#song: oceans by emily george

[disabled-dragoon]

The Disability Library

I love books, I love literature, and I love this blog, but it's only been recently that I've really been given the option to explore disabled literature, and I hate that. When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be able to read about characters like me, and now as an adult, all I want is to be able to read a book that takes us seriously.

And so, friends, Romans, countrymen, I present, a special disability and chronic illness booklist, compiled by myself and through the contributions of wonderful members from this site!

As always, if there are any at all that you want me to add, please just say. I'm always looking for more!

Edit 20/10/2023: You can now suggest books using the google form at the bottom!

Updated: 31/08/2023

Articles and Chapters

The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, Essaka Joshua, 2012

Early Modern Literature and Disability Studies, Allison P. Hobgood, David Houston Wood, 2017

How Do You Develop Whole Object Relations as an Adult?, Elinor Greenburg, 2019

Making Do with What You Don't Have: Disabled Black Motherhood in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Anna Hinton, 2018

Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2003 OR Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2019

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts, Zygmunt Bauman, 2004

Witchcraft and deformity in early modern English Literature, Scott Eaton, 2020

Books

Fiction:

Misc:

10 Things I Can See From Here, Carrie Mac

A-F:

A Curse So Dark and Lonely, (Series), Brigid Kemmerer

Akata Witch, (Series), Nnedi Okorafor

A Mango-Shaped Space, Wendy Mass

Ancillary Justice, (Series), Ann Leckie

An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon

An Unseen Attraction, (Series), K. J. Charles

A Shot in the Dark, Victoria Lee

A Snicker of Magic, Natalie Lloyd

A Song of Ice and Fire, (series), George R. R. Martin

A Spindle Splintered, (Series), Alix E. Harrow

A Time to Dance, Padma Venkatraman

Bath Haus, P. J. Vernon

Beasts of Prey, (Series), Ayana Gray

The Bedlam Stacks, (Series), Natasha Pulley

Black Bird, Blue Road, Sofiya Pasternack

Black Sun, (Series), Rebecca Roanhorse

Blood Price, (Series), Tanya Huff

Borderline, (Series), Mishell Baker

Breath, Donna Jo Napoli

The Broken Kingdoms, (Series), N.K. Jemisin

Brute, Kim Fielding

Cafe con Lychee, Emery Lee

Carry the Ocean, (Series), Heidi Cullinan

Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman

Cinder, (Series), Marissa Meyer

Clean, Amy Reed

Connection Error, (Series), Annabeth Albert

Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star, Laura Noakes

Crazy, Benjamin Lebert

Crooked Kingdom, (Series), Leigh Bardugo

Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots, (Series), Cat Sebastian

Daniel, Deconstructed, James Ramos

Dead in the Garden, (Series), Dahlia Donovan

Dear Fang, With Love, Rufi Thorpe

Deathless Divide, (Series), Justina Ireland

The Degenerates, J. Albert Mann

The Doctor's Discretion, E.E. Ottoman

Earth Girl, (Series), Janet Edwards

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Emily R. Austin

The Extraordinaries, (Series), T. J. Klune

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, (Series), Trenton Lee Stewart

Fight + Flight, Jules Machias

The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix

Finding My Voice, (Series), Aoife Dooley

The First Thing About You, Chaz Hayden

Follow My Leader, James B. Garfield

Forever Is Now, Mariama J. Lockington

Fortune Favours the Dead, (Series), Stephen Spotswood

Fresh, Margot Wood

H-0:

Harmony, London Price

Harrow the Ninth, (series), Tamsyn Muir

Hench, (Series), Natalia Zina Walschots

Highly Illogical Behaviour, John Corey Whaley

Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers

How to Become a Planet, Nicole Melleby

How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager, (Series), D. N. Bryn

How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites, Joy Demorra

I Am Not Alone, Francisco X. Stork

The Immeasurable Depth of You, Maria Ingrande Mora

In the Ring, Sierra Isley

Into The Drowning Deep, (Series), Mira Grant

Iron Widow, (Series), Xiran Jay Zhao

Izzy at the End of the World, K. A. Reynolds

Jodie's Journey, Colin Thiele

Just by Looking at Him, Ryan O'Connell

Kissing Doorknobs, Terry Spencer Hesser

Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore

Learning Curves, (Series), Ceillie Simkiss

Let's Call It a Doomsday, Katie Henry

The Library of the Dead, (Series), TL Huchu

The Lion Hunter, (Series), Elizabeth Wein

Lirael, (Series), Garth Nix

Long Macchiatos and Monsters, Alison Evans

Love from A to Z, (Series), S.K. Ali

Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses, Kristen O'Neal

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Never Tilting World, (Series), Rin Chupeco

The No-Girlfriend Rule, Christen Randall

Nona the Ninth, (series), Tamsyn Muir

Noor, Nnedi Okorafor

Odder Still, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Once Stolen, (Series), D. N. Bryn

One For All, Lillie Lainoff

On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis

Origami Striptease, Peggy Munson

Our Bloody Pearl, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper

P-T:

Parable of the Sower, (Series), Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents, (Series), Octavia E. Butler

Percy Jackson & the Olympians, (series), Rick Riordan

Pomegranate, Helen Elaine Lee

The Prey of Gods, Nicky Drayden

The Pursuit Of..., (Series), Courtney Milan

The Queen's Thief, (Series), Megan Whalen Turner

The Quiet and the Loud, Helena Fox

The Raging Quiet, Sheryl Jordan

The Reanimator's Heart, (Series), Kara Jorgensen

The Remaking of Corbin Wale, Joan Parrish

Roll with It, (Series), Jamie Sumner

Russian Doll, (Series), Cristelle Comby

The Second Mango, (Series), Shira Glassman

Scar of the Bamboo Leaf, Sieni A.M

Shaman, (Series), Noah Gordon

Sick Kids in Love, Hannah Moskowitz

The Silent Boy, Lois Lowry

Six of Crows, (Series) Leigh Bardugo

Sizzle Reel, Carlyn Greenwald

The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal

The Stagsblood Prince, (Series), Gideon E. Wood

Stake Sauce, Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient is Love. No, Really, (Series), RoAnna Sylver

Stars in Your Eyes, Kacen Callender [Expected release: Oct 2023]

The Storm Runner, (Series), J. C. Cervantes

Stronger Still, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Sweetblood, Pete Hautman

Tarnished Are the Stars, Rosiee Thor

The Theft of Sunlight, (Series), Intisar Khanani

Throwaway Girls, Andrea Contos

Top Ten, Katie Cotugno

Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Treasure, Rebekah Weatherspoon

Turtles All the Way Down, John Green

U-Z:

Unlicensed Delivery, Will Soulsby-McCreath Expected release October 2023

Verona Comics, Jennifer Dugan

Vorkosigan Saga, (Series), Lois McMaster Bujold

We Are the Ants, (Series), Shaun David Hutchinson

The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf

Whip, Stir and Serve, Caitlyn Frost and Henry Drake

The Whispering Dark, Kelly Andrew

Wicked Sweet, Chelsea M. Cameron

Wonder, (Series), R. J. Palacio

Wrong to Need You, (Series), Alisha Rai

Ziggy, Stardust and Me, James Brandon

Graphic Novels:

A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability, (Non-Fiction), A. Andrews

Constellations, Kate Glasheen

Dancing After TEN: a graphic memoir, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Vivian Chong, Georgia Webber

Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Jason Adam Katzenstein

Frankie's World: A Graphic Novel, (Series), Aoife Dooley

The Golden Hour, Niki Smith

Nimona, N. D. Stevenson

The Third Person, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Emma Grove

Magazines and Anthologies:

Artificial Divide, (Anthology), Robert Kingett, Randy Lacey

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175: Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds, (Article), R. B. Lemburg

Defying Doomsday, (Anthology), edited by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, (short story) (anthology), Seiko Tanabe

Nothing Without Us, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson

Nothing Without Us Too, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, (Anthology), edited by Marieke Nijkamp

Uncanny #24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, (Anthology), edited by: Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Dominik Parisien et al.

Uncanny #30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy, (Anthology), edited by: Nicolette Barischoff, Lisa M. Bradley, Katharine Duckett

We Shall Be Monsters, edited by Derek Newman-Stille

Manga:

Perfect World, (Series), Rie Aruga

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud, (Short Stories), Kuniko Tsurita

Non-Fiction:

Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, Jay Timothy Dolmage

A Disability History of the United States, Kim E, Nielsen

The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access, David Gissen

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism, Elsa Sjunneson

Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk

Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety, Dr. Elinor Greenburg

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, Eli Clare

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, Barker, Clare and Stuart Murray, editors.

The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship, Stacy Clifford Simplican

Capitalism and Disability, Martha Russel

Care work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism: A Psycho-Ecological Approach, Dr Amitta Shah

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esme Weijun Wang

Crip Kinship, Shayda Kafai

Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook, Jules Sherred

Culture – Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition, Liat Ben-Moshe

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, Emily Ladau

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World, Ben Mattlin

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space, Amanda Leduc

Every Cripple a Superhero, Christoph Keller

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation, Eli Clare

Feminist Queer Crip, Alison Kafer

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Growing Up Disabled in Australia, Carly Findlay

It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability, Kelly Davio

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

Language Deprivation & Deaf Mental Health, Neil S. Glickman, Wyatte C. Hall

The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability, Elizabeth Barnes

My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick, Lyndsey Medford

No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, Sarah F. Rose

Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, James I. Charlton

The Pedagogy of Pathologization Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus, Subini Ancy Annamma

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, Essaka Joshua

QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, Raymond Luczak, Editor.

The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir K. Puar

Sitting Pretty, (memoir), Rebecca Taussig

Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black & Deaf in the South, Mary Herring Wright

Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms, Ilana Jacqueline

The Things We Don't Say: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Truths, Julie Morgenlender

Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability, Scott T. Smith, José Alaniz 

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman, (memoir), Laura Kate Dale

Unmasking Autism, Devon Price

The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe, Ellen Clifford

We've Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents, Eliza Hull

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, (memoir) (essays) Alice Wong

Picture Books:

A Day With No Words, Tiffany Hammond, Kate Cosgrove-

A Friend for Henry, Jenn Bailey, Mika Song

Ali and the Sea Stars, Ali Stroker, Gillian Reid

All Are Welcome, Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman

All the Way to the Top, Annette Bay Pimentel, Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, Nabi Ali

Can Bears Ski?, Raymond Antrobus, Polly Dunbar

Different -- A Great Thing to Be!, Heather Alvis, Sarah Mensinga

Everyone Belongs, Heather Alvis, Sarah Mensinga

I Talk Like a River, Jordan Scott, Sydney Smith

Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream, K. T. Johnson, Anabella Ortiz

Just Ask!, Sonia Sotomayor, Rafael López

Kami and the Yaks, Andrea Stenn Stryer, Bert Dodson

My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay, Cari Best, Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship, Jessica Kensky, Patrick Downes, Scott Magoon

Sam's Super Seats, Keah Brown, Sharee Miller

Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster, Manka Kasha

We Move Together, Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, Eduardo Trejos

We're Different, We're the Same, and We're All Wonderful!, Bobbi Jane Kates, Joe Mathieu

What Happened to You?, James Catchpole, Karen George

The World Needs More Purple People, Kristen Bell, Benjamin Hart, Daniel Wiseman

You Are Enough: A Book About Inclusion, Margaret O'Hair, Sofia Sanchez, Sofia Cardoso

You Are Loved: A Book About Families, Margaret O'Hair, Sofia Sanchez, Sofia Cardoso

The You Kind of Kind, Nina West, Hayden Evans

Zoom!, Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko

Plays:

Peeling, Kate O'Reilly

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Loud Rats Book Club 2023

This year the rats became literate!

We suggested a number of books each month and then voted on one to read (somehow Fish managed to read all 12 of them… wild!). The ones in red are the winners, but there are some other really good books in there.

Hopefully you can find your next favourite read below! :)

January

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

Pirates and Prejudice by Kara Louise

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

February

Adua by Igiaba Scego

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

March

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Humans by Matt Haig

Cane by Jean Toomer

Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (#1 Broken Earth Trilogy)

Young Mungo by Douglas Stewart

April

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrel

Dubliners by James Joyce

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

May

Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

June

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill

Swimming in the dark by Tomasz Jędrowski

Girls like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 17 by Jeff Kinney

Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

July

Kid Youtuber 9: Everything is Fine by Marcus Emerson, Noah Child

Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella

Hit Parade Of Tears by Izumi Suzuki

When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book by Naja Marie Aidt

Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Mapping the Interior by Stephan Graham Jones

August

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Small Game by Blair Braverman

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi

September

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

October

Linghun by Ai Jiang

Eyes Guts Throat Bones by Moira Fowley-Doyle

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley

Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić

Kindred by Octavia Butler

November

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Life For Sale by Yukio Mishima

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Liberation Day by George Saunders

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

December

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

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Summer (real world) birthday headcanons and how they would celebrate their special day

Jas - June 4th - picking wildflowers with Penny in the morning, drawing on coloring pages with some new crayons from Vincent (courtesy of Sam's Joja paycheck) in the afternoon and playing at the park together. Gunther organizes a special story time at the library (with the help of Elliott providing all the voices). Marnie doesn't cook so Jodi would bake a pink cake, but Marnie would probably would have bought a new doll for her. Jas finishes the day on Shane's shoulders feeding the chickens on the farm.

Gus - June 8th - this man deserves more love since he feeds the village! I could see the Farmer bringing fresh oranges from their orchard in a basket wrapped with a yellow ribbon. Emily cooks up a big batch of his favorite fish tacos, and drags Haley in to help serve (giving Gus the night off). Haley would drag Alex into it (at least to carry bags of ice and look hot doing it). Elliott might tinker on the piano. Leah would have a pint or two and pitch in also. Willy brings some tropical curry from Ginger Island for his buddy. The SAS trio attempt a song in his honor. Gus is happy to spend the evening in the Saloon with his friends and neighbors.

Maru - June 10th - A big breakfast with her family complete with fresh strawberries. Seb surfaces before 10 just in her honor. Maru is thrilled to spend the day with her dad in the lab and collecting specimens in the forest. Harvey gave her the day off, of course, and a little strawberry birthday card. She gets a rhubarb pie, courtesy of Evelyn or the farmer. She spends the late afternoon chatting on a park bench with her BFF, Penny, who gives her robot drawings from the Valley kiddos. Robin builds a wooden shelf for all of Maru's odds-and-ends gadgets. And stargazing with Sebastian (like they did as kids) is the perfect way to end the day.

Alex - June 13th - Evelyn would make a complete breakfast for her grandson, and a small gift that she knitted (maybe a cover for a water bottle or for his weights to keep them protected). With the help of Farmer, George ordered a gridball card online for his grandson. Tossing the ball down at the beach and a long ocean swim with Farmer, plus a picnic lunch. (I have this cute little headcanon that he would build sandcastles with Vincent and Sam). If Farmer is able to splurge, catching a gridball game together in the evening is his birthday present. And Alex is a very physical guy in my book, so plenty of hand holding, bear hugs, kisses all day long and then a dip at the hot springs in the evening (and maybe a sensual massage).

Sam - July 17th - A platter of maple bars for breakfast and maybe some early morning cloud gazing with his main squeeze (Farmer). And there's no way he wouldn't have a party. Pizza. Joja colas. Plenty of cheery hi-energy rock music. Streamers. Balloons. Arcade games. Party poppers. Confetti. Karaoke. Oh and he would buy something cheesy at Jojamart for party favors like rubber bracelets or silly string. And maybe for a final touch of whimsy, embracing his inner child, a pinata with tons of candy (much to Vincent's delight)! Abigail would play her woodland flute after one too many sugary drinks and candies and cakes. Seb might even step up to the mic for karaoke (but would sneak a smoke first for courage).

Dwarf - July 22 - Dwarf is just happy if someone makes the effort to visit them and remembers to bring a gift (preferably a shiny stone). Oh and they are touched if you speak their language. Fancy a spot of stardrop tea together? Cheers!

Demetrius - August 19 - this man doesn't strike me as someone who really likes celebrating his birthday. A nice quiet unwrapping of gifts at home (a gift card from Seb because he has no clue what to get his stepdad), and a good bean hotpot dinner is probably all he wants. Maybe sharing an ice cream cone with Robin and a private dance under the stars.

Willy - August 24 - Spend the day fishing together and enjoy a simple fish dinner on the beach by a fire and he's happy. Oh and mugs of mead shared while swapping sea stories.

Leo - August 26 - look for bird feathers and shells to decorate his treehouse. I picture playing tag on the beach with Jas and Vincent, probably Sam and Penny too. And some fresh mangos is a delicious treat! He would probably enjoy a tape of bird songs or a picture book about birds. I totally think Emily would do face painting for his birthday.

[acotars]

books read in 2024

⋆ ⭒˚.⋆ january ⋆.˚⭒ ⋆

one dark window (the shepherd king #1) by rachel gillig

the murder on the links (hercule poirot #2) by agatha christie

pageboy by elliot page

house of sky and breath (crescent city #2) by sarah j. maas

rogue protocol (the murderbot diaries #3) by martha wells

cult classic by sloane crosley

malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid

the beauty of your face by sahar mustafah

exit strategy (the murderbot diaries #4) by martha wells

animal farm by george orwell

everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily austin

carrie soto is back by taylor jenkins reid

a court this cruel & lovely (kingdom of lies #1) by stacia stark

the rules do not apply by ariel levy

poirot investigates (hercule poirot #3) by agatha christie

yellowface by rebecca f kuang

every heart a doorway (wayward children #1) by seanan mcguire

house of flame and shadow (crescent city #3) by sarah j. maas

read: 18

* · ✦ · * february * · ✦ · *

beautyland by marie-helene bertino

bride by ali hazelwood

network effect (the murderbot diaries #5) by martha wells

fugitive telemetry (the murderbot diaries #6) by martha wells

faebound (faebound #1) by saara el-arifi

the raven boys (the raven cycle #1) by maggie stiefvater **

read: 6

.✦.· *. march .*· .✦.

interesting facts about space by emily austin

penance by eliza clark

the book that no one wanted to read by richard ayoade

pride and prejudice by jane austen

unlikeable female characters: the women pop culture wants you to hate by anna bogutskaya

the shame by makenna goodman

greta & valdin by rebecca k. reilly

read: 7

✷ · ✶ · ✧ april ✧ · ✶ · ✷

this spells love by kate robb

out on a limb by hannah bonam-young

gwen & art are not in love by lex croucher

a lady's guide to scandal by sophie irwin

the friendship study by ruby barrett

the boyfriend candidate by ashley winstead

the pumpkin spice cafe by laurie gilmore

business or pleasure by rachel lynn solomon

how to end a love story by yulin kuang

this could be us (skyland #2) by kennedy ryan

the honeymoon crashers (the unhoneymooners #1.5) by christina lauren

we could have been friends, my father and i by raja shehadeh

how to stop time by matt haig

how to fake it in hollywood by ava wilder

with love from cold world by alicia thompson

funny story by emily henry

love radio by ebony ladelle

old flames and new fortunes by sarah hogle

just for the summer by abby jimenez

don't want you like a best friend by emma r. alban

love interest by clare gilmore

the exception to the rule (the improbable meet-cute #1) by christina lauren

worst wingman ever (the improbable meet-cute #2) by abby jimenez

with any luck (the improbable meet-cute #5) by ashley poston

last call at the local by sara grunder ruiz

happily never after by lynn painter

the ex talk by rachel lynn solomon

i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston

the love wager by lynn painter

morning glory milking farm by c.m. nacosta

will they or won't they by ava wilder

read: 31

.　° * ☆ may ☆ * °　.

when the sky fell on splendor by emily henry

on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

blizzard by marie vingtras

bright young women by jessica knoll

the age of magical overthinking: notes on modern irrationality by amanda montell

the flatshare by beth o'leary **

read: 6

⋆ ˚.⋆ june ⋆.˚ ⋆

not in love by ali hazelwood

the way of kings (the stormlight archive #1) by brandon sanderson

words of radiance (the stormlight archive #2) by brandon sanderson

read: 3

. · ☆ . july . ☆ · .

edgedancer (the stormlight archive #2.5) by brandon sanderson

blue iris: poems and essays by mary oliver

woman, eating by claire kohda

oathbringer (the stormlight archive #3) by brandon sanderson

a novel love story by ashley poston

chlorine by jade song

how to read now by elain castillo

please stop trying to leave me by alana saab

beautifully broken life by catherine cowles

the god of the woods by liz moore

edgedancer (the stormlight archive #3.5) by brandon sanderson

the dead and the dark by courtney gould

a most agreeable murder by julia seales

the murder of roger ackroyd (hercule poirot #4) by agatha christie

read: 14

. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁august ݁. ⊹ ₊ ݁.

the bluest eye by toni morrison

more, please: on food, fat, bingeing, longing, and the lust for "enough" by emma specter

the ministry of time by kaliane bradley

system collapse (the murderbot diaries #7) by martha wells

emily wilde's encycolpedia of fairies (emily wilde #1) by heather fawcett

emily wilde's map of the other lands (emily wilde #2) by heather fawcett

catalina by karla cornejo villavicencio

roadside picnic by arkady strugatsky and boris strugatsky

read: 8

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the most by jessica anthony

rhythm of war (the stormlight archive #4) by brandon sanderson

we were the universe by kimberly king parsons

read: 3

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creation lake by rachel kushner

small rain by garth greenwell

spells for forgetting by adrienne young

normal people by sally rooney

there there by tommy orange

read: 5

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two can play by ali hazelwood

happy medium by sarah adler

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[werepuppy-steve]

gay pirate brianrot (our flag means death)

just straight up vibes, mate

the chain - fleetwood mac

sweet creature - harry styles

could have been me - the struts

here i go again - whitesnake

love is gone (acoustic) - SLANDER, dylan matthew

let me follow - son lux

achilles come down - gang of youths

till forever falls apart - ashe, FINNEAS

i found - amber run

achilles heel - j. maya

pierre - ryn weaver

partners in crime - set it off, ashe costello

motion sickness - phoebe bridgers

arms unfolding - dodie

sea of love - cat power

hello hello - elton john

ready now - dodie

love like you - caleb hayes

this will be (an everlasting love) - natalie cole

abcdefu (angrier) - GAYLE

would you go with me - josh turner

if i ain't got you - alicia keys

ship in a bottle - fin

underground - cody fry

one (mono single version) - harry nilsson

simply the best - billianne

miss missing you - fall out boy

burn butcher burn - joey batey

in case you don't live forever - ben platt

never love an anchor - the crane wives

inkpot gods - the amazing devil

ruin - the amazing devil

i guess i'm in love - clinton kane

chicken tendies - clinton kane

like real people do - hozier

seven - taylor swift

our prayer - the beach boys

hallucinogenics - matt maeson

crazy on you - heart

locomotive breath - jethro tull

high on a rocky ledge - moondog

messa da requiem: 2. dies irae - guiseppe verdi, berliner philharmoniker, carlo maria guilini, ernst senff chor

sonata in e major, k. 380 - domenico scarlatti, khatia buniatishvili

gnossienne no. 5: modéré - erik satie, olga scheps

concerto for recorder and viola dagamba in a minor, twv 52:a1: I.grave - georg philipp telemann, hille perl

II triello - ennio morricone

perfect day - lou reed

träumerei (kinderderszenen, op. 15) - robert schumann, ronny matthes

2 arabesques, l. 66: no. 1 in e major - claude debusy, peter frankl

rêverie, l. 68: rêverie - claude debussy, jean-yves thibaudet

avalanche - leonard cohen

miles from nowhere - yusuf / cat stevens

go to hell - clinton kane

back to december - taylor swift

mine - taylor swift

break my stride - matthew wilder

viva la vida - coldplay

blackbeard's ghost - jesse rice

back to black - amy winehouse

change (in the house of flies) - deftones

we'll never have sex - leith ross

make up your mind - florence + the machine

everybody loves me - onerepublic

the captain's daughter - alison krauss & union station

easy on me - adele

hoist up the thing - the longest johns

gimme! gimme! gimme! (a man after midnight) - abba

right where you left me - taylor swift

super trouper - abba

soldier, poet, king - the oh hellos

raise hell - brandi carlile

ocean blue - moniker

no choir - florence + the machine

leggie blonde - flight of the conchords

little lion man - mumford & sons

rolling in the deep - adele

pirate song - ben barnes

i love you like an alcoholic - the taxpayers

hello my old heart - the oh hellos

a pirate's life - joel fry

to death we go - joel fry

hurts like hell - fleurie, tommee profitt

lay all your love on me - abba

judas - lady gaga

the moon will sing - the crane wives

this side of paradise - coyote theory

shrike - hozier

enchanted - taylor swift

the night we met - lord huron

dear wormwood - the oh hellos

iris - the goo goo dolls

favorite crime - olivia rodrigo

the foundations of decay - my chemical romance

curses - the crane wives

matilda - harry styles

if i could fly - one direction

welcome home, son - radical face

the mary ellen carter - the longest johns

sweet disposition - the temper trap

like ships need the sea - emily hearn

[whaliiwatching]

hey, what poem did you use for hobie's face in kaleidoscope crush? (actually, if it's not too much to ask, what poems did you use for the entire piece? your art looks fantastic) :)

thank u so much! i’ll do my best to list em. they should be in order from bottom left, around the character, to bottom right lol

//

from blossoms by li-young lee

saying your names by richard siken

only ever yours by louise o’neill

the second coming by dante émile

//

famous quote by farouq jwaideh (i think)

transformation and transcendence by emily rapp

little dog’s rhapsody in the night by mary oliver

abundance (after mary oliver) by amy schmidt

a moveable feast by ernest hemingway

letters to véra from vladimir nabokov

on a train by wendy cope

i have dreamed of you so much by robert desnos

//

valentine weather by edwin morgan

from my favorite love songs by oozins

tiny beautiful things: advice on love and life from dear sugar by cheryl strayed

for m by mikko harvey

did you know that there’s a tunnel under ocean boulevard by lana del rey

the shortest and sweetest of songs by george macdonald

persephone to hades by nikita gill

the riot act

ordinary things by ryebreadgf

comme des garçons: poem denim jeans by junya watanabe

line from disco elysium

//

from these violent delights by micah nemerever

other lives and dimensions and finally a love poem by bob hicok

coffee and cigarettes by sade andria zabala

letters to milena from franz kafka

drunk confessions by spencer thomas

here again now by okechukwu nzelu

letters to caitlin by dylan thomas

desperation sits heavy on my tongue by tullipsink

i am praying again, awesome one by rainer rilke

i hid my love by john clare

//

and lastly, the one everybody goes wild for:

how will you/have you prepare(d) for your death? by chen chen

[boldlycrookedsalad]

Literary Canon (from kissgrammar)

The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version [At a minimum, the books of Genesis, Exodus, Job, Psalms, from the Old Testament; Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Apocalypse from the New.] Whether or not you are Christian is irrelevant. The civilization in which we live is based on and permeated by the ideas and values expressed in this book. Understanding our civilization, the world in which we live, is probably impossible without having read -- and thought about -- at least the most famous books in the Bible. Historically, the King James Version is considered the most artistic, and thus has probably had the most literary influence.

Homer, The Iliad

Homer, The Odyssey

Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex)

Sophocles, Antigone

Plato, The Republic, especially "The Myth of the Cave"

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Saint Augustine, The Confessions

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Giambattista Vico, Principles of a New Science

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Romeo and Juliet

King Lear

Hamlet

Othello

Macbeth

John Donne, "Holy Sonnet XIV"

John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"

Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

A Modest Proposal

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Michel de Montaigne, Essays, especially "Of Experience"

Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

Moliere, The Misanthrope

Blaise Pascal, Pensees

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

Voltaire, Candide

Erasmus, In Praise of Folly

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Parts One & Two

Honore de Balzac, Old Goriot (also translated as Pere Goriot)

Stendhal, The Red and the Black

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Emile Zola, Germinal

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

William Blake

William Wordsworth

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Lord Byron, Don Juan

John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

A Tale Of Two Cities

Hard Times

A Christmas Carol

Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Francis Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven"

Samuel Butler, Erewhon

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

George Eliot- Silas Marner

Middlemarch

Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

The Will To Power

The Birth of Tragedy

On the Genealogy of Morals

Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin

The Bronze Horseman

Nikolai Gogol -The Overcoat

Dead Souls

Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Fyodor Dostoevsky -Notes From the Underground

Crime and Punishment

Leo Tolstoy -The Death of Ivan Ilych

War and Peace

Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

Emily Dickinson - "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"

"The Tint I Cannot Take"

"There's a Certain Slant of Light"

Walt Whitman  - "Song of Myself"

"The Sleepers"

"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

"As I Ebbed With The Ocean of Life"

"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd"

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown

The Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Edgar Allen Poe - "The Raven"

The Cask of Amontillado

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Kate Chopin -The Story of An Hour

The Awakening

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

Henry James

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Luigi Pirandello

[mccarthawrites]

More Than There Are Clouds in the Sky

Relationship: Bucky Barnes/OC!Rachel Barnes

Rating: General Audiences

Summary: On Valentine’s Day, Rachel has a surprise for Bucky.

Words: 1,203

The Barnes Masterlist || Bucky Barnes Masterlist

1940

Bucky and Rachel lay on the grass in Prospect Park, cloud gazing. Between Bucky picking up extra shifts at the factory and Rachel landing a secretary job, they didn’t get to see each other as much as they wanted. Not to mention the constant fear that Bucky could be drafted any day. They took advantage of any time they could spend together.

“Doesn’t that one look like a stroller?” Rachel asked, pointing at a cloud.

“A baby stroller?” Bucky questioned, scoffing. “No. It does not.”

“Look. There’s the top and- it’s just missing the wheels.”

“I don’t see it.” He told her. Rachel sighed, folding her hands on her stomach.

“How many kids do you want?” She asked.

“What are you asking me for?” He asked.

“Don’t you want to get married and have a family?” She asked, rolling onto her side to look at him.

“Of course, I want a family of my own.” He looked at her. “Of our own, maybe.”

“I would hope so. It would be mighty awkward to have strung me along for the last two years with no intention of marrying me.” She teased.

“I’ll marry you and we’ll have five kids.”

“Five?” She asked.

“How many do you want to have?” He asked.

“I’d be happy with just two. You want five children?”

“Okay, we can talk about it. I just figured- I came from a brood of four. It might be nice.”

“I am not your mother. She is a saint to raise four children. You want me to raise five?”

“There is plenty of time to discuss it, right?” He asked.

“I guess.” She laughed, resting her head on his chest. “Five?”

“You’re not going to let me move past that, are you?” He asked.

“Never. What would we even name five kids?” She asked.

“James Jr. Emily, Winnifred, Robert and Alice.”

“I like James Jr. and Alice.” She told him. “We’d have to buy a house if you want that many kids.”

“Maybe get a dog.” He suggested.

“But first you have to marry me, Buck.”

“I will.” He kissed her. “I love you more than there are clouds in the sky.”

“I love you too.” She smiled.

“Come on, your lunch break is almost over.”

“Mr. Darmody be damned.”

“Don’t worry. When we get married you can quit your job.” He promised.

Valentine’s Day, 1947

Bucky had to work on Valentine’s Day, but he made sure to order flowers to be delivered to Rachel. He also left little love notes around the apartment for her  - and accidentally Steve - to find.

“Hey, I think this is for you.” Steve handed Rachel a folded piece of paper. “Found it in the bathroom this morning.

“It’s Bucky. He feels bad about working today.” She laughed. “Where are you headed out to?”

“Getting lunch with Peg.” He told her, his cheeks flushing red.

“When are you going to invite her over for dinner?” Rachel asked.

“You and Buck wouldn’t mind?” He asked.

“Of course not. Are you taking her out tonight?”

“Yeah! She’s never been to Coney Island. I’m taking her after she gets off work.”

“Have fun.” She smiled. “I’m guess you won’t be home for dinner.”

“I don’t plan on coming home at all tonight.” He admitted. Rachel tried fighting a smirk. “Not like that! I-” His whole face was turning red. “I figured you and Buck would want the apartment to yourselves tonight. I’m staying with George and Winnifred.”

“I appreciate that, Steve. And I know Bucky will to. Have fun. Tell Peggy I say hello.”

“Will do. Have a good day, Rach.” Steve left the apartment. Rachel opened the note, to find Bucky’s rushed handwriting as she suspected.

Day by day I’m falling more in love with you

And day by day my love seems to grow

There isn’t any end to my devotion

It’s deeper dear by far than any ocean

Next to the words was a drawn heart pierced with an arrow. Bucky had taken the words straight from a song. Rachel didn’t mind it. It was the fourth note she’d found and she loved every single one of them, as cheesy as they seemed.

As soon as Rachel heard the familiar sound of Bucky’s boots walking down the hallway, she left the kitchen to start the record player. “My Blue Heaven” by Gene Austin filled the apartment as she made her way back to the kitchen. Bucky walked into the apartment, a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates tucked under his arm. On the dining table sat a red card and the bouquet of flowers that he’d ordered to be delivered earlier, already in a vase.

“Rach? I’m home.” He announced, placing the box of chocolates on the tale.

“Hi.” She exited the kitchen to greet him. “How was work?” She asked.

“Nothing new to complain about. You like the flowers?”

“I love them. Thank you.”

“Happy Valentine’s Day. These are for you too.”

“More flowers?” She asked, taking the roses.

“Should I take them back?” He teased.

“No. They’re beautiful. Thank you.” She kissed him. “I have something to tell you.”

“I hope it’s good news.” He replied. “How was your day?”

“I-” She picked up the card from the table. “-had an appointment with Dr. Mueller.”

“Dr. Mueller? Is everything okay? Are you feeling alright?” He touched her forehead, making her laugh. “You didn’t say anything about an appointment this morning.”

“This is for you.”

“Thank you, but are you alright?” He asked.

“I am healthy. Read the card.”

“You had me worried for a second.” He looked at the front of the card. An image of a teapot with the words: I’ll blow my top for you. “Cute.”

“Open it.”

“I’m enjoying my card.” He laughed. “What? Did you write a dirty joke inside?” He asked, opening it.

To My Bucky,

You’ve made me the happiest woman in the world. I love you more than there are clouds in the sky. I can’t wait to see how we do as parents. Happy Valentine’s Day.

Sincerely,

Me and Baby

“You read slow.” She teased, as his eyes lifted from the card to her.

“Are you serious?” He asked. “We’re having a baby?”

“We’re having a baby!” She replied. He embraced her. “I love you, but I’ve got something in the oven.” She told him.

“I’m just so happy.” He told her, letting her go.

“So am I! I had to talk myself out of going to the factory to tell you as soon as I found out. I’ve just been stewing with this news for the last three hours.”

“A baby. Wow.”

“We’re gonna have to get out of this apartment. Get a house. We don’t need a dog. We’ve got Alpine.”

“Yeah.” He leaned on the doorframe to the kitchen. “Should I let Steve know dinner’s almost ready?”

“He isn’t here. He’s leaving us alone for the night.” She told him. “He’s taking Peggy to Coney Island tonight.”

“Oh. Good for him, then.”

“Go wash up for dinner.”

“You don’t have to tell me twice.” He stole a kiss before walking to the bathroom. Rachel let out a sigh. She couldn’t be happier.

[moosegirl96]

i'm bored so here's a list of names from the titles of all of my liked songs on spotify :)

uma - uma thurman by fall out boy

lane - lane boy by twenty one pilots (yes i'm aware lane wasn't meant as a name but i'm saying it is so shhh)

sunshine - look alive, sunshine by my chemical romance

helena - helena by my chemical romance

ocean - oceans by frank iero

molly - molly by mindless self indulgence

emily - emily by my chemical romance

october - we fell in love in october by girl in red

sarah - i met sarah in the bathroom by awfultune

sofia- sofia by clairo

summer - summer depression by girl in red

tom - tom sawyer by rush

roger - scene two-roger rabbit by sleeping with sirens

ana - oh ana by mother mother

james - if i'm james dean, you're audrey hepburn by sleeping with sirens

audrey - if i'm james dean, you're audrey hepburn by sleeping with sirens

beverly - beverly hills by weezer

cathy - cathy's clown by the everly brothers

violet - bruise violet by babes in toyland

saturn - saturn song by beach house

anthony - movin' out (anthony's song) by billy joel

eleanor - eleanor rigby by the beatles

randy - randy scouse git by the monkees

martyn - undercover martyn by two door cinema club

axel - axel f by crazy frog

buddy - buddy holly by weezer

holly - buddy holly by weezer

december - this december by ricky montgomery

sunflower - sunflower, vol. 6 by harry styles

juliet - juliet by cavetown

rain - match in the rain by alec benjamin

steve - steve by alec benjamin

annabelle - annabelle's homework by alec benjamin

caraphernelia - caraphernelia by pierce the veil

flora - floral & fading by pierce the veil

angel - angels fuck devils kiss by jack off jill

honey - honey, this mirror isn't big enough for the two of us by my chemical romance

vivica - vivica by jack off jill

may - hold on till may by pierce the veil and lindsey stamey

claire - fast times at clairemont high by pierce the veil

jean - sweetie little jean by cage the elephant

mona - the ballad of mona lisa by panic! at the disco

johanna - johanna from sweeney todd: the demon barber of fleet street by jamie campbell bower

delilah - hey there delilah by the plain white t's

clair - clair de lune by claude debussy (ik i already did claire but this is spelled differently and i love debussy so yeah)

fernando - fernando by abba

harry - dirty harry by gorillaz

victor - victor's piano solo from corpse bride by danny elfman

jack - jack's lament from the nightmare before christmas by danny elfman

mary - mary on a cross by ghost

blue - in blue by declan mckenna

daniel - daniel, you're still a child by declan mckenna

aerial - aerials by system of a down

matilda - matilda by harry styles

kennedy - kennedy by kill hannah

maya - maya the psychic by gerard way

sheila - sheila can do it by weezer

sky - the sky under the sea by pierce the veil

billie - billie jean by michael jackson

boris - boris the spider by the who

rita - lovely rita by the beatles

penny - penny lane by the beatles

michael - michael in the bathroom from be more chill by george salazar

elise - fur elise by beethoven

joy - joy by george winston

saul - better call saul TV theme-original motion picture soundtrack by voidoid

iris - iris by the goo goo dolls

susie - wake up little susie by the everly brothers

jude - hey jude by the beatles

kim - kimdracula by deftones

rosemary - rosemary by deftones

cherry - cherry waves by deftones

isabelle - song for isabelle by pierce the veil

roman - roman's revenge by nicki minaj and eminem

star - you'd be stars by sydney rose and chloe moriondo

clementine - oh my darling clementine by chloe moriondo

river - the hidden river of my life by sufjan stevens

london - london's song by matt hartke

polly - polly by nirvana

elliot - elliot by finn mchugh

frank - frankly, mr shankly by the smiths

lucy - lucy in the sky with diamonds

stacy - stacy's mom by fountains of wayne

francis - francis forever by mitski

valentine - valentine by laufey

scott - scott street by phoebe bridgers

flower - choking on flowers by fox academy

leonard - leonard cohen by boygenius

alex - alexithymia by noahfinnce

ophelia - ophelia by the lumineers

aphrodite - alrighty aphrodite by peach pit

maple - maple syrup by the backseat lovers

ivy - ivy by frank ocean

nova - billie bossa nova by billie eilish

manattan - naked in manhattan by chappell roan

apple - rotten apple by alice in chains (and apple by charli xcx)

danny - danny says by foo fighters

marigold - marigold by nirvana

juna - juna by clairo

georgia - georgia by phoebe bridgers

mary jane - mary jane's last dance by tom petty and the heartbreakers

tommy - tommy's party by peach pit

angelina - angelina by lizzy mcalpine

evangeline - evangeline by stephen sanchez

judy - judge judy by tyler, the creator

jane - hey jane by tyler, the creator

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thats all i've got for now, that was just for gits and shiggles bc I was bored. also kind of to get to know me and get a feel for my music taste. love y'all ok bye

[demdozeguys]

oh shit hi

for the sake of Already Having It Open I'm gonna do one song off every album I have downloaded rn bc why not

The Beatles - Helter Skelter, Here Comes the Sun Blondie - Picture This Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road The Cars - All Mixed Up Cheap Trick - Surrender (Live) The Clash - Spanish Bombs David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust Deftones - Digital Bath Dire Straits - Skateaway, Why Worry Fleetwood Mac - Landslide, Dreams Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around, Hey Johnny Park George Harrison - My Sweet Lord Gorillaz - El Mañana Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary, Little Wing, 1983 (A Mermaid I Should Turn to Be) Joni Mitchell - Carey, Help Me Megadeth - Hangar 18 Metallica - Trapped Under Ice, Disposable Heroes Neil Young - Birds Nirvana - Come As You Are Paul McCartney - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey Pearl Jam - Release Pink Floyd - Echoes, Us and Them, Wish You Were Here, Dogs Prince - When Doves Cry The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want, Dead Flowers Rush - Limelight Simon & Garfunkel - For Emily Whenever I May Find Her, America, El Condor Pasa Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise Soundgarden - The Day I Tried to Live The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection The Strokes - Hard to Explain System of a Down - Bounce Talking Heads - Slippery People (Live) The Who - Magic Bus (Live), Won't Get Fooled Again Yes - Siberian Khatru The Zombies - Care of Cell 44

that was way longer than I thought it was going to be oops

not tagging anyone but if you want to add on feel free

Hey eyeone! I want to know what your favorite songs are, if you see this post you are CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED to reblog with at least 1 song you have listened to and enjoyed but if you have more you'd like to share then go ahead! Also tag your friends!

I'll start, I'm going to list 5 of my favorite songs

Dr Sunshine Is Dead by Will Wood

134340 Pluto by Cojum Dip

Vulture by Bear ghost

Dear John by I monster

And finally: playing places: Oceans by Cosmo Sheldrake

Here's the people I want to tag

@f4y3w00d5 @ashen-the-tiefling @terrencetheshark14 @underpaid-guard @blacktipreefsharkwizard @the-gnomish-bastard @thatgayforkcrow @lixorloveslicorice @yourlocalbreadenthusiast @agentldiddy @aileaxthevoidien @slutty-wizard-council @monsterfucker-research-wizard and anyone else who wants to play!!!

[neopuff]

gray/carmen // oceans

[ritikajyala]

I really admire your work, they're beautifully written. I was wondering if you could recommend me some books and poems that you like or ones that inspire you

Thank you so much, I'm glad my work resonates with you♡

Here are few of my absolute favorite reads-

1. Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman

2. Call me by your name by Andre Aciman

3. The song of achilles by Madelline miller

4. To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee

5. 1984 by George Orwell

6. We were liars by E. Lockhart

7. The Chalkman by C. J. Tudor

8. Crush by Richard Siken

9. And every morning the way home gets longer and longer by Frederick Backman

10. Pride and prejudice(obviously and all of Jane Austen)

11. The secret history by Donna Tartt

12. On earth we're briefly gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

13. The da Vinci code by Dan Brown

14. Atonement by Ian McEwan

15. The brutal art by Jesse Kellerman

16. Alias Grace by Margaret Attwood

17. Veronica decides to die by Paulo Coelho

18. Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami

19. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

20. All works of Agatha Christie

21. All works of Edgar Allan Poe

22. We are all the same in the dark by Julia Heaberlin

23. All works of Khalil Gibran

24. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

25. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

26. All works of Rick Riordan

27. Wuthering heights by Emily Brontë

28. The hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

29. All works of Oscar Wilde

30. All works of Arthur Conan Doyle

31. All works of Shakespeare but especially Macbeth and Othello

32. The childhood staples(Harry Potter, Hunger games, Maze runner, etc.)

33. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

34. Illiad and Odyssey by Homer

35. Normal people by Sally Rooney

36. Epic of Gilgamesh

37. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

38. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

39. The great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald

40. All works of Hanif Abdurraqib

41. All works of Mahmoud Darwish

42. Kafka's letters to Milena and letters to his father

43. F. A. I. T. H. on wattpad

44. All works of Adrienne Rich

45. I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou

46. The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

47. They both die at the end by Adam Silvera

48. Ella minnow pea by Mark Dunn

49. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

50. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

I'm sorry the list is so long, once I started I just couldn't stop lol, I'm absolutely obsessed with books and discovering new writers and poets. I hope you find some good picks here.

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do you have any book recommendations? also thank you for taking time to post such beautiful posts, you're an inspiration<3

Thank you 🌼My curious friend, you should've been more specific about what genre you're more interested in for the list seems to be never-ending. I've written down the names according to different colors you might be feeling.

Shades of blue

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Swimming in the Dark, Tomasz Jedrowski

Letters to a young poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

The Castle, Franz Kafka

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Shades of green

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab

Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

Maurice, Howard’s End by E. M. Forster

Call Me By Your Name, Find Me by André Aciman

Shades of brown

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

The Metamorphosis and other stories, Franz Kafka

If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun

Golden

The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

Circe, Madeline Miller

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

Shades of yellow

Almond, Won-pyung Sohn

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yōko Ogawa

Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura

Shades of purple

Luster by Raven Leilani

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Shades of Black, White, Grey

Fish in Exile, Vi Khi Nao

The Trial, Franz Kafka

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai

1984, George Orwell

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

Shades of pink

Where Angels Fear to Tread, E. M. Forster

Death with Interruptions, José Saramago

If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

Shades of red

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

Damage, Josephine Hart

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

The Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Poetry

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

Crush by Richard Siken

War of the Foxes by Richard Siken

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

When My Brother Was An Aztec by Natalie Diaz

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho (Anne Carson)

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

The Complete Collected Poems by Maya Angelou

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova

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Songs Based on Books

“1984″ by David Bowie- “1984″ by George Orwell

“White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane- “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll

“Calypso” by Suzanna Vega- “The Odyssey” by Homer

“Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?” by Green Day- “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger

“Frankenstein” by Lenny Kravitz- “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

“Lord of the Flies” by Iron Maiden- “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding

“The Ocean” by U2- “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

“Lost Boy” by Ruth B.- “Peter Pan” by J.M. Barrie

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Metallica- “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway

“Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush- “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte

“Ramble On” by Led Zeppelin- “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Thieves in the Night” by Black Star- “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

“Pigs (Three Different Ones)” by Pink Floyd- “Animal Farm” by George Orwell

“Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones- “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov

“Tom Sawyer” by Rush- “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain

“Blood and Thunder” by Mastodon- “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Sufjan Stevens- “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor

“Annabel Lee” by Stevie Nicks- “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Ghost of Tom Joad” by Bruce Springsteen- “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck

“Scentless Apprentice” by Nirvana- “Perfume” by Patrick Suskind

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[UHQ] Abigail Barlow + Darren Criss. Photo by Scott Suchman.

All Is Bright Again: Inside The Kennedy Center’s Star-Studded 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert

Celebrating 50 years of world-class art, innovation, education and community, the Kennedy Center hosted a magical night of music, dance and even spoken word poetry for its 50th anniversary celebration concert on September 14 — and suddenly, to those of us in the audience, all felt right in the world.

The concert hall was electric from the star-studded lineup, with appearances ranging from first lady Dr. Jill Biden for opening remarks to Oscar- and Grammy-winning artist Common, who closed the show with an inspiring, uplifting two-song performance that included “Black America Again.” Artists like Kennedy Center Hip Hop Culture Council Member Robert Glasper and rapper D Smoke exuded musical relevance with “Common Sense” while guitarist Grammy Award-winning guitarist Keb’ Mo’ and Grammy-winning bassist Christian McBride honored musicians who came before them with Leadbelly’s “Black Betty.”

The audience roared for six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald as she gracefully stepped onstage to host this one-of-a-kind show directed and choreographed by Joshua Bergasse. But let it be known that this nearly three-hour production had something for everyone to enjoy, and more than enough for my desperate-for-live-concerts, music-loving soul.

If you have never seen the National Symphony Orchestra perform before, this was the night to develop an unwavering appreciation and totally swoon. Conductors JoAnn Falletta, Steven Reineke and Thomas Wilkins led this group with heaps of bright energy, filling the room with tranquility and light. Luckily for us, this also meant ample solos from the prodigious and expressive Taiwanese-Australian violinist Ray Chen, who wowed at every given moment and sent the audience into a collective chuckle when flirting with soul icon Bettye LaVette.

With the orchestra playing behind most of the night’s vocal performances, this Kennedy Center experience was elevated into unmatched, intimate concert territory. When Broadway and opera star Kelli O’Hara enchanted us with Sondheim’s “Take Me to the World” from “Evening Primrose,” I immediately got goosebumps that turned straight into happy tears when Darren Criss came onstage right after to serenade us with a new rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Misérables,” with just his guitar and smooth tenor voice to guide us.

The musical theatre geek in me was over the moon when Criss came back onstage minutes later to join TikTok sensations Emily Bear and Abigail Barlow for a duet of their song “Oceans Away” from their newly released album “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical.” I followed the duo, known as Barlow & Bear, for eight months on the Internet as they wrote and composed the album right in front of our eyes in a myriad of encapsulating TikTok videos, so seeing them perform lyrics that have been stuck in my head for months for the first time in person was a real treat.

While it felt as though this celebration was highlighting luminaries of the present and future, it just as much recognized soulful powerhouses who have been performing for decades, such as jazz singer Dianne Reeves, who scatted and belted Duke Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If it Ain’t Got That Swing)” alongside McBride and Chen on the violin, and Lavette, who put tears in our eyes with her powerful cover of George Harrison’s “Blackbird.”

Among some of the powerhouse vocalists mentioned above, there was incredible tap dancing, intense ballet choreography with dramatic lifts, modern bluegrass and Americana vibes from Punch Brothers combined with powerful blues vocals from Lake Street Dive’s Rachael Price, and a moving spoken word piece called “Dignity as Currency” from Marc Bamuthi Joseph, vice president and artistic director of social impact at the Kennedy Center.

The evening ended on a high note — literally, from Broadway star Joshua Henry’s talented voice — with Common’s (and John Legend’s) brilliant Academy Award-winning song “Glory” from the movie “Selma.” While Common rapped in honor of the memory of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Trayvon Martin, among others, the cast from David Henry Hwang’s “Soft Power” sang the heart-clenching “glories” in the background.

Of course, there was nothing but respect and applause for the uplifting message and powerful tribute from this finale group. The praise may have only been louder when Henry had brought down the house moments earlier with a fiery rendition of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come.”

The way these artists and musicians played off each other with such effortless musicality, you’d think this star-studded lineup performs together every night — the sign of a brilliantly curated grouping thanks to the production’s creative team. It’s hard to describe the warmth of the concert hall with just words, but if there’s more excellent programming where this came from, D.C. is in luck.

To check out more 50th anniversary celebration events at the Kennedy Center, visit kennedy-center.org.

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Books read in 2024:

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

The Myth by Sisyphus by Albert Camus

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Devil on the Cross by Ngūgī wa Thiong'o

The Haunted House and other stories by Virginia Woolf

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Books read in 2023:

January:

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Feb:

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

March:

Middlemarch by George Eliot

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

April:

The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy

May:

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

June:

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

July:

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

August:

Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy

September:

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

October:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

November:

Carrie by Stephen King

December:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde

Aphorisms on Love and Hate by Frederich Nietzche

The Genius and other stories by Frank O'Connor

The Steel Flea by Nikolay Leskov

Tokyo Revengers by Ken Wakui (100+ volumes)

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Books read in 2022:

January:

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Inquilab: A Decade of Protest

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

February:

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

March:

The Meek One by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Secret History by Donna Tart

April:

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

May:

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

June:

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

July:

Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E Frankl

August:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Frederich Nietzsche

September:

Circe by Madeline Miller

October:

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

November:

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

December:

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway

S(he)y by Rabindranath Tagore

Crush by Richard Siken

Happy Ever After by Leo Tolstoy

Recitatif by Toni Morrison

An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce