#hollie mcnish

[warlockofagnesi]

We are all magicians here.

[theeunbeecoming]

For you and your incredible face.

[kittenwivfangs]

Antigone but by Holly McNish ......

[macfrog]

have you ever shared a list of your favorite books? if not, i’d love to hear about what you’re into!

i don't think i have! let's get into it (i'm quite boring, sorry in advance)

i love coming of age stuff, books written for or by women, bonus points if it's weird and twisty and ugly. i like to be haunted by a story after i've finished it, for one reason or another. some that fit into those categories are ;

➵ fen and sisters, both by daisy johnson. this woman is my god. i could (and will) scream about her all day long do not get me started i will become insufferable :)

➵ salt slow by julia armfield. a petting zoo of women who bite. magical realism in all its juicy, icky glory. shout out to formerly feral, but the entire thing is theeee shittttt

➵ chlorine by jade song. menacing, addictive, brutal. couldn't bring myself to love nor hate the main character and that's what made her so brilliant.

➵ normal people by sally rooney. just some real, heart-splitting writing that makes it hurt to be human. what's funny is the show didn't do it for me, but i found the book devastating

➵ slug by hollie mcnish. different vibe to the others on this list, but never fails to make me cry. grief, girlhood, grandmothers and good humor and what's not to love there!!!!

➵ to kill a mockingbird by harper lee. because sometimes i just wanna throw on my overalls and hang from a tire swing in maycomb, ok? it's healing. it's who i am. (comfort book of all time)

i have a reading list as long as my arm, but feel free to stop by with recs, or scream about your own favorites anytime. i love hearing what y’all think .xx

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Author Stats for BFB

When putting together the Best Fantasy Book polls, I noticed that a lot of authors were popular choices, so I thought I'd do a little post about our most popular authors from ones that are in the list only twice to the most common author we have!

The preliminary round for BFB starts tomorrow!

2 Times

J. R. R. Tolkien

Erin Morgenstern

Cassandra Clare

Eoin Colfer

Terry Pratchett

Laini Taylor

Jim Butcher

Robin Hobb

R. F. Kuang

Samantha Shannon

Shannon Hale

Jonathan Stroud

Seanan McGuire

Enid Blyton

Clive Barker

Alix E. Harrow

Scott Westerfeld

Raymond E. Feist

Wayne Thomas Batson

Xiran Jay Zhao

Lloyd Alexander

Meagan Spooner

Katherine Addison

Christina Henry

Gene Wolfe

N. D. Wilson

Emily Rodda

Jude Watson

Ellen Kushner

Cliff McNish

C. J. Cherryh

Garry Kilworth

3 Times

Rick Riordan

Roald Dahl

Brandon Sanderson

Cornelia Funke

Gail Carson Levine

Garth Nix

T. Kingfisher

Patricia C. Wrede

Robin McKinley

Kieron Gillen

Francis Hardinge

4 Times

Holly Black

V. E. Schwab

Naomi Novik

5 Times

Diana Wynne Jones

6 Times

Tamora Pierce

9 Times

Neil Gaiman

Mercedes Lackey

[autumnhobbit]

“How common, in antiquity, are the fundamental tenets of humanism: that humans—no matter their sex, their place of origin, their class—are all of equal value; and that those who walk in darkness must be brought into light? Not common at all, I would say. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that their fusion was pretty much a one-off.

In other words, secular humanism is just Christianity with nothing upstairs.”

[leonieanderson]

Most people do not like fighting; most people want to invite neighbours round for cake sometimes; most people pick flowers and wrap them in paper when a lover needs more colour in their day; most people in most languages most mornings are mainly talking about breakfast; most people make tea when friends visit; most people want to live; most people want most people to live.

Hollie McNish

[tailsbeth-writes]

Thanks for the tag @heybuddy-drabbles!

Last Song: Death of a Party - Blur (I've been listening to the All of Us Strangers Soundtrack a lot)

Favourite Colour: Burnt orange (this changes monthly I'd say 😅)

Last Film/Show: Pride/Drag Race Belgium

Sweet/savoury/spicy: Sweet mostly but a lil spicy

Last Thing I Googled: The address of the house my writing group just booked for a retreat ✒️

Last Book: Completed - Honeybloods by I.S. Belle. Currently reading - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara/The King's Assassin by Benjamin Woolley/Nobody Told Me by Hollie Mcnish (Yes, I'm ridiculous)

Relationship Status: Single

Current Obsessions: Drag Race (I just finished Germany yesterday, watching US & UK Vs The World as they air and I just started Belgium s2 😇), Red, White & Royal Blue and um gender? Figuring myself out has been a journey 😅

Tag you're it: @duchessdepolignaca03 @candyspandemonium @firenati0n @myheartalivewrites @cricketnationrise & open tag as usual 💛

[wortzentriert]

We Are Repaganizing by Louise Perry | Articles | First Things

[hotchbian]

from “slug” by hollie mcnish <3

what is one line of poetry/writing that lives in ur head rent free please share i would like to know 

[clouds-hide-the-stars]

Dandelions by Hollie McNish

when it all seems too much

and I wonder why we’re here

and I think about the sun

and I wonder why it’s there

and my daughter points to space

and the emptiness upsets me

and I lament my lack of god

and I wish that one would find me

and I worry what is out there

and I wonder what the point is

and I panic about death

and I panic it’s all pointless

and I wonder when space stops

and what the fuck we’re on this rock for

I think of strawberries in the summer

firmed ripe and juicy

and how perfectly dandelion seeds

are made to helicopter breezes

procreating across fields

and I remind myself

this is not all about you, hollie

[whenallisquiet]

eating whole carrots, Hollie McNish

[hoursofreading]

There’s a very short and very brutal poem by the Scottish poet Hollie McNish, written in 2019 and titled “Conversation with an archaeologist”: he said they’d found a brothel on the dig he did last night I asked him how they know he sighed: a pit of babies’ bones a pit of newborn babies’ bones was how to spot a brothel

“It’s true, you know,” said the writer and lawyer Helen Dale when we had lunch in London last year and I mentioned this poem, which I chose as one of the epigraphs to my book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. Helen was a classicist before she was a lawyer, and as a younger woman she had taken part in archaeological excavations of ancient Roman sites. “First you find the erotic statuary,” she went on, “and then you dig a bit more and you find the male infant skeletons.” Male, of course, because the males were of no use to the keepers of Roman brothels, whereas the female infants born to prostituted women were raised into prostitution themselves. I realize that this is not a nice thing to think about. Personally, I find that if I let my mind rest for more than a moment on these tiny extinguished lives, and on the cruelty of the society that regarded their suffering as an acceptable consequence of the need to satiate male lust, I experience a painful, squeezing, swooping sensation in my chest that I’ve discovered only since I became a mother myself

[desertpups]

you’re only five

but your teddies

are already men

unless eyelashes

autocorrect

god is already

a he unless you

rewrite the songs

in assembly

the best you can be

in the school play

is an unpleasured

pregnancy

i’m not surprised

you’re a little unsure

how to hold

yourself up

[podcastpalace]

Ep 499 Hollie McNish on life, sex and poetry by The Irish Times Women's Podcast .... Hollie McNish writes about so much of what it means to be a woman. In her latest book, Slug… and other things I’ve been told to hate, she writes about death and grief, growing up and periods, parenting, her relationship with her body, masturbation and lots more. The book is a mixture of poetry, prose, short stories and essays. It’s not your usual “poetry book” and it’s all the better for it. In this episode, McNish talks to Róisín Ingle about her life and career, women’s bodies, her amazing grandmothers, her posh Cambridge education and growing up in the same village as Kate Middleton. Hollie also performs two brilliant poems from Slug, which is published in Ireland this week.

[tailsbeth-writes]

Thanks for the tag @heybuddy-drabbles, these are always fun 🥰

Last song: Birdhouse in your Soul - They Might Be Giants

Last film: Anatomy of a Fall (genuinely one of the best films I've seen in years)

Currently reading: Listening to an abridged version of Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier & I just got Nobody Told Me: Poetry & Parenthood by Holly McNish from the library. And of course, countless fanfics 😂

Currently watching: RuPaul's Drag Race is the one thing I'm keeping up with, I've also started Good Omens season 2 very recently.

Currently consuming: just finished breakfast (poached eggs on toast, orange juice & a large coffee - oat milk and amaretto syrup, it's the best)

Currently craving: Cinnamon buns from the local vegan bakery I've recently become obsessed with. Although cinnamon buns from anywhere is a solid guess most of the time. 😍

No pressure tag you're it: @duchessdepolignaca03 @candyspandemonium @cricketnationrise @sparklepocalypse & whomever else fancies it!