#dhalgren was a recc from my mfa program lol

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any-e-ways here's what i've been reading these past few months:

earthsea cycle by ursula k. le guin (seriously SO GOOD i'm just a big le guin fan in general altho my poetry prof told me he couldn't get past her prose, which i don't get. wizard of earthsea, no joke, saved my LIFE. i fucking love earthsea and wizards and don't care who knows it. plus the narrator i got (harlan ellison) fucking ate up every single line. 10/10 don't care that it's children's fiction.)

kindred by octavia butler (it's interesting how pessimistic butler can be but all-in-all really incredible look at ancestry esp. white ancestry and gen. trauma.)

the left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin (also loved bc of course i did. how could i not love. a genderless society. required reading for cis. also they were absolutely kemmering on that ice idc)

one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez (it is a classic for a reason truly deeply something that stays in your soul. so so glad i finished it even though it's long and winding because it's some of the most impactful imagry probably ever)

orlando by virginia woolf (the version i borrowed had like. classical music interspersed throughout it. woolf always kills it with the prose like even when i read the voyage out which was slogging and went literally nowhere-- fascinating and beautiful. also... the inherent relatability of being a suffering transgender poet. also best t4t vibes of that time period probably)

dhalgren by samuel r. delany (ngl this is a bit of a slog. apparently the plot goes nowhere but i would be curious to see how the world develops i guess. but it's literally 35 hours. interesting concepts and place. incredibly hot homosexual scene in the first few chapters for a book written in the 70s that made me want to keep reading but no one will tell me if it gets gay again or not)

annihilation and authority by jeff vandermeer (currently reading the later and again the world is so good! i love how you can tell it's florida/the south without it ever being mentioned that it's florida/the south. the premise itself could have been handled SO cheesily and like fandomified (iykyk) but it's enshrined in pure mystery it's gorgeous. love the biologist's autistic behavoir)

plz drop reccs if you have any!!! bc now i can meaningfully update my reading list and get to them :)