#edward st. aubyn

[nochilleftb3hine]

"Only this violence could break open a world constrained by the hidden cameras of conscience and vanity."

-- Edward St. Aubyn, Bad News

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Double Blind | Author: Edward St. Aubyn | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2021)

[bluebellinbakerstreet]

[daddyhoothoot]

All of my Patrick Melrose art by Me

[liceparade]

need to graduate so i can write fic again my telomeres are degrading one (1) base pair every moment i cannot make edward c*llen be a sad little closeted freak hung up on a pnw weed-smoking bisexual who is five seconds away from realizing she is a boy

[saint-alia-of]

27th of April 2024.

Current obsession.

"Oh, God, it was starting. The endless voices. The solitary dialogues. The dreadful jabbering that poured out uncontrollably."

[spiderliliez]

Morfydd Clark (as Debbie Hickman) DEBBIE: “Remember, I do love you, Patrick.” Based on the novels by Edward St Aubyn. PATRICK MELROSE (2018)

[+] MORFYDD [GIF Collection] 🌺 [+] ..more “Patrick Melrose” 🎬

[bloodmaarked]

➳ monthly book round-up: may

read:

the midnight library, matt haig. 5*. read 29 april 2023 – 01 may 2023.

bad news, edward st aubyn. 1*. read 01 may 2023 – 03 may 2023 [DNF].

empress crowned in red, ciannon smart. 1*. read 17 april 2023 – 16 may 2023 [DNF].

the case of the peculiar pink fan, nancy springer. 4*. read 04 may 2023 - 07 may 2023.

the mothers, brit bennett. 4*. read 09 may 2023 - 16 may 2023.

malice, keigo higashino. 3*. read 15 may 2023 - 23 may 2023.

babel, r.f. kuang. 5*. read 17 may 2023 - 27 may 2023.

currently reading:

mother of invention, katrine marçal. started 28 may 2023.

spare, prince harry. started 28 may 2023.

[writerly-ramblings]

Books Read in March:

1). Garments Against Women (Anne Boyer)

2). Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Barbara Comyns)

3). Enter Ghost (Isabella Hammad)

4). During the Reign of the Queen of Persia (Joan Chase)

5). Animal, Vegetable, Junk (Mark Bittman)

6). The Gospel of Orla (Eoghan Walls)

7). State of Wonder (Ann Patchett)

8). Occasional Prose (Mary McCarthy)

9). The Hero of This Book (Elizabeth McCracken)

10). The Tea Ceremony (Gina Berriault)

11). Double Blind (Edward St. Aubyn)

12). Rapture (Susan Minot)

13). Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work (bell hooks)

14). The Friend Who Got Away (ed. Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell)

15). The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood (Belle Boggs)

16). Birnam Wood (Eleanor Catton)

17). How to Think Like a Woman (Regan Penaluna)

[wvnderkammer]

Via d’uscita, Edward St Aubyn

Mi sono reso conto di averle attribuito una ridda di riflessioni tormentose e appassionate che non si sognerebbe mai di coltivare. Conosce perfettamente i sistemi per vivere nel presente, passando da un'esplosione di piacere all'altra. Forse l'intensità  sessuale che dimostra deriva proprio dalla superficialità, e non dalla profonda coscienza a che ho proiettato su di lei, o forse quella superficialità è profonda in sé e per sé, derivando dalla consapevolezza che tutto è superficie. Non sapevo cosa pensare, ma avevo bisogno di essere nel suo letto per scoprire se potevo ritrovare una forma di libertà nel tradimento dei suoi abbracci.

[ambxtxo]

donna tartt’s reading list

In an interview, Tartt lists her favorite authors and the names of a few works. I have listed the most popular works from each author and the specific ones she recommended as well.

Homer

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Greek Poets and Tragedians

Argonautica

Antigone

Prometheus Bound

The Oresteia

Medea

Oedipus Rex

The Bacchae

The Frogs

Dante

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Shakespeare

“I went back and read Macbeth and Hamlet during the pandemic”

Macbeth

Hamlet

Dickens

“Dickens was a part of my familial landscape, the air I breathed.”

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Nabokov

Pale Fire

Lolita

Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Swann’s Way

Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Borges

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Ethan Frome

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Helena

Salinger

Catcher in the Rye

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Orlando

Edward St. Aubyn

The Patrick Melrose Novels

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Norwegian Wood

Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Don DeLillo

White Noise

Underworld

W.G. Sebald

Austerlitz

The Rings of Saturn

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

The White Album

Other Specific Books

Memoirs d’Outre-Tome by Chateaubriand

Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford

All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski

A Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq

[shakespearesdaughters]

What kind of books by Dark Academia do you suggest to me? At the moment I’m on Tolstoj but I wanna to know much

The Secret History by Donna Tartt anything by Donna Tartt (praying we get another book in the next 5 years)

Maurice by E. M. Forester

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Patrick Melrose series by Edward St Aubyn

Confessions by Kanae Minato

In the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Piranesi and Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Dead Poets Society by N H Kleinbaum

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

An Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Idiot by Elif Bautman

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Babel by R F Kuang

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Stoner by John Williams

The Queens Gambit by Walter Tevis

The odyssey by Homer

Carmilla by J Sheridan le Fanu

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

The October Country by Ray Bradbury

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Just to name a few!

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Never Mind | Author: Edward St. Aubyn | Publisher: Picador (2012)

[bluebellinbakerstreet]

[daddyhoothoot]

Patrick Melrose Art by Me

Just a little obsessed with the cinematography in this show. More Patrick Melrose Art

[wrishwrosh]

birthdayweekend felicitations! 4 + 14 + 24 for the book asks?

thank you!!

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

the big one this year was wharton. gesturing at a renowned master of craft and fixture of the american canon like have you guys heard about this?? did anybody else know about this?? i also read a couple ann leckie books this year and found her approach to Big Worldbuilding very effective but unfortunately im allergic to series and will literally never get around to ancillary sword. sorry ann im sure it’s neat

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

i have promised promised promised my book club that i will finish our latest book before christmas so we can talk about it before the end of the year, but i am actually looking forward to it bc the book is the heart is a lonely hunter by carson mccullers. chosen as a palate cleanser, it is a slow burn but exquisite so far.

also currently reading/devouring empire of pain by patrick radden keefe, which i have to return to the library before i leave the state for the holidays. roommate just saw me reading it when she came home and said “when you aren’t reading about WAR you’re reading about OPIOIDS” (am also currently picking at the male body at war and the work of the dead, for normal war research purposes, but i don’t anticipate finishing those b4 the end of the year)

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

i dnf everything, all the time. ill drop a book three pages before the end or three pages into the first chapter. this is the one area of my life where i dont believe in the sunk cost fallacy. a sampler of books i did not finish this year (don’t remember all bc mostly i return them straight back to the library and forget them immediately):

if on a winter’s night a stranger by italo calvino (stars not aligned, ill come back to it)

death valley by melissa broder (thought it would be interesting but it was contemporary fiction about an author having a breakdown)

the warriors by j glen gray (got bored)

witch king by martha wells (felt like it was talking down to me)

patrick melrose by edward st aubyn (recommended by a friend but vibes were off)