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[aquaell]

i am compiling a list of books for the time when this godforsaken last essay is over and i can read for pleasure again - i am thinking along the lines of things by tao lin and miranda july

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[roseapparatus]

I love The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer. It's short, smart, and funny.

Good luck with your paper, I'm in the same boat and desperate to dive back into post-semester pleasure reading, in the small gaps between working.

[oscar_dom]

Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint Exupery and novels by Sybille Bedford.

[lyre]

i have just finished the longest essay of my life; feeling duly traumatised & similarly in need of books. especially seeing as i am without internet. :(
i have italo calvino & the birds fall down by rebecca west to recommend. i expect you have read them already. recently i've been reading nice easy things like m.r. james ghost stories, & domestic novels. take care, darling & good luck with the essay. xxx

[flynd]

"The Haunting Of Hill House," which I'm sure you've read.
"Swordspoint" - it's fantasy, but light and tender and amazing.
and "The Queen of Attolia" - the second book in a trilogy and it doesn't matter a bit. Whole, unto itself. (These are the things that are teaching me to write.)

[flynd]

... and I need recommendations, if you have any to lend!

[aquaell]

mine (all of which you've probably read!) would be something like

"kitchen" banana yoshimoto
"notes of a dirty old man" bukowski
"of love and other demons" marquez + "memories of my melancholy whores"
"middlesex" eugenides
"perfume" suskind
"a little princess" burnett

these are the books, or some of them at least, that i always come back to, again and again. they are comforting. and so in this sense they too have probably taught me about writing.

[aquaell]

and "the story of o" which i remember loving to pieces.

i am compiling a wish list for dear old yuletide so i'll look at the books you recommended :) thank you, darling.