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augment-techs · 3 months ago
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And and and a Greek!Calpresto AU???
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flowerytale · 2 years ago
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Jeffrey Eugenides, from Middlesex
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derangedrhythms · 2 years ago
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Ecstasy. From the Greek Ekstasis. Meaning not what you think. Meaning not euphoria or sexual climax or even happiness. Meaning, literally: a state of displacement, of being driven out of one’s senses.
Jeffrey Eugenides, from 'Middlesex'
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Character, book, and author names under the cut
Hua Cheng- Heaven Official's Blessing / Tian Guan Ci Fu by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu 
Cal Stephanides- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Simon Torquill- October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire
Alex Fierro-Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series by Rick Riordan
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haveyoureadthistransbook · 10 months ago
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
Mod opinion: I've read this book for a college course on trans stories and I didn't really like it (the other book we read in its entirety for the course was stone butch blues though, so it had tough competition, but I really did not enjoy middlesex because it treats the intersex character horribly). Also note that this book is heavily criticised by intersex activist for its interphobia and fetishization of intersex bodies.
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beautifulbookishdisaster · 17 days ago
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It turned out that when it finally happened, the revolution wasn't televised. On TV they called it only a riot.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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haveyoureadthisbook-poll · 7 months ago
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quotelr · 7 months ago
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Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year ago
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Ferdinand Hodler. The Disappointed Souls. 1892 :: (Mikhail Iossel)
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“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ” ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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dtwof · 2 months ago
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What if that girl in the mirror really was me? How did I think I could defect to the other side so easily? What did I know about boys, about men? I didn’t even like them that much.
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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litandlifequotes · 9 months ago
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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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therestlessdead · 1 year ago
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searidings · 2 years ago
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Wow 108 books, that's amazing!!! I definitely need to check out the bold/italicized ones on your list at least
My goal for this year was 52 and I'm trying to make it in these last couple days lol do you have any specific recs that are shorter? Or maybe good audiobooks for variety? I just listened to This Is How You Lose the Time War in a sitting from like 8 pm to 2am and it was so good and visceral I felt like I was going insane
hmmm idk if you like sci-fi and/or if you've ever tried becky chambers (who i would recommend regardless) but to be taught, if fortunate is a charming little sci-fi novella that restored my faith in humanity in the most touchingly beautiful way
for great audiobooks i will NOT stop screaming about the locked tomb series by tamsyn muir, the narration is EXQUISITE like these are not short books nor are they straightforward but i'm not a big re-reader yet as you can see from my list, i read/listened to that series 3 times in one year (twice in a month) because they're just That Good
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twicedailyquotes · 1 year ago
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I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters: money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
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smbilodeau · 1 year ago
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Middlesex
Finished listening to "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Middlesex is narrated by Caliope "Cal" Stephanides, and while it is their life story, it's more than just that. A lot more. It's difficult to pin down what, exactly, Middlesex is. Is it a fictional autobiography? Well, yes, but it's also a history covering events from the 1910s through the late 1970s. It's a coming of age story, but it's also a primer on human genetic issues revolving around hermaphrodism.
It's a love letter to Detroit that acknowledges the race riots that occurred there. It's based in the real world, but there are also fantastic elements to it. It's a treatise on prejudice, but also three generations of love stories. All of which is a perfectly fitting match for Cal, who, thanks to their genes, is both female, and male. Mostly what it is, tho', is a darn good book. (And that's not just my opinion: it won a Pulitzer Prize.) Highly recommended.
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beautifulbookishdisaster · 15 days ago
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Chekhov was right. If there's a gun on the wall, it's got to go off. In real life, however, you never know where the gun is hanging.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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