#litblog

[professionalintrovert]

are you ever reading a good book and watching a good show and creating fun things and suddenly you think to yourself oh wait, life is worth living

[michelenigrowordpresscom]

Tre inediti per l'antologia ANTEPRIME. Gli inediti di Finestre (vol. I)

Con tre miei inediti (Le cose che siamo stati; L’ascoltatore; Matria) ho risposto alla prima call per l’antologia trimestrale Anteprime. Gli inediti di Finestre (vol. I) curata dal poeta e critico David la Mantia che ringrazio… “Finestre” è il lit-blog della rivista “L’Irregolare”. Per leggere l’antologia contenente 42 autori contemporanei: QUI!

[marigoldbaker]

revisiting emily of new moon, formative book of my heart, and am experiencing that incomparable feeling when you return to a book years later and find out that not only is it just as good as you remembered, it's better. anyway,

“It has never been slept in since the night before your mother—went away,” said Aunt Laura, with a queer sound in her voice—a sound of which Aunt Elizabeth disapproved. “Your mother,” she said, looking coldly at Emily over the flame of the candle—an attitude that gave a rather gruesome effect to her acquiline features—“ran away—flouted her family and broke her father’s heart. She was a silly, ungrateful, disobedient girl. I hope you will never disgrace your family by such conduct.” “Oh, Aunt Elizabeth,” said Emily breathlessly, “when you hold the candle down like that it makes your face look just like a corpse! Oh, it’s so interesting.” Aunt Elizabeth turned and led the way upstairs in grim silence. There was no use in wasting perfectly good admonitions on a child like this.

[scuderlia]

on the carmen maria machado topic and the topic of the book that lily's holding in that photo, you can read one of the stories from the collection (her body and other parties) for free online! it's called the husband stitch <3

[automatisma]

I've been very excited to read Navola, since Bacigalupi is one of my favourite contemporary sci-fi authors, but so far I feel he has fallen victim to the fantasy style enshittification that got many others before him. Why would you start infodumping about names, titles and historical events during a first person pov that clearly knows how the world works? "Because that's how fantasy novels wor-" That's how bad fantasy works. I wish that sci-fi authors trying their hand at fantasy understood this crucial difference.

[familyabolisher]

your blog is rad and I hope you have a good day! Do you have a favorite thing to blog about? If I had to guess I’d say communism but maybe that involves too many annoying people

honestly i love to just come on here and say some insane shit about the locked tomb. Everything else is auxiliary to this eventual goal

[divorceblogger]

silly ass post. I can’t believe a single word here was said seriously. I would love to know what they think counts as legitimate writing - is it when the act of storytelling is deemed worthy by publishing which is trapped in a capitalist framework and biased along lines of class and privilege?

[wangan]

Haven't litblogged in a while but I finally read Othello. It's a masterpiece 😭

[davidarc]

TCL's 6th My Life in Books (aka Life According to Literature) Tag - 2024 Version.

TCL's 6th My Life in Books (aka Life According to Literature) Tag - 2024 Version. Discover how I finished these prompts using only the titles of #books I read and #reviewed in 202! Thanks to Annabel @annabookbel and Shellyrae @bookdout for the prompts.

I started doing this book tag in 2019 which was called “Life According to Literature” with different prompts. These were done by Brona’s Books, ANZ LitLovers LitBlog, and Veronica @ The Burgeoning Book Shelf. I understand that Veronica originally found it on Theresa Smith Writes  and  Claire’s Reads and Reviews, among others! Then, in 2020 I noticed that AnnaBookBel did a “My Life in Books” tag…

[moranjpg]

What I've read in 2022

(id/list under the cut) not pictured because currently not at my place, but certainly in my head: tausend zeilen lüge (juan moreno), entschuldigen sie meine störung (jan-uwe fitz), versteckt (simon beckett), tender is the flesh (agustina bazterrica)

oh my god, what a year. ive read a magnificent 23 books in total, which - although short of my goal of 26 books - is 8 books more than i read last year!

my list is filled with new stories, books i had lying around in my bookshelf for quite some time already and also very old favourites that i took the time to revisit. i read 5 of the 9 books on my suggested reading pile of 2022 and 3 books from my list of books to reread in 2022.

although i did not love every single book ive read i certainly enjoyed the time i spent with all these old and new characters. if you'd like to know more about which books i liked the most, check out my reading recap 2022 tag where i will post some reflections during the next few days! :)

id: a tower of books stacked on a wooden bed table. top to bottom the english titles are: ninth house (leigh bardugo), arsene lupin - gentleman burglar (maurice leblanc), letters to a young poet (rainer maria rilke), the alchemist (paulo coelho), the dark side of the moon (martin suter), the reader (bernhard schlink), convenience store woman (sayaka murata), moby dick (abridged, herman melville), ordinary thunderstorms (william boyd), the war of the worlds (h g wells), maurice (e m forster), in my dreams i hold a knife (ashley winstead), shame (annie ernaux), aristotle and dante (1 and 2, benjamin alire saenz), the vampire diaries (1 - 4, lisa j smith) and house of leaves (mark z danielewski). end id.

[professionalintrovert]

The beautiful thing about going alone is that every triumph is yours, every consequence of every mistake is yours, everything that you have to figure out is on you. That’s a really powerful experience. And sometimes it is beautiful and positive and exciting, and sometimes it's negative and hard and lonely. I wanted that. I welcomed that.

Cheryl Strayed 🏔️📚

📍Catskill Mountains, NY

[michelenigrowordpresscom]

Davide Morelli su "Carte nel buio"

Un grazie sentito al poeta, saggista e critico letterario Davide Morelli per queste sue parole come sempre competenti e importanti sulla mia raccolta “Carte nel buio”… E un grazie anche a La Gilda dei Lettori per aver pubblicato la recensione… PER LEGGERLA: QUI! ♦

[marigoldbaker]

i think the thing that i always really loved about emily and have never found anywhere else in the same way is that she's just like .... so uncomfortably out of sync with a lot of social rules and regulations, and when she crosses lines she feels her own perceived strangeness very deeply? she wants to Be Good but has literally no template for that because of the way she was raised, so when she's introduced to these people who have a lot of very rigid expectations as to how Girls Should Behave, she is just constantly committing cardinal sin after cardinal sin simply by virtue of being her authentic self.

and there is something that always resonated with -- baby celia, teenage celia, celia now -- about a narrative that underlines the fact that emily is not being deliberately terrible when she says the things she means, she just Doesn't Know that she wasn't supposed to do it like that, and she's in this perpetual state of frustration that is always framed as pretty damn justified. she wants to be good! whenever she's reprimanded for being Not Good Enough, her response is always "well, if you'd told me, i wouldn't have done it like that!" there's a kind of vindictive indignance to her throughout this entire book -- she is not gracious or forgiving. she is petty and mean and dramatic and she spends a lot of time thinking about how awesome it would be if everyone who said mean things to her had to deal with her just DYING about it (and then writing fanfiction about her own life where everyone who says mean things to her is executed for Crimes Against Emily). she is so unapologetically weird. all of her friends have Tragic Backstories of some sort. she's convinced her aunt hates her because her aunt has 100000 emotional problems that make it impossible to communicate affection. man

[nealc25]

1.10.2019// completing the first chapters on Jakobsons “Grammar of Poetry and Poetry of Grammar”. After these 16 pages I still have 16 pages on Benveniste I wrote between June and July and about 15 on Kristeva, but I have to adjust a lot and rewrite some parts ( and possibly fuse them together ). I also have another 18 pages chapter ready about personal pronouns and philosophy, but still not a word about Rinck. Anyway, I don’t want to think about page numbers or measure the time. I’m beeing very productive, which is very satisfying and I need a positive attitude about this.

[automatisma]

Reading Blindsight has unfortunately raised my personal sci-fi standard, which is unfair given how hard it is to write something like that.

[aaron-soto]

New blog!!

Hi everyone!!! I'm Vir, and I'm kind of new to this whole (organized) litblog/litblr thing but I'm figuring it out!! I'm looking for people to follow! I mostly reblog and post about RWRB, TRC, some AFTG, and SOC. I also like lots of other books, so uhh yeah!! Please reblog if you post that kind of stuff I guess? Signal boosts would be cool and appreciated too!!