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Recommended books (from A to Z)

A: The Awakening, Kate Chopin B: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath C: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky D: Don Juan, Lord Byron E: The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje F: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury G: The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy H: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers I: Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison J: The Joy of Reading, Charles Van Doren K: King Lear, William Shakespeare L: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill M: The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov N: Native Son, Richard Wright O: Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham P: The Persian Wars, Herodotus Q: The Quiet American, Graham Greene R: The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham S: The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes T: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith U: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera V: The Vegetable, F. Scott Fitzgerald W: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte X: Autobiography of Malcolm X Y: The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Z: Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic

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Reblog and tag your book lover friends for Valentine’s Day. <3

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i want there to be more fanfic aus where everything is the same but for one minor detail. everything is the same but there’s sentient animals wandering around. everything is the same but everyone is called gerry. everything is the same but two characters are siblings for no reason

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“In literature, as in life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.”

— Andre Malraux (b. 3 November 1901)

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Literary history that happened on 1 November

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VR in 1830 Looked like this:

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my little brother & i are having a scholarly debate about mornings

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- Yomna ElSharony

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Let it be known that I read this poem and then sobbed uncontrollably for several minutes

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Poem by Joseph Fasano

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“Femme Fatale” by Susan Kane

[From The Femme Mystique, ed. Lesléa Newman]

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“All literature is protest.”

— Richard Wright (b. 4 September 1908)

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Read someone suggest Moby Dick is cosmic horror and it FRAMED it that way I think, that Moby Dick is an unknowable force of nature or God or some Niskayuna demiurge. But it’s wild that Ishmael frames Moby Dick in the same manner Lovecraft might unknowable entities from the stars, but nothing about Moby Dick is ineffable.

It’s a whale. It’s a whale who doesn’t want to die and has gotten very good at not getting killed. Nothing it really does is out of character for a large mammal who is fighting back against predators.

The horror in Moby Dick is not the whale. It’s the monomania of men who adhere some cosmic significance to events that fall outside their willingness to understand. Men who refuse to accept “chance” and “nature” as explanations for their circumstances.

So it is cosmic horror in a way, and perhaps a really interesting aspect of it, because it is about the “descent into madness” that is usually just a framing device.