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main: @poetrylesbian

@2manypdfs

snippets from stuff I read... essays, fiction, a bit of everything. currently reading a lot of Shirley Jackson.

37 posts

May 6

Instead of doomscrolling lately I have been reading my PDFs and it turns out if you do this you learn a whole bunch of stuff. I’m afraid I must recommend it

May 12, 2023

opening paragraphs of all time

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Image one, the opening paragraph of The Haunting of Hill House:

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

Image two, the opening paragraph of We Have Always Lived in the Castle:

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the deathcup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.

May 8, 2023

opening paragraphs of all time

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

#shirley jackson #we have always lived in the castle #the haunting of hill house #novel #fiction #excuse the quality i use a shitty scanning app on my phone

Apr 29, 2023

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

#we have always lived in the castle #shirley jackson #novel #fiction #merricat blackwood #constance blackwood

Apr 29, 2023

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Apr 28, 2023

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

#shirley jackson #we have always lived in the castle #i also have often thought that with any luck i would have been born a werewold #merricat blackwood #fiction #novel

Dec 21, 2021

Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

#dedications #poetry #evelyn araluen #dropbear #australian #australian poetry

Jul 22, 2021

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

#nightbitch #rachel yoder #fiction #novel

Feb 24, 2021

Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

#this kills me #vesper flights #helen macdonald #essays #nonfiction

Jan 3, 2021

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

#hangsaman #shirley jackson #fiction

Jan 3, 2021

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi

#burnt sugar #avni doshi #fiction #whew

Jan 3, 2021

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi

#this book is really good so far #burnt sugar #avni doshi #fiction

Jan 1, 2021

The Harpy by Megan Hunter

#the harpy #megan hunter #fiction #anger

Dec 27, 2020

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

#this book was soooo good #plain bad heroines #emily m danforth #fiction

Dec 20, 2020

Sisters by Daisy Johnson

#just finished this... very good #just the right amount of confusion and suspense and dread and grief... what i like in my books #sisters #daisy johnson #fiction

Dec 20, 2020

Hangsman by Shirley Jackson

#this one is long but it made me feel things #hangsaman #shirley jackson #fiction

Dec 16, 2020

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

#hangsaman #shirley jackson #i adored this book #fiction

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