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Post by helpmedudes on Jul 29, 2023 2:54:12 GMT
I have been trying to read a book a month since January. I figure this is a place to share your book recommendations and nerd out about ur fave books that you want to share with others!
My books for 2023: She Who Became the Sun Fire & Blood The Invisible Library The Song of Achilles The Outermost House Beach House by RL Stine The Ecological Indian This I Believe I'm Glad My Mom Died
LMK if you want any more info about any of the books, and I am curious what you folks are reading
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Post by cronch on Jul 31, 2023 10:51:10 GMT
I'm reading She who became the sun right now too!!! I love how much it queers gender.
After i finish reading I'm going to start the Locked Tomb series cause I've heard some insane (in the best way) things about it As far as recs go.... I REALLY love Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth, which is a horror novel about a curse that plagued a boarding school in the 1900s (it think thats the time period though i might be wrong lol) and the production of a movie being made about said curse in the present which starts being affected by it as well. The whole book is kind of a love letter to Mary Maclane, who wrote about her infatuation with the devil and her romantic relationships with both men and women and lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Specifically, the book is almost an answer to one of her essays, wherein she complains that all heroines in fiction are either beautiful or virtuous and often times both. She says that she is neither of those things and asks when there will be a plain bad heroine, one that resembles her. Plain Bad Heroines' protagonists are all queer women and none of them are nice and they usually make wrong and immoral choices, yet they are SO easy to sympathise with and to root for even as you're screaming at the pages for them to stop being such idiots tbh i could go ON for so long about this book and its themes and its characters but I'll just say go read it !!! (and keep in mind that the end is going to be more of a thematic resolution rather than a literal one)
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Post by helpmedudes on Jul 31, 2023 12:19:43 GMT
I'm reading She who became the sun right now too!!! I love how much it queers gender.
After i finish reading I'm going to start the Locked Tomb series cause I've heard some insane (in the best way) things about it As far as recs go.... I REALLY love Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth, which is a horror novel about a curse that plagued a boarding school in the 1900s (it think thats the time period though i might be wrong lol) and the production of a movie being made about said curse in the present which starts being affected by it as well. The whole book is kind of a love letter to Mary Maclane, who wrote about her infatuation with the devil and her romantic relationships with both men and women and lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Specifically, the book is almost an answer to one of her essays, wherein she complains that all heroines in fiction are either beautiful or virtuous and often times both. She says that she is neither of those things and asks when there will be a plain bad heroine, one that resembles her. Plain Bad Heroines' protagonists are all queer women and none of them are nice and they usually make wrong and immoral choices, yet they are SO easy to sympathise with and to root for even as you're screaming at the pages for them to stop being such idiots tbh i could go ON for so long about this book and its themes and its characters but I'll just say go read it !!! (and keep in mind that the end is going to be more of a thematic resolution rather than a literal one)
Oooo I will add Plain Bad Heroines to my list!
And yaaas She Who Became The Sun is so interesting about how it deals with gender. The author seems super cool too. The new book comes out Aug 22 which I am so excited for ~~~
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Post by nephrodite on Jul 31, 2023 12:58:43 GMT
Man, I don't recognize anything on this list at all! Got to get with the times lolz. What's your top book on this list? Sorry to make you choose :
Me, I'm powering through most of Brandon Sanderson's stuff right now. It is an Experience. But assuming you have a lot of free time to fill with something non-online, I can recommend it pretty heartily.
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Post by helpmedudes on Jul 31, 2023 20:36:24 GMT
Man, I don't recognize anything on this list at all! Got to get with the times lolz. What's your top book on this list? Sorry to make you choose :
Me, I'm powering through most of Brandon Sanderson's stuff right now. It is an Experience. But assuming you have a lot of free time to fill with something non-online, I can recommend it pretty heartily. If you only have time for one, def read She Who Became the Sun!!
It has fun Chinese history, action, the Gay TM, and compelling characters. I really learned a lot about a time period I did not know much about going into it.
If you are more of a nonfiction person, Glad my Mom Died is super interesting.
Oh wow, I will look into those books!
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Post by r0wyn on Aug 2, 2023 3:44:59 GMT
used to love reading, fell off really hard. but i did read A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes last month and am going to read The Catcher in the Rye once school starts. i'm at that weird stage where i'm way too old for YA but have no idea where to go next lol.
(when i say i'm too old for YA, it's not me feeling judged or anything - i've just grown weary of teenager antics if that makes sense)
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Post by helpmedudes on Aug 2, 2023 23:20:40 GMT
used to love reading, fell off really hard. but i did read A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes last month and am going to read The Catcher in the Rye once school starts. i'm at that weird stage where i'm way too old for YA but have no idea where to go next lol.
(when i say i'm too old for YA, it's not me feeling judged or anything - i've just grown weary of teenager antics if that makes sense)
Honestly I got burnt out during my time in academics from reading for fun, but I highly reccommend people to read whatever it is that they like!! Some people get all snobby about what books u read but tbh as long as you are able to finish them, it is a good time
And ya, teenage antics are sometimes tiring, I gotta be in the right mood to read YA now
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