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drakvuf · 2 years ago
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Men only have two moods
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findmeh-slongson · 1 year ago
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idk u but saw ur tags. i also read skullduggery pleasant. and it was good asfk. we are not alone
We're two of probably ten people that have read those books, I have almost all of them but bookdepository shutting down makes it much harder to get them at a reasonable price
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michyeosseo · 1 year ago
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Anita Yuen and Hsiao Shu Shen as YUNFANG & JUANJUAN LOVE'S LONE FLOWER (2005) dir. Tsao Jui-Yan
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ellienchanted · 2 years ago
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I am soooooo normal about my online book retailer of choice closing
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pepurika · 2 years ago
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Aaaa Bookdepository canceled my order for Tiger Tiger Vol 1 (I will get refund), but I really wanted the book. Where to get it to Finland?
AW :( I think you can order one via amazon (rip...) but there's also going to be few books in Akateeminen Kirjakauppa in Helsinki, and also in Turun Sarjakuvakauppa and Fantasiapelit!
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sudaca-swag · 1 year ago
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Holaa, por dónde compras libros en inglés?
los compraba por bookdepository antes de que fuera asesinado por amazon, ahora mi vida ya no es tan buena como antes RIP
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eleteskonyvtar · 2 years ago
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RIP Bookdepository
Nagyon sok könyvem van onnan. Egy korszak így most lezárult.
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a-chan-no-baka · 4 years ago
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My eyes must be deceiving me o.O
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dazzledbybooks · 5 years ago
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The day after the funeral all our mourning clothes hung out on the line like sleeping bats. 'This will be really embarrassing,' I kept saying to my family, 'when she shows up at the door in a week or two.'  When Deena's wild and mysterious sister Mandy disappears - presumed dead - her family are heartbroken. But Mandy has always been troubled. It's just another bad thing to happen to Deena's family. Only Deena refuses to believe it's true.  And then the letters start arriving. Letters from Mandy, claiming that their family's blighted history is not just bad luck or bad decisions - but a curse, handed down through the generations. Mandy has gone in search of the curse's roots, and now Deena must find her. What they find will heal their family's rotten past - or rip it apart forever. Fowley-Doyle says: “All the Bad Apples is a book built of equal parts hope and fury – it’s about feminism and history, family and identity, and what happens when hidden truths are told. I wrote it as Ireland reeled from the findings of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, as grassroots feminist activists rallied to repeal the 8th amendment, and the rage felt by most of this country infused into a story about a teenage girl retracing her family tree and finding herself in its branches.” Advance Praise for All the Bad Apples “Beautiful and visceral, All the Bad Apples is for readers who've had enough of shame and secrets. This essential book unearths what patriarchy wants to keep buried, dragging truth into the light with a fierce belief in the power of telling stories. Moïra Fowley-Doyle has crafted a tale devastating in its universality” - Joy McCullough, author of Blood Water Paint Book Links: Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40545833-all-the-bad-apples US LINKS: Amazon: https://amzn.to/2XsZEIJ B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/all-the-bad-apples-mo-ra-fowley-doyle/1130335158?ean=9780525552741#/ Google Books: https://books.google.com/books/about/All_the_Bad_Apples.html?id=DJxnDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y UK LINKS: Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Bad-Apples-Moira-Fowley-Doyle-ebook/dp/B07F3NYT8P/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=all+the+bad+apples+moira&qid=1564137706&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/all-the-bad-apples/moira-fowley-doyle/9780241333969 Google Books: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/All_the_Bad_Apples.html?id=DJxnDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y GLOBAL SITES: iTunes: https://books.apple.com/au/book/all-the-bad-apples/id1405309219 Bookdepository: https://www.bookdepository.com/All-the-Bad-Apples-Moira-Fowley-Doyle/9780241333969 Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/nz/en/ebook/all-the-bad-apples About the Author: Moïra Fowley-Doyle is half-French, half-Irish and made of equal parts feminism, whimsy and Doc Martens. She lives in Dublin where she writes magic realism, reads tarot cards and raises witch babies. Moïra’s first novel, The Accident Season, was shortlisted for the 2015 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize & the North East Teen Book Awards, nominated for the Carnegie Medal & won the inaugural School Library Association of Ireland Great Reads Award. It received two starred reviews & sold in ten territories. Her second novel, Spellbook of the Lost and Found, was published in summer 2017, received a starred review from School Library Journal and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Author Links: Website: https://moirafowleydoyle.com/ Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9013537.Mo_ra_Fowley_Doyle Twitter: https://twitter.com/moirawithatrema Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoiraFowleyDoyle/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moirawithatrema/ Tumblr: https://ecritureacreature.tumblr.com/ Giveaway: Prize: Win (1) of (3) copies of ALL THE BAD APPLES by Moïra Fowley-Doyle (UK/Ireland Only) Stars: 22nd August 2019 Ends: 5th September 2019 a Rafflecopter giveaway Tour Schedule: https://fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/tour-schedule-all-bad-apples-by-moira.html August 21st The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club - Welcome Post August 22nd The Book Bratz - Book Spotlight We Live and Breathe Books - Review In Between Book Pages - Review + Favourite Quotes Rants and Raves of a Bibliophile - Review + Favourite Quotes Bookish Looks - Promotional Post August 23rd The Clever Reader - Interview Pages Below the Vaulted Sky - Review Hauntedbybooks - Review + Favourite Quotes Writing with Wolves - Review L.M.Durand - Promotional Post August 24th The Bibliophile Chronicles - Review The Baroness of Books - Review + Favourite Quotes Story-eyed Reviews - Review Sometimes Leelynn Reads - Review + Playlist + Dream Cast Confessions of a YA Reader - Promotional Post August 25th Downright Dystopian - Review + Favourite Quotes The Reading Life - Review + Favourite Quotes marshmallow pudding - Review A Book Addict's Bookshelves - Promotional Post August 26th Utopia State of Mind - Review + Favourite Quotes Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile - Review Dazzled by Books - Spotlight Portrait of a Book - Review Book Rambler - Review August 27th Moonlight Rendezvous - Review + Favourite Quotes The Reading Corner for All - Review + Playlist A Dream Within A Dream - Review Boook Beach Bunny - Review Kait Plus Books - Promotional Post
http://www.dazzledbybooks.com/2019/08/allbadapplesblogtour.html
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sdqhtxt · 7 years ago
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update
it’s a day to the end of november, and soon it’ll be the last month of the year? which honestly feels so crazy, time has passed so quickly once again. i wanna reflect on what has been happening this past year, but i feel like there’s probably more to come by december so maybe then i will reflect and think about my goals in life more properly as well. but anyway, this post will concentrate on the present instead. 
the latest updates would probably be me, ending my internship at dis knee :’>) a chapter of my life is gone and over just like that and it terrifies me to bits. and now i’m back in school and still as rabak as ever. i feel like i need to keep myself in check so i don’t go too far to the edge and do something i regret all over again. it’s hard, to keep on going when you feel like everything is a lost cause. (when you feel like you’re a lost cause) but i need to get through this, and get this over with and to just keep going. i need to just keep doing.
apart from that, i’ve recently received all my bookdepository buys!! which is fairly exciting! i bought:
1. oyasumi punpun vol 1 2. it’s a wonderful world vol 1 3. fragments of horror 4. sad girls 5. kafka on the shore 6. ready player one (which is going to be a gift)
i’m actually super happy!! over having the physical copy of asano inio’s work, especially because it’s such a nice publication with a nice cover to boot! LIKE i adore it so much I’m so glad for its existence. But now that I have started this I feel like I need to get every single volume, so wish me good luck on that tbvh :’>) rip me LOL
I feel like with these purchases that my list of I want to get for books and shit should be getting smaller but I feel like I am a book fiend who will probably never have enough of books. but I guess,,, it’s better than buying drugs am i right HAHAH
honestly I don’t know what to feel about the coming year, which will be full of changes and things and oh my god the big 2. it’s wild and scary and I don’t know what i’m feeling but i hope it’ll be okay. I hope I’ll be okay. I genuinely hope that I will also be working hard to be a better person and not be so amazingly shit at everything. I should probably be starting from today already but, well, here I am right.
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drakvuf · 2 years ago
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Az utolsó bookdepó loot
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Nyugodj békében Bookdepository! Nem érdemeltünk meg.
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logarithmicpanda · 7 years ago
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I was tagged by @rhetoricandlogic, thanks! 
Hardback or paperback -> depends, some book I love having in hardback, others I prefer in paperback for convenience
Borrow or buy
Buy in a bookstore or online but I like bookstores better, there’s just not many english bookstores around me
Amazon or Bookdepository both but I love BD’s bookmarks (especially since I seem to lose most of mine)
Fantasy or sci-fi  I do like scifi but haven’t yet found as many books I love (any recs similar to ancillary justice, or the long way to a small angry planet? or Binti? I loved Binti)
Love-triangle or love at first sight neither
Wall shelves or bookcases 
Mass market paperbacks or large print books 
Bad plot with good characters or good plot with bad characters either? I can also be okay with meh characters, meh plot, but great worldbuilding
Booklr or Bookstagram 
Booklr or Booktube 
Contemporary or Fantasy
Fiction or non-fiction 
Buy a book based on the cover or the description but I do check descriptions of pretty covered books lol
Alphabetical shelves or colour coordinated -> you thought my shelves were organized? how sweet. I just have french books in one place and english books in another, and that’s it
Different sized books or matching sizes
Matching covers / spines or non-matching covers / spines 
Marathon a series or read as released I like switching between series, it allows me to read more I think
Movie or TV adaptation
Perfect adaption of a bad book or bad adaption of a perfect book -> neither, the result would be bad in both case? 
Zombies or Vampires but the kind that rips head, not the Twilight kind
Vampires or Werewolves (I’ve never cared much for werewolves... aside Remus Lupin)
Vampire or Fae but mostly because I don’t know really good fae story... recs? (no sjm please)
Reading inside or outside 
Coffee or Tea 
Eating while reading or not eating -> it depends really
Bookmarks or random objects 
Dog-earing or bookmark I only dog-ear books of essays or the like
Be your favourite character or be their best friend 
Be your favourite character or date your favourite character 
Physical or E-book 
Audiobook or ebook I like audiobooks but have a bit of trouble following them because english isn’t my native language and I get distracted easily
Read in bed or on a chair
Series or stand-alones I really want more standalones because it’s refreshing and easy to reread
Duology or Trilogy 
Reading in winter or reading in summer (READ ALL THE TIME)
Read with music or without music 
Finish reading books you hate or stop reading mid-way I’ve learned to let go of bad books
Yearly book challenge or no book challenge 
Classics or modern books 
I tag @heretherebebooks @bookcub @forest-of-books and @mlledevoltaire if you want to do it
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realisticflyinglesbian · 6 years ago
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2 and 23?
I’m so sorry I can’t figure out which list of questions you asked from so I’m just gonna answer from the ones I found and hope I get lucky.
/Bookish Asks/
2: What are you currently reading?
The last book I picked up was called The Miles Between Me by Toni Nealie, but that was over a month ago, RIP my reading schedule
23: Bookdepository or Amazon?
I’ve never heard of Bookdepository before but I have sworn off Amazon since all the Jeff Bezos shit came out so I guess I’ll go with that one
/100 This or That Asks/
2: Black and white or color?
Colors are beautiful and sunsets will always be spectacular but a good black and white film is honestly so gorgeous in its own right. So I guess it depends on the context.
23: Boots or sandals?
BOOTS BABY!!!! I’m a stompy lesbian!!!
/Vaguely NSFW Asks/
2: Are relationships ever worth it?
Always. Even if they’re brief, there is always something to be gained.
(This naturally excludes abusive/manipulative relationships. Those are never worth your effort and to anyone trapped in one I hope you’re able to find the strength or resources you need to get out soon.) 
23: Do you think you can last in a relationship for six months and never cheat?
Honestly when I’m in a relationship cheating is the last thing on my mind. I am loyal to a fault at times, but I would never cheat on someone.
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inktae · 8 years ago
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1 I think tumblr might have eaten my last ask, either that or I just can't find it over all the recent coffee asks 🙈. I finally read something by murakami in english and I'm so glad I gave him another shot! It's a short story called sleep and I just reread it because I found a really pretty illustrated copy in a bookstore yesterday ^^. His style is really so nice, it's so quite and introspective but also somtimes a bit eerie, it's really something else -coffee anon
2 I really want to read one of his full length novels now, even though the length is a bit intimidating and I'm in a bit of a slump with reading atm. Btw did the bookdepository work out for you? I hope it did^^, I get almost all of my books there or through amazon since most bookshops here don't really have a lot of english books. Also asdfgjkl now we dream apart is such a you type of angst, I don't even know what about it broke my heart, but it definitely did! -coffee anon
3 I don't know if you got my last ask, but in case you didn't, I just wanted to say again how much I love the idea of platonic soulmates! I totally get why fanfiction usually focuses pretty much exclusively on romance, but it's really nice to see something like this too^^. (trying not to write an essay about this again :') but I really loved it and don't get me started on hoseoks character ❤) -coffee anon
4 How is vegetarianism working for you btw? I've been thinking a lot about becoming pescatarian lately, but I'm still on the fence on whether I should wait until I've moved out or not - coffee anon
ahhh tumblr most probably ate your message ;^; there are still so many murakami works I haven’t checked out, so thank you for the rec! especially since it’s a short story, I feel like I can only read short stuff these days :( anyway, I am glad you gave him another shot. his style is definitely not for everyone but I think that’s what makes a writer special :) 
and yes! bookdepository worked perfectly. it took a bit more than I expected to get here, but I can’t complain, it’s free delivery after all hehe. I already know which books I am buying next but I’m very, very broke right now so I have to be patient and save up for a while. maybe in the summer I can buy from them again. I cant wait to get my hands on more books!! :’)
I was a bit confused for a second, but then I realized you were talking about the train of lost souls! I’m super fond of this story and I’m so glad it’s still on your mind, I also think about hoseok’s character from time to time 💕
and about vegetarianism, I adapted to the lifestyle very fast actually! though I eat vegetarian when I go out, I already have a vegan diet at home. I thought it’d be too expensive, but I think it really depends on where you live. I’m fortunate enough that Madrid has already adapted to plenty of options. two supermarkets near my house are super veggie friendly, and they both have a lot of cheap options for me (except seitan, but I am not eating any replacements except for vegan cheese which is also on the cheaper side). we’re even spending less than before so I think that’s also benefited my parents :)
if I had to speak about the hardest part… probably people’s reactions, which tend to be full of confusion or negativity, or both D: yesterday I met up with an old friend and as we were catching up I slipped it in very casually, and she literally just went ‘oh wow you’re a horrible person’ rip. when it comes to cravings, I do feel the need to eat fast food sometimes (old habits die hard) but chocolate, chips and the occasional homemade pizza have really helped me ahaha. I’m still trying to control that lol, you’d be surprised at how terrifyingly easy it is to binge eat on all the vegan junk food. chocolate will be my undoing ;;;
and I think becoming a pescatarian should be quite easy! (then again, I found vegetarianism very easy, so that might just be me), having the option of fish gives you a lot of freedom, a lot more than someone who has to avoid all meat. pretty much every restaurant has fish options, so I don’t think the change would be that big. no need to worry about missing any nutrients either since fish pretty much has everything. but ofc it depends on your current diet and what foods you’re currently used to - the change for me was easy since my previous diet was mostly pasta and rice ahaha. anyway, just remember to be patient with yourself and to think it through for as long as you need to! 
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mariannareads · 6 years ago
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🌵19.9.18 🌵 Happy Wednesday Bookworms! 🍁QOTD: Favorite Hermione moment? . Life update: Uni is kicking my ass right now. I need sleep. . Current read: Found a way of making Tower of Dawn work. I'm going to while communicating to and from uni! _ Book Challenges 🍁Hermione Granger's Birthday, #bookishgreekchallenge 🍁What would Hermione Granger Do?, #BooksinSept18 🍁Happy Birthday Hermione, #BookstagramReadsSeptember 🍁Happy Birthday Hermione , #moonreadssept18 🍁Favorite page, #SeptBookstagram18 _ ⭕I was tagged by @parisian_bookshelf to do the #top5bookishfears _ 🍂Cracked spines _ 🍂Ripped pages _ 🍂Dog eared pages _ 🍂Spilled liquids _ 🍂Loaning my books and never have them returned to me 😔 _________________________________________ #fall2018 #bookscoffeelifestyle #septemberbooks #bibliophile #igreads #goodreads #instavivlio #vscobooks #hermionegranger #HarryPotter #bookdragon #bookdepository #booktography #greekbookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookstagramfeature #thebookchroniclesvol #bookphotography #diavazo #mariannareads #currentlyreading (at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn55fnzlWBS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ax3284p48mo0
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artbookclubdublin-blog · 7 years ago
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Book Suggestion List: Meeting 2
A Manual For Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin
A collection of her short stories. It's 432 pages - it’s suggested that we would read half of it if selected
Available on bookdepository.com €7,08  or in Dubray Books
Book Depository Description
The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction.With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace. Her voice is uniquely witty, anarchic and compassionate. Celebrated for many years by those in the know, she is about to become - a decade after her death - the writer everyone is talking about. The collection will be introduced by Lydia Davis.'With Lucia Berlin we are very far away from the parlours of Boston and New York and quite far away, too, from the fiction of manners, unless we are speaking of very bad manners .
More Detailed review at New York Times Link Below:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/books/review/a-manual-for-cleaning-women-by-lucia-berlin.html
"All pain is real could be Berlin’s mantra, the motto of this collection. It’s no accident that one of her alter egos is named Dolores. The narrator is sometimes a cleaning woman (as in the title story) or an emergency-room nurse, two jobs that require constant contact with the messier aspects of being human: blood, vomit, ­colostomy bags, hemorrhoids. The agonizing moments relived here are often rooted in the physical. The time her grandfather, a dentist, took her into his office and told her to pull out all his teeth: “The sound was the sound of roots being ripped out, like trees being torn from winter ground.” The trip across the Mexican border to an abortion clinic, where she couldn’t go through with it but watched another girl hemorrhage on the hallway floor. Her ­arrest in middle age with her teenage boyfriend: After he is beaten by a policeman, she licks clean his eyes, fused shut with blood. “The best thing that could happen to you would be for you to be uncomfortable once in a while,” a teenage narrator, during a rare moment of privilege, is told by her teacher. In the context of this collection, it sounds like a bitter joke."  RUTH FRANKLIN
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Blurb: Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making.
Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.
https://www.amazon.com/Argonauts-Maggie-Nelson/dp/1555977359
SCUM Manifesto - Valerie Solanas 
A radical feminist manifesto published in 1967. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of SCUM, an organization dedicated to overthrowing society and eliminating the male sex. The Manifesto is widely regarded as satirical, but based on legitimate philosophical and social concerns.
There’s a free PDF of it online at: http://kunsthallezurich.ch/sites/default/files/scum_manifesto.pdf
David Eagleman 'Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives'
At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sum-Tales-Afterlives-David-Eagleman/dp/1847674275/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516394116&sr=8-1&keywords=sum+forty+tales+from+the+afterlives
Chris Krauss - Aliens and Anorexia
First published in 2000, Chris Kraus’s second novel, Aliens & Anorexia, defined a female form of chance that is both emotional and radical. Unfolding like a set of Chinese boxes, with storytelling and philosophy informing each other, the novel weaves together the lives of earnest visionaries and failed artists. Its characters include Simone Weil, the first radical philosopher of sadness; the artist Paul Thek; Kraus herself; and “Africa,” Kraus’s virtual S&M partner, who is shooting a big-budget Hollywood film in Namibia while Kraus holes up in the Northwest woods to chronicle the failure of Gravity & Grace, her own low-budget independent film.
In Aliens & Anorexia, Kraus makes a case for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor “self-esteem.” Anorexia, Kraus writes, could be an attempt to leave the body altogether: a rejection of the cynicism that this culture hands us through its food.
6.64 on a kindle
10.60 Amazon
Sarah Baume - A Line Made by Walking
Struggling to cope with urban life-and life in general-Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to her family's rural house on "turbine hill," vacant since her grandmother's death three years earlier. It is in this space, surrounded by countryside and wild creatures, that she can finally grapple with the chain of events that led her here-her shaky mental health, her difficult time in art school-and maybe, just maybe, regain her footing in art and life. As Frankie picks up photography once more, closely examining the natural world around her, she reconsiders seminal works of art and their relevance.
With "prose that makes sure we look and listen," Sara Baume has written an elegant novel that is as much an exploration of wildness, the art world, mental illness, and community as it is a profoundly beautiful and powerful meditation on life.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/10/a-line-made-by-walking-review-sara-baume
"The Sublime", edited by Simon Morley
Documents of Contemporary Art, co-published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, 2010
ISBN 978-0-85488-178-9 (Whitechapel Galllery)
ISBN 978-0-262-51391-3 (The MIT Press)
Here is a link to it on BookDepository: https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Sublime/9780262513913, it costs 19.48 euro.
and on the Whitechapel gallery website: https://shop.whitechapelgallery.org/products/the-sublime, it is 16.95 pounds
and the UK amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sublime-Documents-Contemporary-Art/dp/0854881786 , also 16.95 pounds for a new one, and from 8.99 pounds for used ones.
Artful by Ali Smith
Blurb (copied from Goodreads):
In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Her lectures took the shape of this set of discursive stories. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted—literally—by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature.
A hypnotic dialogue unfolds, a duet between and a meditation on art and storytelling, a book about love, grief, memory, and revitalization. Smith’s heady powers as a fiction writer harmonize with her keen perceptions as a reader and critic to form a living thing that reminds us that life and art are never separate.
Artful is a book about the things art can do, the things art is full of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness. It glances off artists and writers from Michelangelo through Dickens, then all the way past postmodernity, exploring every form, from ancient cave painting to 1960s cinema musicals. This kaleidoscope opens up new, inventive, elastic insights—on the relation of aesthetic form to the human mind, the ways we build our minds from stories, the bridges art builds between us. Artful is a celebration of literature’s worth in and to the world and a meaningful contribution to that worth in itself.
BookDepository: https://www.bookdepository.com/Artful-Ali-Smith/9780241959572?ref=grid-view&qid=1516465563487&sr=1-1
How Forests Think Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human - Eduardo Kohn
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world’s most complex ecosystems. Whether or not we recognize it, our anthropological tools hinge on those capacities that make us distinctly human. However, when we turn our ethnographic attention to how we relate to other kinds of beings, these tools (which have the effect of divorcing us from the rest of the world) break down. How Forests Think seizes on this breakdown as an opportunity. Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of the living world itself. In this groundbreaking work, Kohn takes anthropology in a new and exciting direction–one that offers a more capacious way to think about the world we share with other kinds of beings.
€21.33 on book depository
Three Hito Steyerl Essays:
In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective - http://www.e-flux.com/journal/24/67860/in-free-fall-a-thought-experiment-on-vertical-perspective/
Politics of the archive Translations in film - http://eipcp.net/transversal/0608/steyerl/en
In Defense of the Poor Image - http://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image
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