What Are You Reading?

[callmedecember 2,319]

right now I'm reading "Oscuro Bosque Oscuro" by Jorge Volpi (a mexican author) 

[LanaFlowers 8,752]

A letter from my ex's ex wife.

 

Fun.

 

Super fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hate my life

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Post the letter 

 

A letter from my ex's ex wife.

 

Fun.

 

Super fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hate my life

 

Share the fun 

[LanaFlowers 8,752]

Post the letter 

 

 

Share the fun 

Thinking about him makes me want to fucking die. We all wasted so much time on him. He didn't deserve any of the love and life he sucked out of us. A few of us talk, another of his exes has become a close friend of mine actually. It's so aggravating how much we're alike. She jokes that I was the "newer, upgraded version"

 

I hate this man

[callmedecember 2,319]

i'm currently reading

 

When I Was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Buten and Silk (in its Spanish translation) by Alessandro Baricco

[xxmissdaytonaxx 30,078]

gone girl by gillian flynn

 

(i wanna check out her other novels when i’m finished)

[fl0ridakil0s 3,959]

Toradora, the light novel

[Charlottexseax 7,932]

I started reading One Day This Pain Will Be Useful To You and it’s... idk

The dialogues are unbearable and the main character is like the typical gay who thinks he’s the shit bc he reads books and disliked people

I really wanna give this a shot but idk I think Shampoo Planet is way better

[Charlottexseax 7,932]

I started reading One Day This Pain Will Be Useful To You and it’s... idk

The dialogues are unbearable and the main character is like the typical gay who thinks he’s the shit bc he reads books and disliked people

I really wanna give this a shot but idk I think Shampoo Planet is way better

 

ok i finished it and... idk if i liked it or not.

the dialogues are at times unbearable but i liked the overall feeling of the book, even though the character is sometimes way too obnoxious for his own sake

i kinda wish it was longer. i mean, it's like ladybird, in the sense that there isn't really a story going on, it's rather a very brief look on the life of a teenager before going to college, and i feel like the author could've said way more than he actually did. it doesn't end badly per se, but once you get to the end there's not really a closure to be had with the story. it just... ends. which actually suits the book pretty well 

[necessary sacrifice 8,865]

I just started reading Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber the other day. It’s short stories and they’re kind of fairytale retellings and it’s kind of dark but funny. I’ve been meaning to read it for a long time, so I’m glad I finally got around to it.

[callmedecember 2,319]

I'm reading Boy Erased 

[Solar Fields 4,163]

I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

[DLT 7,592]

Just finished The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager! I’ve had the book forever but never read it. Very glad I opened it up on a whim, thoroughly enjoyed. Now about to start Lock Every Door by the same author.

[Fingertips 72,034]

Pale Fire by Nabokov and The Cantos of Ezra Pound

[Solar Fields 4,163]

If Beale Street Could Talk by Janes Baldwin

[Trash Magic 28,331]

I just finished On The Road by Jack Kerouac because it's supposed to be a classic or whatever and I wanted to see what the whole beat generation was about. THANK FUCK that painful ordeal is over. Undoubtedly the WORST thing I have ever had the misfortune of reading in my life. I honestly questioned my sanity sometimes and wondered if I just didn't have the attention span to digest it (despite making a real effort this year to read more books and enjoying all of them so far.) So it was really comforting to read so many people leave this book 1 star reviews on goodreads and feel the same way lol. I assumed that the "classic" must have just gone over my head. What a load of rambling nonsense. Anybody else read this? One thing I will say is that I am a more patient and tolerant person walking after reading this straight garbage for nearly 300 pages. Fuck Jack Kerouac.

 

Moving on to Junky by William S Burroughs 

[Kurac na Biciklu 2,359]

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[Ultra Violet 18,922]

Halfway through A Discovery of Witches.

My partners mum convinced me to read it. 

I remember when the trailers for the TV show came out I thought it looked pretty good but I was put off by yet again another forbidden romantic union but the witchcraft part remained a big interest to me.

The book is really good and easy to read and it hooks you in so fast. I think this is by far the most interesting depiction of Witches, Vampires and Demons that I've ever come across. Especially demons.

I'll be so keen to watch the TV show after I finish. 

[baddisease 17,892]

A bunch of Marxist texts:

 

1. On the Roots of Revisionism

2. A Short History of Labour Conditions Under Industrial Capitalism vol. 3, part 2 - Germany Under Fascism 1933 to the Present Day

3. Selected Works of Lin Biao

[trayertrash 7,210]

A bunch of Marxist texts:

 

1. On the Roots of Revisionism

2. A Short History of Labour Conditions Under Industrial Capitalism vol. 3, part 2 - Germany Under Fascism 1933 to the Present Day

3. Selected Works of Lin Biao

 

Have you read any of Angela Davis' works? She was my introduction to Marxism. I highly suggest Are Prisons Obsolete, Women Class & Race, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle, and The Meaning Of Freedom & Other Difficult Dialogues.