#carson catton

[ceceliaclarkkk]

thanks carson for bringing my ass to outerbanks🩵

📸: @carsoniswack

@tobyiscooll @itsjustwheezie @lukethorton @leithorton @topperthortonn @jb0019 @jjmaybank21 @megsroutledge111 @rafe-cameron1 @ivyamara2000 @its-ariacameron @addictedtosarah @atlas-bennet @enzo20taylor @codyclarkk

[tobyharrisonn]

she is trying to take me cats, she is cat obsessed @leithorton @jb0019

@carsoniswack @codyclarkk @lukethorton @noah-routledge @megan-routlegde-cameron01 @jjmaybank21 @rafe-cameron1 @topperthortonn @addictedtosarah @harperalexandraaa @itsjustwheezie @its-ariacameron @ivyamara2000 @atlas-bennet @enzo20taylor

[crueldesire]

eros the bittersweet, anne carson / saltburn (2023) dir. emerald fennell

[saintsir4n]

Hi Girl,

I’ve literally just come back from work but I’ve been thinking about you all day none stop and felt like I had to get this out, I want to thank you for your stories and your art as it never fails to amaze me. It’s artistically beautiful the way you write these characters being in love with their respective black love interests. Growing up as a bookworm, I found it impossible to find stories or especially fics that have black love interests not written in specific ways. However, you manage to achieve this so naturally and make it heartwarming to be seen as a possible love interests to characters that we’ve either fell in love with or thirsted over. I just finished Stereo Love and your Saltburn fic and both are just written in a way where it’s obvious the main character is the centre of her love interests world and that she truly is the epitome of beauty to them. Growing up, it’s been hard for many black girls (including myself) to feel desired and loved romantically, so thank you truly and I so can’t wait for what you have in store for us. Most importantly, looking after yourself is the most important so just know we your fans truly have the best interests for you in terms of treating yourself kindly. All the best lovely, I thought I would just give my two cents.

PS: do you mind giving your top ten male crushes (they can be fictional, from television or movies) and these can be current or like childhood crushes?!

Lots of love- 🐜

Honestly, this love and appreciation is making me cry. The type of support I’m receiving today is amazing and very heart warming. I try to write my characters as authentic and true to not just me to black readers, black girls and women. Growing up being black wasn’t as popular or glamorous as people showcasing today and I’m glad our people are being made to feel like themselves in spaces where we’re usually ostracised, so I’m glad that these stories speak to or help people. When I write my OCs I like to write them as desired, or loved, considering the lack of roles for black women in shows/films/books where we are seen in such a way.

After understanding the love interests (Felix Catton and Brian O’Conner) and how they view their respected partners I find it easier to insert my OC, of course I have to acknowledge the role of their race before hand whether it’s subtle or integral to the plot of my stories or canon.

At first when I started writing I didn’t know which part of the black experience to include, without bringing people out of their “fantasy”. Many people equate blackness with struggle or negativity, when there are so many positive and popular things we do whether it’s our hair, our style, our music or just us overall especially in the eras these films were set in/ released (early 2000s)

I’m glad you’re enjoying my stories, the next one I’m publishing is a House of The Dragon book, hope you’re interested. And I also hope you’re taking care of yourself as I try to. I’m so blessed to have this comment honestly as well as fans like you!

And atm for my TOP TEN MALE crushes (fictional/non fictional):

1. Jon Snow. Kit Harrington this role… I can’t get over his season 6 appearance. Most Targaryen men are good looking and yes people still say he’s a stark, which he is but damn, he’s something else.

2. Xolo Maridueña (Miguel Diaz from CK) love the actor in the show, he’s fine as hell especially with his longer hair and is thankfully older than me.

3. Damson Idris. Stunning, great smile, talented too!

4. Cillian Murphy. Must I explain this one?

5. Dylan O’brien. ALWAYS I just hope he doesn’t do some bs and let me down.

6. Brian O’Conner (specifically in the first and second films)

7. Kingsley Ben Adir. This man is just tall and fine.

8. Zayn. Been rocking with him since 2011 and his amazing voice.

9. Hector Bellerin. Just like Zayn, they’re fine men. And even though I don’t watch football, I watch his clips and that’s enough.

10. Lando Johnson. I only watch clips of All American Homecoming, I watched the original show up until season 3 and won’t start watching the spin off until I find out Simone ends up with Lando and his beautiful self.

This list took me a WHILE, especially for top 1, but I landed on Jon Snow, because how he is with a sword, his hair and how everyone in Westeros calls him pretty. Plus I did write a story for him a while ago, which I want to add to or change up in the future.

[codyclarkk]

I don't think carson liked the topcorn... @carsoniswack

📸 - @lukethorton

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[lands-of-fantasy]

Emma

Classic and loose adaptions from 1972, 1995, 1996 (x2), 2009, 2013, 2020

The fourth of Jane Austen’s novels, first published in 1815, has had many adaptions over the years. The ones pictured above are detailed below:

Emma (1972 Miniseries)

6 episodes x 45min Written by Denis Constanduros, directed by John Glenister

Starring Doran Godwin as Emma Woodhouse, John Carson as Mr. George Knightley, Debbie Bowen as Harriet Smith, Timothy Peters as Mr. Philip Elton, Robert East as Frank Churchill,  Ania Marson as Jane Fairfax, among others

Clueless (1995 Film)

Loose adaption set in modern Beverly Hills, USA Written and directed by Amy Heckerling

Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz (Emma), Paul Rudd as Josh Lucas (Knightley), Stacey Dash as Dionne Davenport, Brittany Murphy as Tai Frasier (Harriet), Jeremy Sisto as Elton Tiscia, Justin Walker as Christian Stovitz (Frank), among others

Emma (1996 Film)

Written and directed by Douglas McGrath

Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma Woodhouse, Jeremy Northam as Mr. George Knightley, Toni Collette as Harriet Smith, Alan Cumming as Philip Elton, Ewan McGregor as Frank Churchill, Polly Walker as Jane Fairfax, among others

Emma (1996 TV Film)

Written by Andrew Davies, directed by Diarmuid Lawrence

Kate Beckinsale as Emma Woodhouse, Mark Strong as Mr. George Knightley, Samantha Morton as Harriet Smith, Dominic Rowan as Mr. Philip Elton, Raymond Coulthard as Frank Churchill, Olivia Williams as Jane Fairfax, among others

Emma (2009 Miniseries)

4 episodes x 58min Written by Sandy Welch, directed by Jim O'Hanlon

Starring Romola Garai as Emma Woodhouse, Jonny Lee Miller as Mr. George Knightley, Louise Dylan as Harriet Smith, Michael Gambon as Mr. Henry Woodhouse, Blake Ritson as Mr. Philip Elton, Rupert Evans as Frank Churchill, Laura Pyper as Jane Fairfax, Jefferson Hall as Robert Martin, among others

Emma Approved (2013-14 Webseries)

95 episodes x 4-8min, available on Youtube Loose adaption set in modern US, told in a vlog format

Created by Bernie Su, from Pemberley Digital

Starring Joanna Sotomura as Emma Woodhouse, Brent Bailey as Alex Knightley, Dayeanne Hutton as Harriet Smith, James Brent Isaacs as Bobby Martin, Paul Stuart as James Elton, Stephen A. Chang as Frank Churchill, Tyra Colar as Jane Fairfax, among others

While the series is a follow-up to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, it stands on its own.

Emma (2020 Film)

Written by Eleanor Catton, directed by Autumn de Wilde

Anya Taylor-Joy as Emma Woodhouse, Johnny Flynn as Mr. George Knightley, Mia Goth as Harriet Smith, Bill Nighy as Mr, Woodhouse, Josh O'Connor as Mr. Philip Elton, Callum Turner as Frank Churchill, Amber Anderson as Jane Fairfax, among others

*****

Personal favorite: 2009 But also: 1996 (Theatrical Film), Emma Approved

P.S.: 2020′s pretty popular, from what I’ve seen. I’ve enjoyed it myself, but it’s not among my favorite.

[multivcrsity-archive]

MOBILE MUSE LIST

television

THE 100

bellamy blake + bob morley

clark griffin + eliza taylor

jasper jordan + devon bostick

john murphy + richard harmon

octavia blake + marie avgeropoulos

raven reyes + lindsay morgan

AMERICAN HORROR STORY

madison montgomery + tati gabrielle

misty day + lily rabe

THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR

flora fairchild + india eisley

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

luke crain + oliver jackson cohen

theo crain + kate siegel

film

AGE OF ADALINE

adaline bowman + blake lively

THE COVENANT

caleb danvers + steven strait

pogue parry + taylor kitsch

reid garwin + toby hemingway

tyler simms + chace crawford

DC

billy batson + asher angel

cassandra cain + ella jay basco

chato santana + jay hernandez

floyd lawton + michael b jordan

freddy freeman + adam brody

harley quinn + margot robbie

lucy quinzel + chloe moretz

selina kyle + ana de armas

THE DESCENDANTS

carlos de ville + ross lynch

chad charming + nicholas galitzine

evie grimhilde + sophia carson

jay + booboo stewart

mal bertha + dove cameron

malinda bertha + elizabeth gillies (oc)

DISNEY

anna + sadie sink

aurora + elle fanning

belle + troian bellesario

chip potts + asa butterfield

elsa + gabriella wilde

eugene fitzherbert + thomas mcdonell

merida + sophie turner / eleanor tomlinson

moana + auli’i cravalho

maui + jason momoa

rapunzel + lily james

tinkerbell + freya allen

vanellope von schweetz + mackenzie foy

FEAR STREET

deena johnson + kiana madeira

ruby lane + india eisley

sarah fier + kiana madeira

IT

avery hockstetter + felix mallard

beverly marsh + jessica chastain

bill denbrough + james mcavoy

eddie kaspbrak + timothée chamalet

greta keene + sabrina carpenter

henry bowers + nicholas hamilton

mike hanlon + isaiah mustafa

patrick hockstetter + owen teague

richie tozier + bill hader

stanley uris + andy bean

JURASSIC WORLD

maisie lockwood + mackenzie foy

MARVEL

peter parker + tom holland / andrew garfield

THE OUTSIDERS

curly shepard + jordan connor

johnny cade + steven r mcqueen

ponyboy curtis + jake t austin

US

adelaide wilson + lupita nyong'o

red + lupita nyong'o

misc.

GREEK MYTHOLOGY

aphrodite + nyané lebajoa

cerberus + aidan turner

dionysus + toby regbo

hades + cheyenne jackson

hermes + faceclaim

persephone + gugu mbtha raw

poseidon + jason momoa

literature

HARRY POTTER

cormac mclaggen + freddie stroma

dominique weasley + faceclaim

hannah abbott + faceclaim

hermione granger + jessica sula

lily luna potter + luca hollestelle

lucy weasley + elle fanning

luna lovegood + evanna lynch

millicent bulstrode + barbie ferreira

neville longbottom + matthew lewis

rose weasley + ashley moore

scorpius malfoy + austin butler

THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES

lestat de lioncourt + cody fern

louis de pointe du lac + felix mallard

original characters

alejandro valdez + danny ramirez ( serial killer based on ahs' the night stalker )

axel zimmermann + aidan turner ( vampire )

elijah catton + jacob elordi ( twin brother of @everyoneismytoy's felix )

gabriel + jamie campbell bower ( archangel )

isabelle blackwood + taylor momsen ( witch )

michael fitzpatrick + max thieriot ( spn hunter )

oliver todd + richard harmon ( serial killer / nightclub manager associated with @painofhumanity's alexander )

[peggychecksitout]

I’m in a bit of a reading slump atm, so while I am thinking about all the ways in which I am *not* reading, I thought I would share with you some of my unread books and why I haven’t gotten around to reading them yet:

The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman: because I keep telling myself I want to re-read the His Dark Materials series first.

Winter by Ali Smith: because I decided I wanted to read her Seasonal Quartet both by publication date and by season. I read Autumn in autumn last year, but missed reading this book in winter of last year 🙈 so I am waiting for this years winter to roll around.

Plainwater by Anne Carson: This book (and Anne Carson if I’m being honest) is just so intimidating—I definitely don’t feel big brained enough to read it and “get it.”

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: my brain has designated this as an October Read, so if I miss reading it in an October, I have to wait until the next one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton: coming in at 832 pages, this absolute chonk of a book intimidates me on size alone—I just always end up picking a smaller book over it.

QOTD: what’s a reason you have for not having read a book yet on tbr shelf?

(id in alt text)

[flwrpotts]

2020 reads

ok i only have 99 books on this list bc im forgetting one and cannot figure out for the LIFE of me what it is, but! here is everything i read for 2020, and im probably gonna try to narrow down my top ten for another post!! 2020 was a shitshow year BUT at least the reads were good:

less than zero by bret easton ellis

trick mirror by jia tolentino

death is not an option by suzanne rivecca

on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

catch and kill by ronan farrow

prozac nation by elizabeth wurtzel

difficult women by roxane gay

hunger by roxane gay

our men do not belong to us by warsan shire

the grownup by gillian flynn

slouching towards bethlehem by joan didion

you but for the body fell against by natalie stephens

in the dream house by carmen maria machado

sharp objects by gillian flynn

play it as it lays by joan didion

you don’t have to say you love me by sherman alexie

the handmaid’s tale by margaret atwood

the foxhole court by nora sakavic

the raven king by nora sakavic

all the king’s men by nora sakavic

never let me go by kazuo ishiguro

the year of magical thinking by joan didion

power politics by margaret atwood

reeling for the empire by karen russell

you’re ugly, too by lorrie moore

drinking coffee elsewhere by zz packer

stone animals by kelly link

summer sisters by judy blume

sweetbitter by stephanie danler

cat’s eye by margaret atwood

dark places by gillian flynn

night sky with exit wounds by ocean vuong

war of the foxes by richard siken

blue nights by joan didion

my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh

seam by tarifa faizullah

salvador by joan didion

good bones by margaret atwood

south and west: from a notebook by joan didion

bluets by maggie melson

bunny by mona awad

conversations with friends by sally rooney

normal people by sally rooney

the incendiaries by r. o. kwon

necessary people by anna pitoniak

stray by stephanie danler

devotion by madeline stevens

social creature by tara isabella burton

blackout by sarah repola

mothers, monters, whores: women’s violence in global politics by laura sjoberg

kitchen confidential by anthony bourdain

self tanner for the soul by cat marnell

barbarian days: a surfing life by william finnegan

rodham by curtis sittenfeld

slow days, fast company by eve babitz

dearest creature by amy gerstler

what good is grand strategy? by hal brands

devotion by patti smith

the woman who would be king by kara cooney

godshot by chelsea bieker

grief lessons: four plays by euripides trans. anne carson

the tragedy of great power politics by john mearsheimer

reluctant crusaders by colin dueck

electra by sophocles trans. anne carson

the secret history by donna tartt

my dark vanessa by kate russell

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

daddy by emma cline

the testaments by margaret atwood

neverworld wake by marisha pressl

daisy jones & the six by taylor jenkins

mostly dead things by kristen arnett

the knockout queen by rufi thorpe

circe by madeline miller

boys & sex by peggy orenstein

such a fun age by kiley reid

verified strangers by lena dunham

if not, winter by sappho (trans. anne Carson)

america abroad by stephen brooks

the lightning thief by rick riordan

the sea of monsters by rick riordan

the titan’s curse by rick riordan

the battle of the labyrinth by rick riordan

the blood of olympus by rick riordan

the lost hero by rick riordan

the son of neptune by rick riordan

the mark of athena by rick riordan

the house of hades by rick riordan

the blood of olympus by rick riordan

sister in hate by darby seyward

the rehearsal by eleanor catton

decreation by anne carson

black swans by eve babitz

hitting budapest by noviolet bulawayo

my dear you by rachel khong

the cheerleaders by kara thomas

call my name by aimee bender

sinners welcome by mary karr

lot: stories by bryan washington

[ceceliaclarkkk]

“I know if I'm on to you, I'm on to you”

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[ephemeral-winter]

the year in books

okay so nobody asked but i am Going To Do A Blog about the books I read this year (minus most of the scholarly ones) please reserve all judgments but also remember that i am always correct

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

i was seriously underwhelmed by this. only read it because everyone on this hellsite loves posting anne carson quotes. well there was nothing good in here to post. wtf is up with that.

Once, Twice, Three times an Aisling by Emer McLysaught and Sarah Breen

The Importance of Being Aisling by Emer McLysaught and Sarah Breen

Oh My God What a Complete Aisling by Emer McLysaught and Sarah Breen

the above three are a romance series about a hapless irish girl in her twenties and i read them out of order and was mildly bored but also i loved them??? 

Hey Ladies! by Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss

based on the series of the same name that used to run on the-toast.net (RIP). meh.

American Royals by Katharine McGee

first in a YA series about what if america had royals (as the name implies). dumb af but i’m a sucker for stories about rich people doing stupid shit.

Making Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel

i read this in preparation for the paleography class i took this past spring. somehow taught me nothing new?

The Virgin of Chartres by Margot Fassler

500 pages of excellent excellent history, and instrumental in writing my thesis now. obsessed with this book. 

Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood

i’d been trying to finish this for about a year and a half. i love isherwood’s fiction but his (auto)biography is harder to read? 

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

could not for the life of me tell you what happens in this one but i did have fun!

The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark

i love muriel spark but again have no idea what it’s about. we got sent home from campus the week i was reading this; that’s probably why

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

you know what is a great idea? reading a terrifying book about a historical outbreak of cholera at 2am the night before you get sent home from campus on account of a brand new worldwide pandemic! highly recommend! 

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling (reread)

i’ve always hated this one, and hadn’t reread it in about 10 years. still hate it!

The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley

i think i would have found this funnier if i wasn’t actually a scholar of the late medieval period.

The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark (reread)

love.

Death in a Tenured Position by Amanda Cross

my mom told me to read this one, so i did. a murder mystery set in the 1970s harvard english dept... i simply have to lol

Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

this was really well done and also i have already forgotten what it’s about

Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley (reread)

reconfirmed my belief that buckley is at his best when he’s satirizing the american political system of the early aughts. 

The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor

fermor’s only published fiction with a fascinating frame narrative. would recommend

Normal People by Sally Rooney (reread)

i can’t talk about this book. fukc.

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

essential reading.

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (reread)

can talk a little bit more about this one, but again i say: fukc. i am not a college student in dublin and i’ve never had an affair with an older man but goddamn if rooney didn’t see inside my soul.

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld

i love sittenfeld usually but this was not it.

The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton

her second book (the luminaries) is better.

Midnight Blue by Simone Van Der Vlugt

good for a beach read.

The Collected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen (reread)

i was obsessed with this book when i was 11 or so. less obsessed now; newly amazed by this way of writing a novel.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (reread)

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (reread)

it’s douglas adams! what’s not to love?

The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson

read this for the book club of two i have with my grandmother. i enjoyed it; she did not.

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

okay so today i’m really sad about how last year on NYE i was in paris and drank a lot of wine and ate a lot of cheese and this year i am home with my parents (drinking wine and eating cheese). this book is about being a stupid young american woman in paris in the 60s and it made me about as sad as i am today, except then in august. 

Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

i know nothing about south asian nationalist movements, but hoo boy did the theory in this book expand my mind in some new and important ways.

Playing the Whore by Melissa Gira Grant

essential reading.

Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford (reread)

ugh mitford’s work is such a comfort reread. i’m working on the sisters’ collected letters right now and i can’t believe how fucking brilliant they all were. 

Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony

probably the best book i read this year. a stunning little novel in about 120 pages. if you like taxidermy and congress and gay people and history and love, this is a book for you.

Don’t Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford (reread)

more mitford. self-explanatory, really.

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (reread)

this is one of the books i credit with my interest in medieval history. gives me something new each time i come back to it.

Majesty by Katherine McGee

a sequel to american royals, described above. still stupid af; still a delight.

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (reread)

i reread this for my minyan’s book club, even though i only attended one of the meetings. my mom first read this to me when i was literally nine years old-- what a parenting choice! this book taught me how to curse. still a masterpiece of a novel. 

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling (reread)

needed a comfort read yesterday. fuck jkr for all the usual reasons, but damn, this hits. 

[thebooklister-blog1]

Book Depository’s Best Books Ever List

Elena Ferrante -- My Brilliant Friend

Andre Aciman -- Call Me By Your Name

Sally Rooney -- Normal People

Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale

Anthony Doerr -- All The Light We Cannot See

Celeste Ng -- Everything I Never Told You

Jane Harper -- The Dry

Hanya Yanagihara -- A Little Life

Gail Honeyman -- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Fredrik Backman -- A Man Called Ove

Emma Donoghue -- Room

Angie Thomas -- The Hate U Give

Liane Moriarty -- Big Little Lies

Colson Whitehead -- The Underground Railroad

Min Jin Lee -- Pachinko

Rosalie Ham -- The Dressmaker

David Mitchell -- Cloud Atlas

Naomi Alderman -- The Power

Takashi Hiraide -- The Guest Cat

Madeline Miller -- Circe

Hannah Kent -- Burial Rites

M. L. Stedman -- The Light Between Oceans

Becky Chambers -- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Kamila Shamsie -- Home Fire

Han Kang -- The Vegetarian

Hilary Mantel -- Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel -- Bring Up the Bodies

Marlon James -- A Brief History of Seven Killings

Richard Flanagan -- The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Eleanor Catton -- The Luminaries

Kazuo Ishiguro -- Never Let Me Go

Mohsin Hamid -- The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid -- Exist West

Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Between The World And Me

Homer -- The Iliad

Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

Ernest Hemingway -- Fiesta

Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

Philip K. Dick -- The Man in the High Castle

George Orwell -- Homage to Catalonia

Ursula K. Le Guin -- Earthsea

Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse 5

Philip Pullman -- Grimm Tales

Angela Carter -- The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

Martin Amis -- Money

Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

Ann Patchett -- Bel Canto

Stephen King -- It

George Eliot -- Middlemarch

Haruki Murakami -- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Emile Zola -- Therese Raquin

Angela Carter -- The Magic Toyshop

Philip Pullman -- Northern Lights

Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca

J. D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey

Georges Bataille -- Story of the Eye

Louis-Ferdinand Celine -- Journey to the End of the Night

Lewis Carroll -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Vikram Seth -- A Suitable Boy

Salman Rushdie -- Midnight's Children

Vladimir Nabokov -- Lolita

Donna Tartt -- The Secret History

Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day

Rohinton Mistry -- A Fine Balance

Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness

John Kennedy Toole -- A Confederacy of Dunces

Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

Honore de Balzac -- Lost Illusions

Stendhal -- The Red and the Black

Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

Anton Chekhov -- Stories

Plato -- Republic

Henry David Thoreau -- Walden

Albert Camus -- The Stranger

James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Sigmund Freud -- The Unconscious

Karl Marx -- Grundrisse

Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Prince

Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

Sun Tzu -- The Art of War

Carl Gustav -- Jung Man & His Symbols

Voltaire -- Candide, or Optimism

Charles Darwin -- On the Origin of Species

J. W. Von Goethe -- Faust: Part One

Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Toni Morrison -- Beloved

James Baldwin -- Another Country

Maya Angelou  -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Jaroslav Hasek -- The Good Soldier Svejk

Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Samuel Beckett -- Watt

Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

Benedict de Spinoza -- Ethics

Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan

Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe

Robert Graves -- I, Claudius

Philip Roth -- Portnoy's Complaint

Raymond Chandler -- The Long Good-bye

William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

Christopher Isherwood -- Goodbye To Berlin

Art Spiegelman -- The Complete MAUS

Rachel Carson -- Silent Spring

Robert Hughes -- The Shock of the New

James Agee -- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Edward W. Said -- Orientalism

Hannah Arendt -- Eichmann in Jerusalem

John Kenneth Galbraith -- The Affluent Society

Barbara W. Tuchman -- A Distant Mirror

Rebecca West -- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own

Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

[thestorytellerofkpop]

11,1,29

1. If someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?

What someone would read:

Sadly, it’s been a while since I’ve actually had a chance to sit down and read 😞 but here are some that I feel would help people understand me:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Rehearsal by Elanor Catton

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Unwind by Neil Shusterman

Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby

What someone would watch:

As a movie buff, I always have an array of movies to recommend at a moment’s notice for someone looking to watch something (don’t count on TV shows though). These are my favorites that I felt a deep connection with (I’m limiting it to ten, otherwise the list would be way too long)

The Birdcage or really any Robin William’s movies

Saving Mr. Banks (on Netflix)

Moulin Rouge

The Labyrinth 

Inglorious Basterds (on Netflix)

Across the Universe (on Netflix)

The King’s Speech (on Netflix)

The Marvel Movies, all of them, including the Fantastic 4′s and the Sony Spiderman’s 

Fried Green Tomatoes 

Overboard the 1987 version with Goldie Hawn, or any Goldie Hawn movie

What someone would listen to:

Ah...this is a very extensive list, since I love so many different types of music. But these songs are ones that I resonate very deeply with (I’m limiting this to ten songs as well)

Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield

Daddy Lessons by Beyoncé 

Love Bites by Def Leppard

Crazy by Aerosmith

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen

Kiss by Prince

Tiny Dancer by Elton John (it was too hard picking one Elton John song, so his runner up would be Candle in the Wind)

Pray by Sam Smith

Danger by BTS

Bad Reputation by Joan Jett

11. Describe your ideal day.

Hmm...I’m a simple person. An ideal day would be relaxing and lazing around the house with a lover, eating good takeout food and chilling with our animals. Having a movie marathon with the good kind of butter on the popcorn with cups of hot chocolate in the day, going out to the beach to watch the sunset at dusk, then coming home to have sex until the sun comes up 💕

29. Three songs that you connect with right now.

She’s In The Rain by The Rose (I’ve been getting into them recently and they are wonderous)

Like I Can by Sam Smith

HER by BTS

Send me an identity ask~

[lizlemondyke]

3, 9 & 12!

3. What were your top five books of the year?

Such a good question. I think ultimately it comes down to these five, though 1-4 were kind of an astounding cut above the rest of the books I read all year. All five of them are about love, pain, and resilience in different ways.

1. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donohue

2. The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton

3. Decreation by Anne Carson

4. In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

5. A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Gríofa

9. Did you get into any new genres?

I got REALLY into ghost stories this year because I took an English class whose theme was literature & hauntings/ghosts, so through the class and outside of it I dove into lots of very classic spooky haunted stuff which was SO fun. I think I can definitively say ghost stories are the best stories. (This is a loophole, you see, because all stories are ghost stories >:))

12. Any books that disappointed you?

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom and Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens both overstayed their welcome and would have been better (imo) if they shaved off a LOT of pages. It just sucks when a book goes from something you enjoy to something you're slogging through to get to something else.

I read about 23 books this year, which, according to Storygraph, numbered 6,443 pages altogether! And that is definitely an understatement given stuff I read for school and didn't chart, so I feel very good about all of that, and I am so grateful that the past two years I have brought reading consistently and copiously for fun and pleasure back into my life!!! Yay books!

Thank you for the ask <333

[pigmenting]

My TBR for 2017

Non-fiction

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed*

Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson*

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson*

The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison* (finish)

Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Young*

M Train by Patti Smith*

Just Kids by Patti Smith*

How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran*

The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit*

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

The Lonely City by Olivia Laing

Quiet by Susan Cain

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coats

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

A Bestiary by Lily Hoang

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Shrill by Lindy West

The Gene by Siddhartha Muherjee

A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout*

Grit by Angela Duckworth

Poetry

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Chloe by Kristina Haynes

Father, Husband by Scherezade Siobhan

Nox by Anne Carson

Pelican by Emily O’Neill

Crybaby by Caitlyn Siehl

Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines by Natalie Wee

Soft Human by Emery Allen

Prelude to Light by Venetta Octavia

Fiction

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (finish)*

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (finish)

Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone - Ilustrated (finish)

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes*

The Orenda by Joseph Boyden*

Benediction by Kent Haruf*

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt*

The Miniaturist  by Jessie Burton*

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver*

The Posionwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver*

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson*

White Teeth by Zadie Smith*

The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels*

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels*

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton*

Foxlowe  by Eleanor Wasserberg*

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr*

Ruby by Cynthia Bond*

The Muse by Jessie Burton*

Call of the Undertow by Linda Cracknell*

Trio by Sue Gee*

On Beauty by Zadie Smith*

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi*

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt*

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab*

A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab*

The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories by Emma Donoghue*

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides*

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese*

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie*

How to be Both by Ali Smith*

Pulse by Julian Barnes*

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss*

Witches of New York by Ami McKay*

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro*

The Museum of You by Carys Bray*

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng*

The Butcher’s Hook by Janet Ellis*

Sweetland by Michael Crummey*

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Autumn by Ali Smith

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

Hagseed by Margaret Atwood

The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

The Green Road by Anne Enright

A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler

Shelter by Jung Yun

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

Commonweath by Ann Patchett

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein

* books that i currently own

[ceceliaclarkkk]

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