#neal faulkner

[yellosnacc]

the blorbos

This took a while because I wasn't sure about some visuals but I love my blorbos and how they ended up.

For anyone new to my characters, on the left is Neal, the professor of acoustics, sound manipulation, and other physical stuff that people of this time period can't differentiate very well. He lives a simple normal sloman life.

On the right is "bio man" (I still need to come up with names for 80% of my characters even though I have had them for ages). He teaches everything biology-related in a small school in a completely different country. But he would rather travel and discover the nature of the world (which he does with Neal in the story).

If it's not clear, they enjoy each others company (or at least will). This picture is for me to feel warm and to show the different ways they look at the world. It's abstractly set in the future where Neal gets to have a basic fasion sense and more open feelings.

[m-c-easton]

Feel Like You Want to Quit Writing? Try This

I don't know about you, but it's easy for me to get caught up in waves of self-doubt. When I'm stuck in cycles of negative self-talk, it can leave me feeling like a fraud. This is where Amy Tan recently helped me out with her MasterClass. #writing

I don’t know about you, but it’s easy to for me to get caught up in the old tidal wave of self-doubt. You know how it goes—I’m too old for this, I’ll never succeed at it, I’ll never publish (again), what am I thinking spending all my weekends writing when no one will read any of this crap, why can’t I just face reality and grow up like everybody else? All that negative self-talk left me feeling…

[yellos2]

[butchgeorgefayne]

Are there any authors whose works you’d like to see represented in the show?

My personal picks would be Hans Christian Andersen(The Little Mermaid, Snow Queen, Princess and the Pea), Marquis de Sade (Justine, 120 Days of Sodom), Mary Shelley(Frankenstein, Matilda)

marquis de sade might be a liiittle tonally dissonant for rwby, i wouldn’t trust them to handle it well at all 😅 but i like your other suggestions, particularly Shelley. rwby does gothic surprisingly well (and you especially seem to like horror) so I think you’re on the right track! as for other gothic authors… maybe Poe, Irving, Faulkner, O’Connor, or one of the Brontes?

Since they’ve already done Journey to the West, maybe they could try adapting another one of the four great novels (Romance of the three kingdoms, Water Margin, Dream of the Red Chamber…)

Theater, too, you have so many options there. Shakespeare and Wilde, or you could go for opera instead and adapt Carmen, the Barber of Seville, or the Marriage of Figaro

Given some of their works are entering the public domain, it could be cool to see them tackle F. Scott Fitzgerald or Zora Neale Hurston. I think, most of all, I’d want to see them allude to Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, or Alexandre Dumas.

sorry if I talked too long on this lol. this was a fun question!

[bookquest2024]

100 Books to Read Before I Die: Quest Order

The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Under The Net by Iris Murdoch

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

A Passage to India by EM Forster

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Ulysses by James Joyce

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Watchmen by Alan Moore

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Money by Martin Amis

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

[fr4ntzfanonwasright]

English Classroom Bookshelf Haul/TBR!

Desc:

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Utopia by Thomas More Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner TTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Basic Writings on Politics & Philosophy from Marx & Engels Catch 22 by Joeseph Heller Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[boldlycrookedsalad]

Continuing Literary Canon

100. Federico Garcia Lorca, Blood Wedding

101. Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

102. Albert Camus, The Stranger

103. Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano

104. William Butler Yeats

105. George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

106. Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

107. Joseph Conrad

108. D.H. Lawrence

109. Virginia Woolf

110. James Joyce

111. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

112. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

113. W. H. Auden

114. George Orwell, 1984

115. Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

116. The Trial

117. Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage

118. Thomas Mann

119. Andrei Bely, Petersburg

120. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

121. Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago

122. Edwin Arlington Robinson

123. Robert Frost

124. Edith Wharton

125. Willa Cather

126. Gertrude Stein

127. Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning"

128. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

129. Sherwood Anderson

130. T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

131. "The Waste Land"

132. "The Hollow Men"

133. "The Journey of the Magi"

134. Katherine Anne Porter

135. Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night

136. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

137. William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

138. Ernest Hemingway -The Old Man and the Sea

139. A Farewell to Arms

140. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

141. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

142. Eudora Welty

143. Flannery O'Connor

144. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

145. J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

146. Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire

147. The Glass Menagerie

148. Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

149. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

150. Joyce Carol Oates

151. Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

152. John Updike - A&P

153. The Witches of Eastwick

[hanakogames]

Great American Novels

Time for another of those "look at a list of Great Novels and see how many I've read" things - though my memory does begin to fail me a bit, especially when it comes to 'worthy' books that I may have heard *of* a lot but not actually read.

The Great Gatsby

Yes, for school. Was I particularly taken with it? No. Never bothered watching any movie adaptation and can never remember what it was about in detail, I always have to look it up.

-

An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser

Author name sounds familiar, but I dont know what this book is without looking it up… nope, have not read this. It's public domain now so I could, I guess.

-

The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein

I've heard of her. I have not read this book.

-

Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather

I have heard of Willa Cather and may have read something by her but probably not this.

-

A Farewell To Arms, Hemingway

Obviously know who Hemingway is but cannot tell you whether I've read this or not. I don't know, sorry.

-

Passing, Nella Larsen

No familiarity.

-

The Sound and the Fury + Absalom, Absalom, Faulkner

I don't like Faulkner. This opinion likely stems from ahving been forced to read something he wrote in school and being annoyed by it. However, I can't tell you what I read. I've read about both of these and may or may not have read some part of one of them at some point.

-

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

No familiarity, but now that I look it up on wikipedia, I need to actually go find that for research purposes, this seems relevant to my interests.

-

East Goes West, Younghill Kang

Never heard of it, I assume it has to do with the Chinese in California? Oops, no, Korean, sorry.

-

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

Heard of it. Haven't read it.

-

USA, John Dos Passos

No familiarity.

-

Ask the Dust, John Fante

No familiarity

-

The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

I've heard of it but mostly because there's a movie, which I also haven't seen.

-

The Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West

I thought I'd heard of the author but it appears probably not. No familiarity then.

-

The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck

Had to read it for school.

-

Native Son, Richard Wright

Heard of it.

-

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

No familiarity.

-

A Time to be Born, Dawn Powell

No familiarity.

-

All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren

Heard of it.

-

The Street, Ann Petry

No familiarity.

-

In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B Hughes

Heard of the author.

-

The Mountain Lion, Jean Stafford

No familiarity but the tiny amount of info on wikipedia makes me think this might be a children's adventure book.

-

The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger

Heard of it, sure, but never read it

-

Charlotte's Web, E B White

Yes, I read this!

-

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

Nope

-

Farenheit 451, Bradbury

Obviously familiar with the general idea but never read it.

-

Maud Martha, Gwendolyn Brooks

No familiarity.

-

The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow

No familiarity

-

Lolita, Nabokov

Yes, I read this of my own free will in college (and I'm glad of it, because the impression I had of the novel before reading it was very far off what the book actually was, so at least now I have an informed opinion)

-

Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin

No familiarity.

--

Peyton Place, Grace Metalious

Name sounds familiar though I suspect it was made into a miniseries or something. (checking - yeah, tv show, movies, etc)

-

Deep Water, Patricia Highsmith

Didn't she write The Price of Salt? (checks) Oh, and also Ripley. But I don't know this book.

-

No-No Boy, John Okada

No familiarity.

-

On The Road, Jack Kerouac

Heard of it.

-

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

Heard of it, and read some Shirley Jackson, but I don't think I read this.

-

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Heard of it.

-

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine l'Engle

Yes, I read this and several other of her books, but this wasn't my favorite.

-

Another Country, James Baldwin

Not familiar.

-

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey

Familiar with it but didn't read it.

-

Pale Fire, Nabokov

DOn't know this book

-

The Zebra-Striped Hearse, Ross Macdonald

No familiarity (checks) Apparently it's a detective book

-

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

Heard of it.

-

The Group, Mary McCarthy

No familiarity

-

The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon

I've heard of the author.

-

A Sport and a Pastime, James Salter

Is this a baseball book? (checks) Oh, I guess it's about sex. No familiarity.

-

Couples, John Updike

I've heard of the author.

-

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K Dick

I've read several things by Dick but probably not this one and I still haven't watched Blade Runner.

-

Divorcing, Susan Taubes

No familiarity.

-

Portnoy's COmplaint, Philip Roth

I think I've heard of the author

-

Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut

Heard of it.

-

Are you there God? It's me Margaret, Judy Blume

Pretty sure I read this as a kid.

-

Desperate Characters, Paula Fox

No familiarity.

-

Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion

No familarity, but I think I've dimly heard of Joan Didion.

-

Log of the Ss the Mrs Unguentine, Stanley Crawford

No familiarity

-

Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed

No familiarity

-

Sula, Toni Morrison

No familiarity

-

The Revolt of the Cockroach People, Oscar Zeta Acosta

No familiarity

-

Oreo, Fran Ross

No familiarity, though I can guess what it's about.

-

The Dispossessed, Urusla K LeGuin

I literally have a copy sitting on my to-read stack. I'll get there.

-

Winter in the Blood, James Welch

No familiarity

-

Corregidora, Gayl Jones

No familiarty

-

Speedboat, Renata Adler

No familiarity

-

Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko

No familiarity.

-

Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

see previous

-

A Contract with God, Will Eisner

I've heard of the author

-

Dancer from the Dance, Andrew Holleran

No familiarity

-

The Stand, Stephen King

I'm familiar with it but did not read it.

-

Kindred, Octavia E Butler

Yes, I've read this

-

The Dog of the South, Charles Portis

No familiarity

-

Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson

No familiarity

-

The Salt Eaters, TOni Cade Bambara

This sounds familiar. I don't know if I've read it, a piece of it, something inspired by it, or someone talking about it, but the plot description is very familiar.

-

Little, Big; Or the Fairies Parliament, John Crowley

No familiarity.

-

Oxherding Tale, Charles Johnson

No familiarity

-

Machine Dreams, Jayne Anne Phillips

No familiarity

-

Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

Heard of book and author, someone I know was going through a McCarthy phase

-

A Summons to Memphis, Peter Taylor

No familiarity

-

Watchmen

This should not be on this list, it's not an American novel.

-

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Heard of this book specifically

-

Dawn, Octavia Butler

Read it, it's on my shelf

-

Geek Love, Katherine Dunn

No familiarity (and it's the circus kind of geek)

-

Tripmaster Monkey, Maxine Hong Kingston

No familiarity

-

Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn

No familiarity

-

American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis

Familiar with it. I didn't watch the movie but I read about both it and the book.

-

How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents, Julia Alvarez

No familiarity

-

Mating, Norman Rush

No familiarity

-

Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison

Very familiar with it. Watched the movie. Don't think I've read the book but not sure.

-

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

Heard of it and been told it's good.

-

So Far from God, Ana Castillo

Not familiar with it

-

Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg

Definitely aware of it, it was referenced a lot in some of the 90s lesbian fiction I did read, but I haven't read it.

-

The Shipping News, Annie Proulx

Heard of it.

-

Native Speaker, Chang-Rae Lee

I thinK i've heard of it?

-

Sabbath's Theater, Philip Roth

Still think I've heard of the author

-

Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Maria Viramontes

No familiarity

-

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

Heard of it

-

I Love Dick, Chris Kraus

No familiarity

-

Underworld, Don Delillo

No familiarity.

-

The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead

No familiarity.

-

Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates

Heard of the author.

-

House of Leaves, Mark Z Danielewski

Head of it

-

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier&Clay, Michael Chabon

no familiarity

-

The Last Saumrai, Helen DeWitt

wasn't that a tom cruise movie (no this is apparently about a single mother)

-

The Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams

wasn't that a western (well, this is something else, but wikipedia isn't telling me what)

-

Erasure, Percival Everett

No familiarity

-

I the Divine, Rabih Alameddine

No familiarity

-

The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

I have heard of the author

-

Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros

No familiarity

We're past the year 2000 in publications now and I'm starting to strike out hard. I've never even heard of any of the books or authors past this point save for N.K.Jemisin and maybe Patricia Lockwood, so it got pointless to list them.

[godrinati]

“Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws." - Zora Neale Hurston

ph. Chance Faulkner

[yellosnacc]

Why is Prof Faulkner's… head crest(?) far shorter compared to those of other Uniimas?

He doesn't know if it's a birth defect or a very early injury but it's one of those.

The crest is two horn bones fused together at the top, inside is the Uniima's vocal organ and the sound comes from the 4 holes at the front.

His crest is not really shorter, it's kinda just not there, making him physically mute. He can push air from his nostrils but it's no speech. It limits him in few other ways but he's doing fine.

(he also lacks all of his claws but those are definitely injury)

Sorry for using your question to infodump. Enjoy my not-refined-enough anatomy lesson.

[jackinalex]

This is not ATL related, but I know you studied English and I was wondering what are some of your favourite books/poems/authors? Do you prefer classical literature or more modern; prose or poetry? I recently started reading a lot more poetry and I love it, there is just something profound about it. Especially when you are able to experience what the author wanted you to so many years later. It’s like an emotional and sensory time machine.

I will talk about literature forever, so I will (try to) keep this brief.

I used to prefer more modern stuff, but I have a soft spot in my heart now for the classics (probably because I studied them extensively for six years lmao). If I'm going to pick up a book and just read it for un, though, it's almost always gonna be a modern thriller. I'm a slut for a murder mystery. My favorite modern authors are Gillian Flynn and VC Andrews, and I would say that my favorite book is Flynn's Sharp Objects. I'm not sure where I'd even begin with my favorite classic works, so I'll just list some of my favorite authors, both modern and classic: Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Gayl Jones, Randal Kenan, Toni Morrison, Zoje Stage, the Bronte sisters, William Gay, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Hanya Yanagihara. Honorable mentions to Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Poe, and Faulkner. I'm not going to lie and say that I enjoy reading Faulkner, but his stuff is so ridiculous sometimes. I love his storytelling. My attention span cannot stand his actual writing, but my favorite professor adored him, so I appreciate his southern gothic shit.

Poetry is a whole other can of worms. I adore it, but I didn't always adore it (high school Kalina would be shook to know this). I agree with you! I feel like every time I read a much-loved poem of mine, I still find something new. Music is like that, too.

My favorite poets are AE Housman, Sylvia Plath, and Emily Dickens, pretty much in that order, but I'm a Plath girl through and through. My favorite poem of all time is "Because I Liked You Better" by Housman, and it inspired the title for Where Clover Whitens. It's also the epitaph for the first chapter and what inspired me to make the whole thing have a poetry theme. I love Allen Ginsberg, Christina Rosetti, and Langston Hughes, too.

Most of the poetry I read is classic, but I love, love, love Mary Oliver. Honorable mentions go to Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

[raph-fangirl]

AAAAAAAA I hope you're doing well!!!

What authors/creators are your biggest inspirations in terms of writing?

I AM SO SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO REPLY LIFE HAS BEEN NOT KIND TO ME AND I HAVE BEEN SO BUSY

hmmm i love jane austen (obvi) i also love Shakespeare and other Elizabethan and victorian authors.

i also love southern gothic writers (zora neale hurston what a queen, William Faulkner, flannery o'connor)

i also love anything that is a victorian fairy tale retelling. such huge inspos for me

[pensivegladiola]

The List (and current progress):

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald ✅

2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger ✅

3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee ✅

5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

6. Ulysses, by James Joyce

7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison

8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding ✅

9. 1984, by George Orwell ✅

11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov ✅

12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck ✅

15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller ✅

16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley ✅

17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell ✅

18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway ✅

19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner ✅

20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston ✅

24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison ✅

25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison

26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

27. Native Son, by Richard Wright

28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey

29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut ✅

30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway ✅

33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London ✅

36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren ✅

40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence

49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess ✅

50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin

53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie

57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron

64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence

66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut ✅

67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles ✅

73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs

74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh ✅

75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence

80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer

84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller

88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser

97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike

My employees were reading about recent book bannings and decided we needed to start a banned book club so we’re reading our way through the most frequently challenged classics. Since I’m a big reader, I’ve already read a lot more of the list than them so I decided to jump ahead on the list instead of rereading.

Anyway, tried to tackle Ulysses and two chapters in I gave up hahaha

Now I know why it consistently ranks as one of the world’s most difficult books.

I switched over to The Sun Also Rises and read that instead. Grapes of Wrath is next (which tbh I’m not a Steinbeck lover so we will see). They’re reading Catcher in the Rye meanwhile.

[calculatedliterature]

Writing an essay on William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and working through some thoughts...

We'll never get away from Faulkner, even as we begin to address the controversy of whether or not we should be reading him. My university recently replaced a literature course on Faulkner with a course on disabled voices in the field of literature. I'm happy to see the inclusion of diversity, but since I'm reading his works in my class on modernism, I actually think there's a lot to be learned from his collection. In my class, we're reading his short story alongside works like Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright, so I recognize the difference between exclusively reading Faulkner and reading Faulkner alongside black voices. One glorifies him, and one acknowledges his influence in the literary canon as well as analyzes his failings.

The issue is that Faulkner is a white man who writes about white people. There is only so much he says, or can say, about slavery without explicitly writing about black characters, something he mostly avoids doing. I think the best way to read Faulkner is not on its own but as one of many in the canon of literature written about the post-Antebellum South.

The thesis of my essay (if y'all can pray that I get a good grade please) is that Faulkner sets out to criticize the South for the Lost Cause narrative that painted the Civil War as a great tragedy for the South and glossed over the horrors of slavery, but also that in doing so, he falls victim to his own criticisms. Because his stories are about white people and how slavery was like some sort of poison root causing the demise of the white Antebellum South, he ends up actually whitewashing the South. His argument is supposed to be that slavery undermined the South's success, but he kind of forgets that there are black people in the South whose success was also undermined by slavery, and just talks about white people interacting with white people. So his criticism is that white people are whitewashing the Civil War, but he ends up whitewashing his stories. And so on.

Probably not new thoughts for anyone who has studied Faulkner before, but something I wanted to hash out anyway.

[andyet-here-we-are]

Hi! I know this is probably a bit unrelated, but I've been seeing the Feral Jaskier and Feral Ciri tropes going around and I was wondering if you know of any other characters from various fandoms that have Feral sides? (I keep thinking of Deputy Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show (an old American tv show))

Hiii~

Well, even though my blog is mainly about The Witcher, that doesn't mean that questions should be only The Witcher related. So it's okay, no worries ^^

And let me introduce you to one of my sons! Malcolm Bright! -that's it, if you don't already know him-

He definitely has a feral side, and I love him so much even though he will be the death of me.

And there are other characters too.

Neal Caffrey, for example!

Blair Pfaff (I think he has a potential)

And Alexander Hamilton, but from the musical. We don't call him Gremlin for nothing in the fanfictions 😂

And hmm. Oliver Hampton! He would do everything for Connor, and I think he has a feral side as well.

Barry Berkman (... he IS feral)

Also: Adam Faulkner Stanheight!

And Lawrence Gordon

Probably there are more, but that's all I can think about right now. Thank you for the ask!💛 I enjoyed answering it :)

-and sorry if that wasn't helpful ><

[demidemilitclub]

So I was walking through Barnes & Noble the other day with my mom, and we were both lamenting about how far behind we are on reading, especially as I have a lot of classic literature to read through in addition to all the modern literature that I’ve been recommended. We decided that in the new year, we were going to use our time to read a lot more and sort of systematically go through and catch up on what we need to. That being said, I’d love recommendations of stuff I need to/should read if you have any.

The Art of the Short Story is required reading for my Story and Character class this coming semester, so I’m going to read about 50-60 of the best short stories over the past 100 or so years from a variety of men and women of various ethnic and racial backgrounds. And in walking through B&N, talking with my mom and my sister, and remembering what I already have, I have made a rough list of (in no particular order):

The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Various Works by Stephen King

1984 by George Orwell

It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy

The Wolves of Mercy Falls Series by Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

The Dark-Hunter novels by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss

The Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Middlemarch by George Elliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Possession by A.S. Byatt

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Collected Short Stories of Isaac Asimov

I’d love to read more stuff by more diverse authors and make sure I’m caught up on the modern fantasy scene. If you have anything to add or subtract to my list, feel free to let me know!