#susanna sparrow

[khelinski]

On the mall balcony, zombies wandered past the stores, as if out for a Sunday stroll. Some moved down the stationary stairs onto the main concourse below. More and more zombies had been filing in from the surrounding communities, as if their normal lives continued; schools, offices and shopping malls continued to attract the walking dead.

George A. Romero

[catboyclarity]

Hey is it cool if I ask if u have any book recommendations? I wanna read more but it's hard for me to find new stuff to read so i'mma just ask randos to hand over their favs or whatever LMAO

Oh fuck yes I’ve been waiting for this.

I think everyone in the queer community should read In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado so that’s my blanket rec for everyone.

If you like The Weird Stuff I can’t recommend the Lilith’s Brood trilogy by Octavia E. Butler enough. It’s very weird and I love it.

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel fucked my life. If you are chill with reading something SUPER catholic and want a good trauma book pick that up.

Pick up Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin when it comes out. It’s twice as good as Manhunt and Manhunt is VERY good.

If you like literary fiction or even if you don’t try out Detransition, Baby by Torrey Petters

If you wanna read a 16 book fantasy series Realm of the Elderlings just reshaped my personality

Quick list of stuff I also like a lot but don’t find life changing:

-Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

-Pretty much anything out of the T. Kingfisher catalogue

-ditto for Seanan McGuire

-Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

“Hershel do you like any books by men” yes about two and you probably already know one of them.

[pearwaldorf]

RULES: list 5 of your favorite books on a poll, so your followers can vote which book they think captures your vibe the best

(ty to @blakbonnet for tagging me!)

idk if I would call these favorites but more "u should read these if you want to understand me more as a person" but whatever

As always, I am where memes go to die, so if you feel moved to do this, consider yourself tagged.

[friarfag]

I was tagged by @apilgrimsprogress (thank you omg i love things like this)

Rules: Answer + tag 9 people you want to get to know better and/or catch up with.

Favorite color: anything green. the color of my desk is my favorite shade. its sorta like a sage green and its perfect.

Last song: self control by frank ocean

Currently reading: i have too many stacks on stacks on stacks to read. but i try to read only one nonfiction, one fiction, and one poetry book at a time. so im reading Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want? by Tad DeLay, Piranesi by Susanna Clark. and Dog Songs by Mary Oliver. all three are excellent

Currently watching: oof. i am still mourning The Sopranos. but i just finished watching The Circle and now i think my reality TV binge needs to be over. so i will finally be watching Breaking Bad. (also open to suggestions). Movies: Humboldt County, I Saw the TV Glow, Longlegs.

Coffee or tea: coffee! i got a moka pot recently and i make myself little lattes every morning.

Currently craving: raising cane's!!!!

Tagging: @toriforthepeople @slothu @xanderwithanx @gaynglican @antsuperfan @many-sparrows @noturmuse @quakercowboy

[fiction-quotes]

“I doubt,” said Brother Cadfael, considering, “whether there was any here who loved her half so well as you.” “Or hated her half so well,” said Susanna, lifting her head with one measured flash of grey eyes. “The two are often bed-fellows,” he said, unperturbed. “You need not question either.”

  —  The Sanctuary Sparrow (Ellis Peters)

[a-ramblinrose]

23 books I want to finish in 2023

I was tagged by @thequeerlibrarian !!!!!

Babel by R.F. Kuang

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

If, Not Winter by Anne Carson

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin

Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett

The Way Home by Peter S. Beagle 

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Dispossessed  by Ursula K. Le Guin

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo 

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

This list is in no particular order and is a mix of new acquisitions and beat the back list books. All but one of them is already owned or preordered and I plan to order that one soon-ish. 

And a random assortment of tags to keep a fun prompt going! 

 @ninja-muse  @stefito0o @godzilla-reads  @emily-reads-books  @acciobooksandsunshine

[thatsoutherngeek]

Last Amazon purchases of 2022. Tatami Galaxy By: Tomihiko Morimi, The Cat Who Saved Books By: Sosuke Natsukawa, Ghoul By: Brian Keene, Dawn of the Dead By: George A.Romero And Susanna Sparrow, The Living Dead By: George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus, Kitchen Confidential By: Anthony Bourdain. Also got a new Bento Style Lunchbox Bentgo for work. I have been wanting a copy of Kitchen Confidential for awhile, I always enjoyed watching Anthony Bourdain on T.V.. #amazonpurchase #books #tatamigalaxythenovel #tomohikomorimi #thecatwhosavedbooks #sosukenatsukawa #ghoul #briankeene #dawnofthedead #georgearomero #susannasparrow #thelivingdead #danielkraus #kitchenconfidential #anthonybourdain #bentgo #Lunchbox (at Ouachita Parish, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm0TdASs22E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[venus-haze]

since i trust your taste, do you have any book recommendations? fiction or nonfiction! thanks battie!!

This has been sitting in my inbox for a hot minute while I've been getting my recommendations together. I tried to steer clear of stuff that was too niche. Kinda long, so it's under the cut!

🦇 Battie

Fiction:

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Living Is Easy by Dorothy West

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Paradise by Toni Morrison

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Liarmouth by John Waters

Martin by George Romero and Susanna Sparrow (book adaptation of the movie)

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Earthseed Series by Octavia Butler (I’m really not a huge sci-fi fan but this series is incredible)

Non-fiction:

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (this is a compilation of essays)

Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach

Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie

Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye

It’s So Easy and Other Lies by Duff McKagan

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Cassavetes on Cassavetes by Ray Carney (and John Cassavetes I suppose)

Also, FaT GiRL and Anything That Moves are great zines that have been archived online.

[khelinski]

A slight blue haze appeared in the eastern sky. The mall stood silently in the impending dawn, mute to the disaster that had taken place within its walls that night.

George A. Romero

[writingwell]

A Year in Books - 2022

(challenge: read a book recommended by someone else)

Butterfly Yellow - Thanhhá Lai (Jessie) Collected Ghost Stories - MR James (Terra) The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton The Rose Garden - Susanna Kearsley Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder (bookriot/Liv) all about love: new visions - bell hooks (Liv) The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell (book club) Legendborn - Tracy Deonn (Candice) The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern (Jessie) The Winter Sea - Susanna Kearsley Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (book club) Dispatches from Pluto - Richard Grant (Jamie) What Happened to You? - Dr Bruce Perry, Oprah (Blake) Writers & Lovers - Lily King (Christy) Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi Named of the Dragon - S Kearsley Memphis - Tara Stringfellow (Shelley) Under the Whispering Door - TJ Klune (Jessie) Midnight Library - Matt Haig (Christina) How to Be Perfect - Michael Schur (book riot) You Made a Fool Out of Death With Your Beauty - A Emezi Book of Night - Holly Black (MPL newsletter) Bringing Down the Duke - Evie Dunmore All Your Perfects - Colleen Hoover (Caroline) The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth  - Beth Allison Barr (Andria) How to Stop Time - Matt Haig Heat Wave - Richard Castle Naked Heat - Richard Castle Autumn - Ali Smith (Beanie) Quartet - Jean Rhys (book club) Who Is Maud Dixon? - Alexandra Andrews (Leslie) When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill (MPL newsletter) Ace - Angela Chen (book riot) Dracula - Bram Stoker (Beanie/daily dracula) Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage (Caroline) A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik The Last Graduate - Naomi Novik How We Talk - NJ Enfield (Aaron) The Golden Enclaves - Naomi Novik (Jessie)

[barkskins]

i've temporarily paused my queue as i catch up/let my wrist heal. below is my current to-do list. if there are any that you're dying to read, please nudge me and i'll release it. otherwise they'll come out throughout the week !

queued:

jasper & hunter

kier & devon

patrick & wesley

patrick & coen

jasper & boone

mariella & olive

jasper & ophelia

laika & kennedy

summaiya & felix

sterling & jasmine

striker & rocky

kasper & clementine

jasper & mateo

sparrow & axl

west & zoe

colt & susanna

jasper & milo

cooper & jasper

to-do:

karenna & evanie

sera & jasper

striker & ingrid

[kushielsmercy]

Shiel's Unsolicited Book Reviews: Masterpost

What are you even talking about? Why should I care? (I mean, you don't have to. You might not. That's okay.)

2023 Reviews:

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Piranesi by Susanna Clark'

The Sparrow by Mary Dorio Russel

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

[xoteajays]

▸ suzy hext vs lily hargreeves sparrow academy au 

after their not-so-great interaction with reginald hargreeves in the 1960s, he makes the executive decision to get a whole new bunch of kids this time around and hopefully not end up with the ‘uncivilised’ group he’d apparently originally had. he gathered up a whole new set, names them 1-7, and dubs them the sparrow academy. 

unfortunately, he doesn’t realise who he has until it’s too late to get rid of her. ‘lily’, as she’d been named this time around, shares the face and powers of that snippy girl from the 60s who’d broken his monocle. at least, he decides, he can ‘raise her up right, to be more respectful’. lily is a wonderful number 7, wit as sharp as the glass she wields. 

when the original, suzy hext, appears back in 2019 with the umbrella academy, she comes face to face with not only a living ben but her own visage at his side, albeit with a few aesthetic changes in bleached-and-dyed red hair and shock-blue contacts. to say she is pissed off is to say the very least of what she’s feeling. 

[theherocomplex]

Tomorrow I get to order BOOKS and below is my current list:

Note - these are books that I’ve read, for the most part, and loved enough that I want physical copies.

The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner

Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner

The Return of the Thief (I haven’t read this yet but I’m sure I will love it) by Megan Whalen Turner

Imajica by Clive Barker

Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke

Beauty by Robin McKinley

The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

Ombria in Shadow by Patricia McKillip

The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 

...I know I’m forgetting a bunch of books because my list keeps changing (and some I took off because while they’re by authors I like, I haven’t read them, so I’ll get them from the library first), and I also want to get all of the Confederation of Valor books, and every Shirley Jackson ever wrote...yeah.

I also have to PURGE my book collection, just a bit, because there are some books I have physical copies for that I will never touch again -- so time to give them away!

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

Book Ask:

Piranesi, by Susanna Clark

The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell

Piranesi

never heard of | never read | want to read | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

I could have read this book for free (or for, well, Worldcon's $50 supporting membership fee) as part of Hugos voting this year, but I was an idiot and kept putting it off and putting it off until I missed the voting window entirely, like an ANIMAL.

The Sparrow

never heard of | never read | want to read | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

A great deal of what goes down in The Sparrow essentially consists of plot and character points from midcentury Catholic SFF (A Case of Conscience is the obvious jumping-off point but this could be said about Leibowitz and even LotR as well) reworked to meet the political, moral, artistic, and theological concerns of the 1990s rather than the 1950s. This is a point in its favor as far as I’m concerned.

put a book in my ask!

[sulfurousmirrorscapes]

Reading Log - “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell” by Susanna Clarke

And we’re back to reading!

13. The magician of Threadneedle-street

- dilatoriness, dilatory - tending or inclined to delay or waste time 

- bell pull, system of summoning domestic workers in 19th-century homes

- sacristan, a person who has charge of the contents of a church, esp the sacred vessels, vestments, etc

- career (v.), to move swiftly along; rush in an uncontrolled way 

- pinion, to hold or bind (the arms) of (a person) so as to restrain or immobilize him or her

14. Heart-break Farm

- wicket, a stand-alone gate that provides convenient secondary access, for example to the rear of a walled park or garden

- elder tree, type of flowering tree found in temperate regions

- sit up, to remain out of bed and awake, esp until a late hour

15. “How is Lady Pole?”

- Covent-garden, district in London, known for its fruit-and-vegetable market. Not covered until after 1830, so it was open-air at the time of the novel’s setting

- costermonger, a person who sells fruit, vegetables, etc, from a barrow

- Mr Ackermann, publisher, inventor, bookseller and more; ran a print shop at the Strand starting 1795

- Mayfair, affluent area in West End of London

- Drummond’s in Charing Cross, a bank operating since 1717, in possession of the Drummond family until 1924

- tureen, a serving dish for foods such as soups or stews

- “Their Northamptonshire accent was not always intelligible to the London servants (who, it must be said, made no very great efforts to understand them) and they used words like goosegogs, sparrow-grass, betty-cat and battle-twigs, when they should have said gooseberries, asparagus, she-cat and earwigs.”

- phaeton, a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with or without a top, usually having two seats

- bilious, affected with or denoting any disorder related to excess secretion of bile, bad-tempered; irritable