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utterlyconfusedacademia · 2 years

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Me adding a new dark academia book to my overflowing (and mostly unread) collection:

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yourneighborhoodbibliophile · 2 years

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Dark Academia Book Stack

Pictured from top to bottom: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Never Let Me Go, The Secret History, These Violent Delights, The Wicker King, If We Were Villains, Vicious, Vengeful, Ninth House, Maurice, Catherine House, The Ravens, The Goldfinch

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libinih28 · 2 months

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at this point rabbits should be synonymous with dark academia and horror

#catherine house #elisabeth thomas #ninth house #leigh bardugo #hell bent #bunny #mona awad

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aroaessidhe · 4 months

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read in 2023: Mysterious House books

Deephaven

Delicious Monsters

She Is A Haunting

The Starless Sea

Catherine House

We’ll Never Tell

The Crows

Ravenfall

A Guide To The Dark (mysterious motel, close enough)

#read in 2023 #this isn't even all of them!#deephaven #the starless sea #we'll never tell #catherine house #a guide to the dark #ravenfall #this is a mix of ages deephaven and ravenfall are MG. the crows is very much adult please check CWs lol

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tragedies-and-dreams · 1 year

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His eyes were red and wet, but he wore a strange smile, it was composed of cruelty and shame and delight.

No one is going to fix you for you, I thought to myself when I got home, giving myself a good hard stare in my bathroom mirror. But like all revelations, it didn’t last long.

i'm not feeling good at all (part ii): mirrors, tears, & smiles

Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi / / / Euphoria / / / Luster by Raven Leilani / / / I May Destroy You / / / Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi / / / The Fits / / / Writers & Lovers by Lily King / / / Midsommar dir. Ari Aster / / / Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin / / / Possession dir. Andrzej Żuławski / / / Giovanni's Room by Baldwin / / / Lady Vengeance dir. Park Chan-wook / / / The Four Humors by Mina Seçkin / / / I, Tonya dir. Craig Gillespie / / / Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon / / / Sea Change by Gina Chung / / / Either/Or by Elif Batuman / / / The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath / / / A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara / / / Either/Or by Batuman / / / Edinburgh by Alexander Chee / / / The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett / / / Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas / / / The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

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tondiable · 2 years

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Hello everyone! I'm finally getting around to planning out book posts like I mentioned in a post the other week!

I figured that I would start with a general post showing you all of the books that I've read so far this year! They're in the order that I read them for the most part. I had to throw The Black Phone Stories at the top so that my stack wouldn't be too haphazardous.

I've talked on here breifly before that I would like to start posting more, and specifically post some bookish content. I've loved books since I was a child, and I've collected them my whole life.

I've always been a reader but I've found that the last two years of my life I'm starting to read just as much as I did when I was a child. This is something that I'm really excited about. I've discovered so masny amazing titles and authors the past few months and my To Read List is getting longer and longer.

I'm not sure exactly how these posts will go, I imagine they'll be quite rambly just like this one. I'll always warn before I spoil anything, but keep in mind that I will be posting spoilers!

Let me know if you've read or plan to read any of the books in this list! I dont know if I'll make a post on every book on here, but I'm going to for sure make posts on my favorite ones! If I'm being honest, most of them have become a favorite in some way. I feel like I've gotten so lucky with my book selections this year!

Reply with any book reccs you have for me!! :D

Also, I'm currently reading These Violent Delights, I'm a bit over halfway and I absoluuutely love it so far!! I can't wait to read the sequel, I have sooo many sequels to read!! A lot of the books in this list have sequels coming out this year and early next year!!

#bookish #bookblr #reading #readersoftumblr #dr jekyll and mr hyde #atomic habits #my heart is a chainsaw #the sky is everywhere #my dearest darkest #catherine house #wicked: with & curse #the grimrose girls #the atlas six #the forest of a thousand lanterns #ninth house #the black phone stories

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enbyplant · 1 year

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i need to go to sleep but i just finished a book that has left me feeling. different

#ain't that just the way #this post is only for people who read #catherine house #and actually liked it #i feel like a different person now

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thebotanicalarcade · 1 year

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#gardenia #rose #Freesias #wisteria #lace #white lace #bower #wisteria bower #Catherine house #elisabeth thomas #fairy princess #botany #quote #quotation

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megdocx · 8 months

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something I really like about Catherine House so far is how every character is greasy and gross because they have no access to beauty/skin/hair care. immaculate worldbuilding

#read with meg #catherine house #september reading challenge

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snippets-from-my-mind · 1 year

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"to be unsure here is to belong" - catherine house, by elisabeth thomas

#catherine house #holy shit????#this book was so good #so much suspense #literally read it all in one sitting

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yourneighborhoodbibliophile · 2 years

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AAUW Book Haul: Part 3

I visited the local AAUW Used Book Sale where I bought 21 books! I divided my haul into 3 parts, so here are the last 7 books!

Pictured from top to bottom: Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas, The Ravens by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige, My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey, The Inexplicable Logic of my Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins.

Part 1, Part 2

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tealeavesand-roses · 1 year

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Image Description: Still from the Russian film Kholop (2019)

🌿🐇🌞🧚🏻✨HAPPY SPRING EQUINOX✨🧚🏻🌞🐇🌿

Halfway through March but decided to get a head start on my

April TBR

as some of my March reads might lead into April.

Anyways, here’s my TBR list for March and April:

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio In the Woods by Tana French The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman: Read The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson: Currently Reading We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry: Currently Reading

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ravenbees · 2 years

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Okay go read Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas. this book has everything. rich complex writing bisexual sluts friends who are a family dark academia art history metaphors haunting houses grief depression richly described meals unethical science a sense of being unmoored from the passage of time the feeling of losing precious moments even as you live them the multilayered existential crises that come with being in college and most importantly, the feeling of being tangled in the story even when you’ve taken a break to go sit on the pier and stare at the lake for a long time

#I’m not kidding guys I did not expect it to actually be this good bc I grabbed it at random off my siblings pile but holy shit #self #book recs #catherine house

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aroaessidhe · 1 year

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2023 reads // twitter thread

Catherine House

dark academia/mystery/thriller

a young woman at a prestigious mysterious uni where students are cut off from the outside world

when her friend and roommate dies, she starts to discover more about the strange and obsessive group in the infamous and mysterious Plasm program - the study of ‘new materials’ & changing matter

#Catherine House #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #hm this is weird #i enjoyed it? it's different from what i usually read but i think it's good i guess #some interesting characters #well mostly baby LOL #in the first half i was like oh aro coded bi mc??#but then she does get a bf.#imo still aro coded; she doesn’t really ever seem to like him romantically and like. this is a spooky book not a romance #(i mean don't go into it looking for aros; i don't think it was intentional; just interesting to note)#also the mc is doing art history and the audio narrator pronounced Brancusi phonetically lmao #which is not really a big deal but i was like HUH? oh.......lol......#i don’t actually know what the. plasm. is that what it’s called? stuff is about LMAO #explaining anything????? not particularly. just weirdness

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dramyhsturgis · 2 years

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I’m delighted to share the details of my Fall 2022 online Dark Academia class at Signum University!

I'm also thrilled to add that 3 of the brilliant authors whose works we'll be studying in the Dark Academia course will be holding live Q&A sessions with the class!

Peadar Ó Guilín for THE CALL ('16)

Elisabeth Thomas for CATHERINE HOUSE ('20)

R.F. Kuang for BABEL ('22)

#dark academia #Signum university #peadar o’guilin #Elisabeth Thomas #rf kuang #Babel #Catherine House #The Call #amy h. sturgis

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tondiable · 2 years

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“The stars incline us, they do not bind us.”

I just finished These Violent Delights yesterday, and I couldn’t recommend it enough. I’ll be honest, I’m not one for retellings of classics. (But maybe I have a soft spot for Romeo and Juliet retellings because Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 Romeo + Juliet is a masterpiece in my opinion, and reading this definitely sparked a need to rewatch asap.) There’s something so endearing about this story, the fact that Roma and Juliette aren’t kids anymore, things are much more settled and serious. And of course, the constant yearning for them to just put their weapons down and kiss already.

But there is SO much more to this novel than romance. I would say romance plays a fairly small role this time around. This may reveal how little horror I’ve read, but I could honestly consider this to be a horror novel. The descriptions in this book are ones that will follow you to bed at night; making you see silver eyes peering at you from a dark corner, or hear insects skittering under your bed.

Something about me, I usually tend to read trigger warnings before I read any book. They’ve never compelled me not to read a book that I planned on reading, they’re just good to know. One of the TWs for this book that stood out to me was “insects” I wasn’t sure if it was a typo, or if some people were really that scared of bugs that it warranted its own TW. I’ll just say this, after reading, I stand by that TW. It is wholeheartedly deserved in the most gruesome way. Ever wanted to read a book that made you itch? Look no further.

Anyways, I won’t ramble too too long about how much I love this book, I don’t want to give too much away to my one who hasn’t read it yet! I’ve started the sequel and I’m very very excited to see what Chloe Gong has come up with this time around ☺️ I included some other top recommendations of mine in the tags! Have you read this/plan to read? Lemme know what you think! And please reply with any book recommendations ☺️

-Bee

#tvd #these violent delights #roma and juliette #bookblr #ove #our violent ends #ninth house #Catherine House #chloe gong #dark academia #bibliophile #mine #rambles #the atlas six #the atlas paradox

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