Living with books #83
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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hello vonnie
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation

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if i look back, i am lost
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Living with books #83
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“It was candy canes and pinecones, it was epic and awesome, it was dirt and leaves and rain, it was grass and lake water and sunshine. It was a forest so alive, so untouched.”
😭😭😭
You don’t understand. I don’t want this series to ever end.
everyday girls are haunted by sylvia plath's fig tree analogy
it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

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this quote will always be stuck in my head
idk if any of y’all are readers but please just go pick up any book by fredrik backman it will cure something broken in you. please i’m begging you.
This doesn’t include the best bit of the whole thing - she found the Twitter thread!
This is like one of those romance novels where people bond over accidentally writing each other emails but better.
Like Pride and Prejudice but instead of the love interest getting dissed for his toxicity and then reforming, it’s just two people bonding over dissing a dead toxic asshole.
10/10 would recommend
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Y'all remember that Powerpoint style of media recs from a few years ago? i'm bringing it back for my Very Professional explanation about why YOU should read The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells!
With a HUGE round of kudos to all the wonderful artists who contributed to make this little thing come to life. Featuring the works of:
@non-plutonian-druid for Triple AAA Murderbot and Pin-Lee
@alex-van-gore for Refugee One, Dr. Mensah (from All System's Red), and ART+Murderbot
@grammarpedant from Three in Clay
audzilla@insta for Dr. Mensah (Headshot), Dr. Ratthi, Dr. Gurathin, and Murderbot in Sanctuary Moon Shirt.
Plus official cover art and other tie in pieces by assorted artists
Seriously, everyone's work is amazing, please go check them out!
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reading in bed. painting by marta astrain.
girl, are you the house on ash tree lane? because there is a dark chasm within you that makes no physical sense that corresponds to the themes in your narrative that i also i feel compelled to explore
hey remember when jane austen, a woman, referred to a character named richard as having “never done anything to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name” in 1817. yeah me too.
similar concept, different vibes
hey girl, your boyfriend uh- yeah, we showed him the weird door in his house that appeared out of nowhere and- yeah, he went through. yeah there's a hallway that's like five and a half minutes long. mhm, he's already down the spiral staircase and everything.¹
no, yeah, he's pretty much abandoned you because of his obsession with the supernatural labyrinth beneath his house. sure, you can fuck his brother if it'll make you feel better (it won't)².
the good news is that he's not really being chased by a minotaur. gotta look on the bright side, right? yup, just a manifestation of his trauma. textbook, honestly.
anyway it's just that the narrative is crumpling a little bit. just like the house is unstable, so is the story's fourth wall. he's trapped in the house and you're trapped in the story. sorry, girl.
˙ɯᴉɥ ɹǝʇɟɐ ƃuᴉɯoɔ sᴉ snǝsǝɥʇ puɐ ˙ʍou ɥʇuᴉɹʎqɐl ǝɥʇ oʇ sƃuolǝq ǝɥ³
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¹ I seriously can't even fucking believe it's yet another one of these fucking memes. Like the author just thought it was so fucking clever. Yeah, we all have access to text editors and shit. Anyone could have made this.
² Doe, Jane. "Cuckoldry and Infidelity: The Pointlessness of Shallow Cheating." Extramarital Affairs Quarterly, 123, 45, March 7, 2000, 99-103.
³ This is an especially fascinating entry. The original author did take the time in the hand-written manuscript to carefully write each letter upside down rather than simply rotating the page. They even went to the trouble of writing the second sentence, despite eventually choosing to cross it out like nearly every other reference to the classic Greek myth.

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party rock is in the house tonight
when susan sontag wrote “I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it”