#The House of Doors

[oldshrewsburyian]

Between us lay this great, heavy silence, accreting over the years, layer upon layer, hardening like a coral reef, except a coral reef was a living thing, wasn't it?

The House of Doors, Tan Twan Eng

[balfasulye]

“ 'Where does a story begin, Willie? I asked.

For a while he did not say anything.

Then he shifted in his chair. 'Where does a wave on the ocean begin? he said.

Where does it form a welt on the skin of the sea, to swell and expand and rush towards shore?' ”

— Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

[judgingbooksbycovers]

The House of Doors: A Novel

By Tan Twan Eng.

[hattie-morahan]

Hattie is one of the readers of 'The House of Doors' by Tan Twan Eng on BBC Radio 4 this week and next, but all episodes are already available on BBC Sounds.

[yesokayiknow]

i hope that sometimes fifteen's psychic paper shorts out and shows what fourteen's thinking back on earth. he tries to sneak in somewhere and the guard's like this just says 'need to pick up cat food'? and fifteen's like 🥺 they got a cat

[lilianeruyters]

Tan Twang Eng || The House of Doors

Booker Prize Longlist 2023 I was quite reluctant to read The House of Doors, I did not know whether a novel about a famous writer would interest me. I am glad I gave the novel a chance. It turned out to be as much about people around the famous writer as about him, it also gave voice to something that was never spoken about in his time and age. Main character in The House of Doors is not…

[marzipanandminutiae]

"most allegedly haunted houses turn out to have gas leaks!"

no they don't. you are merely skimming the surface of mundane shit that can be wrong with old houses with your one puny little explanation that only fits a very small number of cases. try harder

[lotus-pear]

insufferable boyfriends for pride month yw

[owlpellet]

wishing people would understand (and advertisers would stop giving the impression) that herbal remedies don't actually work like fantasy potions where you have a Symptom and they magically target that Symptom specifically-- they work exactly like pharmaceutical medicines but at a less concentrated scale, and it can interact poorly with them if you are already using them.

ashwagandha doesn't "lower your anxiety", it reduces your cortisol levels, which can in turn lower your blood pressure and interact with other adrenal and BP meds. ginkgo doesn't "help you think", it dilates your blood vessels and is an anti-platelet, which increases cerebral bloodflow but can interact with other circulatory meds. grapefruit seed extract is an incredible antifungal but it will inhibit enzymes that break down many types of medication and lead to blood toxicity of those meds.

i've worked in this industry since before insta/tiktok was a major force in advertising for it and i've watched the swing from people generally being educated about this niche thing they have come in to buy to "i saw on tiktok that this will give me energy"

.... will it? have you had bloodwork done? are you adequately absorbing your nutrition? are you getting sunlight? stop being scammed by symptom-centric buzzwords. anything that promises it will give you energy or help you focus or whatever else hinges entirely on your body chemistry fitting very certain criteria and a lot of people end up disappointed when that cordyceps did nothing for them when it turns out they're low on stomach acid and not synthesizing their B vitamins correctly or something else that is way above my paygrade to determine.

the american healthcare system is a shitshow and people often have no choice but to take their treatments into their own hand, but "natural remedies" want your money just as bad as "big pharma" and it's up to the individual to do their epistemological due diligence when treating themselves. godbless.

[oldshrewsburyian]

I was tagged by @when-did-this-become-difficult to list my top six reads of the year, and -- once I had gone through my 'currently reading' tag to figure out what I'd read this calendar year -- it was a hard decision! For me, it was a good year for historical fiction (honorable mentions to For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain and Libertie) and for Asian fiction. It was also a year in which I read more new fiction than I sometimes manage to do. Mikanowski's Goodbye, Eastern Europe is the only non-fiction entry on the list; I am still envious of his prose. And yes, I'm counting The Books of Jacob because this is the year in which I successfully finished the (brilliant, also massive) thing.

Tagging, in a non-obligatory sort of way: @bluestockingcouture, @qqueenofhades, @lettersfromthelighthouse, @bibliophilecats, @kivrin, @counterwiddershins (and if you'd like to consider yourself tagged, feel free)

[queerographies]

[La casa delle mille porte][Tan Twan Eng]

Con La casa delle mille porte Tan Twan Eng ci consegna un romanzo magistrale sui segreti che si nascondono nelle famiglie infelici e sulle conseguenze nefaste che le più ottuse regole sociali possono provocare. Un ritratto dell’Impero inglese in decadenza

Nel 1921, William Somerset Maugham è in viaggio nei mari della Malesia in compagnia di Gerald, un giovane americano che lo segue come un’ombra nelle lontane terre del Sudest asiatico, dove si consumano gli ultimi giorni dell’Impero britannico. Nelle acque dell’arcipelago malese, venti benevoli e violente tempeste monsoniche si alternano a rendere tutt’altro che agevole la navigazione. Sicché,…

[lilislegacy]

percabeth kids: mom! dad! come on this ride with us!

percy and annabeth: ok! what’s it called?

percabeth kids: the tower of terror

percabeth: sounds fun!

and that was the last time the jackson family ever attended disney world

[vintagehomecollection]

Southern Interiors, 1988