- The Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures - Clarice Lispector
- Nick Drake: The Life - Richard Morton Jack
- The Ethical Slut 4th Edition - Dossie Easton & Janet W Hardy
- The Woman Who Borrowed Memories- Tove Jansson
Welcome! I've returned to my blog after a 5 year tumblr hiatus because I got fed up with pretty much every other place on the internet. I've decided to use this as a place to post the books I'm reading, peeks into my journal, my stationary obsession, and the occasional thought on retro horror films.
After seriously falling off of reading while in college, I got back to it two years ago and have expanded what it is I read. Right now my top genres are literary fiction (typically translated works written by women, the weirder the better), horror, and classics. Nonfiction I mostly read books focused on political theory, gender/sexuality/women, and disability advocacy.
I'm always down to talk books and love getting and giving recommendations. I track all my reading + ratings on storygraph, but I'm hoping to start actually writing out my thoughts on here! Below is a list of all books I've completed this year, I'm going to try to keep it updated:
Glass, Irony & God - Anne Carson
Acts of Desperation - Megan Nolan
Press Reset - Jason Schreier
Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous - Gillian Anderson
The Black Bird Oracle - Deborah Harkness
Being Here Is Everything - Marie Darrieussecq
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda
Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck
Giles Corey - Dan Barrett
Decreation - Anne Carson
The Blood-Guzzler and Other Stories - Rachilde
The Metamorphosis & Other Stories - Franz Kafka
Set my Heart on Fire - Izumi Suzuki
All In - Billie Jean King
If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho - Anne Carson
Mrs. Caliban - Rachel Ingalls
Open Throat - Henry Hoke
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto - Kohei Saito
Cities I've Never Lived In - Sara Majka
The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
Red Doc> - Anne Carson
On Women - Susan Sontag
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Fem - Magda Carneci
Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green
Eros the Bittersweet - Anne Carson
This Thing Between Us - Gus Moreno
The Place of Shells - Mai Ishizawa
Float - Anne Carson
The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
Autism is not a Disease - Jodie Hare
The Mostrous-Feminine - Barbara Creed
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Liarmouth - John Waters
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White
Men in the Off Hours - Anne Carson
Dispatches from the District Committee - Vladimir Sorokin
My Àntonia - Willa Cather
A Guest in the House - E.M. Carroll
The Stepdaughter - Caroline Blackwood
Scattered All Over the Earth - Yoko Tawada
Disability Intimacy - Alice Wong
Friday Black - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Woman Who Killed the Fish - Clarice Lispector
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
Strange Houses - Uketsu
Strange Pictures - Uketsu
The Sluts - Dennis Cooper
Sun City - Tove Jansson
I Found Myself… - Naguib Mahfouz
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl - Carrie Brownstein
Doll Parts - Luana Vecchio
The Stone Door - Leonora Carrington
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy - Anne Carson
Appalachian Elegy - bell hooks
Love Poems - Pablo Neruda
8 Dates - John Gottman
The Living Statues - Gunter Grass
Natalja's Stories - Inger Christensen
You Weren’t Meant to Be Human - Andrew Joseph White
Probably the most interesting book I own. Not easy to track down, but I was lucky enough to get a copy when the author held an event at my local bookstore. Anne Carson is a Classicist known for her Sappho translation, in this book (?) she translates a Roman poem about losing a brother word by word, while elegizing her own brother. This book is actually one long sheet of accordion folded paper inside of a box, it is a printed replica of the real elegy she created for her brother full of photos, art, and pieces of letters. It’s an incredible exploration of what it means to lose someone who long ago grew distant from you but is, at the end of the day, still family. Carson has been one of my favorite authors for years now, this book may be hard to track down (it’s also, understandably, quite expensive) but if this seems like the type of weird thing you may be into, I would highly suggest checking out Glass, Irony, and God or An Autobiography of Red. And if you’re a translation nerd like myself, absolutely check out If Not, Winter, her translation of Sappho.
// 1909 First Edition The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter //
Amazing find at Detroit Book Fest!! Beatrix Potter is my all time favorite children’s author and this is the first time I’ve come across an early copy of one of her books!! It’s not in great shape but I got it for such a good price that I don’t mind. It has 27 full color illustrations, as well as an inscription from when it was gifted to someone in 1916.
turns out all it took to get out of my month and a half long reading slump was taking a week off of work to do absolutely nothing!! I’ve finished 5 books in the last 3 days and now I feel I have my life slightly more under control
A lot better than how little I read in May due to wedding planning chaos, but I still feeling very behind and I’m trying not to beat myself up about it lol
Went to a v cool space on Thursday - hosted in a back garden in Detroit, they hire a local chef and give them access to the garden to make everyone a snack + N/A drink, and everyone brings the creative project that they’re currently working on to chill & body-double.
I took my journal to work on, and a friend of mine was the extremely talented chef that made the cake pictured - chocolate cake with a lime & bergamot curd and Italian meringue buttercream icing. With a rainbow for pride month of course 💕🌈
