#Ursula Hodgson

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Honeysuckle and Passion flower (wc on paper) by Ursula Hodgson 

[treeroutes]

what's up ! non-exhaustive list of stories featuring weird plants :

The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham

The Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark

In the Tall Grass, Stephen King and Joe Hill

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', William Hope Hodgson

The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood

The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

The Nature of Balance, Tim Lebbon

'Bloom', John Langan

The Ruins, Scott Smith

The Wise Friend, Ramsey Campbell

'The Green Man of Freetown', The Envious Nothing : A Collection of Literary Ruins, Curtis M. Lawson

The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley

The Ash-Tree, M.R. James

Canavan's Backyard, J.P. Brennan

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney

The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher

'Reaching for Ruins', Crow Shine, Alan Baxter

'Vortex of Horror', Gaylord Sabatini

Hothouse, Brian W. Aldiss

Vaster than Empires and More Slow, Ursula K. Le Guin

Odd Attachment, Ian M. Banks

Deathworld #1, Harry Harrison

The Bridge, John Skipp and Craig Spector

'The Garden of Paris', Eric Williams

Apartment Building E, Malachi King

The Seed from the Sepulchre, Clark Ashton Smith

Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Nursery, Lewis Mallory

The Other Side of the Mountain, Michel Bernanos

The Vegetarian, Han Kang

Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima

The Root Witch, Debra Castaneda

Semiosis, Sue Burke

The Wolf in Winter, Charlie Parker #12, John Connolly

Perennials, Bryce Gibson

Relic, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Gwen, in Green, Hugh Zachary

The Voice in the Night, William Hope Hodgson

Ordinary Horror, David Searcy

The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper

The Book of Koli, Rampart Trilogy #1, M.R. Carey

Seeders, A.J. Colucci

Concrete Jungle, Brett McBean

The Plant, Stephen King

Anthologies/collections :

The Roots of Evil: Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants, edited by Michel Parry

Chlorophobia: An Eco-Horror Anthology, edited by A.R. Ward

Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants, edited by Carlos Cassaba

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness, Richard Gavin

Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic, edited by Daisy Butcher

Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain, edited by John Miller

'But fungi aren't plants' :

The Fungus, Harry Adam Knight

Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay

The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi, Brian Lumley

'The Black Mould', The Age of Decayed Futurity, Mark Samuels

What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher

The House Without a Summer, DeAnna Knippling

Mungwort, James Noll

Fungi, edited by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Trouble with Lichen, John Wyndham

Notes :

all links lead to the goodreads page of the book, mostly because i like to look at book cover art ;

list features authors/books that i love (T. Kingfisher, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ursula K. Le Guin, the collections from the British Library Tales of the Weird, etc.), but also a few that i don't like and some that i have not yet read ;

if upon seeing that list the first novel you check out is by Stephen King's you have not understood the assignment ;

not all of those are strictly horror stories, some are 100% science fiction (Brian W. Aldiss' Hothouse for instance).

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[quasi-normalcy]

A while ago while I was in tumblr jail, you posted that you had a masters in science fiction literature (unless you didn't, I have been known to be mistaken), and I am wondering, what do you consider 'important' works of science fiction? Like the science fiction literary canon? I am so curious. Feel free to ignore, I will not harass you.

Yes! I do. I can tell you the ones that I was assigned (I'm afraid that the list skews extremely male and (especially) white).

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (1930) and Star Maker (1937) [You can probably add Odd John (1935) to this list]

Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870) [You can probably add From the Earth to the Moon (1865)]

H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) and War of the Worlds (1897) [Though you can probably go ahead and add The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The First Men in the Moon (1901)]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)

Catherine Burdekin (writing as Murray Constantine), Swastika Night (1937)

Karel Čapek, R.U.R. (1920)

Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950) [You can probably add the first three Foundation novels here as well]

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1921)

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1967) and Rendezvous with Rama (1973) [Add: Childhood's End (1953) and The Fountains of Paradise (1979)

John Wyndham, Day of the Triffids (1951) [add: The Chrysalids (1955) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)]

H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926) [add The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)]

Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (1954)

Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (1956)

Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959) [Probably Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) too, depending on, you know, how much of Heinlein's bullshit you can take]

J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World (1962) [Also, The Burning World (1964) and The Crystal World (1966)]

Phillip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962) [Also Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and several of his short stories]

Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man (1969)

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-5 (1969)

Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) [Also The Lathe of Heaven (1971) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)]

Brian Aldiss, Supertoys series

William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1992) [Also Green Mars and Blue Mars]

They also included Iain M. Banks's The Algebraist (2004), but I personally think you'd be better off reading some of his Culture novels

Other ones that I might add (not necessarily my favourite, just what I would consider the most influential):

Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974)

Matsamune Shiro, Ghost in the Shell (1989-91)

Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira (1982-1990)

Octavia Butler, Lilith's Brood (1987-89) and Parable of the Sower (1993)

Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos (1971)

Hector Garman Oesterheld & Francisco Solano Lopez, The Eternaut (1957-59)

Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem (2008)

Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)

William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (1908)

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)

Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975)

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (1985) [Please take this one from a library]

Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1912)

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003)

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)

Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy (1952-68)

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

[girlwithinfiction]

✨BOOKS TO READ BASED ON YOUR FAVORITE STUDIO GHIBLI FILM✨

The books shown are as follows:

✨SPIRITED AWAY

- Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

- A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynn Jones

✨PRINCESS MONONOKE

- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

- Wilder Girls by Rory Power

- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

✨MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO

- Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

- The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

- Redwall by Brian Jacques

✨PONYO

- Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

- If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang

- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

✨KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE

- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

- Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley

✨FROM UP ON POPPY HILL

- Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

- Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah

✨TALES FROM EARTHSEA

- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

- Dragon Sword and Wind Child by Noriko Ogiwara

- Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

✨THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETY

- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

- Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harlow

✨GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES

- Never Let Me Go by Kashuo Ishiguro

- Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

- Everything I Never Told You By Celeste Ng

✨WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE

- Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine Saint-Exupéry

- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

✨EXTRAS (adaptations or inspirations):

- Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono

- Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin

- Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka

- The Borrowers by Mary Norton

- From Up on Poppy Hill by Tetsurō Sayama

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[devoutjunk]

Novel Syllabus 2024

This coming year I think I'm going to be on here more often than I am on twitter or elsewhere, and as part of that, I'm going to start documenting the process of writing my novel more actively. I want to return to/resurrect the momentum and energy I had while writing the first draft and be more intentional about setting aside time to work, even when it's difficult. Below are my writing goals for the coming year as well as my reading list of texts for inspiration, genre/background research, comps, etc. Would welcome any suggestions of texts (any genre/discipline) pertaining to Antigone, death & resurrection, Welsh and Cornish myth and folklore, ecology & environmental crisis, and the Gothic.

Writing Goals

Reach 50k words in draft 2 overall

Finish a draft of Anna's timeline

Finish a draft of Jo's timeline

Polish & submit an excerpt for the Center for Fiction Prize

Reading

* = reread

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & The Apocalyptic

The Memory Theater (Karin Tidbeck)

Who Fears Death (Nnedi Okorafor)

Urth of The New Sun (Gene Wolfe)

Slow River (Nicola Griffith)

Dream Snake (Vonda McIntyre)

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Marlon James)

Notes from the Burning Age (Claire North)

Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)*

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)*

The Last Man (Mary Shelley)

The Drowned World (J.G. Ballard)

Strange Beasts of China (Yan Ge, trans. by Jeremy Tiang)

City of Saints and Madmen (Jeff VanderMeer)

Freshwater (Akweke Emezi)

The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)

Pattern Master (Octavia Butler)

Sleep Donation (Karen Russell)

How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)

The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis)*

The Golden Compass (Phillip Pullman)*

The Green Witch (Susan Cooper)

The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Black Sun (Rebecca Roanhorse)

Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)

Lives of the Monster Dogs (Kirsten Bakis)

Brian Evenson

Sofia Samatar

Connie Willis

Samuel Delaney

Jo Walton

Tanith Lee

Retellings

A Wild Swan (Michael Cunningham)

Til We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)

Gingerbread (Helen Oyeyemi)

Circe (Madeline Miller)

The Owl Service (Alan Garner)

Literary Myth-Making, Mystery, and the Gothic

Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)

Frenchman's Creek (Daphne Du Maurier)

Possession (A.S. Byatt)*

The Game (A.S. Byatt)*

The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry)

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

The Secret History (Donna Tartt)*

The Wild Hunt (Emma Seckel)

King Nyx (Kirsten Bakis)

The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)

The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)

Beloved (Toni Morrison)

The Night Land (William Hope Hodgson)

Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice)*

Sexing the Cherry (Jeanette Winterson)*

Night Side of the River (Jeanette Winterson)

Bad Heroines (Emily Danforth)

All the Murmuring Bones (A.G. Slatter)

The Path of Thorns (A.G. Slatter)

Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)

Prose Work, Perspective, and Stream of Consciousness

The Chandelier (Clarice Lispector)

The Waves (Virginia Woolf)*

The Years (Virginia Woolf)

The Intimate Historical Epic / Court Intrigues

Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)*

Menewood (Nicola Griffith)

Dark Earth (Rebecca Stott)

A Place of Greater Safety (Hilary Mantel)

Research

The Mabinogion (trans. Sioned Davies)

Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory)

The Collected Brothers Grimm (Phillip Pullman)

Angela Carter's Collected Fairytales

Mythology (Edith Hamilton)

Underland (Robert Macfarlane)

The Wild Places (Robert Macfarlane)

Wildwood (Roger Deakin)

Vanishing Cornwall (Daphne Du Maurier)

Lonely Planet: Guide to Devon & Cornwall

A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World (David Gessner)

The Lost Boys of Montauk (Amanda M. Fairbanks)

A Cyborg Manifesto (Donna J. Harraway)

A Treasury of British Folklore (Dee Dee Chainey)*

The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (Eileen M. Hunt)

Antigone's Claim (Judith Butler)

Theories of Desire: Antigone Again (Judith Butler)

Ecology of Fear (Mike Davis)

[leafened]

going through my goodreads and realizing how many books i've read aloud in whole/part with [ex partner/best friend] like the sheer amount of time n happiness involved

moby dick

orlando by virginia woolf

a fire upon the deep by vernor vinge

the dead mountaineer's inn by arkady strugatsky

locked tomb books

the other wind by ursula k leguin

magic for beginners by kelly link

the worm ouroboros by e.r. eddison

the player of games by iain banks

the house on the borderland by william hodgson

the princess and the goblin

terra ignota books

some of my best memories. next on the list are the pillow book by sei shonagon, i've captured the castle by dodie smith, and watership down (which i've read but they haven't)

[periwinklemeanderings]

50 Short Classics you should try by Ruby Granger (Youtube channel) - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - The Greengage Summer - Animal Farm by George Orwell -Breakfast at Tiffany's -De Profundis by Oscar Wilde - The Stranger/  The Outsider by Albert Camus -  Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville - A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Songs of Innocence and Experience - Macbeth - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -Fahrenheit 451 - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -  Ariel by Sylvia Plath -. Picnic at Hanging Rock - The Nutcracker - The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts - On the Pleasure of Hating - The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - The Professor's House - Death in Venice - Meditations by Descartes - Meno by Plato - Hero and Leander - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson -The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (and other short stories) by Ursula K. Le Guin - Blithe Spirit -The Woman in Black by Susan Hill - The Problem of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit -Don't Look Now (and other short stories) by Daphne Du Maurier - Song of Myself by Walt Whitman - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett -The Sandman by  E. T. A. Hoffmann -The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot - A Night to Remember - The Painter of Modern Life by Charles Baudelaire - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie - I am David by Anne Holm.

[lairn]

Tagged by @smalltownfae! :)

Rules: List ten books that have stayed with you in some way, don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.

I’m not doing purely novels, as I’ve included a comic and a play:

1. Parasyte (Hitoshi Iwaaki)

2. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

3. The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)

4. King Lear (William Shakespeare)

5. Fool’s Fate (Robin Hobb)

6. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Samuel R Delany)

7. Holes (Louis Sachar)

8. The Dispossessed (Ursula K Le Guin)

9. The Hobbit (JRR Tolkein)

10. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)

One more because it hit me just now and it was so important in my life: What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything? by Avi. It’s a collection of short stories.

I’ll pass on tagging people, but if you see this and want to do it tag me so I can see!

[pollicinor]

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, illustrated by E.H. Shepard

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, illustrated by Garth Williams

Matilda by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson

I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Dall'articolo "The 25 Best Children’s Books of All Time" di Ellen Gutoskey

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Harebells and other wild flowers by Ursula Hodgson (watercolour on paper)

[penguins-united]

Books read in 2022!!

rereads are italicized, favorites are bolded

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

2. Boxers by Gene Luen Yang

3. Saints by Gene Luen Yang

4. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

6. Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams

7. Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway

8. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

9. Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix by JK Rowling

10. The Dead by James Joyce

11. Soldiers Three by Richard Kipling

12. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

13. Richard iii by William Shakespeare

14. Balcony of Fog by Rich Shapiro

15. All Systems Red by Martha Wells

16. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

17. I have no mouth and I must scream by Harlan Ellison

18. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

19. The moment before the gun went off by Nadine Gordimer

20. The importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde

21. A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway

22. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

23. Rules for a knight by Ethan Hawke

24. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling

25. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

27. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins

28. Highly Irregular by Arika Okrent

29. The Green Mile by Stephen King

30. The Swan Riders by Erin Bow

31. The King’s English by Henry Watson Fowler

32. The Truelove by Patrick O’Brian

33. The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett

34. The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O’Brian

35. The Commodore by Patrick O’Brian

36. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

37. Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

38. The Disaster Area by JG Ballard

39. The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi

40. Wicked Saints by Emily A Duncan

41. The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

42. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

43. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

44. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

45. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

46. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

47. A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner

48. Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner

49. Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

50. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

51. Confessions of St. Augustine by St. Augustine of Hippo

52. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

53. The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O’Brian

54. Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre

55. The Russian Assassin by Jack Arbor

56. The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

57. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

58. The Iliad by Homer

59. The Treadstone Transgression by Joshua Hood

60. The Hundred Days by Patrick O’Brian

61. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard

62. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

63. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

64. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (unknown)

65. Persuasion by Jane Austen

66. The Outsiders by SE Hinton

67. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

68. The Odyssey by Homer

69. Dead Cert by Dick Francis

70. The Oresteia by Aeschylus

71. The Network Effect by Martha Wells

72. All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell

73. This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar

74. The Epic of Gilgamesh (unknown author)

75. The Republic by Plato

76. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

77. On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

78. Ere the Cock Crows by Jens Bjornboe

79. Mid-Bloom by Katie Budris

80. Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O’Brian

81. 21 by Patrick O’Brian

82. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

83. Battle Cry by Leon Uris

84. Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky

85. The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud

86. The Door in the Wall by HG Wells

87. Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad by MR James

88. The Birds and Don’t Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier

89. The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher

90. Blackout by Simon Scarrow

91. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

92. No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre

93. The Open Society and its Enemies volume one by Karl Popper

94. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

95. The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

96. The Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease

97. The things they carried by Tim O’Brien

98. A very very very dark matter by Martin McDonagh

99. The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A Hayek

100. The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh

101. A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh

102. The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh

103. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

104. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

105. The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth

106. Things have gotten worse since we last spoke and other misfortunes by Eric LaRocca

107. Each thing I show you is a piece of my death by Gemma Files

108. Different Seasons by Stephen King

109. Dracula by Bram Stoker

110. Inker and Crown by Megan O’Russell

111. Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis

112. Killers by Patrick Hodges

113. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett

114. The Rise and Reign of Mammals by Stephen Brusatte

115. Any Means Necessary by Jack Mars

116. The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

117. In A Glass Darkly by J Sheridan le Fanu

118. Collected Poems by Edward Thomas

119. The Longer Poems by TS Eliot

120. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

121. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

122. The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche

123. Choice of George Herbert’s verse by George Herbert

[buckets-of-dirt]

2 and 6, for the end of year book ask!!!

2. Did you reread anything? What?

Oh boy did I. According to Goodreads, I reread The Cider House Rules by John Irving, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Endless Night by Agatha Christie, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen Forester, and Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kristin Cronn-Mills. I'm also pretty sure I reread Night Watch by Terry Pratchett at some point, even though it's not accounted for in Goodreads, and I'm currently rereading At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie.

6. Is there anything you meant to read, but never to?

Yup, Brandon Sanderson's Rhythm of War and Devotions by Mary Oliver, both of which are sitting on my bedside table waiting for me to remember that I'm only like 5% finished reading either of them. I'd probably also count The Birthday of the World And Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, which I got like halfway through before I moved away from the library I borrowed it from.

[galadhremmin]

ok besties I’m too sleep deprived to focus on Important(tm) things, I’m going to read a Tolkien paper to wake up. Which one should I read and give my sleep deprived ‘opinion’ on, taking votes now;

Whiteness, medievalism, immigration: rethinking Tolkien through Stuart Hall  Lavezzo, Kathy

“This essay rethinks Tolkien’s scholarship and fiction in light of his rejection at Oxford of Stuart Hall, who approached him regarding graduate work on William Langland. I argue that Tolkien’s white medievalism contains his most deeply felt racist formations, which both shaped his fiction and informed his life in a university town populated by West Indian immigrants. After examining Tolkien’s essentialist approach to medieval study, I examine how Tolkien believed that his innate knowledge about his ancestors’ language and myths enabled him to create a national mythology, and how his fiction depicts its heroes’ inheritance of their ancestral tongue and temperament. I then consider how Tolkien’s supposed memory of an Atlantis-like disaster befalling his ancestors may have intersected with his rejection of immigrants like Hall. I conclude by discussing how, while Tolkien’s epic fantasies may be appropriated successfully for various ends, they present unique challenges for a significant component of Tolkien’s readership, medievalists.”

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William Morris and the Counter-Tradition of Materialist Fantasy  Murphy, Timothy S.

When William Morris's importance to the evolution of fantasy literature is acknowledged today, it is almost always in terms of his influence on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth series. But beyond their common fascination with the Northern European sagas and shared dislike of mechanized modernity, Morris and Tolkien bequeath very different legacies to fantasy; indeed, they stand at the heads of two divergent traditions that have fractured the fantasy genre for more than a century. The bourgeois Catholic Tolkien exemplifies the idealist or transcendentalist strand that has come to dominate the fantasy publishing marketplace and popular perception of the genre, both for better and for worse, while the socialist atheist Morris inaugurates the demographically and economically subordinate but conceptually more fertile strand of materialist fantasy that runs through the innovative works of William Hope Hodgson, Edith Nesbit, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel R. Delany, and China Mieville.

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A Century of Books: 1900′s

1900′s

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum (1900)

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington (1901)

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906)

1910′s

Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie (1911)

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

Dubliners by James Joyce (1914)

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915)

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence (1915)

1920′s

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (1920)

The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot (1922)

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes (1926)

1930′s

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (1936)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (1939)

1940′s

Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (1944)

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (1947)

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

1950′s

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (1952)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)

1960′s

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

The Autobiography of Malclom X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X (1965)

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)

1970′s

Roots by ALex Haley (1976)

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (1976)

The Shining by Stephen King (1977)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)

Kindred by Octavia Butler (1979)

1980′s

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984)

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (1984)

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988)

1990′s

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)

Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (1996)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)

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