fl0ridakil0s 3,959 Posted September 16, 2017 The last book I read was "The Maias" by portuguese writer Eça de Queirós I'm reading a colection of Dostoievsky's short stories now 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loleetah 4,084 Posted September 20, 2017 kinda the 'it book' of the summer, i know, but i liked it quite a lot. for those who haven't heard about it, it's about a teen girl in the 60s who joins a Manson-like cult, and the book mostly revolves around the circumstances that made it happen, life through a teenage girl's eyes & her relationship with other girls/women. what i liked the most about it was that men are refreshingly very secondary to the story, including the cult leader, and most of the book is actually about her fascination/crush on the cult's most charismatic girl, Suzanne. now i'm obsessed with who could possibly play Suzanne in a film adaptation, lol. and on a curious side note, the cover is a Neil Krug photo. I just finished this as well!! I really liked it! My 14 year old self would have related to Evie a lot, i think. i've been on a mailing list from the director who bought this script waiting for a listing for an audition for suzanne actually 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LaMartine 1,201 Posted September 20, 2017 I just finished The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and really enjoyed it. The movie is coming out soon and I'm excited. A guy in my class lent me this book back in spring just 3 weeks before finals when the work slowed down but we had to revise anyway and then flew off to china before he could ask for it so i still have it and he's still in china and we're not even friends (i didn't even want it i had to study but he gave it to me) i'm a fast reader but not giving books back makes me anxious so I can't pick it up again and it's unfinished it's killing me Right now I'm reading what happened by hillary clinton the last book i've read was Über die Weiber by Schopenhauer including a long study on Schoppy's views on women by contemporaries and today's academics, which had me eye rolling at various moments. And poetry from Lamartine that I always keep on my nightstand hence the username 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beautiful Loser 48,808 Posted September 20, 2017 Currently fliipping around in this. Yay. I should sleep. It seems ok, haven't touched it until now. 0 Quote LB DEMOGRAPHICS SURVEY 2024 | SECRET SANTA 2024 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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Jean 4,117 Posted September 30, 2017 Finished it 2nd time, but it was a long time ago. I'm a mess, not in the mood to read these days. 1 Quote Twitter: johndelferro Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thatsomason 1,202 Posted October 1, 2017 Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw currently reading: What Happened by Hillary Clinton Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Carrie by Stephen King 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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fl0ridakil0s 3,959 Posted October 15, 2018 So I just finished The Joys of Motherhood from this amazing nigerian writer named Buchi Emecheta and I'm on tears. Made me think about my mother and about how much I love her. Such an emotional book, 10/10. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nabokov 52 Posted October 15, 2018 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera- so amazing Currently: All The Light We Cannot See Room to Dream 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fingertips 72,034 Posted October 15, 2018 Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays - Albert Camus Marianne Moore Collected Poems 1 Quote "You can't be a muse and be happy, too. You can't blacken the pages with Russian poetry and be happy." - Blue Banisters Quote I asked Asmodeus (the demon of lust) to make Miley Cyrus suffer. I am not happy with these new developments. After Miley rips off Lana's aesthetic, she bullies Lana into changing her release date. It is infuriating. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trayertrash 7,210 Posted October 15, 2018 I started these a few weeks ago and finally got around to finishing them today. The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitt Science Fiction By Scientists Encyclopedia Gothica by Liisa Ladouceur Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora by Linda M. Waggoner Octavia Butler's Patternist series is next on my list. Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories (Science and Fiction) by Michael Brotherton 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cacciatore 19,347 Posted October 15, 2018 I bought a lot of books recently but I made the mistake to start by the (apparently) most boring one and I can't finish it it's Only The Animals by Ceridwen Dovey. Some of the stories are good but some of them are just plain awful, like the Mussel one... when all the mussel started having an orgy I was like oop thats it. 0 Quote into your eyes my face remains Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theviolence 5,837 Posted October 15, 2018 East of Eden <3 this book may have changed my life 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kurac na Biciklu 2,359 Posted October 29, 2018 I ж--- 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Charlottexseax 7,943 Posted November 2, 2018 She Who Was No More (or, as the French title goes, Les Diaboliques). It was like 5 months ago... anyway It's a really cute noir and it's about this French salesman who plots to kill his wife with his lover but then goes crazy when something unexpected happens. It's very short too 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
four leaf clover 395 Posted November 18, 2018 sex-driven people by robert e.l. masters. basically masters reads off confessions sent to him from people with "abnormal sexual desires" (pedophilia, bestiality, and transsexualism, but the stores vary from hardly strange at all to very strange) then masters briefly explains from a scientific point of view what he believes causes their desires. cant say i "learned" much from this book, cause it blurs the lines between scientific & professional and exploiting & sensationalized, but if youre curious about the lengths human beings will go to in order to satisfy odd desires this book is extremely interesting 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
baddisease 17,927 Posted November 18, 2018 I read Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
annedauphine 35,886 Posted November 18, 2018 Last book I read was in like February lmao. But it was actually The Story Of A New Name, the second tome of the Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, and I devoured it so fast because I absolutely fucking ADORED the first tome and the series as a whole - I'm still in the process of reading the third, but work and depression alternated make it difficult. I insanely love the way she writes. The thing is I have planet-sized daddy issues, and when my father tells me I'm gonna like something, I somehow automatically block and never watch or listen or read it. But this time I was really tired of doing nothing during my 2h daily commute to uni so I decided to give it a try, even though I wasn't sure about the plot, and I loved it SO MUCH. It just flows so easily it's so amazing to read, and the story is just incredible, the characters so vivid, really recommend it, I can't wait to finish the series. I'm super extremely excited about the television show, the actors look beautiful and I'm very interested to see how it translates on screen. The first episodes are out I think? But I'm pretty sure the books will remain better. Like My Brilliant Friend is just out of this world. I'm just annoyed because my whole family originates from Piemonte and my last name is Italian but I can't speak a word from it and I would just LOVE to read them in the native language, especially with the different dialects And it's super interesting that the author is still anonymous!!! Like you have huge international success and you still choose to remain hidden... Sorry I'm very passionate about this series kkfhgkjfhg 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
