#Raven Leilani

[buryme-makeoutcreek]

How can I forgive myself for growing up before I was ready?

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SELF-PORTRAIT AT 24

Ana Carrizo, What Was Missing

Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Brenna Twohy, ‘ON SEEING PHOTOS OF HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND ON FACEBOOK’, from Swallowtail

Bruce Coville, Jennifer Murdley’s Toad

The Antlers, Bear

When Harry Met Sally (1989) dir. Rob Reiner

Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

Raven Leilani, Luster

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Elle Emerson, Regarding the Röttgen Pietà

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh

Dominique Christina, Stargazer

Lia Kimura, Unknown (2018)

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Florence + The Machine, South London Forever

Wislawa Szymborska, Moment of Silence

Barbara Ras, ‘You Can’t Have It All’ from Bite Every Sorrow

[lillyli-74]

There are grey, anonymous hours like this. Hours when I am desperate, when I am ravenous, when I know how a star becomes a void.

~Raven Leilani

[quillaffinity]

To the Setting Son - Leona Kingscholar Web Weave

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“Honestly, most of your life's decided for you from the moment you're born. There's no point in workin' hard.” 

-  Leona Kingscholar (School Uniform, Home Screen Lines)

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Twisted Wonderland is produced by Aniplex and Walt Disney Japan

Character Design and Story by Toboso Yana

Twisted Wonderland - The Manga: Book of Savanahclaw is illustrated by Suzuka Oda

twst - the manga / ??? / twst - the manga / raven leilani, “luster” / heather havrilesky, “ask polly: help, i'm the loneliest person in the world!” / sk osborn, “a hunger like no other” / twst - the manga / rainer maria rilke, “rilke's book of hours: love poems to god” / twst - the manga / olivia laing / twst - the manga / twst - the manga / rosanne cash, “bittersweet” / twst - the manga / sylvia plath, “the journals of sylvia plath” / anon / twst - the manga / patti smith, “woolgathering”

[phaedraismyusername]

3 Unsolicited Recommendations

(( for fans of Fleabag ))

* all of them are around 200 pages, have that strong flavour of feminine chaos, neurotic sexploits, sharp social observations, and unfettered access to the characters deepest darkest thoughts.

1 - Luster by Raven Leilani

Edie is in her twenties, stuck somewhere between depression and apathy, and burning her way through a slew of bad choices, when she finds herself invited into the life and home of a married couple and their black adopted daughter as she does her best to find her place in the world.

2 - Hysteria by Jessica Gross

A guilt-ridden sex obsessed college student walks into a bar and falls into a reflective relationship with a bartender that she's pretty sure is actually Sigmund Freud. It's chaos all the way down.

3 - I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel

This book y'all, how do I even explain it lol. It's a single perspective intense character study of a woman who has become obsessed with a glamorous american influencer after learning that she is romantically entangled with the man she's cheating on her boyfriend with. Or trying to, at least. Bad decisions and biting social commentary made this one genuinely so addicting to read lol

[wellconstructedsentences]

She says she is aware of the irony of being a medical examiner who smokes, but that for all the blackened lungs she's seen, it is more disturbing to open the chest cavity of a veteran and find that it is pristine.

Luster by Raven Leilani

[dandelionflowerhead]

🤳🏾: Miscellaneous

[federalchickensoup]

Ok. I read, no, shoved “Luster” by Raven Leilani down my throat in ~2 days. And let me tell you. The choices these ‘adults’ made weren’t wise. Leilani’s prose was so fast paced, emotionally charged, and at times breathtaking—I had to reread a few sentences to wrap my mind around the articulation of the craftsmanship. Fuck it, dog eared and all.

I think I found my fav or comfort genre: unhinged/manic(?)/self destructive character

[heresay]

A month is too long to talk online. In the time we have been talking, my imagination has run wild. Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well.

Raven Leilani, Luster

[farcicall]

EULOGY FOR RACEHORSES by Raven Leilani

[studiesinpolterghost]

Process of Memories from Luster

done back in march 2023

[don-simon]

"God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be born just to die."

[elizalona]

“He wants me to be myself like a leopard might be herself in a city zoo. Inert, waiting to be fed. Not out in the wild, with tendon in her teeth.”

Luster by Raven Leilani

[thoughtfulbearpanda]

help

so i recently finished reading Adèle by Leila Slimani and is now one of my favorite books of all time, second to Luster by Raven Leilani.

if you have book recommendations thst are similar to these two please let me know. thanks!

[thatwritererinoriordan]

"...and in one totally nondescript composition notebook, pages upon pages of Batman fan fiction. I read it for a while because it was pretty good. The characters are believably drawn, Bruce Wayne out and about in Gotham in his playboy iteration, attending an auction for the last model of the gun that killed his parents, losing the auction to a Black, omniscient sprite that is clearly Akila's surrogate, though Clark Kent becomes more prominent as the story goes on, lounging around the Batcave post breakup with Lois Lane, who doesn't take him seriously as a journalist or a man. I do not expect this fan fiction to become about how he reclaims his manhood, and I do not expect the lengthy description of the soaps in Bruce's bat-shaped bath." - Luster, Raven Leilani