#carsten jensen

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currently reading (at snail’s pace)

i’ve never juggled between such vastly different, yet equally heavy genres before. one boggles my mind with yet another unexplored aspect of indian history, another makes me realise how little i know about the world, and the last one could’ve just been a twitter thread.

“we said goodbye to our mothers. they’d been around all our lives, but we’d never properly seen them. they’d been bent over washing tubs or cooking pots, their faces red and swollen from heat and steam, holding everything together while our fathers were away at sea, and nodding off every night on the kitchen chair, with a darning needle in hand. it was their endurance and exhaustion we knew, rather than them."

- we, the drowned by carsten jensen

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || March 15 || Unique Cover: We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen

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"Ženama se ponekad svide muškarci koji im znaju izmamiti osmijeh, ali obožavaju samo one koje ih rasplaču. Poštuju samo ono što ne razumiju. U tom je poštovanju ključ. Herman je vidio dovoljno svijeta da zna kako život muškarcu ne čini podnošljivim ženska ljubav, nego poštovanje. A u poštovanju se uvijek krije i malo straha."

-Carsten Jensen, Mi, utopljenici

[elegantzombielite]

"Only the stupid steal from the rich. The clever steal from the poor. The law usually protects the rich."

Carsten Jensen, author (b. 24th July 1952)

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Carsten Jensen: The law protects the rich

“Only the stupid steal from the rich. The clever steal from the poor. The law usually protects the rich.” —Carsten Jensen.

[consulting-angel-from-gallifrey]

I said what I said.

[jesslovesboats]

Hello friends, I am back with more reading recommendations for your agonies! Next up we have the long awaited and much requested Sad Boat Fiction list. As with all of my lists, this is NOT exhaustive and there WILL be great books left off, and also you may or may not like these books! I only rec things that I've personally enjoyed or that come highly recommended by trusted friends, but taste in books is incredibly subjective, especially with fiction. If I missed your favorite, please add it in the comments or drop it in my DMs!

Now that I'm feeling more settled in my new job, I will hopefully have a lot more time to make book lists and do more virtual Readers' Advisory. I have lists in the works for women in polar exploration and companion reads for the HBO War series, but if there's something else you would love to see, please send me a message!

Classics of the Genre

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Media Tie-Ins

Who Goes There? (Filmed as The Thing) by John W. Campbell, Jr.

The North Water by Ian McGuire

Cold Skin by Alfred Sánchez Piñol

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Graphic Novels

Whiteout by Greg Rucka

How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard*

*this is only fiction in the broadest possible sense of the term, but there is a shiny new American version of this book coming out with a gorgeous new cover and you should pre-order it immediately

Science Fiction

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson

Romance

Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

My Last Continent by Midge Raymond

Inspired by the Terra Nova Expedition

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard*

The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge

Terra Nova: A Play by Ted Tally

Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur

*this is only fiction in the broadest possible sense of the term, but there is a shiny new American version of this book coming out with a gorgeous new cover and you should pre-order it immediately

Inspired by the Franklin Expedition

The Rifles by William T. Vollmann

Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin

Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler

On the Proper Use of Stars by Dominique Fortier

Literary Fiction

The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen

Inspired by the Classics

The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate

Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Modern Day Antarctica

How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior

South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Polar and Nautical Horror

Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Cold Earth by Sarah Moss

The Deep by Nick Cutter

All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

Dark Water by Elizabeth Lowry

The Deep by Alma Katsu

Happy reading!

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Dark Academia: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List (Part 3)

Part two is available here!

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee

Killingly by Katharine Beutner

We The Drowned by Carsten Jensen

Vicious by VE Schwab

One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

The Odyssey by Homer

House Of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

A Study Drowning by Ava Reid

The Society For Soulless Girls by Laura Steven

An Education In Malice by S.T. Gibson

In These Hallowed Halls by Marie O'Regan

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Six actors who's names share a common root

Hannah (12) Jana Larell Glover, Anna Uzele, Hana Stewart, Annamaria Baranyai, Anita Gado, Hannah Lowther, Annabel Marlow, Anna Peller, Gerianne Perez, Analise Rios, Hannah Taylor, Anna Terpiłowska

Elizabeth (9) Ellie Jane Grant, Izi Maxwell, Ella Burns, Bella Coppola, Izabela Pawletko, Analise Rios, Leesa Tulley, Elizabeth Walker, Ellie Wyman

Laurence (8) Laura Dawn Pyatt, Lauren Byrne, Lauren Irving, Lauren Mariasoosay, Laura Blair, Lauren Drew, Loren Hunter, Lori McLare

Margaret (7) Małgorzata Chrusciel, Meghan Corbett, Meghan Dawson, Meg Dixon-Brasil, Megan Gilbert, Maggie Lacasse, Megan Leung

Christos (7) Kirsty "Zara" MacIntosh, Keirsten Nicole Hodgens, Cristina D'Agostino, Kristina Leopold, Christina Modestou, Kristina Walz, Krisztina Magyar

Helen (6) Ellie Jane Grant, Elena Breschi, Ella Burns, Elena Gyasi, Aline Mayagoitia, Ellie Wyman

John (6) Jana Larell Glover, Gianna Grosso, Jaina Brock-Patel, Janique Charles, Janice Rijssel, Lori-Jane McLare

Nicholas (6) Nicole Louise Lewis, Nikki Bentley, Nikolett Gallusz, Collette Guitart, Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert, Nicole Lamb

Alexander (5) Alexia McIntosh, Sasha Renae Brown, Alexandra "Zan" Berube, Aleksandra Gotowicka, Ji-sun "Lexie" Kim

Gabriella (5) Gabbi Mack, Gabrielle Davina Smith, Gabriela Francesca Carillo, Gabriella Stylianou-Burns, Gabriella Boumford

Jasmine (5) Jasmine Shen, Jasmine Smith, Jasmine Forsberg, Jasmine Hackett, Jaz Robinson

Julius (5) Juli Horanyi, Giulia Marolda, Julia McLellan, Julia Pulo, Jillian Worthing

Adal (4) Alicia Corrales-Connor, Alyssa Giannetti, Alize Ke'Aloha Cruz, Aline Mayagoitia

Amy (4) Amy Bridges, Aimie Atkinson, Amy Di Bartolomeo, Kara-Ami McCreanor

Courtney (4) Courtney Monsma, Courtney Stapleton, Courtney Bowman, Courtney Mack

Emil (4) Amelia Walker, Emily Rose Lyons, Emily Harrigan, Emilia "Millie" O'Connell

Katherine (4) Caitlyn De Kuyper, Kathryn Kilger, Caitlin Tipping, Kate Zulauf

Kayla (4) Kala Gare, Khaila Wilcoxon, Kaylah Attard, Kayla McSorley

Monica (4) Monika Nika Veres, Monique Ashe-Palmer, Janique Charles, Mónika Horváth

Sophia (4) Sophie Golden, Sophie-Rose Middleton, Fia Houston-Hamilton, Sophie Isaacs

Abigail (3) Abigail Sparrow, Abbi Hodgson, Abby Mueller

Aenor (3) Ellie Jane Grant, Ella Burns, Ellie Wyman

Danielle (3) Danielle Steers, Danielle Mendoza, Danielle Rose

Eireann (3) Aryn Bohannon, Erin Palmer Ramirez, Erin Caldwell

Hayley (3) Haley Izurieta, Hailee Kaleem Wright, Hailey Lewis

Laura (3) Laura Dawn Pyatt, Laura Blair, Lori McLare

Lucius (3) Lucy Aiston, Lucia Valentino, Lucinda Wilson

Natalie (3) Natalie Pilkington, Natalie Paris, Natalia Kujawa

Oliver (3) Olivia "Liv" Alexander, Olivia Donalson, Oliver Wickham

Rhiannon (3) Rhiannon Bacchus, Rhiannon Doyle, Rhianne-Louise McCaulsky

Sarah (3) Kala Gare, Sadie Hurst, Sarah McFarlane

Theodore (3) Terica Marie, Didi Romero, Dóra Csonka

Agnes (2) Inez Budd, Agnieszka Rose

Aisha (2) Aiesha Naomi Pease, Aisha Kardffy

Alan (2) Lana Zoe Jensen, Alana M. Robinson

Amanda (2) Amanda Lee, Amanda Lindgren

Ashley (2) Ashlee Waldbauer, Ashleigh Weir

Brian (2) Brianna Brito Mooney, Brianna Javis

Cassandra (2) Cassandra Lee, Cassie Silva

Cathassach (2) Casey Esbin, Casey Al-Shaqsy

Ceallach (2) Kelly Sweeney, Kelly Denice Taylor

Cennetig (2) Kennedy Carstens, Kenedy Small

Charles (2) Carly Mercedes Dyer, Caroline Siegrist

Chelsea (2) Chelsea Lorraine Wargo, Chelsea Dawson

Chloe (2) Chloe Zuel, Chloe Hart

Eloise (2) Eloise "Ellie" Sharpe, Eloise Lord

Eric (2) Terica Marie, Erika Herceg

Grace (2) Grace Mouat, Grace Melville

Hadrian (2) Adrianna Glover, Adrianna Hicks

Henry (2) Harriet Watson, Harriet Caplan-Dean

Holly (2) Holli' Conway, Holly Musgrave

Jennifer (2) Jennifer Caldwell, Ji-woo "Jennifer" Kim

Jessica (2) Jessica Niles, Jessica "Jessie" Bodner

Ludwig (2) Lou Henry, Rhianne-Louise McCaulsky

Maia (2) Maiya Quansah-Breed, Maya Christian

Martha (2) Marta Burdynowicz, Marta Skrzypczynska

Mary (2) Annamaria Baranyai, Marilyn Caserta

Matilda (2) Maddison Bulleyment, Maddison Firth

Melissa (2) Melinda Porto, Melissa J. Ford

Rachel (2) Rachel Rawlinson, Rachel "Rae" Davenport

Renatus (2) Renee Lamb, Brene "Bre" Jackson

Shannon (2) Shannen Alyce Quan, Su-jeong "Shannon" Pae

Sidney (2) Cydney Clark, Sydney Parra

Taylor (2) Taylor Iman Jones, Taylor Pearlstein

Victor (2) Victoria "Vicki" Manser, Viki Singh

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top 5 books?

GREAT one to start off with. very difficult!

the history of love by nicole krauss is the first one that came to mind because i think it was the first "adult" book i ever read that really, truly captured me. i got on my annoying annotation game and highlighted one copy so badly i had to get another copy just to be able to re-read. i haven't revisited in many years but there are still certain lines that i can remember with perfect clarity.

the secret history by donna tartt is similar in that i read it in college and was like Wow. This Is Literature. it has just about everything i like in a book --annoying characters: check. murder: check. batshit dynamics: check.

gone with the wind by margaret mitchell is probably pound for pound my favorite book of all time, even at its most grotesque and horrendous. it is obviously a racist book written by a racist woman and simultaneously scarlett is the most fascinating character of all time To Me. like most annoying idiotic fictional woman ever and i'm also rooting for her bad. i also am very into a long as fuck narrative about the worst people of all time.

lolita by vladimir nabokov is another pick where it's like yeah obvious tumblrina pick but unfortunately nabokov is a master and lolita is a masterwork and it's not my fault.

we the drowned by carsten jensen, which is the newest read on the list and i've only read it once but it was long as fuck (love) and a huge sprawling narrative (love) and it was about men on boats (love).

[mangotalkies]

june so far has been filled with intense reads on tragic events, sprawling timelines, vibrant cities, once-sacred rivers, delicate familial relationships, internal conflicts, and formidable women: compelling, wronged, forgotten.

the days have been overwhelmingly long with daunting tasks, nostalgic overloads and dubious weather.

i ate enough mangoes to do justice to my username; gave up on planning tbrs; fell in love with a flower bowl; rediscovered in my shelf, an old portable cd/dvd player - a bunch of disks with it; displayed exemplary self control in a ceramics store; rewatched bojack horseman a fifth time; listened to a playlist i made back in 2014; remembered that bts just completed 10 years and felt aged.

books read -

the fishermen by chigozie obioma

the ocean of churn by sanjeev sanyal

the last queen by chitra banerjee divakaruni

kim jiyong, born 1982 by cho nam-joo

interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri

currently reading -

mahabharat vol.1 by bibek debroy

we the drowned by carsten jensen

flight of deities and rebirth of temples by meenakshi jain

books added to my black hole of tbrs -

station eleven by emily st. john mandel

yellowface by r.f. kuang

complete short stories of franz kafka

hamnet by maggie o’farrell

yugandhar by shivaji sawant

i’m fine, but you appear to be sinking by leyna know

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dark ocean duology | summary, schedule, and chapter titles

after a full summer of....sort of losing my mind over the ocean, we've reached the final week. I've read it three times in the last two days and excepting grammar and style edits that will happen weekly (and one section I'm still sort of not happy with) I think I'm pretty much done. going to hype myself up a little bit this week. I've settled on a series title of 'dark ocean duology' so if you'd prefer to not see any more about this series go ahead and block that tag, no hard feelings!

summary: A post-Fallen Order AU in two parts: After narrowly escaping the Inquisition’s clutches on Nur, Cere and Cal are not whisked from the water by Merrin’s intervention. Instead, they must embark on a winding, perilous journey that will take each of them through their pasts, and to the edge of death.

chapter titles + posting schedule

part 1: the deep sea is a haunted house

“The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in darkness.” - Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

9.1 -- chapter 1: caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes “There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures multiply and destroy each other. Huge crabs devour fish and are devoured in their turn. Hideous shapes of living things, not created to be seen by human eyes wander in this twilight.” - Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea (trans. W. Moy Thomas) 9.8 -- chapter 2: only awake and dreaming “When you’re underwater for months at a time, you lose all sense of day and night. And there’s only awake and dreaming. Not that those things are easy to tell apart.” - Underwater (2020)

part 2: to stand at the edge of the sea

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist, is to have knowledge of things that are nearly as eternal as any earthly life can be.” - Rachel Carson, Under the Sea-Wind

9.15 -- chapter 1: drowning in sight of land “Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn’t at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?” - Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned 9.22 -- chapter 2: under the great unfathomable deep, he sank “Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in the presence of that i impenetrable darkness, in the midst of the murmur of the waves, the swell, the foam, the breeze, under the clouds, under that vast diffusion of force, under that mysterious firmament of wings, of stars, of gulfs, having around him and beneath him the ocean above him the constellations, under the great unfathomable deep, he sank, gave up the struggle, lay down upon the rock, his face towards the stars, humble, and uplifting his joined hands towards the terrible depths, he cried aloud, ‘Have mercy.’” - Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea (trans. W. Moy Thomas) 9.29 -- chapter 3: and the great shroud of the sea rolled on “…then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.” - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Ok, I have to go get back to all the formatting work I maybe should have been working on before now 😵‍💫

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9/6/2024 🧁

"Kada smo sami nesretni, čeznemo za zajedništvom s drugima kojima je jednako loše kao nama, tražimo gorko-slatku potvrdu da ne patimo jer nismo imali sreće ili smo donijeli pogrešnu odluku, nego zato što je život takav."

-Carsten Jensen, Mi, utopljenici

[theroyfamtherapist]

“Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down„ - We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen

“A bad brother is better than no brother„ - Swahili Proverb

“I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood„ - Jeffery Pierce

“Forgive yourself for what you think you've done or not done. At every moment, you had your reasons for all of your actions and decisions. You've always done the best that you could do. Forgive yourself„ - Doreen Virtue

“He is my little brother I'd drown myself in the deepest oceans for him„ "Would he do the same for you?" “...No, I don't think he would„ - Edward Roy and Marcia Roy

“Eddie just needs a moment„ "You can't keep making excuses...dad will figure it out" “...Shiv, stop while you are ahead„ - Kendall Roy and Shiv Roy

Edward Roy and Kendall Roy Quotes that are so like them

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Hello, I hope you’re having a good morning.

I have a novel recommendation for you:

We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen. It’s a generational epic about a 19th century family of Danish sailors and the town they call home.

Oooh that definitely sounds like something I’d be so into! I’ve been craving something of that nature after I finished reading Galore. I’ll def check it out!

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Idk if you take book recs but I need SOMEONE to read this book bc it’s been like. almost a decade since I read it. and it’s one of my favorites. but I have no one to discuss it with :( anyway you seem like you’re into really long books about men making questionable decisions. and also history. so I think you should read “we, the drowned” by carsten jensen! it’s an almost 700 page saga about the sailing history of denmark (covering 100 years from the 1840s to the 1940s). it’s epic in scale, the writing is beautiful, and the characters are. well they are something. I feel like there’s just so many moments where you’d be like !!!

also you might like “the half brother” by lars saabye christensen tho that one takes some getting used to. but you’re quite possibly the only person I can think of who could appreciate its weird energy lmao

multi generational historical boat media????? pls I love u this sounds incredible I'm downloading it rn