#Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

[shesnake]

Interview with the Vampire Part II episodes 6 & 7 (2024), by Rolin Jones, Hannah Moscovitch, Jonathan Ceniceroz // Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut

[over-fen-and-field]

Okay, so I've had A Hell of a Year beginning with a sapovirus around this time last year that turned into a fun new autoimmune disorder that basically knocked me off my feet for six months (in two three-month rounds.) (I'm doing pretty okay now and the autoimmune thing does actually resolve for some people within a year or two, so fingers crossed). So, I didn't end up setting a formal reading goal, and instead basically just read whatever, whenever, and decided not to be embarrassed about how much potato chip sci-fi I was reading. It was fun! Below I've asterisked all the rereads and bolded the ones that I liked the most.

The Incarnations by Susan Barker

The Golden Compass* by Philip Pullman

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

The Power by Naomi Alderman

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

Monster Theory by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Cat’s Eye* by Margaret Atwood

Frankenstein* by Mary Shelley

Dracula* by Bram Stoker

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

The Four Things That Matter Most by Ira Byock

Dying Well by Ira Byok

Praying with Jane Eyre* by Vanessa Zoltan

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Devil House by John Darnielle

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

This World is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Educated by Tara Westover

Longbourn by Jo Baker

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland* by Catherynne M Valente

Deathless by Catherynne M Valente

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M Valente

This coming year, I've decided that I want to read more classics. If you have a favorite classic (broadly defined), please let me know! Bonus points if you tell me why it's a favorite of yours and, if it wasn't originally in English, if you have a preferred translation that I should check out.

End of year reading round-up! Woo-hoo!

My reading goal for 2023 was to read a book a week – while using very broad definitions of “book” (includes things like plays, novellas, and graphic novels), “read” (audiobooks and radio recordings count, not just written texts), and “week” (sometimes I read multiple short things in a week, sometimes it took me two or three weeks to get through a longer book).  I’m also defining “finished” as when I’m done with the book, but not necessarily when I’ve read every word on every page – I picked and chose chapters a bit from the essay collections, for example, and bounced off a few books halfway through if they just weren't for me or weren't for me at that time. Anything with an asterisk is a reread.  I have these roughly in chronological order of when I finished them, but I tended to be in the middle of several books at once and didn’t keep a good spreadsheet to keep track, so it’s a bit cobbled together from my memory and library records.  Also, please note that just because I read a book, doesn’t mean I agree with or endorse all or even most of the ideas in it.

The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang

Flight Behavior* by Barbara Kingsolver

The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making* by Catherine M Valente

Deerskin* by Robin McKinley

Holy Silence by J Brent Bill

You Don’t Have to be Wrong for Me to be Right by Brad Hirschfield

A Letter in the Scroll by Jonathan Sacks

Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

One Nation, Indivisible by Celene Ibrahim and Jennifer Howe Peace

Chalice* by Robin McKinley

Braiding Sweetgrass* by Robin Kimmerer

Dracula* by Bram Stoker

Hamlet* by Shakespeare

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Here All Along by Sarah Hurwitz

This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared by Alan Lew

The Scientist’s Guide to Writing by Stephen B Heard

Everything is God by Jay Michaelson

The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible* by Barbara Kingsolver

The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile

Unsheltered* by Barbara Kingsolver

Pride and Prejudice* by Jane Austen

Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner

No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler

Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler

Jane Eyre* by Charlotte Bronte

Praying with Jane Eyre by Vanessa Zoltan

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

Proverbs of Ashes by Rita Nakashima Brooks and Rebecca Ann Parker

The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

Staying with the Trouble* by Donna Haraway

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Incarnations by Susan Baker

Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire by Rebecca Ann Parker and Rita Nakashima Brock

The Anthropocene Reviewed* by John Green

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

My Promised Land by Ari Shavit

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel by Ian Black

Dragonflight* by Anne McCaffrey

The Masterharper of Pern* by Anne McCaffrey

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin

Dragonsdawn* by Anne McCaffrey

Overall, I’m feeling pretty good about the list!  There are definitely some themes that pop up again and again, but there’s a nice mix of genres, fiction/nonfiction, length, tone, first-time reads and rereads, etc.  I haven’t set a formal goal for this coming year yet, but I’m hoping to get some off-the-beaten-path recommendations from friends for things that I wouldn’t otherwise have heard about – so, if you have any favorites, I’d love to hear about them!

[tboyofwillendorf]

my lighter <3

[quotespile]

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five || Niko Sasaki, Dead Boy Detectives (2024)

[cosmonautroger]

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

[sirlancenotalot]

kurt vonnegut, slaughterhouse five/spn: 6x20 [the man who would be king]/sarah ruhl, eurydice/spn: 7x17 [the born again identity]/spn: 5x04 [the end] - 7x23 [the survival of the fittest] - 11x23 [alpha and omega]/ original piece by me, olive you/spn: 12x12 [stuck in the middle (with you)]/anne carson, grief lessons: four plays by euripides/ spn: 13x04 [the big empty]/hozier, work song/ spn: 13x06 [tombstone] deleted scene

[spiralshells]

Fuck it. Trafalmadorian Fakemon.

Psychic type. From outer space. Learns Future Sight, obv.

Tentative names: Palmadink and Palmadore. Feel free to suggest better ones.

[lets-get-lit]

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

[marejadilla]

“Why you? Why us? Why anything? Because this moment just is… Have you ever seen insects trapped in amber? […] “Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

[thebooksocietystuff]

Wszystko to zdarzyło się mniej więcej naprawdę.

Kurt Vonnegut - Rzeźnia numer pięć

[thesofthuman]

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

[chronicowboy]

hozier // kurt vonnegut

[bandaiddd]

[countingwhales]

asteroid city - wes anderson // frankestein - mary shelley // slaughterhouse five - kurt vonnegut

[aahsokaatano]

Tumblr is pretty much my only social media at this point (and I'm really not on it very much, compared to when I was younger lol) so I am asking my one and only platform:

Would you be interested in a podcast (one episode FOR SURE bc it's going to be one of my senior projects, and then more if there is enough interest) about going back to some old high school level required reading books, and examining them through the lens of queer theory? Because I pitched the idea of examining either The Picture of Dorian Gray or Slaughterhouse-Five to my prof as my final project for this class and he seemed pretty excited about it, so I'm going to do at least one pass at this.

Right now I think the format would be kind of like the podcast "If Books Could Kill" (which is great, you should check it out if you like dunking on conservative literature and useless self-help books) where one host (me) has read the book, and is going to explain the basic plot and main themes to the other host (one of my friends probably, whoever I can talk into this), so that we can then have a conversation about how to apply the framework of queer theory to the novel

I'm pretty excited about this idea, so I figured I would at least see if it would be worth at least making the one episode available to the public to listen to, if not possibly making this a real podcast!