Book Thread!

[Liz Taylor Blues 18,853]

4 minutes ago, Veinsineon said:

The Song of Achilles

Issa good book. I heavily dislike the fandom revolved it tho

[Um Chile Anyways So 7,110]

Just now, Leader of The Pack said:

Oh you sweet summer child

yeah, i know that 944 pages is nothing, but considering that i can't really concentrate well for prolonged time, I feel accomplished

[Veinsineon 77,840]

20 minutes ago, Leader of The Pack said:

Issa good book. I heavily dislike the fandom revolved it tho

a bunch of annoying tiktok people yeah i just read cus i saw a cute anniversary edition and copped it tbh lol

[Liz Taylor Blues 18,853]

1 minute ago, Veinsineon said:

a bunch of annoying tiktok people yeah i just read cus i saw a cute anniversary edition and copped it tbh lol

Like I hate to gatekeep…but I’m gatekeeing

[DeadSeaOfMercury 23,276]

The Shining & Red Sails To Capri.

[ultravyvanse 873]

the contortionist handbook by craig clevenger 

eastern body western mind by judith

sexual astrology by martine

[DownhillLullaby 5,220]

I'd recommend a flash fiction written by me... titled Gone Was the Glow

https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Lucariel-Rain-ebook/dp/B09SJWLGLP

You can find it on Amazon (also read it for free on Kindle me thinks!)

[Barry 5,972]

The first hunger games book was the first and actually only book i've ever read I would recommend it as I did really like it and it inspired me to read more although i've still not read anything since as I don't know what my problem is but I have like a phobia about doing it. I think it's probably trauma from school where I didn't have any interest in books and never read any of them and always got punishment and detention for not doing book report homework and so I can't get into it but then I think a lot of people are just unable to get into reading, maybe it's adhd.

Actually I did read one other book in school Fahrenheit 451 as I needed to for an exam in English, and also as a class we read Macbeth so I guess I have read 3 but I can't remember much of these two.

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Does anyone have book recommendations for me?

-I like high fantasy books that at are really immersive and have a magic element—the longer the better! I’m not a huge fan of super dark themes, though  

 

-I really enjoy more psychologically and emotionally relevant books as well (The Bell Jar, Girl Interrupted, etc.)

 

I love a good poetry collection too. However, I’m open to other suggestions as well!

[one time beauty queen 18,485]

I finished reading 'Play It As It Lays' by Joan Didion & I don't know how to feel. it reminded me of TS Eliots 'The Waste Land' - “I can connect nothing with nothing.”

& the final szn of Mad Men (which MUST'VE taken inspiration from it). Its a sad, lonely & desperate novel but stunning.. it's no wonder she is heralded as such a fantastic writer. 

I'm looking fwd to watching the netflix docu on her soon / checking out more of her novels.

 

besides that, I'm in the middle of 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac & Leonard Cohen's 'A Ballet of Lepers' rn  & will review those when finished

 

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i'm reading twilight. and only god can judge me

[luna de miel 3,213]

14 minutes ago, burthday kake said:

 

I finished reading 'Play It As It Lays' by Joan Didion & I don't know how to feel. it reminded me of TS Eliots 'The Waste Land' - “I can connect nothing with nothing.”

& the final szn of Mad Men (which MUST'VE taken inspiration from it). Its a sad, lonely & desperate novel but stunning.. it's no wonder she is heralded as such a fantastic writer. 

I'm looking fwd to watching the netflix docu on her soon / checking out more of her novels.

 

besides that, I'm in the middle of 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac & Leonard Cohen's 'A Ballet of Lepers' rn & I will review those when finished

lovelovelovelove her nonfiction works, have yet to read play it as it lays though but it's def on my list. 'Slouching Towards Betlehem' is one of my all time favs, would highly recommend

[Barry 5,972]

On 1/20/2022 at 9:53 PM, the ocean said:

 

i used to read and then i kinda just stopped around late junior high / early high school 

and since then every time i've tried to pick up a book i've been physically unable to concentrate on reading it

 

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i think i might have undiagnosed adhd (yes i know it's a childhood thing but it can manifest differently in adulthood hence why it's undiagnosed because it probably got overlooked or misdiagnosed as something else

 

edit: i will say the last book i read was house of leaves by mark z. danielewski i HIGHLY recommend it

warning though it's a difficult book to read both in subject matter and literally because the formatting is deliberately complicated

it's definitely a book you re-read to get a fuller perspective of

I have this problem as well although I never used to read either, I actually used to hate it as I thought it was boring, in school I took detention and punishments etc over ever reading anything then once I left school I wanted to read and was interested in it but what you said im "physically unable"  to do it. It feels like a phobia where I want to read them and think about it near enough every day and probably have 150-200 books i've bought but it's like I think "I'll read these when im old" to where I can't even pick on up and open it to start.

I've only ever read 3 books, one was one I had to read because I had to write an essay about it which was "Fahrenheit 451" which was ok and I liked it. One was "Macbeth" which I read as like a whole class in school also and then I only ever read 1 other book which was the first Hunger Games book which I really liked and was the first time I really read a book cause I wanted to and I planned to read the other ones but then I put it off too long I just watched the movies and never read a book again since.

It's really annoying and furstrating and it probably is adhd for me as well.

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8 minutes ago, Luna de miel said:

lovelovelovelove her nonfiction works, have yet to read play it as it lays though but it's def on my list. 'Slouching Towards Betlehem' is one of my all time favs, would highly recommend

thanks so much for the rec - I plan on reading it for sure

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21 hours ago, burthday kake said:

I finished reading 'Play It As It Lays' by Joan Didion & I don't know how to feel. it reminded me of TS Eliots 'The Waste Land' - “I can connect nothing with nothing.”

& the final szn of Mad Men (which MUST'VE taken inspiration from it). Its a sad, lonely & desperate novel but stunning.. it's no wonder she is heralded as such a fantastic writer. 

I'm looking fwd to watching the netflix docu on her soon / checking out more of her novels.

 

besides that, I'm in the middle of 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac & Leonard Cohen's 'A Ballet of Lepers' rn  & will review those when finished

 

Purchased that book a few months back along with The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem and I've been trying to get motivation to start reading it but I buy too many books at a time and my TBR shelf keeps getting bigger and bigger oop 

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1 minute ago, violentvioletsky said:

Purchased that book a few months back along with The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem and I've been trying to get motivation to start reading it but I buy too many books at a time and my TBR shelf keeps getting bigger and bigger oop 

bahaha no I get it, the Didion & Cohen books were gifted to me for Christmas & until late Jan they were just collecting dust fdhjsdjhf.. there's a right time & place to start a book, when you know you just know

 

Rlly need to buy both of those btw.

[violentvioletsky 1,431]

Might start reading The Trial by Franz Kafka during my long shift at work tomorrow, the book's plot intrigued me so I purchased it today

 

I read halfway through The Metamorphosis back in 2021 but had to return it back to my uni's library, but I did remember liking his style of writing

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8 minutes ago, burthday kake said:

bahaha no I get it, the Didion & Cohen books were gifted to me for Christmas & until late Jan they were just collecting dust fdhjsdjhf.. there's a right time & place to start a book, when you know you just know

 

Rlly need to buy both of those btw.

That's so true, at times I just get a sudden intuitive feeling to start reading a particular book. And once I start, there is no stopping as I just get too immersed in it

 

[one time beauty queen 18,485]

flipping thru Jane Birkin's Munkey Diaries (1957-1982) again & sobbing

[luna de miel 3,213]

6 minutes ago, burthday kake said:

flipping thru Jane Birkin's Munkey Diaries (1957-1982) again & sobbing

 

OMFG i had no idea this book existed 

i need it NOW