#ian woolf

[madseance]

“Tried to scare you”: Producer “almost killed” picketing writers with SUV

Today in Atlanta, producer Ian Woolf (BMF) allegedly tried to run over protesting writers with his SUV, as reported on Twitter by striking writer Brian Egeston (The Game, On a Wing and a Prayer), one of those nearly hit by the vehicle.

The full text of Brian Egeston's open letter to Woolf:

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MAN WHO ALMOST KILLED ME ON THE WGA PICKET LINE TODAY. A thread… Dear Mr. Ian Woolf, Welcome to Atlanta. Years ago, forward thinkers and Civil Rights icons labeled our fair town, ‘the city too busy to hate’. What you did today on Hank Aaron Drive and blocks from the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr….was hateful. When you pointed your SUV at me as though it were a weapon and slammed the breaks within six feet of writers, I felt the hate and aggression of scenarios similar to Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and others who have been harmed at the hands of hate-filled oppressors. As I marched with the WGA in a peaceful protest, similar to the giants who have walked the very streets where you almost committed manslaughter, you chose to—in your own words— “Tried to scare you.” Mr. Woolf, this scare and intimidation tactic reeks of German Shepards, water hoses, bricks and burning flesh. It reeks of the worst kind of hate. A hate that continually divides us as a people. I would implore you, in hindsight, to consider the ramifications of killing an African-American man in the streets of the city too busy to hate, while being the producer of an African-American TV show, created by an African American man, run by an African-American Man. Mr. Woolf, your actions purveyed a deep generational hate for us. And that, sir, is a travesty for which you must be held accountable. If not by your superiors and peers, then by the people of Atlanta because the South will have something to say about what you did today. Should you choose to remain in our city, where I will remind you that you are a guest, I beg of you to lead with love and refrain from being a drum major for hate and potential manslaughter. I pray God’s grace and mercy over your life. Brian Egeston Writer

[acronychalwitch]

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and it’s spectacular.

— Joseph Campbell

[alienejj]

On Reading and Books

I took these pictures myself. Some of these books are old, some were just poorly handled over the years, and all were thrifted across the second-hand stores of Dublin.

Here I link every post I make on quotes, musings, and letter extracts from authors to do with books and reading. I keep it up to date.

I own books of all genres, so from fiction, you can expect: high fantasy, urban fantasy, classic literature, modern classics, short story anthologies, poetry, translated fiction, Asian fiction, Middle Eastern fiction, North African fiction, African fiction, Western fiction, Irish fiction, myth and folklore retelling, historical fiction, murder mysteries/crime fiction.

And from non-fiction, you can expect: European history, African history, Irish history, Asian history, Middle Eastern history, Islamic history, biographies and memoirs (of classic authors, world travellers, queens, and empresses), science, female health, culture and anthropology, self-help, psychology, on writing, on reading, myth and folklore, travel memoirs.

As such you can expect quotes from authors of various backgrounds.

These are short posts, made up of the extract ill quote from the author and then a picture I've taken of books from my home library.

Marcel Proust.

J. R. R. Tolkien.

Donna Tartt.

Franz Kafka.

Vladimir Nabokov.

William Faulkner.

Ian McEwan.

Italo Calvino.

Virginia Woolf.

Smell of Books.

Cats n Books

Charles Dickens.

Jules Verne.

About Me

Bookblr Masterlist

Bookish Thrift Finds Masterlist

I reblog bookish content and since I have a home library I also make bookish content myself; aesthetic book pics, reviews, recommendations, quotes, excerpts, hauls and cats.

[flowerytale]

What are your favourite books.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Dracula by Bram Stoker Just Kids by Patti Smith White Oleander by Janet Fitch The Virgin Suicides/Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Atonement by Ian McEwan Emma by Jane Austen A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi Rest & Be Thankful by Emma Glass The Waves by Virginia Woolf Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays by Christa Wolf Another Country by James Baldwin Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay The Hours by Michael Cunningham Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

[michellemisfit]

🧡 Weekly Tag Wednesday - New Year’s Edition 🧡

From the Diary of Virginia Woolf: January 2, 1931:

Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year. To have none. Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself, not goading it to parties: to sit rather privately reading in the studio. Sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. To go out yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. As for clothes, to buy good ones.

Tagged by the lovely @deedala @darlingian @creepkinginc @lingy910y @mybrainismelted @ardent-fox @lupeloto @heymacy @rereadanon @energievie @tanktopgallavich

🧡 Name: Michelle. Mys for short. Myska for medium.

🧡 Location: London

🧡 Astrological Sign: >fishy

🧡 What's a TV show or movie you plan to re-watch this year? Less a plan and more an inevitability. The Office, The Good Place, Superstore, Kim’s Convenience, and Schitt’s Creek are basically always on a rewatch loop. Also we’re podcasting Shameless Season 4 and 5 in 2024, and Buffy Season 6 and Season 7. And Shadowhunters Season 3. And I actually really fancy rewatching School of Chocolate.

🧡 Whats a book or fic you will probably re-read this year? The usual suspects. There is a looong list of re-readable fic HERE. And I would very much like to get back into reading real paper books… 😬

🧡 What is a song you will likely continue to play on repeat? Gasoline by Halsey, Like Real People Do by Hozier, Bullet with Butterfly Wings by The Smashing Pumpkins

🧡 What's a tasty treat you look forward to eating more of this year? Bread. Gluten makes my tummy hurt, but I love it so very much. What can you do, eh?

🧡 What's a time sink that you will continue to sink time into this year? Tumblr.

🧡 Did you pick up any habits in 2023 that you plan to continue? Spending too much money on bath bombs. Learnt it from Ruth. Am 100% planning to continue flying that flag!

🧡 What's your toxic trait? I’m a petty, passive-aggressive bitch. If you piss me off I’ll hide your socks. 🤷🏽‍♂️

🧡 What is a coping mechanism you will continue to indulge in this year? Crying.

🧡 Tell me something you like about how you look! My eyes are pretty. My nose is cute. I have fun hair and cool scars, many with good stories.

🧡 Give me at least three adjectives describing things you like about yourself. Funny. Generous. Great at thinking on the fly, problem solving, and problem prevention.

I am sooooo late, but if you haven’t done this yet I choose you ::throws pokeball:: @crossmydna @captainjowl @mickeygifs @mikhailoisbaby @whatthebodygraspsnot @rutherinahobbit @redshirt2 @the-rat-wins @too-schoolforcool @tsuga-of-mars @ian-galagher @crestfallercanyon @palepinkgoat @depressedstressedlemonzest @faejilly @heymrspatel @gallawitchxx (oh, and if you did already do this then please tag me in yours, so I can read it <3 )

[mybrainismelted]

🎇 Happy New Year Friends!! 🎇

thanks for the tag @deedala

GIF by pusheen

From the Diary of Virginia Woolf: January 2, 1931: Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year. To have none. Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself, not goading it to parties: to sit rather privately reading in the studio. Sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. To go out yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. As for clothes, to buy good ones.

This week we are celebrating the ways in which we survive and manage to find peace and happiness in our one precious life here on Earth. And so...

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✨W e e k l y 🌟 T a g 🌟 W e d n e s d a y✨

Name: Kat 😺

Location: Ontario

Astrological Sign: Scorpio 🦂

What's a TV show or movie you plan to re-watch this year? Yeah, Shameless, of course, but so many others. Stranger Things, Reacher, all of my favorite movies....

Whats a book or fic you will probably re-read this year? oh gosh. Especially with the fic club going strong, there will be lots of re-reads there. I have 4 bookcases worth of books, plus like another 200 or so on my eReader, and I love to re-read all of them. I've just had limited brain space since I dove into Gallavich fics.

What is a song you will likely continue to play on repeat? my entire sappy stuff playlist that I created based on Gallavich edits

What's a tasty treat you look forward to eating more of this year? burgers. pizza. chocolate (did you know the fic club is doing an international candy swap right now? yum!!)

What's a time sink that you will continue to sink time into this year? tumblr. discord. fic writing

Did you pick up any habits in 2023 that you plan to continue? see previous answer!

What's your toxic trait? omg. Forgetting that my co-workers are dumb and expecting them to actually know the things I know

What is a coping mechanism you will continue to indulge in this year? food. all the food.

Tell me something you like about how you look! my curly hair is pretty much the best it's ever looked!

Give me at least three adjectives describing things you like about yourself. generous, giving, compassionate

tagging all of these lovely people to play along if you want! @krysmiss, @juliakayyy, @jrooc, @rayrayor, @creepkinginc, @transmickey, @spacerockwriting, @dynamic-power, @palepinkgoat, @ian-galagher, @deathclassic, @stocious, @grumble-fish, @swiftfootedachilles, @crestfallercanyon, @thepupperino, @softmick, @ifallonblackdays, @bawlbrayker, @mmmichyyy, @michellemisfit, @heymrspatel, @too-schoolforcool, @solitarycreaturesthey, @such-a-barbarian, @notherenewjersey, @ms-moonlight-inn, @silvanshadow

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Ian Ellison: What is it about Rainer Maria Rilke? The influence of the Bohemian Austrian poet on modern culture reads like a who’s who of the great and the good. W. H. Auden, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Edith Sitwell claimed to be directly inspired by him. The first English translations of his work, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press, became classics in their own right. 

He has been set to music (both classical and rock) and proven himself a Hollywood touchstone, most recently providing the concluding epigraph of Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit. Oprah Winfrey has quoted him on television and Lady Gaga has lines from his Letters to a Young Poet (1929) tattooed on her arm.

Maybe he has had such an impact because he is first and foremost a poet of the heart. He expresses those emotions we seldom desire—melancholy, longing, and loneliness above all—with such artistry and feeling that it can seem almost joyful. At the more esoteric end of things, he is regularly co-opted by New Age self-help gurus who take the closing line of his “Archaic Torso of Apollo”—“You must change your life”—as their mantra. Faced with the immensity of his work and its afterlives, you might feel like you know enough about Rilke, but the man himself has for a long time remained something of an enigma. Yet this may well be about to change.

It is rare for a poet to make headlines almost a hundred years after their death, especially for good reasons. But in early December 2022, Rilke was suddenly front-page news across Germany. In what was widely described as the purchase of the century by the German media, the Deutsches Literaturarchiv (DLA) announced it had acquired a collection of Rilke’s manuscripts comprising some 10,000 handwritten pages. These included draft poems and notes for their composition, as well as 2,500 letters written by the poet himself and a further 6,300 addressed to him. One of the most significant literary estates in postwar history, its cultural value is priceless, and it will soon be made available to the general public. A major exhibition at the Literaturmuseum der Moderne (the DLA’s next-door neighbor in Marbach) is planned for 2025 to mark the 150th anniversary of Rilke’s birth, and plans are afoot to digitize the entire collection. After being cataloged, the collection will be made available online without restriction, opening up this treasure trove to academic researchers across the globe, as well as general readers.

[Unboxing Rilke’s Nachlass :: April 6, 2023   •   By Ian Ellison]

[kamyru]

F. Prompts with ways to say "I love you" inspired by literature quotes

I take requests for: Her Love in the Force, Irresistible Mistakes, Oops! I Said Yes?!, PLUST: Loving U So True, Professional Boyfriend, Romance MD: Always on Call, Tokyo Love Hustle. Don't hesitate to send me anything inspired by this. Or, use this list if you like it.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. – Emma, by Jane Austen

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. – Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. – Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

You have been the last dream of my soul. – A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. – Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me. – Benediction, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Having begun to love you, I love you forever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. – Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy

It has made me better loving you ... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. – The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. – Atonement, by Ian McEwan

"How do you spell ‘love’?" "You don’t spell it…you feel it." – Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. – Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne

You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how. – Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. – Jazz, by Toni Morrison

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. – Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning. – Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. – 100 Love Sonnets, by Pablo Neruda

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught. – Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. – The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, by Sylvia Plath

There are darknesses in life, and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. – Dracula, by Bram Stoker

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. – Falstaff, by Giuseppe Verdie

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you. – Selected Diaries, by Virginia Woolf

[bookquest2024]

100 Books to Read Before I Die: Quest Order

The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Under The Net by Iris Murdoch

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

A Passage to India by EM Forster

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Ulysses by James Joyce

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Watchmen by Alan Moore

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Money by Martin Amis

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

[mishervellous]

it’s Tag Game Tuesday! yay! thank you @celestialmickey for creating it, and @creepkinginc for tagging me

what’s your name? paola

your sun sign: pisces

the last song you listened to: GOSSIP by måneskin

what are you wearing right now? everyone wants a pizza me t-shirt, fuchsia sweatpants and a sephora headband tightened to the max for my migraine

how tall are you? 170cm (5’69” which. perf)

piercings? five scattered over both of my lobes

tattoos? one

glasses? contacts? flasses

last drink: sparkling water

last thing you ate: artichoke bagels

favorite color: red

any pets? two cats

do you have a crush on anyone? rumor has it

favorite fictional character: castiel

a movie you think everyone should watch: everything everywhere all at once

a book you think everyone should read: the waves by virginia woolf

the last place you traveled: tuscany

something you’re looking forward to: going to sleep

tagging @surviving-maybe, @mikhailoisbaby, @y0itsbri, @plainest, @heymrspatel, @thisdivorce, @squidyyy23, @greggster, @spaceofentropy and @ian-galagher 🌷

[rattlinbog]

Books Read in 2023

(loved!, enjoyed, okay, did not care for)

January

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni #2) by Helene Wecker

Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster by Al Roker

The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

February

Grendel by John Gardner

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Winters

March

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The World We Make (Great Cities #2) by N.K. Jemisin 

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey 

Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

April

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art by Lewis Hyde

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Washington Square by Henry James

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu 

The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

May

The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell 

Orlando by Virginia Woolf (reread)

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg 

Beneficence by Meredith Hall

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Ramadan Ramsey by Louis Edwards

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li 

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

June

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang

Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah 

The Crocodile Bride by Ashleigh Bell Pedersen 

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende 

What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris

The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier 

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Demos

Tales of Burning Love (Love Medicine #5) by Louise Erdrich

July

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (Love Medicine #6) by Louise Erdrich

Four Souls (Love Medicine #7) by Louise Erdrich 

In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado 

Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman 

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

The Color Purple by Alice Walker 

At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier 

The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls by Karen Dubinsky 

These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card

Songs for the Flames: Stories by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

August

Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris

Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross

New to Liberty by DeMisty D. Bellinger

Cove by Cynan Jones 

Being Esther by Miriam Karmel

Boulder by Eva Baltasar

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

September

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson 

Beheld by TaraShea Nesbit

We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O’Toole

October

Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman

The Changeling by Victor LaValle

Don’t Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy #2) by Stephen Graham Jones

Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley 

The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

November

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin 

Fen, Bog, and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx

Natural History: Stories by Andrea Barrett

December

Lessons by Ian McEwan

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (reread)

A Vintage Christmas: A Collection of Classic Stories and Poems

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

[daydreamerdrew]

Movies watched in February:

Black Swan (2010) dir. Darren Aronofsky

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) dir. Mike Nichols

Groundhog Day (1993) dir. Harold Ramis

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021) dir. Ian Samuels

Blood Tea and Red String (2006) dir. Christiane Cegavske

The Holdovers (2023) dir. Alexander Payne

The Candidate (1972) dir. Micheal Ritchie

[bored-libra]

2022 in books

january:

the architecture of happiness by alain de bottom

an american marriage by tayari jones

filter house by nisi shawl

february:

the metamorphosis by franz kafka

the worst best man by mia sosa

the hating game by sally throne

utopia avenue by david mitchell

march:

people we meet on vacation by emily henry

it happened one summer by tessa bailey

hook, line, and sinker by tessa bailey

the unhoneymooners by christina lauren

the spanish love deception by elena armas

minor detail by adania shibli

get a life, chloe brown by talia hibbert

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert

act your age, eve brown by talia hibbert

born to run by bruce springsteen

homesick for another world by ottessa moshfegh

the kiss quotient by helen hoang

the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood

boy parts by eliza clark

fix her up by tessa bailey

before the coffee gets cold by toshikazu kawaguchi

april:

tools of engagement by tessa bailey

nausea by jean-paul sartre

the fine print by lauren asher

the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky

happy hour by marlowe granados

love and other words by christine lauren

may:

fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s. thompson

lolita by vladimir nabokov

june:

atonement by ian mcewan

an enchantment of ravens by margaret rogerson

six of crows by leigh bardugo

house of earth and blood by sarah j. maas

house of sky and breath by sarah j. maas

breakfast at tiffany’s & other voices, other rooms: two novels by truman capote

bunny by mona awad

when he was wicked by julia quinn

rebecca by daphne du maurier

fight club by chuck palahtniuk

july:

yolk by mary h.k. choi

milk fed by melissa broder

junky by william s. burroughs

in the dream house by carmen maria machado

august:

breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut jr

animal by lisa taddeo

one last stop by casey mcquiston

the antichrist by friedrich nietzsche

shop girl by steve martin

a room with a view by e.m. forster

a court of thorns and roses by sarah j. maas

a court of mist and fury by sarah j. maas

a court of wings and ruin by sarah j. maas

september:

orlando by virginia woolf

coraline by neil gaiman

book lovers by emily henry

october:

almond by sohn won-pyung

l.a. woman by eve babitz

catch-22 by joseph heller

exciting times by naoise dolan

november:

tender is the flesh by augstina bazterrica

a grief observed by c.s. lewis

little birds by anaïs nin

cultish: the language of fanaticism by amanda montell

december:

role models by john waters

the hobbit by j.r.r. tolkien

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid

the awakening by kate chopin

reel to real: race, sex, and class at the movies by bell hooks

tales from the cafe by toshikazu kawaguchi

[akitasimblr]

Have you got any favourite novel or book that left a huge impression on you? 😁📖📚

hello ann! thank you for the ask!

oohhh i do! so many!! but i can point out three that seriously left a mark for life. i could literally write essays about them (and i have!).

The Waves, Virginia Woolf

The Story of the Lost Child (My Brilliant Friend series), Elena Ferrante

The Hours, Michael Cunningham

i am such a fan of virginia woolf's works and a fan of her as well, for the past two years i am on a challenge to read all of her works and it's been so fulfilling! the waves it's just fabulous because you wander around the minds and thoughts of the characters and it's pure magic!

then there's ferrante. i don't know, there's something cruel, raw and violent in her writing; and yet, there's so much sensitivity and honesty that it's like she's playing with your soul.

the hours is the book that made me cry the most. and no matter how many times i re-read it, i keep crying every time again. it's such an amazing book about empathy and it speaks so much to my heart. the film is also astonishing and in my opinion it's even better than the book sometimes (which is very bold of me to say!).

other top shelf favourites of mine: wuthering heights by emily bronte; frankestein by mary shelley; persuasion by jane austen; the house of the spirits by isabel allende; atonement by ian mcewan; the sweetest dream by doris lessing; the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde; the name of the rose by umberto eco; the art of joy by goliarda sapienza.

[marscia]

hey chia <3 do you have any 'coming of age' book recommendations?

Hi Cat! 🫶🏻 here are some I particularly like:

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (I read this for a political lit class and ended up really liking it!!)

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (one of my all-time favorites 🫶🏻)

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (also one of my favorite classics in general!)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (not sure if this is ‘coming of age’ per se but I remember when I read it, it felt like it haha)

[grandhotelabyss]

I somehow never got around to Amis* despite the overwhelming Anglophilia of the milieu that produced me: I probably should have read him in college, but I was too busy reading the Victorians and postmodernists. His love for Bellow and Nabokov is intriguing though- i’ve often thought that one of the main weaknesses of *American* literature is the opposite tendency, a predilection for periods of extended self-loathing about the fact that we can’t really produce these intricate and elegant novels of settled hierarchal society the way that the English can- so I’m curious to know what the opposite looks like. And yes, the downbeat stuff on MLIR, Parklife and The Great Escape is generally the best Blur (although I dig the upbeat stuff too!)

*father or son!

Right, the complex that starts with Henry James's book on Hawthorne, is carried through those midcentury critics I mentioned in our James-Melville conversation (as well, significantly, both Gore Vidal and Joan Didion), and extends to the late-20th-century laments over the absent social novel of both Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen. The historian-journalist streak, as opposed to the poet-prophet—except that, as we established, both Melville and James are large enough to contain both.

One way to see Amis and his cohort, again with a pop music analogy, is as the literary version of the British Invasion: American "rock" with its diverse influences (mainly Jewish rather than black, in the novelistic case as opposed to the musical) reimagined through the lens of post-imperial Britain. Here they differ from the later and belated phenomenon of Britpop, with its initial nationalist riposte to America's indie-grunge turn, deliberately de-Amerifying rock.

Thomas Meaney, reviewing Inside Story when it came out, distinguished Amis's style from the English realist tradition and made the Bellow-rock connection:

The magnetism of Bellow for Amis’s generation of English writers is well attested: Hitchens, Ian McEwan, and later Will Self and James Wood, all found something in Bellow’s high-calorie sentences that they couldn’t get at home. It was perhaps, above all, the permission to dispense with the rationed intensity of good mid-century British prose – the clean, spare, simplicity of George Orwell’s diction that reached its apotheosis in VS Naipaul and has been gently ironised by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Amis ran farther than any of his peers in the opposite direction: towards a maximalism that he has never abandoned or so much as questioned. His head-swaying to American street-wise rhythms, albeit leavened by English classicism, is the literary version of Mick Jagger crooning “Hoochie Coochie Man” at the Checkerboard Lounge with Muddy Waters, or Daniel Day-Lewis, son of Cecil, shouting, “I will find you!” in deerskin breechcloths under a waterfall in The Last of the Mohicans.

Other than Austen—a genius and so above rules or considerations of taste—the English social novel doesn't interest me much either; I've never gotten anywhere with Thackeray or Trollope, mildly dislike Fielding, cheer on Woolf's polemic against Bennett. I prefer their Romantic visionary prose tradition, which, in figures as distinct as the Brontës and Dickens, as Woolf and Lawrence and Forster, turns what appear to be social novels into myths and gospels. On this basis, I've never read Kingsley either; he doesn't really seem to "export." Martin, however, loved Fielding and Austen and has a definite undertow of the traditional English satirical social novel (Meaney's "leavened by English classicism") for all the visionary coloration he borrows from inherently aclasscal Americans.

Anyway, the chapter I'm now writing in Major Arcana, one of the last, is titled "Et in Arcadia Egirl," so I should probably stop pretending I am not also in part writing a satirical social novel.