#drive your plow

[beaglesarebad]

Book Review -Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

This book rather hit home for me. I am vegan mostly for animal rights issues and it does saddens me when I see the abuses that happen in society. Each life is unique, singular and precious. So I kind of have a kindred adoration of the main character in this book. “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” is a novel by Olga Tokarczuk that blends elements of mystery, philosophy, and dark…

[rachel-sylvan-author]

Murder Grandmas is one of my favorite genres! Whether they're solving or committing a murder, we support women's rights AND women's wrongs! 😘 Here's to the wild and feral women we love! ❤️

"The Marlow Murder Club" by Robert Thorogood "Peg and Rose Solve a Murder" by Laurien Berenson "A Long Way From Chicago" and "A Year Down Yonder" by Richard Peck "An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good" and "An Elderly Lady Must Be Crossed" by Helene Tursten "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" by Olga Tokarczuk "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Shoutout to my fellow Canva artist, Sassy! 🥰

QOTD: What is a murder grandma book you love? Committing and solving are equally valid! 😎

[quotespile]

How wonderful – to translate from one language to another, and by so doing to bring people closer to one another – what a beautiful idea.

Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[forthegothicheroine]

I knew what books she liked, because she put them on a shelf and lent them to her customers- gloomy horror stories, Gothic novels with crumpled covers featuring a drawing of a Bat. Perverted monks, severed hands that murder people, coffins flushed out of graveyards by a flood. Evidently reading this sort of thing confirmed in her the conviction that we are not living in the worst of worlds, and taught her optimism.

Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[myriad--starlings]

I have never believed in any personalized distribution of eternal Light. No Lord God is going to see to it, no celestial accountant. It would be hard for one individual to bear so much suffering, especially an omniscient one; in my view they would collapse under the burden of all that pain, unless equipped in advance with some form of defense mechanism, as Mankind is. Only a piece of machinery could possibly carry all the world’s pain. Only a machine, simple, effective and just. But if everything were to happen mechanically, our prayers wouldn’t be needed.

— Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

[litsnaps]

[ahaura]

Olga Tokarczuk Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones

[the-final-sentence]

But I know I still have plenty of time.

Olga Tokarczuk, from Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[catmint1]

Winter mornings are made of steel; they have a metallic taste and sharp edges. On a Wednesday in January, at seven in the morning, it’s plain to see that the world was not made for Man, and definitely not for his comfort or pleasure.

Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[saintshigaraki]

the way people talk about the length of dune’s first book i was expecting like . 1000 pages or something not a little over 600 lol

[rachel-sylvan-author]

Happy Women in Translation Month! ❤️ “I Who Have Never Known Men” by Jacqueline Harpman (French) “Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by Olga Tokarczuk (Polish) “The Wall” by Marlen Haushofer (Austrian) “An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good” by Helene Tursten (Swedish) “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata (Japanese) “The Traveling Cat Chronicles” by Hiro Arikawa (Japanese) “A Woman’s Story” by Annie Ernaux (French) “Childhood, Youth, Dependency” by Tove Ditlevsen (Danish) “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante (Italian) “The Forbidden Notebook” by Alba de Céspedes (Cuban-Italian) “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir (French)

QOTD: Who is your favorite translated woman author, and your favorite book by them?

[quotespile]

That’s what I dislike most of all in people – cold irony. It’s a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can’t experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others.

Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[cinematic-literature]

La vox humana (2020) by Pedro Almodóvar

Book title

Sobre los huesos de los muertos (Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych in Polish; 2009) by Olga Tokarczuk

Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters (2018) by Lucia Berlin 

Music for Chameleons (1980) by Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) by Truman Capote

Las hijas de otros hombres (Other Men's Daughters in English; 1973) by Richard G. Stern

Too Much Happiness (2009) by Alice Munro

Girl (2019) by Edna O’Brien

Tender is the Night (1934) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald 

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

[dark-academia-alcoholic]

Current reads. Not pictured: Dracula on kindle, my in bed read. What books are the Void reading? I always need new suggestions.

[litsnaps]

[thisworldisablackhole]

drive your plow over the bones of the dead tragedy as catharsis

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FFO: DARK & CHAOTIC EMOVIOLENCE / LISTEN

drive your plow over the bones of the dead is a three piece band from Vancouver, B.C. that plays raw and chaotic screamo with roots firmly planted in fast hardcore. It's emoviolence to a T—a maelstrom of octave chords, fretboard mashing and frantic yelps—and it's done exceptionally well. Their debut album tragedy as catharsis is a collection of claustrophobic gasps and linear structures forging pathways through a world enshrouded by darkness. One could easily get lost in the chaos if they don’t pay attention to the faint glimmers of melody or dissonant arpeggios that light the way, almost as if the band is extending an olive branch through a thicket of thorns after beating you senseless. My favourite example of this has to be the slow melodic build which follows a series of caustic blasts in "malediction", or the lingering sorrow which descends upon the closing track “baleful solitude” before the band self-immolates in a final attempt to shake themselves free of life’s cyclical violence. There are a plethora of little moments over the record’s brief 18 minute run-time which will make your ears perk up, and the live-off-the-floor production does a great job at delivering these moments with a sense of clarity that is highly impressive considering how fast these songs are. drive your plow over the bones of the dead have mastered the art of cramming as much action as possible into ninety seconds or less without losing any sense of meaningful progress (cuts like “suzerain” and "arrangement" exemplify this brilliantly, where each gnashing riff feels like a foothold in the crag), and the multi vocal approach is just the cherry on top to further compound the suffocation. tragedy as catharsis is bleak, no doubt, but it burns like a pyre fueled by our collective angst, and ignites into a beacon of hope for the alone. This record is about as true to its roots as you can get, so don’t pass this up if you’re a fan of bands like Orchid and Jeromes Dream, you will not be disappointed.