#shivtomdivorce

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14, 20, 25!!!

What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - i'm currently reading it after soooo many people were telling me to

i'd also like to finish The Monster Baru Cormorant bc i love to suffer <3

What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

tbh it was ACTUALLY my book bc you know.....it's mine. it seems like people like it so!!!

my most anticipated by another writer was Model Home by Rivers Solomon. As usual, Solomon blew it out of the park.

What reading goals do you have for next year?

i want to read more 500+ page books! especially Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. and maaaaaybe even Middlemarch???

[lesbianfreyja]

13 & 54!!

13. officially mine - maude latour 💜

54. the feminine urge - the last dinner party

:) 🩵

[girljeremystrong]

your post about it reminded me i read the index of self-destructive acts after you recommended it a bit ago and it was SO well-written and complex i really loved it so thank you!!

YIPPEEE I'M SO HAPPY YOU LIKED IT!!!!!!!!!

feels a bit like succession doesn't it? i read it way back in like 2020 and i still think of it so often and i think it's one of my favorite books ever!!!!

thank you for sending me this message i love to hear that you enjoyed reading it!!!!!!! :-)

[shivtomdivorce]

kind of what to change my url again

[librarycards]

i love this rec idea this is so fun: the sparrow by mary doria russel, east of eden by john steinbeck, the seven moons of maali almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, the glass hotel by emily st. john mandel, and the biography of x by catherine lacey

ty, what a cool list!

recs:

Fifteen Dogs, André Alexis

Tender is the Flesh, Augustina Bazterrica

Chouette, Claire Oshetsky

Bonus: My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite

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happy happy birthday!!! hope you have a wonderful day 🎉🎉

YIPPEE thank you!!! <3333

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11, 17, and 20 for the book ask!!

What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

One of them was Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg z"l. Leslie, I adore you, but you are a very poor historian and this book, read as 'research', is kind of a joke.

Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

answered this in the previous ask, but here's another: The Bacchae by Euripides! definitely also qualifies as a book that's been "out for a while" dfjskfdsfhdjks. despite being literally ancient and me not being a huge classics (in the greek/roman sense) fan, this was super readable, entertaining, and even funny.

What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

One of them was "The Call-Out" by Cat Fitzpatrick. I love Cat, but this book sucked honestly. I was cringing through the whole thing - the rhymed tidiness & contrivedness of every verse was just a lot, especially for a long poem.

[librarycards]

Happy Women in Translation month! Here is a recommendation list of books by women, translated into english. I based my selection on the widest variety of countries and languages of origin possible, and as a result, found nine books written by women and almost all translated by women, in nine different laguages!

Vivarium by Maarja Pärtna, tr. Jayde Will (Estonian)

Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Maojin, tr. Bonnie Huie (Chinese)

The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo, tr. Lola Rogers (Finnish)

Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada, tr. Kit Maude (Spanish)

How the First Sparks Became Visible by Simone Atangana Bekono, tr. David Colmer (Dutch)

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval, tr. Marjam Idriss (Norwegian)

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami, tr. Sam Bett and David Boyd (Japanese)

Blood Feast by Malika Moustadraf, tr. Alice Guthrie (Arabic)

Mommy Must be a Fountain of Feathers by Kim Hyesoon, tr. Don Mee Choi (Korean)

tagging people below, including the ones who encouraged me to do this!! i'd love to see your liss, esp. those living outside the anglosphere!

@cigaretteaunt @shivtomdivorce @hamsterprincessdoll @podcastlesbian @secretcircuit @growtiredofpublicvulnerability @aldieb @heavenlyyshecomes @fatehbaz @punkkwix @fluoresensitive @bioethicists @felgueirosa @abstractlesbian @capricornpropaganda

[shivtomdivorce]

shivtomdivorce -> artpatricktashi

brief url change while im challengerspilled bc i’m shocked this was free

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dunkindonutsbi —> shivtomdivorce

happy succession season to us all

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Recs so far:

The Emissary / Yoko Towada (by @angladeofthesea)

Our Wives Under the Sea / Julia Armfield (by @nightlyponder)

Our Share of Night / Mariana Enriquez (by @shivtomdivorce)

Something New Under the Sun / Alexandra Kleeman (by @hyperbolic0range)

The Fortunate Fall / Raphael Carter (by @mmmondegreen)

The Drowning Girl / Caitlin R. Kiernan (by @mmmondegreen)

High as the Waters Rise / Anja Kapmann (by @metamatar)

Feed Them Silence / Lee Mandelo (by @swallowtailed)

feel free to share yours in the replies, and i'll add them on if i haven't read them already! i'm adding them all to a goodreads shelf along with other recs/things i personally want to read this year.

should i make a small 2024 tbr? feel free to leave your recs for books below

i'm thinking of making a "must read" tbr for 2024 of maybe 50 or fewer books on substack and include some of your recs. i usually read about 300 a year so this is a small fraction (most of the ones i read are for my academic/creative work, for reviews/blurbs, and/or based on vibes alone)

but i do want to keep ppls' recs in mind when i plan what to read ++ have some i really need to read this coming year so!

[shivtomdivorce]

just saved a delicious url for when succession s4 airs 

[lesbianfreyja]

37, 71, and 88!!!

37- hardline by julien <3<3 albums i listened to 500x last year and had a panic attack to the weekend before asking my gf out officially 🤪

71- i know the end by phoebe bridgerrrss damn my spotify wreaks of sad lesbianism

88- this is me trying </3