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le guin enjoyer

[. @fitzchvalryf]

experienced something so crazy this month, clarice lispector I will always be a fan

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@Mel4Chrgrs incredible book

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reading feast for crows and cersei is so funny, I’m a fan

[arka⁷ 🍀 @arkareads]

I wanted to highlight these entire 1.5 pages from The Dispossessed

“There was process: process was all. You could go in a promising direction or you could go wrong, but you did not set out with the expectation of ever stopping
anywhere.”

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881) are so strange, so surreal, so full of magic — a riot of endless, hilarious digressions, often feeling like ghostly crônicas, playing with love, time and memory. One of the great novels of the nineteenth century.

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@Hukunah it can feel exhausting & excessive but I don’t think he uses it just for development. he examines power, shame, social cruelty etc. depicting rape & not making it neat or easily resolved forces readers to bear witness to that suffering rather than seeing it as just a plot device

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@glitterpricked the lack of nuance in this conversation plus their inability to recognise exaggeration is so interesting to see

[Meech @MediumSizeMeech]

Anyway—a perfect example of the issue with the current state of reading is addressed by Fran Lebowitz in conversation with Toni Morrison—people use fiction as a mirror to see themselves instead of using it as a doorway, or a window, as a way out.

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new books fun covers

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@kharkanas criminally underrated

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everyone should read moderan

[꩜ @adorewordss]

mornings with clarice lispector

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sorry isn’t that exactly what she was saying? sff can liberate people from the prison that flattens imagination and limits our ability to question the present. its not about pure escapism/a refusal to engage with reality but a way to imagine different systems, ways of living etc

[Samuel Baudinette @SamBaudinette]

With all due respect to Le Guin I don’t think we should read (or write) to escape the world (let alone glorify it). We should read (and write) to transform and liberate the world. Sometimes we may even need our reading (and our writing) to destroy it.

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read china mieville

[TheMightyZ @TheMightyZ2]

I wish current fantasy readers weren't afraid various species existing. Like, okay there's elves. What about fairies, Mermaids, centaurs??? I don't even like centaurs, but they're still included.

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having a superiority complex over books is so goofy

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theatre employees are scared and asking me to leave because it’s “not july yet” but I’m simply too seated

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unfortunately i’ve grown very fond of jaime lannister

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younger sibling who outlives their older sibling and is very aware everyone including their own parents loved them more

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@rabrg the back too

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experienced something so crazy this month, clarice lispector I will always be a fan

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@elmartos437 love this cover