#franz zhang

[asoftepiloguemylove]

suddenly childhood ended and now i am supposed to know how to live

Franz Wright Entry In An Unknown Hand / Elena Ferrante (tr. Ann Goldstein) Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (via @luthienne) / Jenny Zhang How It Feels / Anna Kamienska Astonishments / unknown / Gabrielle Bates & Jennifer S. Cheng So We Must Meet Apart / W. Todd Kaneko The Day After / image; SZA Blind / Ethel Cain Dog Days / @darkerthanerebus / pinterest

[chopinski-official]

What did you think of this year's chopin competition?

I must confess, I haven’t had the opportunity to watch all of it. My days with Mama, Emilka, Marie, Franz and Carolyne have been packed.

Some thoughts:

I would have favoured Pawlak or Zhang as winners. Zhang’s playing was full of emotion. The sound was magical and her performance was beautiful. As a player, she is everything I’d want in someone playing my music — she made the piano sing.

Equally, Pawlak’s performance was really stunning. His playing was so delicate and yearning, especially in the 2nd movement of my Piano Concerto in E minor. His interpretation was perfect. I wasn’t crying. I wasn’t…

With regard to the winner, Guo, I found that his performance didn’t provoke in me the same emotions as Zhang’s and Pawlak’s. However, he played with a rich and full tone, and I found that he sounded brilliant on the 1842 Pleyel. (There is a reason I prefer Pleyel, after all. Like velvet.) Guo is certainly talented.

I’d also like to add that I found Sacharzewska to be a very worthy finalist. Her playing was lovely. It was undoubtedly impressive for someone so young!

[honey-andmilktea]

-ˏˋ⋆𝐁𝐢𝐚𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭⋆ˊˎ-

✎ 𝐔𝐋𝐓 𝐁𝐢𝐚𝐬[𝐞𝐬]: Bang Chan [This man changed my whole ass life-], Min Yoongi/Suga, Kim Hongjoong, Kwon Jiyong/G-Dragon, Woo Jiho/Zico

✎ 𝐁𝐓𝐒: Min Yoongi [Taehyung, Jimin and Jungkook constantly wreck though-]

✎ 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐬: Bang Chan [Everyone else basically wreck me]

✎ 𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐙: Kim Hongjoong [Seonghwa is my main wrecker I swear- Yeo too]

✎ 𝐄𝐧𝐲𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧: Park Sunghoon

✎ 𝐓𝐗𝐓: Huening Kai [My little ducky!] [Yeonjun and Beomgyu wreck wreck wreckkk]

✎ 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧: Lee Jihon/Woozi [The8, Scoups, Hoshi & Jeonghan my beloved wreckers!]

✎ 𝐄'𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭: Won Hyuk [Romin <3]

✎ 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲𝐎𝐧𝐞𝐎𝐟: NJung Wookjin/Nine

✎ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞: Kim Woosung [Park Dojoon <3]

✎ 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠: Kwon Jiyong/G-Dragon [Choi Seung-Hyun/T.O.P beloved]

✎ 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐗: IM Changkyun/I.M [Lee Jooheon/Jooheoney my little honey bear~]

✎ 𝐆𝐎𝐓𝟕: Mark Yi En Tuan/Mark & Jackson Wang [Kunpimook Bhuwakul Bambam/Bambam & Kim Yugyeom <3]

✎ 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐁: Woo Jiho/Zico [Lee Taeil <3]

✎ 𝐏𝟏𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲: Stephen Yoon/Keeho [Literally everyone else wrecks me-]

✎ 𝐗𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐬: Lee Jooyeon [Everyone else~]

✎ 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐧: Do Hanse [Jung Subin & Han Seungwoo <3]

✎ 𝐎𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐬: Yeo Hwanwoong [Son Dongju/Xion <3]

✎ 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞: Yeo Jeongyeon [Kim Dahyun <3]

✎ 𝟐𝐧𝐞𝟏: Lee Chae-rin/CL [Park Sandara/Dara <3]

✎ 𝐄𝐗𝐎: Park Chanyeol [Kim Min Seok/Xiumin, Byun Baekhyun, Kim Jong In/Kai, Zhang Yixing/Lay <3]

✎ 𝐍𝐂𝐓: Nakamoto Yuta/Yuta & Liu YangYang/YangYang [Johnny & Chenle like to wreck me]

✎ 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: DPR IAN [I just have to mention him in some way-]

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself." -Franz Kafka, 'The Metamorphosis'

[double-croche1]

[BERLIN DAILY #3] SAMEDI 18 FÉVRIER

‘The Shadowless Tower’ de Zhang Lu Compétition, prochainement

Suivant les périples d’un homme à la recherche de son père et aidé par une jeune femme rentre-dedans, le film traite de la question des origines avec une belle sobriété et beaucoup de tendresse pour ses personnages, malgré leurs défauts (la passivité du personnage principal, sa relation maladroite et insuffisante avec sa fille). Jamais mièvre et plein de belles idées de scénario (les destins croisés des deux personnages principaux, les situations cocasses dans lesquelles ils se retrouvent, la mise en miroir de la relation que le personnage principal entretient avec sa propre fille) et de réalisation (l’absence d’ombre des protagonistes, le temps qui s’étire lors des appels du fils à son père), ‘The Shadowless Tower’ est un véritable coup de cœur qui parvient aussi bien à faire rire, à faire réfléchir et à émouvoir. ‘Manodrome’ de John Trengrove Compétition, prochainement

Le réalisateur américain John Trengrove s’intéresse dans le très tendu ‘Manodrome’, présenté en Compétition, à la dangereuse “Alt-right” américaine à travers un groupe sectaire d’hommes anti-féministes, homophobes et racistes. Le film s’ouvre par un superbe plan séquence présentant le protagoniste Ralphie tout en sueur soulevant de la fonte à la salle de musculation et arborant sa musculature qu’il prend en photo avec son téléphone dans les vestiaires. Ce plan saisissant est à l’image du reste du long-métrage : frontal, fiévreux et acéré. L’acteur Jesse Eisenberg, utilisé ici à contre-emploi de ses rôles habituels, offre une prestation extraordinaire. Le bouillonnement intérieur du protagoniste est palpable à chaque instant, ses excès de colère sont effrayants (parfois bien réels et souvent imaginés -le couple gay dans le taxi, le cow-boy dans les toilettes ou encore le père Noël exhibitionniste-) et ses fêlures intérieures sont très bien mises en avant (les flashbacks de son enfance réduits à l’essentiel : un plan en forêt et un autre devant le sapin de Noël lors du départ de son père). Le protagoniste est présenté à la fois comme bourreau mais aussi victime de lui-même, pris dans un emballement de frénésie maladive dont il ne parvient à se défaire, symbolisée par ses rêves violents mais également une boulimie apparente (il mange des barres de céréales dans sa voiture juste après avoir dîné, finit dans la cave alimentaire d’une cuisine) et le poids du manque d’argent qui le pèse dans sa vision patriarcale de l’homme qui aurait la responsabilité des finances du ménage. Le scénario retors déjoue joliment plusieurs attentes (pas d’internet, la séquence arme à la main à la poursuite du bodybuilder Ahmet qui prend une tournure étonnante, la recherche de son père dans une maison de retraite). Adrien Brody est lui aussi convaincant, bien que son personnage soit moins élaboré, dans son rôle de gourou bien plus modéré dans son apparence que dans ses idées. L’entreprise du film était délicate, le pari est réussi haut la main. ‘Disco Boy’ de Giacomo Abbruzzese Compétition, sortie le 03/05

Pour son premier long-métrage après plusieurs courts, le réalisateur italien Giacomo Abbruzzese frappe fort avec le superbe ‘Disco Boy’ présenté en Compétition. Les images du film sont d’une beauté rare, magnifiées par la directrice de la photographie française Hélène Louvart, via notamment certains zooms très poussés, les chorégraphies élaborées par le danseur nigérian Qudus Onikeku (dont le spectacle ‘Re:Incarnation’ a récemment été présenté au Centre Pompidou et à la Philharmonie) et le jeu physique de son trio d’acteurs principaux mené par notre chouchou allemand Franz Rogowski. Ce long-métrage sur fond de guerre a pour originalité de présenter avec autant d’importance les deux partis, dont aucun n’est réellement antagonisé mais plutôt tous deux pris comme victimes de leur situation liée aux flux migratoires, jusqu’à même les fusionner dans une trajectoire d’abord ancrée dans un réalisme prosaïque pour finalement mener à une sorte de chamanisme psychédélique. S’inspirant semble-t-il explicitement du film ‘Beau Travail’ (2002) de Claire Denis (l'esthétisation du quotidien d’un groupe de la Légion Etrangère, la danse du personnage principal) duquel il se détache néanmoins pour prendre son propre envol, le long-métrage offre notamment quelques séquences extatiques (un combat en vision thermique, une danse étincelante dans la boîte de nuit) que la musique électronique de Vitalic accompagne de manière intense. Giacomo Abbruzzese est assurément un réalisateur à suivre de très près. On est totalement séduits. A&B

[regardezmoica]

Berlinale 2023 - Competition Lineup

January 23, 2023 - the Berlinale announced the titles from the Competition section.

18 films will compete for the Golden and the Silver Bears. Productions from 19 countries are represented. 15 films are world premieres. Six films were directed by women. Eleven filmmakers have been at the festival before, eight in Competition. There are three debut films represented in the Competition program.

20.000 especies de abejas (20,000 Species of Bees) by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | with Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain, Itziar Lazkano, Sara Cózar Spain 2023 Competition | World premiere

Bai Ta Zhi Guang (The Shadowless Tower / Der schattenlose Turm) by Zhang Lu | with Xin Baiqing, Huang Yao, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Nan Ji, Wang Hongwei People’s Republic of China 2022 Competition | World premiere

Bis ans Ende der Nacht (Till the End of the Night) by Christoph Hochhäusler | with Timocin Ziegler, Thea Ehre, Michael Sideris Germany 2023 Competition | World premiere

BlackBerry by Matt Johnson | with Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Cary Elwes, Saul Rubinek Canada 2023 Competition | World premiere

Disco Boy by Giacomo Abbruzzese | with Franz Rogowski, Morr Ndiaye, Laëtitia Ky, Leon Lučev France / Italy / Belgium / Poland 2023 Competition | World premiere | Debut film

Disco Boy

Le grand chariot (The Plough) by Philippe Garrel | with Louis Garrel, Damien Mongin, Esther Garrel, Lena Garrel, Francine Bergé France / Switzerland 2022 Competition | World premiere

Ingeborg Bachmann – Reise in die Wüste (Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert) by Margarethe von Trotta | with Vicky Krieps, Ronald Zehrfeld, Tobias Resch, Basil Eidenbenz, Luna Wedler Switzerland / Austria / Germany / Luxembourg 2023 Competition | World premiere

Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen (Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything) by Emily Atef | with Marlene Burow, Felix Kramer, Cedric Eich Germany 2023 Competition | World premiere

Limbo by Ivan Sen | with Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, Nicholas Hope, Mark Coe Australia 2023 Competition | World premiere

Limbo

Mal Viver (Bad Living) by João Canijo | with Anabela Moreira, Rita Blanco, Madalena Almeida, Cleia Almeida, Vera Barreto Portugal / France 2023 Competition | World premiere

Manodrome by John Trengove | with Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, Odessa Young, Sallieu Sesay, Phil Ettinger United Kingdom / USA 2023 Competition | World premiere

Manodrome

Music by Angela Schanelec | with Aliocha Schneider, Agathe Bonitzer, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Argyris Xafis Germany / France / Serbia 2023 Competition | World premiere

Past Lives by Celine Song | with Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro USA 2022 Competition | International premiere | Debut film

Past Lives

Roter Himmel (Afire) by Christian Petzold | with Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, Matthias Brandt Germany 2023 Competition | World premiere

Afire

Sur l’Adamant (On the Adamant) by Nicolas Philibert France / Japan 2022 Competition | World premiere | Documentary Form

The Survival of Kindness (Das Überleben der Freundlichkeit) by Rolf de Heer | with Mwajemi Hussein, Deepthi Sharma, Darsan Sharma Australia 2022 Competition | International premiere

Suzume by Makoto Shinkai Japan 2022 Competition | International premiere | Animation

Tótem by Lila Avilés | with Naíma Sentíes, Monserrat Marañon, Marisol Gasé, Saori Gurza, Teresita Sánchez Mexico / Denmark / France 2023 Competition | World premiere

We are happy to see diversity including female directors and debut films. We wish all the best to every team showing their work in this prestigious film festival.

Rendez-vous on February 25 to know the recipients of Golden and Silver Bears.

[thejudgingtrash]

The seven nine and voices

Based off my old post I created a headcanon! I’m really into headcanons for small details that barely cross anyone’s mind

Percy Jackson: deep voice. baritone at least, but could also sound like a booming bass the next day. his voice shifts with his mood. whenever he laughs people confuse it with an earthquake. has the laugh of a maniac villain but it actually sounds funny. he has the voice of a leader, of a politician. but unlike most, you actually would trust him with your life.

Annabeth Chase: girlish. possesses a high voice she hates. she suppresses the posh southern belle accent that she naturally has and tries to adapt a New Yorker accent and speak in a deeper voice that demands respect. the less she thinks about how people perceive her and as soon as she lets her guard down her natural voice shines through.

Jason Grace: hushed. once he finds a topic and common ground his voice lifts up and shines with confidence. questions sound rather stern for which he always apologizes. he’s the type of person that sounds like a narrator whose voice memos help you fall asleep.

Piper McLean: melodic. the clearest enunciation you’ve heard. you never misunderstand her. her voice reminds you of your favorite song. she barely needs to raise her voice as everyone loves to listen to her. don’t upset her, however. the tone and choice of words will break your heart.

Frank Zhang: soft voice. high voice. he sounds coarse sometimes, like he had forgotten to drink something in a while. he harrumphs and coughs often, especially whenever he’s nervous. he has a weird laugh that sounds like he’s almost choking on his spit but it is so incredibly contagious.

Hazel Levesque: very high voice. she’s a kid and her voice will get a different and deeper timbre over time. Her NOLA accent is adorable. she still uses old-dated slang which confuses people. Whenever she asks a question her voice goes even higher as if she would pronounce the question mark as well.

Leo Valdez: surprisingly deep. you would have never guessed. he speaks fast, almost too fast. his mouth tries to keep up with his thoughts and that makes him nearly sound sluggish as he swallows consonants. He has a tex-mex accent and whenever he gets lost in words he accidentally speaks spanglish and only notices once he looks at your confused face and he repeats himself and apologizes.

Nico di Angelo: he sounds tired. a little bit worn out. he actually yawns a lot. his laughter is beautiful and rich. it’s able to part clouds, lift spirits and puts a smile on everyone’s face. he hates it as it reminds him that it sounds nearly identical to that of his deceased sister Bianca. he tries to avoid laughing and breaks it down to a sarcastic chuckle. has a slight Italian accent.

Reyna Ramirez de Arellano: literally sounds like your mom. disappointed. do your work and clean your room, you messy bitch.

[figureskatingcostumes]

Dan Zhang and Hao Zhang skating to Totentanz for their free program at the 2011 Skate America.

(Source: David W. Carmichael)

[sidereusimber]

1. Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races I 2. Mary Ruefle, from Trances of the Blast; “A Penny for Your Thoughts” I 3. Anne Sexton I 4. Nina MacLaughlin I 5. L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables I 6. Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Elizabeth Holland I 7. The diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1913 I 8. The diaries of Franz Kafka, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹 I 9. Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters I 10. Nina MacLaughlin I 11. E.M. Forster, Howard’s End I 12. Donald Miller I 13. William Morris I 14. Cecil Day-Lewis I 15. Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (trans. Philip Ó Ceallaigh) I

1. Zhang Dali 2. Kaye Donachie 3. Katherine lam 4. Katherine Lam 5. Kim Dorland 6. Olivia Steen 7. Edward Miller 8. Albert Bierstadt 9. x 10. Kaye Donachie 11. Heinz Flockenhaus 12. Jakub Schikaneder 13. August Malmström 14. Naomi Tydeman

[absencesrepetees]

most anticipated in 2022

crimes of the future (david cronenberg, w/ viggo mortensen, kristen stewart, lea seydoux)

the stars at noon (claire denis, w/ margaret qualley, joe alwyn) + both sides of the blade (w/ juliette binoche, mati diop, vincent lindon, grégoire colin)

irma vep (series) (olivier assayas, w/ alicia vikander, carrie brownstein, alex descas, adria arjona, jeanne balibar)

infinity pool (brandon cronenberg, w/ alexander skarsgard, mia goth)

decision to leave (park chan-wook, w/ tang wei)

the zone of interest (jonathan glazer)

eureka (lisandro alonso, w/ viggo mortensen)

master gardener (paul schrader, w/ joel edgerton, sigourney weaver)

coma (bertrand bonello)

human flowers of flesh (helena whitmann w/ angeliki papoulia, denis lavant)

scarlet (pietro marcello, w/ louis garrell)

the curse (series) (josh & benny safdie/nathan fielder, w/ emma stone)

kimi (steven soderbergh, w/ zoe kravitz) + full circle (series)

new hong sang-soo films (?)

showing up (kelly reichardt, w/ michelle williams, andre benjamin, john magaro)

men (alex garland, w/ jessie buckley)

hellraiser (david bruckner, w/ jamie clayton)

passages (ira sachs, w/ franz rogowski, ben wishaw, adele exarchopoulos) 

broker (hirokazu koreeda, w/ bae doona, song kang-ho)

the brutalist (brady corbet, w/ joel edgerton, marion cotillard, mark rylance, sebastian stan, vanessa kirby, raffey cassidy, stacy martin)

three thousand years of longing (george miller, w/ idris elba, tilda swinton)

the northman (robert eggers, w/ alexander skarsgard, anya taylor-joy, nicole kidman, willem dafoe, bjork)

sharpshooter (zhang yimou, w/ zhang yi)

blonde (andrew dominik, w/ ana de armas, adam brody, bobby cannavale)

shining sex (lucile hadzihalilovic, sion sono, hélène cattet & bruno forzani, kleber mendonca filho, bertrand mandico)

armageddon time (james gray, w/ anne hathway, oscar isaac, jeremy strong, cate blanchet, robert de niro)

after yang (kogonada, w/ colin farrell, jodie turner-smith, haley lu richardson)

mona lisa and the blood moon (ana lily amirpour, w/ jeon jong-seo, kate hudson)

a woman escapes (sofia bohdanowicz, blake williams & burak cevik, w/ deragh campbell)

el estado del imperio (amat escalante)

r.m.n. (cristian mungiu)

women talking (sarah polley, w/ frances mcdormand, jessie buckley, rooney mara, claire foy)

killers of the flower moon (martin scorsese, w/ leonardo dicaprio, brendan fraser, jesse plemons, lily gladstone, robert de niro)

the killer (david fincher, w/ michael fassbender, tilda swinton)

the fabelmans (steven spielberg, w/ paul dano, michelle williams, seth rogen)

les cinq diables (léa mysius, w/ adele exarchopoulos, noée abita)

on the count of three (jerrod carmichael, w/ christopher abbott, jerrod carmichael, tiffany haddish)

black glasses (dario argento, w/ asia argento, stacy martin)

ambulance (michael bay, w/ jake gyllenhaal, yahya abdul-mateen)

ecole de l'air (robin campillo)

please baby please (amanda kramer, w/ harry melling, andrea riseborough, demi moore, karl glusman)

tar (todd field, w/ cate blanchett, noémie merlant, nina hoss, mark strong)

the sky is everywhere (josephine decker, w/ grace kaufman, cherry jones, havana rose liu, jason segel)

bullet train (david leitch, w/ brad pitt, andrew koji, logan lerman, aaron taylor-johnson, brian tyree henry, zazie beetz)

one fine morning (mia hansen-love, w/ lea seydoux)

tokyo vice (series) (michael mann, w/ ella rumpf, rinko kikuchi, odessa young, ken watanabe)

cha cha real smooth (cooper raiff, w/ dakota johnson)

am i ok? (tig notaro & stephanie allynne, w/ dakota johnson, sonoya mizuno)

sharp stick (lena dunham, w/ kristine froseth, jon bernthal)

retreat (series) (brit marling & zal batmanglij, w/ emma corrin)

cuckoo (tilman singer, w/ hunter schafer, sofia boutella, gemma chan)

[travelingviabooks]

Up Next

Because I’m awful at deciding what to read next, I put all of my TBR shelves into a random generator to pick for me. Any new books will be added to the end of the list.

“Children of Hurin” JRR Tolkien

“No Longer Human” by Osamu Dazai

“The Stand-In” by Lily Chu

“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy

“War Trash” by Ha Jin

“The Raven Boys” by Maggie Stiefvater

“Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro

“The Host” by Stephenie Meyer

“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” by Holly Jackson

“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka

“Ali and Nino” by Kurban Said

“Tale of Genji” by Lady Murasaki

“Lovers of Algeria” by Anouar Benmalek

“Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee

“Killing Commendatore” by Haruki Murakami

“The Buddhist on Death Row” by David Sheff

“The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen

“A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World” by C.A. Fletcher

“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire

“The Last Gentleman Adventurer” by Edward Beauclerk Maurice

“Dragon Springs Road” by Janie Chang

“Watership Down” by Richard Adams

“You’ve Reached Sam” by Dustin Thao

“Evil and the Mask” by Fuminori Nakamura

“Tales from the Cafe” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

“Before Your Memory Fades” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

“I Am a Cat” by Sōseki Natsume

“Wind/Pinball” by Haruki Murakami

“The Island of Missing Trees” by Elif Shafak

“The Ministry of Special Cases” by Nathan Englander

“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

“They Both Die At The End” by Adam Silvera

“Crazy Rich Asians” by Kevin Kwan

“Absolutely on Music” by Haruki Murakami

“A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara

“The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro

“Malice” by Keigo Higashino

“A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki

“Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin

“Watch Over Me” by Nina Lacour

“Goodbye Tsugumi” by Banana Yoshimoto

“White Ivy” by Susie Yang

“Bastard out of Carolina” by Dorothy Allison

“First They Killed My Father” by Loung Ung

“Yokohama Yankee” by Leslie Helm

“A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas

“Seoulmates” by Susan Lee

“Infinite Country” by Patricia Engel

“Silent Parade” by Keigo Higashino

“Men Without Women” by Ernest Hemingway

“Purple Hibiscus” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The Red Palace” by June Hur

“Through A Darkening Glass” by R.S. Maxwell

“Inventing Japan” by Ian Buruma

“Death on the Nile” by Agatha Christie

“The Gangster We Are All Looking For” by Lê Thi Diem Thúy

“Red At the Bone” by Jacqueline Woodson

“Stranger in the Shogun’s City” by Amy Stanley

“Midnight in Broad Daylight” by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

“Kokoro” by Natsume Sôseki

“Some Prefer Nettles” by Junichiro Tanizaki

“Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor” by Xiran Jay Zhao

“The Princess Diarist” by Carrie Fisher

“Firekeeper’s Daughter” by Angeline Boulley

“Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All” by Jonas Jonasson

“I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai

“There There” by Tommy Orange

“The Travelling Cat Chronicles” by Hiro Arikawa

“Pearl of China” by Anchee Min

“Slasher Girls & Monster Boys” by April Genevieve Tucholke

“A Hundred Thousand Worlds” by Bob Proehl

“The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis” by José Saramago

“My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry” by Fredrik Backman

“Memoirs of a Polar Bear” by Yoko Tawada

“Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng

“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coehlo

“Fallout” by Lesley M.M. Blume

“Natural Rivals” by John Clayton

“The Mermaid from Jeju” by Sumi Hahn

“The Women I Think About At Night” by Mia Kankimäki

“In Praise of Difficult Women” by Karen Karbo

“On Trails: An Exploration” by Robert Moor

“Four Treasures of the Sky” by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

“Solito” by Javier Zamora

“Gideon: The Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir

“Circe” by Madeline Miller

“The Girl With Seven Names: Escape From North Korea” by Hyeonseo Lee

“Above the Clouds” by Kilian Jornet

“The Only Child” by Mi-Ae Seo

“We Are Not From Here” by Jenny Torres Sanchez

“The Gilded Ones” by Namina Forna

“Within These Wicked Walls” by Lauren Blackwood

“In The Serpent’s Wake” by Rachel Hartman

“The Miracles of the Namiya General Store” by Keigo Higashino

“The Marriage of Opposites” by Alice Hoffman

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky

“Under a Painted Sky” by Stacey Lee

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“The Island of Sea Women” by Lisa See

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“Falling” by T.J. Newman

“The Inheritance Games” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Amari and the Night Brothers” by B.B. Alston

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“Seven Deadly Shadows” by Courtney Alameda and Valynne E. Maetani

“Empress of All Seasons” by Emiko Jean

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“The Sunbearer Trials” by Aiden Thomas

“Road Trip Rwanda” by Will Ferguson

“The Next Everest” by Jim Davidson

“Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer

“Vagabonding” by Rolf Potts

“The Power” by Naomi Alderman

“Six of Crows” by Leigh Bardugo

“The Stolen Throne” by David Gaider

“Tess of the Road” by Rachel Hartman

“The Big Year” by Mark Obmascik

“The Crying of Lot 49” by Thomas Pynchon

“Heaven’s Official Blessing” by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

“Out” by Natsuo Kirino

“A Year in Provence” by Peter Mayle

“Socrates in Love” by Kyoichi Katayama

“Sight Hound” by Pam Houston

“Two Old Women” by Velma Wallis

“The Stranger in the Woods” by Michael Finkel

“Wilderness” by Scott Stillman

“Never Cry Wolf” by Farley Mowat

“The Priory of the Orange Tree” by Samantha Shannon

“Eiger Dreams” by Jon Krakauer

“Siddhartha” by Herman Hess

“And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini

[mariasinistre]

HIVE Characters as Monster Factory Quotes, an incomplete list

Otto: Because if you’re human, then what is he?

Laura: “It’s a science thiiiing, you fucking jocks wouldn’t understaaaand but I’ll help you do your dirty work.”

Francisco: “I want my super power to be gun… have. To have a gun. And to use it.”

Raven: “Is shooting mean, or is it mischievous?”

Nigel: “No, dog, I’m never going to have a Wanted level, I love law.”

Franz: “I haven’t had any fucking paprika today. We’re on spice watch.”

Pike: “Is there gonna be a thermal detonator, like, option? Or- am I even going to have a disrupter rifle, or-?”

Nathaniel: “It’s dad! Dad’s here to help, guys! Hi, I’m your dad? I’m here to help.”

Tom: “Okay? Some of us don’t make it.”

Pietor: He HAS a KNIFE COLLECTION and he’s gonna use it on me. tonight.

Wu Zhang: “There is a turn… where we go from kinda goofing on our creations, to making something that we are intimidated by.”

Cypher: “This is a good way of locomotion. I’m just gonna let the murder take me there.”

Overlord: Too upsetting too fast.

Both HIVEmind & Overlord, being in a body: “You know, skin? Like skin? From skin? Like you have it. Skin!”

Contessa: “I’ve lost both a contact lens and my husband.”

The ruling council: “I thought this was some kind of fighting game, I didn’t think you’d have to do diplomacy!”

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[eliotquillon]

HIVE TIMELINE TWO, ELECTRIC BOOGALOO (Updated and reworked for Bloodline; spoilers ahead!)

It's a year since my original HIVE timeline (which you can read here and is obviously pre-Bloodline), and how things have changed. Well...kind of. I was expecting more of my timeline to crumple under the weight of eight years' worth of continuity errors but, unlike most of my pre-Bloodline fic, my 2020 timeline has stayed somewhat intact. However, in light of Nessa's excellent post that used the Bloodline prologue to figure out Raven's birthday with a scary amount of accuracy, I've decided that somewhat intact just isn't enough. Lo and behold...find the C ottomalpense new and improved H.I.V.E. timeline under the cut. This is just my interpretation of the canon timeline; because Walden contradicts himself constantly when it comes to age and continuity, most of these dates are educated guesses and any other interpretations are more than valid. Bloodline spoilers below.

PART ONE: RAVEN

In my original timeline, I used two anchor dates: Otto's 13th birthday being August 29th 1993, and Raven being 16 in the 'fifteen years earlier' Hong Kong flashback, making her 31 in Aftershock/Deadlock. Using the age difference between her and Otto, I counted backwards to give Raven a birth year of 1979. Otto's birthday still holds up, but Bloodline has since made it clear that Raven was 15 in Hong Kong. Therefore, several options presented themselves in order to salvage the rest of the timeline.

Option 1: Raven was indeed born in 1979, and Hong Kong takes place in 1994. This would make her 27 in H.I.V.E., given that she has a September birthday and H.I.V.E. takes place between September-December 2006. However, this means Raven that if Raven is 30 in Aftershock/Deadlock, there are only three years between the first seven books....something that canon vaguely supports given Shelby's "I've waited three years for you two to get together" comment to Laura and Otto in Deadlock, but feels very, very unrealistic given the number of time skips and the sheer volume of things that happen in the first seven books. My original timeline was created to get rid of the stasis in canon and give a better sense of the progression of time between books. Keeping Raven's birth year as 1979 undermines that.

Option 2: Raven was born in 1981, Hong Kong takes place in 1996, and she is 25 in H.I.V.E., meaning that there's exactly five years between H.I.V.E and Aftershock. This supports my earlier placement of Aftershock being the start of fifth year, but 25 feels kind of...young? It also hinges on Raven knowing her exact birth date before she finds out that Nero is her father, which I personally don't think Bloodline supports - Nero didn't know her birthday, and I think if Raven did know, she would've told him pre-Bloodline.

Option 3: Raven was born in 1980, Hong Kong takes place in 1995, and she is 26 in H.I.V.E., but, because she doesn't know her birth date, she celebrates her birthday on New Year's Eve. So while Raven would technically be 31 in Aftershock, she would still consider herself 30 until the end of the year, as would Nero. This gives a little bit more leeway with her age, reduces the number of changes in the overall timeline, and accounts for the overall unreliability of both Raven and Nero's narration in the flashback scenes - given that one of them had been traumatised so thoroughly that she had recurring psychotic episodes just months before that scene, and the other had his memory tampered with to the point where he misremembered the date of worst day of his life.

I personally opted for Option 3, making Raven's new birthday 3rd-6th September 1980. She is 33 in the Bloodline epilogue. Therefore Hong Kong still takes place in 1995.

PART TWO: OTTO

This is just a rehash of my last timeline, but for clarity's sake: Otto being an August 1993 birthday makes him one of the youngest in his year, meaning that everyone else (Lucy, Wing*, Nigel, Franz, Shelby, Laura, and Penny) were all 1992/3 babies. Bloodline takes place right at the end of his final year (meaning I correctly predicted that it would be set in 2012), making him 19. Something I forgot to mention in my original timeline is that Tom is described as being a few years older than Penny in H.I.V.E., but given that Tom isn't really alive for long enough to present me with an issue timeline wise, I'm just going to let that one slide. The Bloodline epilogue thus takes place in 2013.

As always, I am ignoring Rogue's claim that Otto is 13, because it doesn't make sense in any context (if Otto really is 13, it means he magically ages three years in Zero Hour and Aftershock according to Walden's own implication that Otto is 16 by Aftershock...which I'm also ignoring, but whatever). Laura still choosing between universities in September 2013 is weird, because either she is very, very late for the 2013 academic year, or very, very early for the 2014 one, but, again, I am ignoring it. Essentially, nothing meaningful has changed for any of the student ages between this timeline and the 2020 one.

PART THREE - NERO

This is where it gets interesting. This time last year, my Nero section was just speculation. I was, uh, very off, and did not account for how early Nero knocked Elena up. That was on me. My bad!

Nero is in his early 20s when Elena is murdered. If we take the year to be 1980, and early 20s to mean anything between 20-24, we can get an approximate birth year of 1956-1960. I'm going to average that to 22, making Nero's birth year 1958. He's a practically spritely 48 in H.I.V.E, and 55 in the Bloodline epilogue.

(Also, I am treating the 'thirty years' in the 'thirty years ago' flashback to be an estimate. Nero has memory issues and also thirty years has a much better ring to it than thirty-two.)

PART FOUR - DIABOLUS

We can't talk about Nero without mentioning Diabolus because I, for one, have been haunted by the knowledge that Nero taught Diabolus for years. However, assuming Nero immediately joins the H.I.V.E. teaching staff in 1980 following Elena's death, he is 22. If Diabolus is a first year student, we can give him a birth year of 1966/7. That said, I tend to think Diabolus is a little bit older than that, given how close he and Nero are in Hong Kong, so if we age him up to a third year in Nero's first year of teaching, that makes him 15/16 with a birth year of 1964/5. There's only 6/7 years between him and Nero, leaving plenty of time for them to become close friends by Hong Kong, during which Nero is 37 and Diabolus is approaching 30. That means Diabolus had Nigel at 27/28.

PART FIVE - THE OVERLORD INCIDENT AND XIU MEI

The Overlord Incident (henceforth the OI) is the bane of my existence. There's no mention of Raven in the original flashback in the Overlord Protocol, implying that she wasn't around yet, but it's referenced as still being a work in progress in Hong Kong. Again, this is a rehash of my previous timeline, but the Deadlock interpretation doesn't work; regardless of anything else, Wing was definitely born in 1992/3 in order to be in the same year as Otto, and either Wing or Raven would be too young for the OI to occur after Hong Kong (Raven was only 13 in 1993 in this interpretation of events, and this is one that puts her on the older side - there's an argument to be made for her being born in 1983, which would make her 10). Ergo, in this timeline, the OI precedes Hong Kong.

As mentioned, Wing had to have been born in 1993 at the latest, and the evidence suggests that he's most likely one of the older kids in their year, pointing to a 1992 birthday, meaning Xiu Mei got pregnant by January 1992 at the earliest. There must be time allowed for the following to occur between Wing and Otto's births and the OI: survivors of the OI to start going missing, Xiu Mei and Wu Zhang /Cypher to marry and move to Japan in order to escape persecution, and Overlord to get enough soft power over Number One to convince him to start trying to produce a clone of himself to be his successor. At earliest this can be 1991. I, however, think that it's more likely to be January 1990, given Overlord's comments about how much Number One initially resisted having his brain hijacked. This is the same as my previous timeline.

Unlike my previous timeline, however, I'm also going to attempt to estimate the year of Xiu Mei's death. While the Overlord Protocol does not explicitly state this, it can be inferred that Nero receives Xiu Mei's locket and letter after she is murdered by Overlord for investigating the Renaissance project. Nero receives the locket "many years" before Overlord Protocol (which takes place roughly in Spring/Summer of 2007), but Xiu Mei was also presumed "long dead" already when he received it as a result of the OI. This puts 17 years between Xiu Mei's faked death and Nero's reminiscence over the locket and letter in 2007 after the assassination attempt in Vienna. Xiu Mei can't have died before Wing was at least 5 years old, given the strong memories he has of her and the fact that he made a promise to her not to kill anyone, so I'm tentatively putting Xiu Mei's real death at 2001, when Wing would've been 9. This leaves just enough time for Cypher to establish himself as a thorn in Nero's side, and for his relationship with Wing the deteriorate to what we see in the Overlord Protocol.

PART SIX - OTHER

I've been meaning to do the maths on this for a while, but H.I.V.E.mind was officially brought online April 10th, 2006! (He'd been online for four months, three weeks, and two days by September 1st.) Nero really was paranoid after the OI.

Brexit doesn't occur in the H.I.V.E.verse, because Duncan Cavendish (David Cameron) resigns in 2010, AKA way, way, before the rise of UKIP and the 2016 referendum. The Iraq war, however, does - Tony Blair is heavily, heavily implied to be the prime minister in 2006.

Not really timeline related, but the fact that both Otto and Raven are Virgos is enough to make me shudder.

TL;DR - THE (FINAL???) TIMELINE

1950-59: The Furan siblings are born at some point. Two siblings are twins, presumably Elena and Anastasia or Anastasia and Pietor. At some point, they are owed a blood debt by the Sinistres.

1958: Nero is born.

Early 1960s: H.I.V.E. is founded, most likely by Nero's mother.

1964-5: Diabolus Darkdoom is born.

Late 1970s: Elena and Nero start their affair.

1980: Elena is murdered by Pietor. Raven is born. Nero has his memory of Raven's survival forcibly erased by Francesca Sinistre, clearing the blood debt between the Furan and Sinistre families.

1980s: Diabolus Darkdoom and Duncan Cavendish attend and graduate H.I.V.E. Diabolus and Nero become friends.

1989: Raven runs away from her orphanage.

1990: The Overlord Incident takes place, leaving three named survivors: Nero, Xiu Mei, and Wu Zhang. Overlord begins to assert control over Number One.

1991: Raven is found by the Furans and brought to the Glasshouse. Wu Zhang and Xiu Mei marry and immigrate to Japan after survivors of the Overlord Incident start going missing.

1992: Presumably the year Raven claws out Pietor's eye and gets shot in the woods, it is also the point at which Overlord/Number One most likely starts considering cloning himself. In the final quarter of the year, some students - most likely Wing, Shelby, and possibly Laura - are born.

1993: Otto and the rest of the students in his year are born.

1994: Likely the year Dimitri's escape attempt fails, and Raven is forced to murder Tolya. Also presumably when H.I.V.E.'s Icelandic location became dangerously compromised, and Nero starts seriously considering plans to move. At this point his mother is dead.

1995: Nero and Diabolus go to Hong Kong to meet with the Architect, and thwart Raven's assassination attempt. Raven eventually defects to G.L.O.V.E., and the first Glasshouse burns.

1996-2000: Construction on H.I.V.E. 2.0 is completed. Nero starts work on the emergency Zero Hour protocol.

2001: Xiu Mei is murdered by Overlord for asking too many questions about the Renaissance initiative. Wu Zhang becomes Cypher. Nero receives his half of the amulet, and Xiu Mei's letter.

2001-2005: Lucy's parents die of unknown causes. Diabolus Darkdoom falsifies his death to escape execution for getting too close to the Renaissance initiative, possibly after divorcing his wife first. Otto drops out of school and starts scamming local business to repair St Sebastian's. At some point Pike convinces Nero to try AI again. Number One's will is entirely consumed by Overlord.

2006: H.I.V.E.mind goes online. Pike's experiment to give Ms Leon the same reflexes as her cat goes horribly wrong, leaving them both trapped in the wrong body. Shelby becomes the Wraith and makes headlines for stealing millions of dollars' worth of jewellery. Laura is caught hacking the nearby American air base's early nuclear warning system. Otto hypnotises the current prime minister, allowing Duncan Cavendish to come into power. During a failed escape attempt from H.I.V.E., several hundred million pounds' worth of damage is caused to H.I.V.E. by Nigel's experimental crossbreed plant, Violet.

2007: Cypher fakes his death as Mao Fanchu in order to lure Wing to Tokyo, and the Contessa betrays Nero. Nero keeps Cypher alive, unbeknownst to Number One, and starts to have suspicions about Number One/Overlord for the first time. By the end of August, everyone is fourteen, and first year is over.

2008: H.O.P.E. is formed, and Nero is captured in either April or May whilst meeting with Gregori Leonov. Three months later, he is rescued by Otto, Raven, and the gang. The Contessa and Number One/Overlord die. Laura and Otto kiss, but nothing comes of it. Diabolus resurfaces from the dead to be elected head of G.L.O.V.E.'s ruling council. At some point in late August to early September, Otto, Wing, Shelby and Laura first encounter the animus fluid on a train to Paris whilst on a mission to recover a stolen thermoptic camouflage suit. As a result of the Contessa's death, Lucy Dexter is transferred to H.I.V.E. at the start of third year, at which point everyone is fifteen. Following the hijacking of Dreadnought, and an encounter with Pietor Furan, the animus fluid, and the Disciples, Otto is captured by American forces after saving Air Force One and the US president. He is then turned over to H.O.P.E.

2009: Assassinations of key members of G.L.O.V.E.'s ruling council take place at the hands of Otto, now under the influence of animus. Raven is given executive privilege to kill him if necessary. Otto confesses his love to Laura. Following a confrontation in the Amazon jungle, Cypher, Ghost, and Trent all die. H.O.P.E. is destroyed. Otto feigns memory loss of everything that occurred under animus. By the end of the year, everyone is sixteen.

2010: Laura's brother, Douglas, is born. Otto has continual and repeated nightmares and is the subject of rumours. Overlord takes control of the Advanced Weapons' Testing Facility in Colorado. The Zero Hour protocol is activated. Wing and Shelby get together. Chief Lewis and Lucy Dexter die. Pietor Furan is killed by Raven. Nero becomes head of G.L.O.V.E. Duncan Cavendish is forced to resign. The Architect is contacted by Anastasia Furan through a proxy, and construction of the new Glasshouse is completed. Following the appointment of Security Chief Dekker, Laura is blackmailed into betraying the location of the Hunt after Tom and Penny's recruitment to H.I.V.E. Joseph Wright and several former members of the ruling council are offered the help of Disciples'. All of the Alpha stream save Shelby, Otto, Franz, and Wing are taken captive. Otto is expelled, and joined Raven on the hunt for the location of the new Glasshouse. By the end of the year, everyone is seventeen.

2011: Raven and Otto take down several Disciples, most notably visiting Dubai, London, and Paris. In Venice, they are pursued by the CIA after tracking down the Architect with the help of Diabolus Darkdoom. Tom dies. The new Glasshouse is stormed and destroyed, again. Laura is given the choice as to whether she wants to stay at H.I.V.E. or not, and decides to stay. Anastasia Furan is taken hostage in Nero's basement storage facility. The Disciples' countdown for the new batch of hostages starts at 99 days. By the end of the school year, everyone is eighteen.

2012: The majority of Otto and the gang's final year goes smoothly. Franz starts working out and loses weight, becoming conventionally attractive. A few days shy of graduation, the clone known as Anna becomes loose. Otto reconvenes with the CIA and is allowed access to the last remaining batch of the animus fluid. Francesca Sinistre dies. It is revealed to Nero by Anastasia that he is Raven's father. Raven kills Anastasia. Otto stays behind to destroy H.I.V.E. and dies. His consciousness is transferred to a cloning vat by H.I.V.E.mind. Everyone is nineteen.

2013: Construction on the new H.I.V.E. facility is already underway. Raven finds out her birthday. Shelby and Wing set up an orphanage, implied to be in Africa, for war orphans in Otto's honour. Franz is an instructor at the temporary facility. Laura gets in to MIT and Oxford. In early September, Otto shows up on her doorstep.

[thejudgingtrash]

headcanons??? yes pls! Queen Rara and sweet bean Frank Zhang

ROXY! Of course :D

Let’s start with Reyna!

Reyna listens to songs like Juro Que by Rosalía, Figures by Jessie Reyez, Oye Donde Esta El Amor by Wisin y Yandel & Franco De Vita and En El Aire by Vega Almohalla

Reyna falls asleep in the Roman bathhouse. Because c’mon

Reyna crushes you at Risk. Accept your defeat. That and domino

Reyna barely uses emojis but her go to is this creature right here 🙂 which sets everyone off (including me) but she doesn’t get why people are mad at it. It’s just an emoji for her

Should she not have enough sleep she’s the type of person to act cold and stern until she finds the time to relax again

Should she be in a slump, she’d just ignore her bad feelings unless someone asks her directly what’s going on. Then it’s dumping waterfalls on info, not waiting for a response and just moving on with a new topic lol

Reyna likes horchata de ajonjolí and cranberry juice

Reyna prefers a sunny and slightly warm day with a fresh breeze that cools you down here and there

Reyna always wanted to be a PR spokesperson or work in advertising. Let people admire her work and see it directly.

Reyna has a very quiet and hushed sining voice. I think she’s a mezzo. Supported lower registers but voice easily cracks at higher octaves.

Reyna doesn't doodle (that’s a lie she used to doodle hearts but she stopped after a while), Reyna takes notes.

Okay. Let’s move onto Frank!

Frank listens to Stay by Sun Lux, Green Light by Lorde, Can You Let Me Know by Lupe Fiasco & Sarah Green and he also likes Play by Jolin Tsai lol. I also like to imagine that he listens to a lot of EDM subgenres without any large vocalizations going on

Frank falls asleep in the stables. As a horse. Because it’s that more comfortable

Frank is the type of dude to go on a rampage on Fortnite. He just is

Frank is an emoji guy! Instead of saying it’s raining he just writes ☔️ He uses this one a lot ☺️ especially to just end sentences.

Frank is also a hot cocoa and tea guy. Just adding little droplets of honey and lemon wedges when he’s having a cold!

Tired Frank just yawns a lot and gets a little bit teary but he always apologizes and tries to focus better 

Upset Frank wanders around for a little bit until people he’s close to have a little bit of free time so that he could chat with them or ask their opinions about things that have upset him in the first place. He appreciates advices and tries to follow them!

Frank wanted to follow his mom’s footsteps into the army until her tragic accident. Now he’d be happy with being an elementary school teacher

Frank likes a warm fall breeze that lifts golden leaves from the ground

I think that Frank has a high and soft voice. So he’s more likely a tenor. Beautiful color but he’s ashamed of his sining and doesn’t do much of it, hence he’d need assistance of a teacher.

Frank doodles all the animals that he’s transformed himself into!

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[kakashibestie]

hello hello.. i always see u rbing excerpts from books so i was wondering if u could recommend me some ? i'm trying to get into reading again now that i have time so.. yeah <3 preferently poetry or uh idk.... nice books lmao ty ily

hi vee!!! i hope you’re having a good day aaaaa it’s so nice to hear u have time to read, god tier activity. anyway, i’ll list some of my favorite poetry books (sorted by author bc it’s easier for me) + other faves below:

mary oliver: devotions, house of light, felicity, a poetry handbook

ocean vuong: on earth we’re briefly gorgeous (this one’s actually a novel but the author’s a poet so his style bleeds through the pages and it’s literally one of the most beautiful books i’ve ever read!!!), night sky with exit wounds

anne carson: glass irony and god (contains the glass essay which is my favorite poem ever), plainwater, red doc>, eros the bittersweet, the beauty of the husband

jenny slate: little weirds (not rly poetry it’s more like...a memoir but this is literally my favorite book of all time!!!!)

ada limón: bright dead things, the carrying

richard siken: crush (literally one of my favorite books of all time)

carl sagan: other worlds (not poetry but it’s so short and beautifully written i genuinely believe everyone should read it at least once!!!!), contact (a scifi novel i still havent finished but it’s SO good)

ottessa moshfegh: my year of rest and relaxation (another fave novel)

bell hooks: all about love (nonfiction)

joy harjo: an american sunrise

james baldwin: go tell it on the mountain, another country

natasha pulley: the watchmaker of filligree street & the lost future of pepperharrow (these ones are long-ish historical fiction novels but they’re literally SO good)

liu cixin: the three body problem (REEEEEAL GOOD SCIFI)

caroline alexander: the iliad (STILL HAVENT FINISHED THIS ONE BUT IT’S SO GOOD)

jenny zhang: sour heart (nonfiction)

heather havrilesky: how to be a person in this world (NONFICTION/SELF-HELP, I’D ALSO RECOMMEND READING THE ASK POLLY COLUMNS THEYVE SHATTERED MY SKULL FROM THE INSIDE OUT MULTIPLE TIMES)

trista mateer: honeybee

franz kafka: letters to milena & letters to felice (nonfiction, epistolary), metamorphosis (unrestrained summer fun, provides lore to understand a lot of memes)

INDIVIDUAL POEMS I LOVE NOT INCLUDED ABOVE

our beautiful life when it’s filled with shrieks by christopher citro, the thing is by ellen bass, wild geese by mary oliver, how beautiful & filming the doomsday clock & you were you are elegy by mary jo bang, a fixed idea by amy lowell, the impossible replication of desire by lee herrick, we are hard by margaret atwood, i used to love winter by mahmoud darwish, waiting for this story to end before i begin another by jan heller levi, do you find it hard to live? by harmony holiday, poem by lucy ives

HELPFUL WEBSITES

poetry foundation (i literally started reading poetry thanks to this site u can literally spend hours on it if you’re not careful, if u find an author you like you’ll most likely end up finding more from them on the website and then proceed to look up their book if they have one...holy grail site)

poets.org 

rattle.com

b-ok.lat and libgen.rs (where i get all my pdfs/epubs)

the purpose of my “words” tag is to save excerpts or pieces i like for future reference or to look them up later on and find where they came from! so feel free to browse it too!

HOPE THIS IS HELPFUL AND ENJOY UR READING!!!!

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☐  APPELFELD, Aharon – All Whom I Have Loved ☐  ARIMAH, Lesley Nneka – What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky ☐  BAKER, Nicholson – The Mezzanine ☐  BARNES, Djuna – Nightwood ☐  BARNES, Julian – Flaubert's Parrot ☐  BARTH, John – The Sot-Weed Factor ☐  BERNANOS, Georges – Sous le soleil de Satan ☐  BOLAÑO, Roberto – 2666 ☐  BRETON, André – Nadja ☐  BURNETT, Frances Hodgson – Little Lord Fauntleroy ☑  BURNETT, Frances Hodgson – A Little Princess ☑  BURNETT, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden ☐  BURROUGHS, William S. – The Nova Trilogy ☐  BUTOR, Michel – La Modification ☐  BUZZATI, Dino – Il deserto dei Tartari ☐  CENDRARS, Blaise – Moravagine ☐  COELHO, Paulo – La Voie de l'Archer ☐  COLETTE – Les Vrilles de la vigne ☐  CONRAD, Joseph – The Heart of Darkness ☐  DELANY, Samuel R. – Hogg ☐  DeLILLO, Don – Underworld ☐  DÍAZ, Junot – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ☐  DICKENS, Charles – all novels ☐  DOS PASSOS, John – Manhattan Transfer ☐  DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor Mikhailovich – The Gambler ☐  DREISE, Theodore – Sister Carrie ☐  DUCORNET, Rikki – The Four Elements Tetrology ☐  DURAS, Marguerite – Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein ☐  DURRELL, Lawrence – The Alexandria Quartet ☐  ELLISON, Ralph – Invisible Man ☐  ERICKSON, Steve – Tours of the Black Clock ☐  FEDERMAN, Raymond – Double or Nothing ☐  FLAUBERT, Gustave – Madame Bovary ☐  FORD, Ford Madox – The Good Soldier ☐  FORSTER, E. M. – all novels ☐  GADDIS, William – The Recognitions ☐  GASS, William H. – Omensetter's Luck ☐  GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von – Die Wahlverwandtschaften ☐  GRACQ, Julien – Le Rivage des Syrtes ☐  HEMINGWAY, Ernest – all works ☐  HUXLEY, Aldous – Point Counter Point ☐  ISHIGURO, Kazuo – The Remains of the Day ☐  ISHIGURO, Kazuo – The Unconsoled ☐  ISHIGURO, Kazuo – When We Were Orphans ☐  JAMES, Henry – The Ambassadors ☐  JAMES, Henry – The Golden Bowl ☐  JOYCE, James – Ulysses ☐  KAFKA, Franz – Die Verwandlung ☐  KNOWLES, John – A Separate Peace ☐  LE CLÉZIO, J. M. G. – Le Procès-Verbal ☐  MAILER, Norman – The Naked and the Dead ☐  MANN, Thomas – Der Tod in Venedig ☐  MANN, Thomas – Der Zauberberg ☐  MAUPASSANT, Guy de – Bel-Ami ☐  MAURIAC, François – Thérèse Desqueyroux ☐  MORAVIA, Alberto – Il disprezzo ☐  NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich – Pale Fire ☐  NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich – The Gift ☐  NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich– Look at the Harlequins! ☐  NAIPAUL, V. S. – A House for Mr Biswas ☐  NEWTON, Nerida – Death of a Whaler ☐  PAMUK, Orhan – Kar ☐  PEREC, Georges – La Vie mode d'emploi ☐  POWELL, Anthony – A Dance to the Music of Time ☐  PHILLIPS, Arthur – The Tragedy of Arthur ☐  PUSHKIN, Alexander Sergeyevich – The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin ☐  ROBBINS, Tom – Skinny Legs and All ☐  ROBINSON, Marilynne – Housekeeping ☐  SAGAN, Françoise – Bonjour Tristesse ☐  SALINGER, J. D. – The Catcher in the Rye ☐  SARAMAGO, José – A caverna ☐  SARRAUTE, Nathalie – Tropismes ☐  SMITH, Betty – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ☑  SPYRI, Johanna – Heidi ☐  STEGNER, Wallace – Angle of Repose ☐  STEINBECK, John – all works ☐  TAN, Amy – The Joy Luck Club ☐  TARTT, Donna – The Goldfinch ☐  VARGAS LLOSA, Mario – La ciudad y los perros ☐  VARGAS LLOSA, Mario – La casa verde ☐  VASSILIKOS, Vassilis – The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis ☐  VOLLMANN, William T. – The Rifles ☐  WALLACE, David Foster – Infinite Jest ☐  WEIL, Josh – The Age of Perpetual Light ☐  WEST, Nathanael – The Day of the Locust ☐  WHARTON, Edith – The House of Mirth ☐  WHARTON, Edith – The Age of Innocence ☐  WOOLF, Virginia – To the Lighthouse ☐  WOOLF, Virginia – Waves ☐  WRIGHT, Stephen – Going Native ☐  ZHANG, Lijia – Lotus ☐  ZWEIG, Stefan – Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau