#literary Fiction

[lenainwonderland]

“There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.”

- Albert Camus

[oscarwildin]

the academic trinity of “damn it, richard”

[praisethelorde]

R.I.P Henry Winter you would've loved Apple products and how they successfully led to the exponential increase in mindless consumerism

[xoxo-rielle]

October was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned themselves in aftermaths.

— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

[mostlyghostie]

October reads!

Bit of a mix this month, couple of comedic books, a bedtime story read to my daughter, a comic about pregnancy, the latest in my Robin Hobb journey (this one desperately in need of an editor) and the new Elizabeth Strout, which I’m unsurprised to find is fantastic.

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[manytoonepoet13]

Perhaps... Indeed.

"They're just words..... And besides, he's a fictional character!!"

Perhaps they are kind words,

Perhaps sincere words, even.

And probably even more than that.

Perhaps they are merely a man's response to a beautiful woman in front of him.

Perhaps they are a man's response to seeing his destruction in the said woman's eyes.

Where.. beyond the class, beyond the words. She sees the soul that lies beneath.

Perhaps she did indeed see how she leads him astray.

How all he know is he could very well lose himself in her eyes.

Lose himself in the way she looks at him. He is lost in her.

But in her, he found himself.

What a strange, yet wonderful thing.

A word. A touch. A mere glance even.

Yet... She made him feel more than he ever has before.

He cannot say he knows the difference right now.

But he does know one thing...

And it's how he wants her to accept his heart as hers, like how he longs to accept hers as his.

How he wishes to be her reality she seeks for in fantasy.

~ For the ones who found solace, who found their reality.. in fantasy. The ones who found love and comfort in fiction. The ones who found their forever in pixels on screen, and ink on paper. | Many To One Poet.

[maypearlss]

trying to motivate myself to be a little more active here, i want to discover some new writeblrs to follow!! feel free to reach out if you wanna!

i'm particularly interested if you...

🎧 write adult fiction, especially literary fiction, horror (gothic or otherwise), gothic romance, fantasy, or really anything with a gritty/emotional feel

🎧 like any bands from the 90s grunge scene (or 80s hard rock) (i can and will yap for days)

🎧 like vampires, pirates, or cowboys

🎧 are a fellow college student (we can struggle together!!)

even if we don't have any of this in common, i'd love to chat anyway! hopefully this finds some folks <3

[leechjuice]

MY ANGSTY GAY CANNIBAL BOOK IS OUT NOW!

IN THE END, YOU KILL US BOTH is a novel about a lesbian arsonist rebuilding her life after a violent trauma, and the texan loner that inspires her to seek revenge on her abusers. it's also a story about relentless grief, hunger, and the unending staircase of healing.

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[raccoonytoony-boy]

Is it really too much to ask for a— tall, dark academia dude, who looks exactly how I imagine Henry Winter, speaks in poetry, sends me hand written letters with loads of references to romantic classic literature, and composes classical music pieces about me— to date me?

[charliejaneanders]

I love literary fiction! Reading lit fic has made me much better at writing science fiction and fantasy, and I highly recommend everyone read some. So here are ten (mostly) realist literary books that had a huge influence on me...

My latest newsletter! Huzzah!

[emilyscastlevania]

You can’t stop loving vampires just because halloween is over. Vampires are forever.

[xxrrisxx]

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Leo Tolstoy

[todayontumblr]

Saturday, December 2nd.

Sylvia Plath.

It's a dark and cold day in December and so, naturally, we are left with no choice but to celebrate the sublime and singular talent of Sylvia Plath. That means two entire days of quotes, pictures, and exceptional memes of a literary, existential flavor.

Happy reading, folks. Use your weekends well.

[metamorphesque]

"And I think for that reason I find fan fiction especially a really interesting and really rich mode of expression that, of course, a lot of people look down on 'cause it's - you know, it lacks a certain literary polish. But I respect that about fan fiction. Like, I respect that fan fiction is so much the product of a compulsion, of a yearning, that it almost forgoes all of these pretensions of polish, of quality, of sophistication. And in that sense, for me, there is something that's revealed at the heart of fan fiction that I think is essential to all great literature, which is this desire to put yourself in the same space as the transcendental, you know, to almost touch the hem of it without really quite grasping it."

The loneliness of the central character in Esther Yi's 'Y/N' is universal, an interview with Esther Yi (NPR)

[mostlyghostie]

First quarter of my 2024 reads, Jan to April

So far It’s a toss up between A Month in the Country, Fingersmith and Lessons as my favourite.

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[yourqueerbookshelf]

Not sure what my motive is here, but . . .

The results will not affect which books I post about, because I actually have to want to read them, but I'm dying to know who likes to suffer!