Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee is exactly what you’re looking for.
Cathy in East of Eden will definitely make you feel something visceral.
And… Humbert Humbert, the narrator of Lolita, is one of the worst villains in all of literature. He’ll try to convince you otherwise. But don’t be fooled. As he says himself, you can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
I would thank these guys for their service and let them go
I love Nimble Needles, especially because I knit continental. He is my favorite.
I knit with Valley Amherst and really liked the experience. I’m also using De Rerum Natura Gilliatt right now and it’s lovely.
There’s nothing I love more than laughing He-Man but this comes close
Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
Social commentary: try North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell or The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope.
Next Austen: Sense and Sensibility, then Persuasion. :)
Hear me out: Don Quixote. It’s always on the list of Greatest Novel of All Time and I thought, how great could it be? But it is really that good. If you read it you won’t regret it.
Connie Willis is great at writing poignant and funny in the same book. Watch out: some of her books are very light (Bellwether, Crosstalk, The Road to Roswell) and others are very serious (Passage, Doomsday Book, Blackout/All Clear) but they all have this combination.
Joseph Heller (Catch-22) and Kurt Vonnegut are both pretty good examples of absurdism.
Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
ETA Hoffmann
Nabokov (try something like Invitation to a Beheading)
Shirley Jackson— I just finished Hangsaman and it seems up your alley
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
The Claire DeWitt mysteries by Sara Gran (lighter but give one a try and see if you like it!)
What a beautiful piece and wonderful story!
I like Margaret Atwood’s version pretty well. Angela Carter’s is interesting too.
I did get put on a wait list, and I was also told to call back because a new provider is arriving in July and they’re building her schedule in June. Gonna get on that gravy train!
Trying to establish care with a new pcp (new insurance) and the provider I carefully chose with great reviews is booked out until February. Soonest I can get an appointment with anyone is September. But good thing we don’t have socialized healthcare because they have such long wait times!!!11!!!
Did I read correctly that Jamilah (CF 5/28) thinks the ONLY answer left is to call the POLICE on a SIX year old who is repeatedly knocking on her door?
I look back on the days of Danny “never speak to any authority for any reason” Lavery and smh
Of all the things that make the bar of “shitty mom,” potty training your kids at age three so they can go to a really nice day care for a fabulous cost is nowhere on the horizon. Vaya con dios, friend.
We have our freezer on the bottom and while I like having the fridge on top, the freezer is a pit where everything except frozen vegetables and ice cream goes to die. I have no idea how to organize one like ours.
That said, one of my friends has a whiteboard on her freezer where she writes what goes into it (portions of frozen meals or meat, etc) and then crosses it off or erases it as she uses it. She is incredibly efficient!
Michael Clayton, The Fugitive, Moonstruck, Say Anything
I’m in a book club that I adore because of the people in it and i suffer for this reason, haha
This week I finished Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez. This book was deeply disturbing! It’s about a man who is a gifted medium for a fantastically powerful and cruel cult in Argentina that is seeking immortality. He wants to protect his son from the cult because he knows his son has inherited his gifts and the cult will not hesitate to use him and dispose of him.
The book takes place primarily in the 1970s and 80s, during and after the Argentine dictatorship. The murdered and missing people from the dictatorship merge with the ones from the cult (and also with the AIDS epidemic.) It’s often extremely frightening (and I enjoy reading horror) with children and adults alike in danger, and even well-intentioned people helpless to prevent horrors. I did think it was a skosh too long but I accept that for a book this good.
Currently reading How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur and listening to A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab.
Beef stroganoff over egg noodles and peas
Vegetarian coconut curry
Honey mustard chicken and asparagus
Smitten Kitchen French onion farro and lentil bake
Tuna melts
Cookie and Kate tortilla soup
Blogsnark Cooks! June 2-June 8
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