#alisson wood

[fawnaura]

At what point does a girl turn into prey?

Alisson Wood, from Being Lolita: A Memoir

[bubblegum-lo]

does anyone have any book/film recommendations that are similar to my dark vanessa, lolita, putney or being lolita?

i’ve read and watched a few similar and have ker’s my dark vanessa reading list to work through too, but if anyone have any other recommendations please let me know!! 🫶🏻

[blogmollylane]

Currently reading: Being Lolita by Alison Wood

[alikestoread12]

Sorry I’ve been a bit MIA recently, I’ve just had a lot on my plate with school but…

November Wrap Up !!

Being Lolita by Alisson Wood: I gave no rating (see my review post)

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll: 5/5⭐️

Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis: 3/5⭐️

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black: 4/5⭐️

The Wicked King by Holly Black: DNF (don’t hate me)

I went into December reading The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (page 145) and listening to The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson (30% in)

[leulah]

on sansa and petyr

daddy issues, the neighborhood // asos - sansa v // agustin gomez arcos, the carnivorous lamb // ask me anything (2014) // asos - sansa vii // alisson wood, being lolita: a memoir // the disappearance of the girl, phildel // affc - sansa i // the jewish bride, rembrandt // @/rotgospels // twow - alayne i // vladimir nabokov, lolita // romeo and juliet (1968) // asos - sansa vi // her, poppy // azar nafisi, reading lolita in tehran: a memoir in books // ? // alisson wood, being lolita: a memoir // affc - sansa i

[pandoras-prison-backup]

I wonder about things like fate, how sometimes things are just chosen for you, how women are chosen to endure suffering. Sometimes we are the ones who choose it—Pandora opens the box of suffering herself

Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir

[pandoras-prison]

I wonder about things like fate, how sometimes things are just chosen for you, how women are chosen to endure suffering. Sometimes we are the ones who choose it—Pandora opens the box of suffering herself.

Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir

[poppletonink]

Coquette: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Girl In Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Bunny by Mona Awad

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Black Swan by Eve Babitz

My Year Of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Mosfegh

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

Violet Bent Backward Over The Grass by Lana Del Rey

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Valley Of The Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Emma by Jane Austen

Being Lolita: A Memoir by Alisson Wood

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

[blairwitchapologist]

do you have any recommendations for someone interested in memoirs? I’d love to read one but I’m not sure where to start

yessss okay i feel like we’re in such a good era of celebrity memoirs specifically and i feel like they all get talked about a lot and for good reason (my faves have been julia fox’s down the drain, elliot page’s pageboy, jeannette mccurdy’s im glad my mom died, michelle zauner’s crying in h mart, little weirds by jenny slate etc etc etc all of the obvious ones) and also less recent but carrie brownstein’s hunger makes me a modern girl and kim gordon’s girl in a band are two of my all-time favorite musician memoirs

but then also there’s a lot of good non-celebrity memoirs that i’ve read over the last couple of years that have stuck with me since i read them (i recommend looking up trigger warnings for most of these since they all deal with pretty heavy subjects)

the collected schizophrenias by esme weijun wang

jane: a murder by maggie nelson

molly by blake butler (especially big trigger warnings for this one!!)

never silent: ACT UP and my life in activism by peter staley

strip tees by kate flannery

being lolita by alisson wood

the undying by anne boyer

grief is for people by sloane crosley

and also most obvious answer of all time but both the year of magical thinking and blue nights by joan didion really truly do live up to the hype!!!!

and one more thing is that my favorite podcast of all time is literally called celebrity memoir book club and they have gotten me to read a lot of memoirs i probably wouldn’t have picked up otherwise!!!! they cover just about every celebrity who has a memoir (good or not) and they’re very fun girls and i enjoy listening to them a lot!!!! i haven’t read it yet but their episode on britteny griner’s memoir made me cry and i’m really excited to get into it once my library has it available lol

[lobotomydaughter]

🐈‍⬛ | 2024 reading list

eileen by ottessa moshfegh | in the miso soup by ryu murakami | slow days, fast company by eve babitz | ✰✰✰ the memory police by yoko ogawa | sharks in the rivers by ada límon | sister of mine by laurie petrou | y/n by esther yi | my body by emily ratajkowski | ✰✰✰✰ tennis lessons by susannah dickey | goddess of filth by v castro | ✰✰✰✰

lolita by vladimir nabokov | being lolita by alisson wood | no ballet shoes in syria by catherine bruton | an education in malice by s.t. gibson | a long time dead by samara breger | the hacienda by isabel cañas | the mermaid from jeju by sumi hahn | the lover by silvia moreno-garcia | ✰✰✰✰ água viva by clarice lispector | penance by eliza clark | monstrilio by gerardo sámano córdova | the last tale of the flower bride by roshani chokshi | corazón by yesika salgado | valley of the dolls by jacqueline susann | my body keeps your secrets by lucia osborne-crowley | the torn skirt by rebecca godfrey | a girl is a half-formed thing by eimear mcbride | madonna in a fur coat by sabahattin ali | sugar, baby by celine saintclare | cross roads by laurel hightower | dear laura by gemma amor | they drown our daughters by katrina monroe | the pure moon reflected on the water by zen cho | rest and be thankful by emma glass | the keeper of the night by kylie lee baker | the empress of time by kylie lee baker | notes from the underground by dostoevsky | white nights by dostoevsky | rouge by mona awad | big bad by chandler baker |

[myspace-lolita]

look at all the books i got for my birthday!

i didn't flip the image bc it makes my face look weird so here's a list of the books:

the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides

sharp objects by gillian flynn

a certain hunger by chelsea g. summers

being lolita by alisson wood

mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia

the unabridged journals of sylvia plath

i'm glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy

[fawnaura]

If this was power, I wasn't sure it was worth it. I wanted the safety of childhood and the power of sex. I wanted it all, in my life and in my body.

Alisson Wood, from Being Lolita: A Memoir

[younghale]

Starter w/ Sofia @watermeezersrps

Time was a weird thing lately, there were days the time seemed to be stuck, looking that old family clock on the wall saying its just passed a minute or two, while other days the girl would blink and the sun had set already. What was the responsible for that lost notion? Boredom maybe. Who new really?

Today was one of the first example, the clock was ticking as slow as a drop of water from a foggy shower running down the dry wall. A Saturday of all days. Hailey was trying to read her new book, "the duke and I", but not even the angst romance writting was enough to keep her attention for more than a few moments. The girl caught herself reading the same page for the 6th time before giving up on the idea for the time being, her mind was looping aeound trying to decide what to do next, the boys were outside playing lacrosse, Ali was talking something with Derek upstairs and she was seriously considering taking a nap at that point.

It was when a Scream cut through the trees, it was not so loud but it was clearly a scream and it came from the woods, the whole pack dynamic changed in a second, bats on the floor, hailey heard the door upstairs open and the footsteps coming down. "What was that?" Alisson asked and Scott and Henry answered together "it was a scream", they all looked at each other and knew what to do.

A few minutes would pass till Derek and Hailey find the hole in the ground where a woman was trapped, she seemed scared and possibly hurt. "Hey, hi, Are you okay?" Hailey asked besides her father distrust in the whole situation.

[darklinaforever]

For me, the real end of Teen Wolf is episode 10 of season 6.

Seriously, everything was closed. Our characters finishing high school, Stydia together, Stiles and Scott passing the baton to the younger ones and finally Stiles and Scott in the jeep hearing about a dead body found in the woods. The circle was complete.

The rest is just fanfiction.

I didn't like Scott and Malia, hello Scott's wait for Kira... 🙄 Not to mention the delirium of giving them a Stydia kiss in the 6x20, which calms Scott enough for him to heal and regain his sight, all so that Alisson would be back in the movie like the ultimated great love.

Break Stydia ?! Wtf ?! I saluted the performance of the Holland Roden, but this storyline is farting. Let Lydia and Stiles be fucking happy !

Even if let's be realistic in view of Jeff's words, he will put them back together at some point or another if there is a sequel.

Derek who dies ? Damn what shit.

Anyway, for me, after the 6x10, the series is stopped. In my mind Stydia ended up happily married with children, and Scott found Kira !

I loved Allison and her relationship with Scott, but she died years ago, I cried so much for her character when she died, I regretted her, but I ended up mourning, like all the other characters ! His character was very much dead. (So is it me or did the actress have plastic surgery ?)

Anyway, The series still exists. Do not be demoralized by this stupid film.

[alikestoread12]

I picked up Being Lolita on a whim while I was perusing the shelves of my local library during a study break. I read the first 3 chapters at the library and knew immediately that I was going to check it out. Being Lolita is an amazing memoir in which the author Alisson Wood, beautifully and intricately included the story of Lolita throughout the novel, and how it became her life. Wood’s relationship with her teacher not only reflected that of Dolores and Humbert Humbert in Lolita, but was directly inspired by it. The Teacher, which is how she refers to him throughout most of the novel, even has her read Lolita while she is still in high school. He tells her about how great of a love story it is, and that she is his "Lolita." This book made me feel so many different emotions, as I’m sure you can infer by what I just told you. But, one of my favorite things about this novel was that the author purposefully made it 3 parts because Lolita is only 2 parts. (Spoilers for Lolita ahead) Right before the third part actually starts, Wood mentions how Lolita isn’t 3 parts because by the end of part 2 everyone is dead, including Dolores. But, there is a part 3 of her memoir because she survived, and that was one of the most beautiful parts of the novel. As I mentioned in my review of this book on StoryGraph, I am not presenting this book with a star rating because it is too intimate and vulnerable to be given a quantitative rating. I could go on and on about this novel.

Quotes Ahead !!

“When I talk to the ones who stand out the most–the girls who are sad and talented and looking for help without ever actually saying that–I realize: when I blossomed under the attention and care of my teacher, I was asking for the support I desperately needed. I wasn’t asking to be f*cked.”

“Sometimes a jolt will run through my chest in the classroom, a flash of old hurt cut open. What my life could have been. And then I breathe and say inside a refrain, a spell of resilience I cast upon myself as a reminder. Lolita is dead. I survived. I survived.”

[averysillygoose]

books i like

Bunny ~ Mona Awad

Wilder Girls ~ Rory Power

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ~ Maya Angelou

Educated ~ Tara Westover

Wild ~ Cheryl Strayed

Being Lolita ~ Alisson Wood

Circe ~ Madeline Miller

Sula ~ Toni Morrison

Aphrodite Made me do it ~ Trista Mateer

A Wrinkle In Time ~ Madeline L'Engle