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[izo]

Still this:

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

Picked up On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous by Vuong

Água Viva is a letter from mother to son. wiki says, “is framed as a directionless monologue from an artist, perhaps speaking to a lover, the public, or the work itself.” na.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

She plunged silently into terrifying hypotheses, surfacing with difficulty, but feeling more reassured about things.

 

[Nas47]

Well,buyed yesterday second hand for 1 euro "Golgota"by Chinghis Aitmatov...later realize,that we have the book,but never matter.Don't remember to have been read this book

 

[Robi]

Its always Something by Gilda Radner

 

[lovemissile66]

Fuck Death: An Honest Guide to Getting through Grief Without the Condolences, Sympathy and Other BS

The Chronology of Water

The Sarah Book

 

[arrall]

Continuing my venture into PKD’s work, I am reading ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

He knew that she had left him when she began to smoke again.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris (2010)

 

[Burnt Offerings]

I was reading this book by Marcel Proust called "The Captive"...it was a book from my grandfather's book collection, I picked it up randomly and thought, hmm, Proust huh, I've heard of this guy, maybe it'll be good...I got 300 pages into it before I just had to stop. I don't like abandoning books after that much commitment but I just couldn't take it anymore. It was just a really weird book that felt completely directionless...I read a bit more about Proust's work on Wiki and apparently "The Captive" is just one "chapter" in a huge magnum opus that Proust wrote called "Remembrance of Things Past", all of which feature the same unnamed narrator and all of them seemingly devoid of any plot/narrative/story arc. Instead what you're treated to is the introspective stream-of-consciousness of some gay French dude from the late 19th/early 20th century...I mean he was a good writer, and some of his descriptions are next-level, I especially enjoyed the references to maritime themes and the seashore that he made in "The Captive", buuuut...I dunno, I just like my books to have an actual plot lol

 

[tubgirl.jpg]

"Notes from the underground" by Dostoevsky.

 

[arrall]

"Notes from the underground" by Dostoevsky.

Been thinking of reading that next. How are you liking it?

 

[tubgirl.jpg]

Been thinking of reading that next. How are you liking it?

It's my first Dostoevsky - I fucking love it. So far, some 50 pages in, already one of the best books I've read.

Highly recommend it!

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

After a while, I said, Amy, how has it been in your life with unhappiness, did it come in days, months, decades, years?

 

[Nas47]

History of Russia.....to remind myself some facts.

 

[neversickanymore]

The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

Single strand of pearls, wild, not cultured. (Worth it, she said: only the wild ones had souls.)

 

[Puff]

A country named favela (English translation) by Renato Meirelles e Celso Athayde
Quarto de despejo by Carolina Maria de Jesus (don't know how to translate this, but is the real diary of a woman who picked papers and lived in a brazilian favela in the 50s).
Both are amazing and worth to read.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

“Whoever has opened the window has opened it too wide,” said Miss Brodie. “Six inches is perfectly adequate. More is vulgar.

 

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

[always have one physical book and one ebook going]

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and Choke by Chuck Palahniuk