#david mallory ortberg

[st7arlight]

God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation

-Julian K Jarboe

[myinspirationjournalquotes]

Reading List 2024

(Linked titles go to the book review I posted.)

Currently Reading:

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman (Started 11.08.24)

Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Started 08.31.24)

Slug and Other Stories by Megan Milks (Started 08.25.2024)

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan (Started 06.10.24)

Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic by C.M. Nascosta (Started 05.30.24)

Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke (Started 03.04.24)

It by Stephen King (Started 01.20.24)

Emma by Jane Austen (Started 11.06.23)

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (Started 05.27.23)

Finished:

Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (11.04.23 - 01.10.24)

Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth (01.09.24 - 01.16.24)

Off-Balance by Dominique Moceanu (01.10.24 - 01.19.24)

The Best American Poetry 2022 by David Lehman (05.25.23 - 02.13.24)

Barbarian Mine by Ruby Dixon (12.03.23 - 02.20.24)

The Vegetarian by Han Kang (01.17.24 - 02.22.24)

Barbarian's Mate by Ruby Dixon (02.24.24 - 02.26.24)

Barbarian's Touch by Ruby Dixon (02.26.24)

Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta (03.13.24 - 03.15.24)

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (02.27.24 - 03.01.24)

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint (03.07.24 - 03.14.24)

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (03.27.24)

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (03.30.24 - 04.02.24)

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (04.11.24 - 04.15.24)

The Best American Poetry 2023 by David Lehman (02.13.24 - 04.19.24)

Sweet Berries by C.M. Nascosta (04.20.24 - 04.24.24)

Coma* by Robin Cook (04.17.24 - 05.23.24)

House of Salt and Sorrow by Erin A. Craig (05.25.24 - 05.26.24)

Shady Hollow by Juneau Black (05.27.24 - 05.30.24)

Virgin by Analicia Sotelo (04.20.24 - 07.15.24)

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett (Sometime in May - 07.17.24)

Barbarian’s Taming by Ruby Dixon (07.17.24 - 08.15.24)

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg (March 2022 - 08.25.24)

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (08.27.24 - 08.29.24)

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (08.29.24 - 08.31.24)

milk and honey* by Rupi Kaur (10.12.24)

the sun and her flowers* by Rupi Kaur (10.18.24 - 10.27.24)

I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib (11.04.24)

The Metamorphosis by Franz Khafka (11.05.24)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (11.06.24 - 11.08.24)

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (11.12.24)

*Any books that I would vehemently not recommend will be marked using an astrick.

[quietflorilegium]

"Am I going to be dragged into this new nobility, or can I merely sit back and observe?" "I was not speaking to you, woman," David said. "I was addressing my hangover, who is a vigorous young squire of twenty-seven, with a wife and several children besides. Currently he is playing a game of horseshoes with ship anchors just underneath my skin, and cannot be disturbed. Also, you are lying down, and your eyes are closed, which would make observing anything a challenge, even for you." "Are we going to be introduced?" Alison asked. "I don't think I would like you two to meet," he said.

Daniel Ortberg, “The Wedding Party,” “The Merry Spinster”

[genderkoolaid]

hey from one nonbinary transmasc to another, do u have theology from a jewish perspective? i've been thinking a lot about converting for a few years now <3

converting transmasc nb anon here, meant to include trans theology to that last ask, sorry for the mixup

Yes I do!!

The Soul of the Stranger: Reading G-d and the Torah from a Transgender Perspective by Joy Ladin

Mishkan Ga'avah: Where Pride Dwells

Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible

A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 by Noam Sienna

On Beyond Gender: Representation of God in the Torah and in Three Recent Renditions into English by Rabbi David Stein

Gender Representation in Biblical Hebrew by Rabbi David Stein

Not specifically theology, but stuff on trans jews in general:

Berel-Beyle: The 19th century Jewish transgender man from Krivozer in Ukraine

This video will feature women and transgender Jews teaching you how to wear tefillin

Poem by a jewish trans woman written in 1322

"And His Name Shall Be Called Something Hard to Remember", by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

@jewish-lgbtq's whole blog

Nonbinary Hebrew Project & their whole resources page

TransTorah & their whole resources page

Trans Halakha Project

Best of luck on your spiritual journey, anon! I hope you find this helpful :)

[books-in-media]

Masterlist of books mentioned & read by Natalie Portman

—A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom, Brittany K. Barnett (2020)

—A Sister’s Story, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, (2020)

—Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women, Susan Burton, Cari Lynn (2017)

—Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami (2019)

—Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker, (1962)

—Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, Robin Wall Kimmerer (2003)

—Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo (2019)

—Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit (2004)

—Intimacies, Katie Kitamura (2021)

—Judas, Amos Oz (2014)

—Kaddish.com, Nathan Englander (2019)

—Kudos, Rachel Cusk (2018)

—Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli (2019)

—Natalie Portman’s Fables, Natalie Portman (2020)

—Normal People, Sally Rooney (2018)

—Outline, Rachel Cusk (2014)

—Royals, Emma Forrest (2019)

—Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind, David Vandermeulen, Daniel Casanave, Yuval Noah Harari (2020)

—Second Place, Rachel Cusk (2021)

—She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey (2019)

—Something That May Shock and Discredit You, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Daniel M. Lavery (2020)

—Summer Snow: New Poems, Robert Hass (2020)

—The Baby-Sitters Club #20: Kristy and the Walking Disaster, Ann M. Martin (1989)

—The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, Deborah Levy (2018)

—The Family Roe: An American Story, Joshua Prager, (2021)

—The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, Gloria Steinem (2019)

—The Waves, Virginia Woolf (1931)

—Transit, Rachel Cusk (2016)

—Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino (2019)

—We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer (2019)

—Weather, Jenny Offill (2020)

—What Are You Going Through, Sigrid Nunez (2020)

[jnmegan]

September 2020 List of Read-A-Likes

Notes from the GPL BiblioFile: Read-A-Likes List for 9/20

Anthology/Short Stories

               George Saunders

                               What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – Raymond Carver

                               The Largesse of the Sea Maiden – Denis Johnson

               Carmen Maria Machado

                               The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror – Mallory Ortberg

                               Awayland – Ramona Ausubel

Classics

               Jane Austen

                               Death Comes to Pemberley - P.D. James

                               The Jane Austen Society - Natalie Jenner

               John Steinbeck  

                               Angle of Repose – Wallace Stegner

                               The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon            

               Vladimir Nabokov

                               Being Lolita: A Memoir – Alisson Wood

                               My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell

               Alice Walker

                               Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

                               The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead

Essays

               David Sedaris

                               Wow, No Thank You – Samantha Irby

                               Running with Scissors – Augusten Burroughs

               Zadie Smith

                               Bad Feminist – Roxanne Gay

                               Trick Mirror – Jia Tolentino

 Fantasy

               George R. R. Martin –

                               The Blade Itself – Joe Abercrombie

                               Fool’s Assassin – Robin Hobb

               Diana Galbadon-

                               The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

                               The Midnight Library – Matt Haig

Graphic Novel

               Neil Gaiman

                               Y: The Last Man – Brian K. Vaughan

                               Nimona – Noelle Stevenson

               Marjane Satrapi

                               Habibi – Craig Thompson

                               My Favorite Thing is Monsters – Emil Ferris

Historical Fiction

               Colson Whitehead

                               Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi

                               Pachinko – Min Jin Lee

               Madeline Miller

                               The Water Dancer – Ta-Nehisi Coates

                               Once Upon a River – Diane Setterfield

Horror

               Stephen King

                               Imaginary Friend – Stephen Chbosky

                               Full Throttle – Joe Hill

               Anne Rice

                               A Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness

                               The Twisted Ones – T. Kingfisher

 Literary Fiction

               Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

                               The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

                               Migrations – Charlotte McConaghy

               Margaret Atwood

                               Vox – Christina Dalcher

                               Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

               Fredrik Backman

                               The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion

                               The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett

               Ann Patchett

                               Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid

                               This Tender Land – William Kent Krueger

Mystery

               Arthur Conan Doyle

                               IQ – Joe Ide

                               Moriarty – Anthony Horowitz

               James Patterson

                               The Whisper Man -   Alex North

                               Bluebird , Bluebird – Attica Locke

               Agatha Christie

                        The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton

                        The Monogram Murders – Sophie Hannah

               Louise Penny

                        Case Histories – Kate Atkinson

                        In the Woods – Tana French

               Lee Child

                        Runner – Patrick Lee

                        TripTych – Karin Slaughter

Romance

               Nicholas Sparks

                               A Perfect Day – Richard Paul Evans

                               Waiting in the Wings – Melissa Brayden

               JoJo Moyes

                               Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell

                               Sex and Vanity – Kevin Kwan

Science Fiction

               Orson Scott Card

                               Ready Player One/Ready Player Two – Ernest Cline

                               Interference – Brad Parks

               Octavia E. Butler

                               The Space Between Worlds – Micaiah Johnson

                               The Warehouse – Rob Hart

Thriller/Suspense

               Dan Brown

                               The Rome Prophecy – Sam Christer

                               The Order – Daniel Silva

               Lisa Unger

                               The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

                               The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides

Western

               Louis L’Amour

                               Between Hell and Texas – Ralph Cotton

                               Crossing Purgatory - Gary Schanbacher

               Hayley Stone

                               The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt

                               The Six Gun Tarot – R.S. Belcher

[the-modern-typewriter]

Hi, I love your book recommendations; both the monthly ones you do and the ones you do requested by your followers. I was wondering if you could give some overly specific book recs or a favorites list or something like that. I love your works!!!

Thank you :)For general reference or possible interest, I have a goodreads account here. 

It includes what I’m reading/have read, with my various ratings of nope to this amazing out of five stars.It’s probably the best place to look for my complete archive of book recommendations from the last three years.

 Assume anything five stars is an absolute recommendation, though I also have a specifics favourites shelf on there, along with various categories like ‘noteworthy villains’, ‘LGBTQA’ and ‘fairytale-feeling’ which about covers the trifecta of my obsessions muhaha although I have other shelves too.

My new favourite writer since I last posted about books on this account is Sally Rooney, who has written ‘Normal People’ and ‘Conversations with Friends’. Oh wow. It’s not my usual and yet somehow I’m addicted. Her writing style makes my jaw drop.

As for a random overly specific list...this is the list of “top books that I really want to read but need to actually buy because the library is breaking my heart and is not in a position to order them for me for once...”

Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire by Amber Dawn

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst

Coils by Barbara Anne Wright

Beauty and Cruelty by Meredith Katz

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg

A Cathedral of Myth and Bone by Kat Howard

And this is list 2: Books recommended to me by my gothic double

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Lonely City: Adventures in the art of being alone by Olivia Laing

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

[maaarine]

MBTI Typing Index: ENFP

Other types: INFP INFJ ENFP ENFJ INTP INTJ ENTP ENTJ ISTJ ISFJ ESTJ ESFJ ISTP ISFP ESTP ESFP

Chantal AKERMAN

Isabel ALLENDE

Pedro ALONSO

Billie Joe ARMSTRONG

Daniel BALAVOINE

Aisling BEA

Kate BECKINSALE

Samantha BEE

Juliette BINOCHE

Emma BLACKERY

Rachel BLOOM

Helena BONHAM CARTER

Danny BOYLE

Russell BRAND

Brittany BROSKI

Bo BURNHAM

Jim CARREY

Elizabeth Jean CARROLL

Margaret CHO

Dodie CLARK

Michaela COEL

Coeur de Pirate / Béatrice MARTIN

Daniel COHN-BENDIT

Stephen COLBERT

Michelle COLLINS

Olivia COOKE

Alan CUMMING

Jamie Lee CURTIS

Salvador DALI

Geena DAVIS

Mackenzie DAVIS

Pierre DE MAERE

Cara DELEVINGNE

Julie DELPY

Lou DOILLON

Xavier DOLAN

Rain DOVE

Lena DUNHAM

Giancarlo ESPOSITO

Rupert EVERETT

Colin FARRELL

Negin FARSAD

Craig FERGUSON

Noel FIELDING

Carrie FISHER

Anne FRANK

Edward FRENKEL

Guillaume GALLIENNE

Greta GERWIG

Emma GONZÁLEZ

Matthew GOODE

Emily GORDON

Lauren GRAHAM

Laci GREEN

Grimes / Claire BOUCHER

Lauren GROFF

Matthew Gray GUBLER

Ernesto GUEVARA

Jake GYLLENHAAL

Adèle HAENEL

Daniel HANDLER

Neil HANNON

David HARBOUR

Mamrie HART

Salma HAYEK

Todd HAYNES

Lena HEADEY

Matty HEALY

Conleth HILL

Bell HOOKS

Jason ISAACS

Samantha IRBY

Gillian JACOBS

Abbi JACOBSON

Avan JOGIA

Camélia JORDANA

Zoe KAZAN

Diane KEATON

Ellie KEMPER

Chris KENDALL

Liza KOSHY

Lisa KUDROW

Anne LAMOTT

Nathan LANE

Jennifer LAWRENCE

Jared LETO

Fabrice LUCHINI

Baz LUHRMANN

Patti LUPONE

Miriam MARGOLYES

Pio MARMAÏ

Ian MCKELLEN

Freddie MERCURY

Ezra MILLER

Lin-Manuel MIRANDA

Caitlin MORAN

Tom MORELLO

Graham NORTON

Samin NOSRAT

Mallory ORTBERG

Amanda PALMER

Sara PASCOE

Mandy PATINKIN

Sarah PAULSON

Laurie PENNY

Pablo PICASSO

Amy POEHLER

Benoît POELVOORDE

Barbara PRAVI

Daniel RADCLIFFE

Arden ROSE

Tracee Ellis ROSS

Kristen ROUPENIAN

RuPaul / RuPaul CHARLES

Thomas SANDERS

Susan SARANDON

Marjane SATRAPI

Amy SCHUMER

Amy SEDARIS

Jason SEGEL

Tupac SHAKUR

Robert SHEEHAN

Michael SHEEN

Amy SHERMAN-PALLADINO

SIA / Sia FURLER

Jason SILVA

Sarah SILVERMAN

Lily SINGH

Tarsem SINGH

Jenny SLATE

Soko / Stéphanie SOKOLINSKI

Emma STONE

Amber TAMBLYN

David TENNANT

Louis TOMLINSON

Marie ULVEN / Girl in red

Brandon URIE

Jonathan VAN NESS

Agnès VARDA

Phoebe WALLER-BRIDGE

John WATERS

Ruby WAX

Gerard WAY

Cornel WEST

Vivienne WESTWOOD

Mae WHITMAN

Oscar WILDE

Hayley WILLIAMS

Jessica WILLIAMS

Robin WILLIAMS

Katya ZAMOLODCHIKOVA

Slavoj ZIZEK

Other types: INFP INFJ ENFP ENFJ INTP INTJ ENTP ENTJ ISTJ ISFJ ESTJ ESFJ ISTP ISFP ESTP ESFP

[girlwithouthands]

to read list for 2019

currently reading The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

prose The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss Annihilation (reread) by Jeff Vandermeer Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Peagle A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Mara The Faun and the Woodcutter’s Daughter by Barbara Leonie Picard Nocturnes by John Connollys Orfeo by Richard Power

fairytales, folklore, myth The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Ortberg Fairy Tale is Form by Kate Bernheimer Russian Fairy Tales by Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev  From the Forest by Sara Maitland (reread) The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile Marina Warner’s books Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker (reread) The Voyage of Saint Brendan by anonymous The Forest in Folklore and Mythology by Alexander Porteous Otherworld Castles in Middle English Arthurian Romance Chapter by Muriel A. Whitaker The Development of the Idea of Hades in Celtic Literature by Eleanor Hull

landscapes, nature Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane Underland by Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane The Overstory by Richard Powers The Future of Ice by Gretel Ehrlich The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich Empire of Ice by by Gretel Ehrlich My Abandonment by Peter Rock Wilderness by Carl Sandburg The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing H is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald True North: Travels in Arctic Europe by Gavin Francis Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland by Sarah Moss Weird Ecology: On The Southern Reach Trilogy by David Tompkins Dark Ecology by Paul Kingsnorth Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Dark Ecology Project In Search of Sacred Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands by Daniel Taylor Discovering the Vernacular Landscape by John Brinckerhoff Jackson Politics of Nature by Bruno Latour The World without Us by Alan Weisman The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins  by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing The Natural Contract by Michael Serres Molecular Red, Theory for the Anthropocene by McKenzie Wark

religion Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid Macculloch Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West

scandinavia The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose by Kirsten Wolf Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland by Sarah Moss The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Shelley

‘Giving up the Ghost’ by Emily Urquhart interviews with Olafur Eliasson Cynthia Cruz, from ‘Justine, a Prophet: Blindness and Vision in Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’’ “Angela Carter’s wolf tales”, Bidisha Diane Purkiss, Producing the Voice, Consuming the Body: Women Prophets of the Seventeenth Century Anne Michaels, from Fugitive Pieces

read Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

[xanthine]

Books of 2018

I ended up not finishing as many books as I did in 2017 - but then again, that year was a bit exceptional. 

Anyway, bolded books were my faves:

January

1. Death by Video Game : Danger, pleasure, and obsession on the virtual frontline by Simon Parkin 2. The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington   3. All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai   4. R.I.P. Eliza Hart by Alyssa Sheinmel   5. Thunder and Lightning by Natalie Goldberg 6. Writing Radar by Jack Gantos 7. A Darkness Strange and Lovely by Susan Dennard  

February

8. Autonomous by Annalee Newitz 9. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath   10. Windwitch by Susan Dennard   11. Moody Bitches - The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking the Sleep You're Missing the Sex You're Not Having and What's Really Making You Crazy by Julie Holland, MD 12. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

March

13. On fiction by Virginia Woolf 14. Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg   15. Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer 16. Quiet by Susan Cain

April

17. Post Grad by Caroline Kitchener   18. Maskerade by Terry Pratchett 19. Lock In by John Scalzi 20. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn   21. Brain On Fire by Susannah Cahalan 22. Artemis by Andy Weir 23. Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski 24. Vivre et Survivre à Montréal au 21e Siècle par Stéphanie Neveu et Laurent Turcot

May

25. I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron  

June

26. 10% Happier by Dan Harris 27. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith 28. The Princess Bride by William Goldman  

July

29. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 30. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant 31. Get Your Sh*t Together by Sarah Knight (audio)   32. Drunk Mom by Jowita Bydlowska 33. The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Ortberg   34. Borne by Jeff Vandermeer  

August

35. On Writing Well by William Zinsser 36. What She Ate by Laura Shapiro   37. Head On by John Scalzi 38. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon   39. Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney

Septembre

40. Guardian Angels & Other Monsters : stories by Daniel H Wilson 41. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed 42. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel by Tom Monteleone 43. Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire 44. Changes by Mercedes Lackey 45. The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu 46. The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow 47. Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on writing by Ursula K Le Guin with David Naimon   48. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Octobre

49. Borderline by Mishell Baker 50. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett 51. Dear Teen Me edited by Miranda Kenneally   52. The Year of Less by Cait Flanders  

Novembre

53. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi 54. Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker 55. Originals by Adam Grant 56. Impostor Syndrome by Mishell Baker 57. Nobody Cares by Anne T. Donahue   58. RU par Kim Thúy

Décembre

59. What We Left Behind by Robin Talley 60. Small Shen by Kylie Chan 61. Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott 62. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson 63. Things I Learned From Knitting... Whether I wanted to or not by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee 64. Give and Take by Adam Grant

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Reading List, Sweet Chilli edition.

"I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.”  [Tomaž Šalamun] 

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” [Hunter S Thompson] 

[Image by Daniel Cosgrove] 

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Do you feel like you look like yourself? [The Cut] 

Why food tastes better in a bowl #detailjournalism [Annaliese Griffin, Quartz] 

On the intimacy of socialising in silence [Greta Moran, The Cut] 

"Why do we venerate suffering? Suffering is given a moral value, as though there is something about being miserable that is worthy of praise.” [Danielle Tcholakian, The Cut] 

"Why I’m giving up on preventative care” - It becomes clear further down this piece that she means “after a certain age”, but I read this very very very closely [Barbara Ehrenreich, Literary Hub] 

“That time my ex made me the villain in his story” - The best compliment [Sharon Mesmer, The Cut] 

I think about this a lot: The sliding doors in “Sliding Doors” [Ashley Fetters, The Cut] 

This is a pretty flippant story about why the people who flake on you still hang about, but it’s also Very True. [Sarah David, Broadly]

“Should I acknowledge that I wore the same shirt to almost every event on my book tour or just hope no one noticed?” [Curtis Sittenfeld, the New Yorker]

"Facebook is an emotional labor machine, and if you want to leave it, you’re going to have to start doing a lot of work” [Sarah Jeong, The Verge] 

How to poach and egg and leave a marriage [Brandy Jensen, Extra Crispy] 

"When you’re young and naive, you assume falling in love will be fun. Wrong. In reality, new love is a state of perpetual embarrassment in which you are forced to repeatedly face the many ways in which you are in fact cheesy, basic, and emotionally inadequate. It turns out love really is a battlefield, and the first casualty is your entire personality.” [Karley Sciortino, Vogue]

“My ambition wasn’t that wide. I needed certain people to see it. But no, honestly, I don’t have that [fame] gene … I have the need to be taken seriously.” I love Liz Phair and also Emily Gould and I am very excited about this [The Cut]

"And I sat down and gave her the flowers, and I said, “I’m gonna marry you!” She [pointed at me and said], “You!” And I snapped a picture. We took a picture just like that today. I’ll show you [shows me photo on his phone]. That was 40 years ago, today.” When Mandy Patinkin met Kathryn Grody - I adored this [Rachel Handler, Vulture] 

Sometimes you just have to get the thing out there [Stevie Mackenzie-Smith] 

Jodi Ettenberg on an unexpected turn. 

"Your sister is afraid of ambiguity and, by extension, death—both her own and that of the people she loves. (Hear me out. I promise this is going somewhere.) Monogamy during prime childrearing years is a cultural norm that often results in increased social status, state-sponsored recognition, and financial rewards, and in that regard it makes sense, on a nominal level, that your sister would want that for someone she loved. However, her insistence that you must pursue something you have said you do not desire can only come from a compulsion to see everyone around her settled in a long-term, reproductively viable relationship so she can feel that her life, and the lives of her family members, will stand as a bulwark against the forces of chaos. The only kind of romantic relationship she can accept as “real” involves exclusivity and permanence—a rather narrow definition.” Danny doesn’t mess about. [Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Slate]

[wishmachines]

sorted alphabetically by first name dates are when I began and finished reading

currently reading Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire [28.12.2020 —] Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf [28.12.2020 —]

on pause

Andri Snær Magnason, LoveStar Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, translated by William Weaver Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

finished

Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin [18 — 26.12.20] Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic, translated by Olena Bormashenko Asja Bakić, Mars: Stories, translated by Jennifer Zoble [11 — 1.12.20] Cormac McCarthy, The Road [26 — 29.12.2020] Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, translated by William Weaver [20.11.20 — 9.12.20] Italo Calvino, The Nonexistent Knight, translated by Achiblad Colquhoun Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan [4.12.20] Lord Dunsany, The Book of Wonder [14.11.20] Marie Darrieussecq, Our Life in the Forest, translated by Penny Hueston [28.12.2020] Rodrigo Fresán, The Bottom of the Sky, translated by Will Vanderhyden [20 — 23.12.20] Stanisław Lem, Solaris, translated by Bill Johnston [21 — 24.11.20] Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed [24 — 26.11.20]

to read

Alejandro Jodorowski Aleksandar Tesic, Kosingas: The Order of the Dragon Alex Dally MacFarlane, Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints Andrus Kivirähk, The Man Who Spoke Snakish *Angélica Gorodischer, Trafalgar Anjali Sachdeva, All the Names They Used For God Anna Kavan, Ice Annalee Newitz, Autonomous Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Hard To Be A God Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Noon: 22nd Century A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few Berit Ellingsen, Not Dark Yet Beth Plutchak, Liminal Spaces Carmen Boullosa, Heavens on Earth Carol Emshwiller, Carmen Dog Carolyn Ives Gilman, Dark Orbit Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Catherynne M. Valente, The Habitation of the Blessed Charles Yu, How To live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night Christina M. Rau, Liberating he Astronauts Cixin Lui, The Three-Body Problem Dan Simmons, The Hyperion Cantos Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll Daniel Mallory Ortberg, The Merry Spinster Eleanor Arnason, Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens Ellen Kushner, Riverside Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing Herbert Rosendorfer, The Architect of Ruins, translated by Mike Mitchell *Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas Ian McDonald, Luna: Wolf Moon Isaac Asimov, Foundation James Blish, Cities in Flight Jan Morris, Hav *Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer, Authority Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer, The Compass of His Bones and Other Stories Johanna Sinisalo, Troll: A Love Story Joe Haldeman, The Forever War John Conolly, The Book of Lost Things John Keene, Counternarratives Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion 
*Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go Leigh Brackett, The Big Jump Linda Nagata, Vast Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor *Lola Robles, Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist, translated by Lawrence Schimel L. Timmel Duchamp, Love’s Body, Dancing in Time L. Timmel Duchamp, Alanya to Alanya Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake Marlen Haushofer, The Wall Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast Olga Tokarczuk, Primeval and Other Times Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night *Patricia A. McKillip, In the Forests of Serre Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn Samuel R. Delaney, Nova Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17 Samuel R. Delaney, Return to Nevèrÿon Samuel R. Delany, They Fly At Ciron Sergey & Maria Dyachenko, The Scar Sergey & Maria Dyachenko, Vita Nostra Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant Sjón, Codex 1962 Sofia Samatar, The Winged Histories
 Stanisław Lem, His Master’s Voice Stanisław Lem, Return from the Stars Stanisław Lem, The Cyberiad Stanisław Lem, The Star Diaries Tanith Lee, Space Is Just a Starry Night Tatyana Tolstaya, The Slynx Vladimir Sorokin, The Ice Triology Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake Yoss, Condomnauts, translated by David Frye Yoss, Red Dust, translated by David Frye Zoran Zivkovic, The Library

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Anja Sachdeva, All the Names They Used For God Anna Kavan, Machines in the Head: Selected Stories
 Catherynne M. Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams Diana Wynne Jones, Believing is Seeing Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics John Ajvide Lindquist, Let The Old Dream Die and Other Stories *Kanishk Tharoor, Swimmer Among the Stars Karen Russell, Saint Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves Karin Tidbeck, Jagannath: Stories Kelly Link, Monstrous Affections Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen Leena Krohn, Collected Fiction (translated by various) Leigh Brackett, Sea-Kings of Mars Peg Alford Pursell, A Girl Goes Into the Forest Tatyana Tolstaya, Aetherial Worlds
 Ted Chiang, Exhalation Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

** Desirina Boskovich (editor), It Came from the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction Eugenio Lisboa and Helder Macedo (editors), The Dedalus Book of Portguese Fantasy Eric Dickens (editor), The Dedalus Book of Flemish Fantasy Johanna Sinisalo (editor), The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy Margaret Jull Costa and Annella McDermott (editors), The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy Mike Mitchell (editor), The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy: 1890-2000 David Connolly (editor), The Dedalus Book of Greek Fantasy Richard Huijing (editor), The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy Yvonne Howell (editor), Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction

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Making me happy this fortnight

American Gods! It’s gorgeously shot and the casting is perfect.

A moratorium on villainous eating by Mallory Ortberg made me chortle.

Sense8 S2. Families of choice all over the place. And this spoilery moment was so wonderful.

Angel Coulby in a new bonnet. Forever loves.

The Skam basketball scene. 

My team won an award and we were given £150 per head to spend on a group activity. So we went to the Savoy for afternoon tea, stuffed our faces, drank all the tea, oohed and aahed at the loos and then waddled up the road to see David Tennant in Don Juan in Soho. Highly recommend both.

[kimicalburn]

Timely Sexiest Man Alive Jokes

I miss The Toast. When all the jokes about Blake Shelton started going around, I thought back to Mallory Ortberg’s previous efforts to turn People’s Sexiest Man Alive awards into a YA horror-thriller series, and was sad to think that we probably wouldn’t get to see her take on Shelton’s crowning. I was blessedly wrong. Enjoy this excerpt.

"You shrink from me," Gwen said placidly, "even now you lean away from my presence. You would run, if you thought you could." She tapped the mask that covered her face. "I wear this for you, that you might never have to look upon the evidence of my love for you. That you might be protected from the consequences of what you asked of me, from the proof that my love is stronger than yours. Because it shames you, that I carved the beauty from my face, that I might add it to your own. Because it frightens you that I did not flinch from it, that I did not stay my own hand." "I am not afraid of you," Blake said. "How like you," Gwen said, gesturing toward the fire and snuffing it abruptly out, "to try to lie to me, even now. May we get back to the topic at hand?" "Yes," said Blake, briefly squeezing his eyes shut until he saw stars. "You were saying –" "I was saying," Gwen continued, laying her hand gently upon his, "that there is talk." "Tell me what to do, then," Blake said, "and let us do it." He had said yes to everything the day he agreed to hold the bowl and catch her blood as she carved off her face for him. Before him – for the rest of his life – he saw nothing but yes in every direction. He did not shiver, although the room had grown cold.

Treat yourself and read the saga so far starring Adam Levine, Chris Hemsworth and David Beckham, then check out her wonderful newsletter/blog, The Shatner Chatner. It’s wonderful, in spite of her baffling love of William Shatner and equally baffling hatred for Tom Hiddleston.

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​12 Must-Listen Podcasts That Will Make You Want To Go For A Longer Walk

Whether you’ve got by no means listened to a podcast earlier than and are in search of a superb first hear, otherwise you’re simply at all times looking out for brand spanking new suggestions, listed below are 12 compelling podcasts to stream throughout your subsequent stroll. (Start strolling off stomach fats and slashing your threat for coronary heart illness with the customizable coaching plans in Prevention‘s Walk Your Way to Better Health!)

For on-line explainers: Reply All

If you’ve got ever puzzled why a sure tweet is humorous or what’s behind a meme, hunt down the episodes of Reply All that characteristic a phase known as Yes Yes No. In it, hosts Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt clarify an web phenomenon—most frequently, a tweet—to their boss, Alex Blumberg. Longer episodes dive into surprising points of web tradition: In What Kind of Idiot Gets Phished?, a producer tries to hack into her coworkers’ e-mail (spoiler: it really works and through Undo, Undo, Undo, Goldman and comic Max Silvestri share moments once they want the web got here with control-Z (AKA delete) perform. The present lends itself to binge listening, and most episodes are pretty timeless (though among the Yes Yes No segments are dated by nature).

For film fanatics: I Was There Too

I Was There Too is not your typical celeb interview present: Instead of talking to the celebs of a movie, host Matt Gourley talks to the folks billed as “Waitress #2” when the credit roll. That means, for example, listening to about what it was prefer to movie the film Speed—from the angle of the passengers on the bus (and never Sandra Bullock). When massive names do seem on the present—like Joshua Malina—the main target is squarely on their lesser-known roles. (Like me, you could have forgotten that Malina appeared in A Few Good Men.) Each episode affords a behind-the-scenes candid take a look at the method and folks concerned in making a film. (For the within scoop on what merchandise celebs over 40 use to maintain their pores and skin trying so flawless, learn this.)

For self-improvement: Slate’s Dear Prudence

Mallory Orberg, co-founder of the now-defunct website The Toast, is the most recent author for Slate’s Dear Prudence recommendation column. On the Dear Prudence podcast, together with company, she reads letters and gives considerate, compassionate recommendation. As nicely as being smart and witty, Ortberg can be laugh-out-loud humorous, so that you may end up guffawing as you stroll alongside listening to her rants.

PREVENTION PREMIUM: When It’s Okay To Play Doctor (And When It’s Not)

For tradition, politics, humor, and extra: Another Round

On Another Round: A Podcast with Heben & Tracy, the 2 hosts interview massive names—Cory Booker, David Simon, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, for instance—and discuss tradition, race, politics, gender, and extra, all interspersed with Tracy’s masterful air horn noises. On the primary episode, the hosts launched the podcast as “basically happy hour with friends you haven’t met yet,” which feels correct. The conversational, comfortable hour-vibe is enhanced by the truth that the 2 hosts take pleasure in cocktails whereas recording. (Join in and blend these 7 low-sugar cocktails that do not use any synthetic sweeteners.)

For binge-listeners: Accused: The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes

From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Accused is a season-long examination of a 1978 homicide in a small school city in Ohio. The twist: While the boyfriend—at all times the almost definitely suspect—was accused and tried, 2 juries did not convict him. The podcast is “an investigation of the aftermath of an innocent verdict,” in addition to a take a look at different suspects. Accused lends itself to binge listening, and is extremely advisable for followers of the primary season of Serial.

For meals lovers: Spilled Milk

“This is Spilled Milk, the podcast where we cook something delicious, eat it all, and you can’t have any,” is the intro to each episode of Spilled Milk, which is hosted by Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton. The 2 are filled with banter, reminiscences, and sure, some precise strategies and recipes, as they dive into subjects like gasoline station sweet, polenta, and Brussels sprouts. (Speaking of, it’s important to strive these 7 surprising methods to eat Brussels sprouts.)

This is the simplest roast hen recipe ever:

For intimate, private confessions: Death, Sex & Money

Hosted by Anna Sales, this interview-style podcast dives into the subjects—loss of life, intercourse, cash—which are usually prevented out of squeamishness or manners. Unsurprisingly, episodes are frank and revealing: Jeff Garlin talks about his weight struggles, former NFL participant Domonique Foxworth talks about why he now not watches soccer, and Jane Fonda talks about intercourse, divorce, and her mom’s suicide. But celebrities aren’t the center of the present: The actual focus is sincere tales, as within the episode on what it is prefer to be a sibling, which is free from celeb company however charged with emotion.

For Hollywood-history lovers: You Must Remember This

You Must Remember This is the proper present for Old Hollywood obsessives—or anybody desirous to atone for the secrets and techniques, historical past, and drama of celebrities from one other period. Karina Longworth, the present’s host, describes it as “creative nonfiction,” and on every episode, she tells an enchanting, coherent story, with clips from motion pictures and interviews spliced in. Don’t miss the themed mini-series and seasons: “Dead Blondes” for example, is a string of episodes on stars comparable to Grace Kelly and Carol Landis, and a latest season was titled “Six Degrees of Joan Crawford.”

For answering questions you did not know you had: 99% Invisible

After listening to an episode of 99% Invisible, hosted by the calm-voiced Roman Mars, you will really feel knowledgeable about one thing quirky and surprising. The present focuses on exploring “all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about.” In apply meaning: understanding how New York City’s transit system lastly defeated subway graffiti or what it is like when everybody in a small city in Spain wins the lottery—besides 1 lone resident. (Here’s a query we’ve: What the heck is vaginal laser remedy, and do you have to strive it?)

For true crime and comedy lovers: My Favorite Murder

Plenty of intellectual true crime podcasts exist (Serial, Missing Richard Simmons, Crimetown), however My Favorite Murder just isn’t one in every of them. Listening to hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark inform the story of a well-known or not-so-famous homicide has the identical joys as watching a so-bad-it’s-good Lifetime film along with your snarky BFF. Often, the present’s epic, convoluted tangents are extra compelling than the precise tales of the murders. Fans of the present discuss with themselves as “murderinos,” and the present’s sign-off—”Stay sexy…and don’t get murdered.”—seems on t-shirts, totes, and all forms of objects on the market on Etsy.

For a feminist dialog: Call Your Girlfriend

The present opens every week by taking part in a couple of seconds of Robyn’s hit tune of the identical title. Call Your Girlfriend is hosted by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, and is billed as “a podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.” Conversations vary from durations to politics, and just about in all places in between. It’s frank, humorous, and intimate. This podcast is greatest listened to weekly, because it does usually really feel like a rundown of the week’s cultural and political information. (If you disagree along with your companion on politics, listed below are 9 methods to take care of a cheerful, wholesome marriage regardless.)

For sports activities (and storytelling) followers: ESPN’s 30 for 30

You do not must be a sports activities fan, or deeply educated about group and participant stats, to take pleasure in ESPN’s 30 for 30 podcast, which simply wrapped its first season. The podcast—just like the TV collection it is primarily based on—is about tales and sports activities narratives. Consider the Yankees Suck episode (when you’re a Yankees fan, it’s possible you’ll wince as you hear), which dives into the historical past of the mantra, and the bootleg t-shirt bought outdoors Fenway Park by hardcore punk children.

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