz

━ the loneliness companion by shrein h. bahram

━ the butterfly garden by dot hutcherson

━ orientalism by edward w. said

━ the trouble with being born by emil cioran

━ embroideries by marjane satrabi

━ such a fun age by keily reid

━ freedom is a constant struggle by angela davis

━ my brilliant friend by elena ferrante

━ the hundred years’ war on palestine by rashid khalad

━ our body and other parties by carmen maria machado

━ the body keeps count by besse kolk

━ on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

━ in search of fatima by ghada karmi

━ minor detail by adania shibili

━ midnight library by matt haig

━ orbiting jupiter by gary d. schmidt

━ the collective by don lee

━ reading lolita in tehran by azar nafisi

━ the dean's december + more die of heartbreak by saul bellow

━ four quartets by t. s. eliot

━ shamela + tom jones by henry fielding

━ madame bovary by gustave flaubert

━ the diary of anne frank by anne frank

━ in the penal colony + the trial by franz kafka

━ the confidence-man by herman melville

━ invitation to a beheading + pnin by vladimir nabokov

━ the country of the pointed firs by sarah orne jewett

━ persepolis by marjane satrapi

━ the language police by diane ravitch

━ the net of dreams by julie salamon

━ one thousand and one nights by scheherazade

━ the emigrants by W.G. sebald

━ the stone diaries by carol shields

━ the engineer of human souls by josef skvorecky

━ loitering with intent + the prime of miss jean brodie by muriel spark

━ confessions of zeno by italo svevo

━ address unknown by katherine kressman taylor

━ a summons to memphis by peter taylor

━ back when we were grownups + st. maybe by anne taylor

━ aunt julia and the scriptwriter by mario vargas llosa

[mysymmetry]

2021 Reading List Updated Jan 31 March 30 April 12 July 6 November 1

Happy Hour, Marlowe Granados (oh, how affecting)

Pew, Catherine Lacey

Brown Album, Porochista Khakpour

You Were Born for This, Chani Nicholas

Indelicacy, Amina Cain

Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (HO LY FUCK)

Dog Flowers, Danielle Geller (FUCK)

Rest and be thankful, Emma Glass

Hunger, Lan Samantha Chang

Best American Essays 2020, ed. Andre Aciman

Monogamy, Sue Miller

Stray, Stephanie Danler

Severance, Ling Ma

Currently Reading:

A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson

Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick

Embers, Richard Wagamese

Keep Moving, Maggie Smith

After, Jane Hirschfield

all about love, bell hooks

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

How to Carry Water, Lucille Clifton

The Power of Breathwork, Jennifer Patterson

The Practice is the Path, Tias Little

Yoga of the Subtle Body, Tias Little

Skill in Action, Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Embrace Yoga’s Roots, Susanna Barkataki

Anatomy of Spirit

Want to Read:

Fight Night, Miriam Toews

Three Little Indians

When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron

Everywhere You Don't Belong, Gabriel Bump

The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown (library)

The Factory, Hiroko Oyamada

We Have Always Been Here, Samra Habib (libary)

You Exist Too Much, Zaina Arafat

Sand Book, Ariana Reines

Night Sky with Exit Wound, Ocean Vuong

Sacred Contracts, Caroline Myss

Policing Black Lives, (Canada) Robyn Maynard

Q The Letters, ed. Sarah Moon (queer writers on their younger selves)

MILK, BLOOD, HEAT,

Bone Map, Sara Eliza Johnson (poems)

Fantasia or the Man in Black, Tommye Blount (gabrielle bates)

The Thing That Brought the Shadow Here, Alison Stagner (gbates)

Pricks in the Tapestry, Jameson Fitzpatrick (gbates and ayden)

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde (allymaz) (kobo library)

emergent strategy

A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux (catherine lacey) (avail at library)

All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost, Lan Samantha Chang (ayden)

The Archive of Alternate Endings, Lindsey Drager (ayden+++)

Fantasy, Kim-Anh Schrieber

Yoga Where You Are, Dianne Bondy &

Your Body, Your Yoga, Bernie Clark

Aligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat

A History of My Brief Body, Billy-Ray Belcourt (library kobo, yess!!!)

Lady Romeo, Tana Wojczuk

Milk Fed, Melissa Broder

Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi (yes indigo)

Minor Detail, Adania Shibli (library kobo - looks heavy)

We Run the Tides, Vendela Vida (library kobo)

Like Love, Michele Morano (yes indigo)

radiant voices, carla bergman (library kobo)

Will I Ever Finish Them?

Small Game Hunting, Megan Gail Coles

Everything Under, Daisy Johnson

The Mother of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit

I Become a Delight to My Enemies, Sara Peters

Why Did I Ever, Mary Robison

How to Do Nothing, Jenny Oddell

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Trying to cheer myself up by looking back at all the best books from my degree. Its an ecclectic mix but I’d recommend these to anyone who wants to escape reality for a bit. Please do reblog with any additions

Adania Shibli – Touch

Ali Smith – Autumn

Aphra Behn – Oroonoko

Carol Ann Duffy – The World’s Wife

Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe

Fatima Mernissi – The Harem Within

Geoffrey Chaucer – The Wife of Bath

H. G. Wells – The Island of Doctor Morreau

Jackie Kay – Trumpet

Jeanette Winterson – The Passion

Jon McGregor – If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness

Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go

Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner

Margaret Cavendish – Assaulted and Pursued Chastity

Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis

Mary Shelley – Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft – The Wrongs of Women

Mary Wroth – A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love

Nawal el Saadawi – Woman at Point Zero

Pat Barker – Regeneration

Philip Sidney – Astrophil and Stella

Sarah Waters – The Night Watch

Saud Alsanousi – The Bamboo Stalk

Shakespeare – The Tempest

Shakespeare – Twelfth Night

Thomas More – Utopia

Tom Sperlinger – Romeo and Juliet in Palestine

Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own

William Baldwin – Beware the Cat

William Blake – Songs of Innocence and Experience

William Morris – News from Nowhere

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#TheChurchGirl #OneChanceReplay AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS AND PATRONS ONLY The Church Girl - #TheGuardian 13 . Amaka woke up in the hospital, having suffered a mild concussion from her fall.  She quickly shut her eyes, when the bright light in the room, aggravated her headache.  She turned her head and tried opening her eyes again.  A blurry face came into view. “She’s awake!” Adania called to the medical staff, and went to sit beside her sister.  “Hey, dear…  You okay?” Amaka looked at her sister, trying to remember what had happened.  The memory returned to her, when she noticed her sister’s slight bump.  She shifted away in her bed. Adania swallowed.  “How are you, Sis?” “How could you?!” Amaka asked, tears stinging her eyes.  “You’re my sister!  He is my husband!  How could you?” “We’ll talk about it when you get home.  Just take your rest, Sis,” Adania said. “I’m not going anywhere with you!  Where’s Mommy?” Amaka asked. “I’ve called her.  She’s on her way.” Amaka leaned back on the pillow, feeling a little dizzy still.  A nurse came in to check her vision and reflexes, and other vital signs of recovery. “You suffered quite a nasty fall there,” the nurse said.  “Do you remember what happened?” “She slipped on some water,” Adania lied… Register free and read this episode for one week only at  https://blog.ufuomaee.org/the-church-girl-the-guardian-13 or follow LINK IN BIO to blog.ufuomaee.org The Church Girl story series has now been converted to a book.  It is a lesson-packed story about a love that was destined, but tried in every way.  Mary and Ifeanyi must learn that in order to live, they must first die to self, as their love and faith is tested through many trials and temptations.  Follow this roller-coaster ride about a love that overcomes all, that will grow your faith, or lead you to the One who holds the keys of Life… VISIT THE PROMO PAGE or get the eBook now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0711GZ5PV Okadabooks: http://okadabooks.com/book/about/the_church_girl/13971 or Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/722567 Save $1 when you order from Smashwords using this coupon code: ZE88U Connect to all links via LINK IN BIO https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq1v4P8nN9m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p89fcp4lexy2

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2022 in books

january:

the architecture of happiness by alain de bottom

an american marriage by tayari jones

filter house by nisi shawl

february:

the metamorphosis by franz kafka

the worst best man by mia sosa

the hating game by sally throne

utopia avenue by david mitchell

march:

people we meet on vacation by emily henry

it happened one summer by tessa bailey

hook, line, and sinker by tessa bailey

the unhoneymooners by christina lauren

the spanish love deception by elena armas

minor detail by adania shibli

get a life, chloe brown by talia hibbert

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert

act your age, eve brown by talia hibbert

born to run by bruce springsteen

homesick for another world by ottessa moshfegh

the kiss quotient by helen hoang

the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood

boy parts by eliza clark

fix her up by tessa bailey

before the coffee gets cold by toshikazu kawaguchi

april:

tools of engagement by tessa bailey

nausea by jean-paul sartre

the fine print by lauren asher

the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky

happy hour by marlowe granados

love and other words by christine lauren

may:

fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s. thompson

lolita by vladimir nabokov

june:

atonement by ian mcewan

an enchantment of ravens by margaret rogerson

six of crows by leigh bardugo

house of earth and blood by sarah j. maas

house of sky and breath by sarah j. maas

breakfast at tiffany’s & other voices, other rooms: two novels by truman capote

bunny by mona awad

when he was wicked by julia quinn

rebecca by daphne du maurier

fight club by chuck palahtniuk

july:

yolk by mary h.k. choi

milk fed by melissa broder

junky by william s. burroughs

in the dream house by carmen maria machado

august:

breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut jr

animal by lisa taddeo

one last stop by casey mcquiston

the antichrist by friedrich nietzsche

shop girl by steve martin

a room with a view by e.m. forster

a court of thorns and roses by sarah j. maas

a court of mist and fury by sarah j. maas

a court of wings and ruin by sarah j. maas

september:

orlando by virginia woolf

coraline by neil gaiman

book lovers by emily henry

october:

almond by sohn won-pyung

l.a. woman by eve babitz

catch-22 by joseph heller

exciting times by naoise dolan

november:

tender is the flesh by augstina bazterrica

a grief observed by c.s. lewis

little birds by anaïs nin

cultish: the language of fanaticism by amanda montell

december:

role models by john waters

the hobbit by j.r.r. tolkien

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid

the awakening by kate chopin

reel to real: race, sex, and class at the movies by bell hooks

tales from the cafe by toshikazu kawaguchi

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2021 Reading List Updated Jan 31 March 30 April 12 July 6 November 1 November 30 December 5 December 29

Happy Hour, Marlowe Granados (oh, how affecting)

Pew, Catherine Lacey

Brown Album, Porochista Khakpour

You Were Born for This, Chani Nicholas

Indelicacy, Amina Cain

Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (HO LY FUCK)

Dog Flowers, Danielle Geller (FUCK)

Rest and be thankful, Emma Glass

Hunger, Lan Samantha Chang

Best American Essays 2020, ed. Andre Aciman

Monogamy, Sue Miller

After, Jane Hirschfield

Stray, Stephanie Danle

Severance, Ling Ma

Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid (BOOM MAWFKS)

The Spectacular, Zoe Whittall

You Exist Too Much, Zaina Arafat

Half Life, Krista Foss

A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson

CURRENTLY READING

Fight Night, Miriam Toews

Satched, Megan Gail Coles

When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron

Let Me Tell You What I Mean, Joan Didion

Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick

On Freedom, Maggie Nelson

WANT TO READ

Heft, Doyali Islam

Best Young Woman Job Book, Emma Healey

Three Little Indians

The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown (library)

The Factory, Hiroko Oyamada

We Have Always Been Here, Samra Habib (libary)

Sand Book, Ariana Reines

Night Sky with Exit Wound, Ocean Vuong

Sacred Contracts, Caroline Myss

Q The Letters, ed. Sarah Moon (queer writers on their younger selves)

Bone Map, Sara Eliza Johnson (poems)

Fantasia or the Man in Black, Tommye Blount (gabrielle bates)

The Thing That Brought the Shadow Here, Alison Stagner (gbates)

Pricks in the Tapestry, Jameson Fitzpatrick (gbates and ayden)

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde (allymaz) (kobo library)

emergent strategy

All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost, Lan Samantha Chang (ayden)

The Archive of Alternate Endings, Lindsey Drager (ayden+++)

Fantasy, Kim-Anh Schrieber

Yoga Where You Are, Dianne Bondy &

Your Body, Your Yoga, Bernie Clark

Aligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat

Lady Romeo, Tana Wojczuk

Milk Fed, Melissa Broder

Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi (yes indigo)

Minor Detail, Adania Shibli (library kobo - looks heavy)

Like Love, Michele Morano (yes indigo)

radiant voices, carla bergman (library kobo)

BILF (Book's I'd Like to Finish)/Books That I Will Be Reading Basically Forever Because They Are Meant to Be Read Slowly

Embers, Richard Wagamese

Keep Moving, Maggie Smithall about love, bell hooks

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

How to Carry Water, Lucille Clifton

The Power of Breathwork, Jennifer Patterson

The Practice is the Path, Tias Little

Yoga of the Subtle Body, Tias Little

Skill in Action, Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Embrace Yoga’s Roots, Susanna Barkataki

Anatomy of the Spirit, Caroline Myss

The Mother of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit

I Become a Delight to My Enemies, Sara Peters

Why Did I Ever, Mary Robison

How to Do Nothing, Jenny Oddell

[mysymmetry]

2021 Reading List Updated Jan 31 March 30 April 12 July 6

Happy Hour, Marlowe Granados (oh, how affecting)

Pew, Catherine Lacey

Brown Album, Porochista Khakpour

You Were Born for This, Chani Nicholas

Indelicacy, Amina Cain

Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (HO LY FUCK)

Dog Flowers, Danielle Geller (FUCK)

Rest and be thankful, Emma Glass

Hunger, Lan Samantha Chang

Best American Essays 2020, ed. Andre Aciman

Monogamy, Sue Miller

Currently Reading:

Notes of Grief, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Everywhere You Don't Belong, Gabriel Bump

What Are You Going Through, Sigrid Nunez

A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson

Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick

Embers, Richard Wagamese

Keep Moving, Maggie Smith

After, Jane Hirschfield

Somebody's Daughter, Ashley C. Ford

Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro

all about love, bell hooks

How to Do Nothing, Jenny Oddell

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

How to Carry Water, Lucille Clifton

The Power of Breathwork, Jennifer Patterson

The Practice is the Path, Tias Little

Yoga of the Subtle Body, Tias Little

Skill in Action, Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Embrace Yoga’s Roots, Susanna Barkataki

Want to Read:

When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron

The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown (library)

The Factory, Hiroko Oyamada

We Have Always Been Here, Samra Habib (libary)

You Exist Too Much, Zaina Arafat

Sand Book, Ariana Reines

Night Sky with Exit Wound, Ocean Vuong

Sacred Contracts, Caroline Myss

Policing Black Lives, (Canada) Robyn Maynard

Q The Letters, ed. Sarah Moon (queer writers on their younger selves)

MILK, BLOOD, HEAT,

Bone Map, Sara Eliza Johnson (poems)

Fantasia or the Man in Black, Tommye Blount (gabrielle bates)

The Thing That Brought the Shadow Here, Alison Stagner (gbates)

Pricks in the Tapestry, Jameson Fitzpatrick (gbates and ayden)

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde (allymaz) (kobo library)

emergent strategy

A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux (catherine lacey) (avail at library)

All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost, Lan Samantha Chang (ayden)

The Archive of Alternate Endings, Lindsey Drager (ayden+++)

Fantasy, Kim-Anh Schrieber

Yoga Where You Are, Dianne Bondy &

Your Body, Your Yoga, Bernie Clark

Aligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat

A History of My Brief Body, Billy-Ray Belcourt (library kobo, yess!!!)

Lady Romeo, Tana Wojczuk

Milk Fed, Melissa Broder

Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi (yes indigo)

Minor Detail, Adania Shibli (library kobo - looks heavy)

We Run the Tides, Vendela Vida (library kobo)

Severance, Ling Ma (yes indigo)

Like Love, Michele Morano (yes indigo)

radiant voices, carla bergman (library kobo)

Will I Ever Finish Them?

Small Game Hunting, Megan Gail Coles

Everything Under, Daisy Johnson

The Mother of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit

I Become a Delight to My Enemies, Sara Peters

Why Did I Ever, Mary Robison

[mysymmetry]

2021 Reading List Updated Jan 31 March 30 April 12

Happy Hour, Marlowe Granados (oh, how affecting)

Pew, Catherine Lacey

Brown Album, Porochista Khakpour

You Were Born for This, Chani Nicholas

Indelicacy, Amina Cain

Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (HO LY FUCK)

Dog Flowers, Danielle Geller (FUCK)

Rest and be thankful, Emma Glass

Currently Reading:

Hunger, Lan Samantha Chang (iowa)

MILK, BLOOD, HEAT,

Misconduct of the Heart, Cordelia Strube

Best American Essays 2020, ed. Andre Aciman

all about love, bell hooks

How to Do Nothing, Jenny Oddell

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo

On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

How to Carry Water, Lucille Clifton

The Power of Breathwork, Jennifer Patterson

The Practice is the Path, Tias Little

Yoga of the Subtle Body, Tias Little

Skill in Action, Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Embrace Yoga’s Roots, Susanna Barkataki

Want to Read:

Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick (!!!!)

Embers, Richard Wagamese

When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron

Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown (library)

The Factory, Hiroko Oyamada

We Have Always Been Here, Samra Habib (libary)

You Exist Too Much, Zaina Arafat

Sand Book, Ariana Reines

Night Sky with Exit Wound, Ocean Vuong

Sacred Contracts, Caroline Myss

Policing Black Lives, (Canada) Robyn Maynard

Q The Letters, ed. Sarah Moon (queer writers on their younger selves)

Bone Map, Sara Eliza Johnson (poems)

Fantasia or the Man in Black, Tommye Blount (gabrielle bates)

The Thing That Brought the Shadow Here, Alison Stagner (gbates)

Pricks in the Tapestry, Jameson Fitzpatrick (gbates and ayden)

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde (allymaz) (kobo library)

emergent strategy

A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux (catherine lacey) (avail at library)

All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost, Lan Samantha Chang (ayden)

The Archive of Alternate Endings, Lindsey Drager (ayden+++)

Fantasy, Kim-Anh Schrieber

Yoga Where You Are, Dianne Bondy &

Your Body, Your Yoga, Bernie Clark

Aligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat

A History of My Brief Body, Billy-Ray Belcourt (library kobo, yess!!!)

Lady Romeo, Tana Wojczuk

Milk Fed, Melissa Broder

Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi (yes indigo)

Minor Detail, Adania Shibli (library kobo - looks heavy)

We Run the Tides, Vendela Vida (library kobo)

Severance, Ling Ma (yes indigo)

Like Love, Michele Morano (yes indigo)

radiant voices, carla bergman (library kobo)

Will I Ever Finish Them?

Small Game Hunting, Megan Gail Coles

Everything Under, Daisy Johnson

The Mother of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit

I Become a Delight to My Enemies, Sara Peters

Why Did I Ever, Mary Robison

[ufuomaee]

#TheChurchGirl #OneChanceReplay AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS AND PATRONS ONLY The Church Girl - #TheGuardian 2 Jamie Solomon was a man of mixed blood, who enjoyed the benefits of the multiple races to which he belonged.  He stood tall at six feet three inches, fair in complexion, with a head of soft black curls.  He had movie star looks, which he gained from his beautiful mixed race mother, who was half Nigerian and half Indian.  His father was a Caucasian American, who also sported good looks and broad shoulders. Jamie was born in the United States of America, where he also spent his early years.  He moved with his family to Nigeria 25 years ago, when his father bought and took over the small investment bank that was later renamed Solomon Investment Bank.  He returned to California to do a degree in Accounting at the University of California.  It was while he was in Los Angeles, living as a Bachelor and working at an Accounting Firm that he had met the beautiful Amaka Nkechi, the younger sister of his friend, Adania. Amaka was a glamour model at the time, five feet eleven inches tall, who was not shy of adding more inches with her passion for stiletto heels… Register free and read this episode for one week only at  https://blog.ufuomaee.org/the-church-girl-the-guardian-2 or follow LINK IN BIO to blog.ufuomaee.org The Church Girl story series has now been converted to a book.  It is a lesson-packed story about a love that was destined, but tried in every way.  Mary and Ifeanyi must learn that in order to live, they must first die to self, as their love and faith is tested through many trials and temptations.  Follow this roller-coaster ride about a love that overcomes all, that will grow your faith, or lead you to the One who holds the keys of Life… VISIT THE PROMO PAGE or get the eBook now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0711GZ5PV Okadabooks: http://okadabooks.com/book/about/the_church_girl/13971 or Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/722567 Save $1 when you order from Smashwords using this coupon code: ZE88U Connect to all links via www.ufuomaee.org/get-the-church-girl (LINK IN BIO) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnvbwrFBjy6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1h0lniud87lej