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I have heard the Youth's concerns about problematic media and so I've decided to compile a list of non-problematic books you all should definitely read!! #tikok

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. A classic of Young Adult Lit.

Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima. A beautiful story of friendship between a young man and his older mentor. Great for anyone who uses the word sempai unironically.

Dangerous Liaisons by Chloderlos de Laclos. A roguish French aristocrat unintentionally falls in love and decides to change his life. Lovers to Enemies.

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Basically, Call me by your Name for Adults.

Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac. A bunch of friends living their best life in a Parisian tenancy.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Love Boat but down the Congo River.

Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. A 19th century mock-documentary into the ups and downs of a Russian family.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque. If you liked Little Life, you will LOVE this.

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Your twitter bffs band together and decide to live in a picturesque New England town.

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. A 14th century retelling of Heartstopper.

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Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary, August 18th 1921

[text ID: And so this August is wasted.]

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[ID: a cropped screenshot of a tiktok showing the top of a person’s head with text on top which reads: “book elitists when they see someone reading a book that isn’t a 900 page murder mystery love story with an ambiguous ending and deep composite story telling (they are looking a ta 6 year old reading “clifford the big red dog”)”. the tiktok has 30.7k likes. /end ID.]

We’re shifting to books now!

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[id: three screenshots of a tiktok video entitled “telling you which books on my shelf i’d recommend and which books i wouldn’t”. they hold out the books in front of their shelf, which is organised by colour. the first book they hold out is “reputation” by lex croucher, a contemporary romance novel with a pastel cover depicting four women in regency dresses drinking wine. it is in a relatively minimal and flatly coloured art style. the op of the video has labelled it “100% yes”. the second book they hold out is 1984 by george orwell, labelling it “absolutely not”. /end id.]

funny

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[ID: a tweet from elle (@ellesnotreading) of an excerpt from “ugly love” by colleen hoover. it reads as follows:

“thank you for this baby,” she says from the backseat. “he’s beautiful.”

i laugh. “you’re responsible for the beautiful part, rachel. the only thing he got from me was his balls.”

she laughs. she laughs hard. “oh, my god, i know,” she says. “they’re so big.”

we both laugh at our son’s big balls.

the tweet has been quote tweeted with, “i would rather shit in my hands and clap than read a colleen hoover book”. /end ID.]

HELPPPPPP

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moby dick is a great reminder that hunting a rare whale can be challenging at times

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- You’re a Karamazov too, you know! In your family sensuality is carried to a disease. 

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[image description: a comment on reddit from user strongestman posted 5 years ago reading as follows:

It's important to remember that "gay" as its used now did not exist in Melville's time. There was no word for gay people so Melville could not identify as gay or straight or anything but a sailor, a profession long associated with gay sex, from buccaneers to The Village People.

Were I a gambler I would bet Melville had sex with at least one dude, probably many dudes. It gets lonely at sea and Melville was kind of a babe. He has a tender, lumberjack vibe that I, for one, would find irresistible were I covered in sun blisters and spermaceti, trading horror stories about giant squids and whales. I would hold his magnificent beard for comfort.

/end description.]

redditor on whether herman melville was gay

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[ID: a tweet from “Slop - (#1 Fishmael fan)” (@/Reijilsoi) reading, “Grandpa gave me his copy of Moby Dick from 1962″. Underneath is a photograph of a page from Moby Dick with the following passage underlined in pink ink with “Homosexuality?” written underneath it in cursive:

“How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie  and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts’ honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg—a cosy, loving pair.” 

/end ID.]

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Next time you want to go a little 🪓🪓🪓 double check your Napoleon complex

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oh god i will never ever shut up about how riley keough is the perfect daisy jones

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daisy jones & the six, by taylor jenkins reid

but music is never about music. if it was, we’d be writing songs about guitars. but we don’t. we write songs about women.

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protect us, please. all of you. everyone. protect me, so i can protect her. help me see the danger before it strikes. help me resist their entrapments. give us the strength to hide and to fight.

happy birthday, mansi! ♡ (@selwynkane)

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hey, remember that queer book recs post from a while ago? well, now it's in quiz form.

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definitely WAY late but i have to say it so url !!!!!!!!!!!!! screaming its so iconic of u what a power move

omg hdnsjsj thank you thank you it is a privilege and an honour to have it<3

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I emerge blinking into the Houston night, flashbulbs popping, and get my first smell of the earth in nearly a month—warm and moist and inviting and reassuring. I don’t recall being sensitive to earth smells before, but then perhaps my sensitivities have changed and I will find the earth a different place from now on.

Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire