#ellena savage

[firstfullmoon]

Sometimes I think it’s possible to live with anything. That we’re wired to survive-survive-survive, to grip onto the gnarliest thread until life is pried from our bones. Other times I think it’s not possible to live at all. Not at all.

Ellena Savage, from “Yellow City,” in Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

#w #lit #ellena savage #to love life even when you have no stomach for it

[thegirlsread]

on the relationship between writer, reader, and text

rayne fisher-quann, standing on the shoulders of complex female characters | ellena savage, "yellow city" in blueberries | ellena savage, “houses” in blueberries

#the yellow city one is self-referential. she's having what can almost be considered a three-way conversation with herself #rayne fisher quann #standing on the shoulders of complex female characters #internet princess #ellena savage #blueberries #yellow city #currently reading #web weaving #parallels #rayne fisher-quann #i made this prematurely. the houses quote reminded me so much of rfq

[lazyydaisyyy]

Ellena Savage, Blueberries: What Kind of Body Makes a Memoir

#ellena savage #Blueberries: What Kind of Body Makes a Memoir #words #lit #quote #excerpt #essay

[hazelbutterflies]

blueberries by ellena savage

#ellena savage #quotes #surivial

[riverbird]

"When I am in the habit of writing every day, sometimes it feels that I am writing because writing is trying not to die. Or writing is trying not to become a hopeless alcoholic. This sounds melodramatic, for sure, and I say it only to suggest that sadness is not always a terrible illness. Sadness is, perhaps, the most honest response to living." Ellena Savage, Blueberries

#ellena savage

[gusilux]

3 movies and 3 songs for women's day

Since women's day is in 4 days, a little tag game.

Reblog with 3 movies and 3 songs to celebrate all your sisters around the world, and tag at least 3 of your tumblr sisters.

These are mine:

1

🎬 Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn

🎶 Savage Daughter (Sarah Hester Ross)

2

🎬 Mad Max: Fury Road

🎶 Voy en un coche (Christina y los subterraneos)

3

🎬 Legally Blonde

🎶 Just a Girl (No Doubt)

I'm tagging @amarantoo @oldstuffnewstuff @cuits @maskingfragility @ellena-asg @seldnei @thesunflowersqueen @mycelebrityfantasy @btwinlines @damnwormholes @transfigurationsgonnacome @ifindyourlackofbooksdisturbing @daskum @valoy @strictlybecca @thinkoutsidethesnogbox and YOU even if you are not tagged. Because I know and YOU know you want to do it.

Keep the sorority running.

#women's day #tag game #movie recs #music recs #birds of prey #mad max fury road #legally blonde #feminism #sorority #radio lux #I've tried to match the song and the movie but you don't have to do it #but it's fun to find something to match the feeling of both #Youtube

[ashortdropandasuddenstop]

Savages

one of my favorite sparrington-tinged music videos but i havent seen it on here so I'm posting it for my own enjoyment

Well done and created by Maxie Fallon on Youtube

For myself and any other sparrington lovers like @ellena-asg

#Youtube #sparrington

[sallyrooneyprotagonist]

Best books read in 2023

the catcher in the rye - j. d. salinger

acts of desperation- megan dolan

bad thoughts: stories - nada alic

franny and zooey - j. d. salinger

shakespeare’s sonnets (reread)

the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde (reread)

villette - charlotte brontë

notes of a native son - james baldwin

the hurting kind - ada limón

blueberries - ellena savage

raise high the roof beam, carpenters and seymour: a introduction - j. d. salinger

the year of magical thinking - joan didion

exalted - anna dorn

love war stories - ivelisse rodríguez

hamnet - maggie o’farrell

valley of the dolls - jacqueline susann

passing - nella larsen

crime and punishment - fyodor dostoevsky

the bell jar - sylvia plath

oh honey - emily r. austin

blue nights - joan didion

gentlemen prefer blondes - anita loos

a life’s work - rachel cusk

dear dolly: collected wisdom - dolly alderton

either/or - elif batuman

discourse on colonialism - aimé césaire

#overall had a pretty good reading year. found some new faves and rediscovered my love for classics #in 2024 i hope to be even more intentional when picking up a book

[slashercult]

Hello! Could I please have a reading? "what do you need to hear right now?" A book passage preferably! My initials are IMV and one special fact about me... I love bunnies, people associate me with bunnies 🐰🐇

thank you!!! 💗

hello! thank you for sending in an ask. let's jump right into your reading! the cards are telling me that right now there may be a situation that has been plaguing your mind for some time, you need to let go of constantly thinking about this situation and let everything play out naturally. the cards advise that you to seek guidance about what has been bothering you as it could help make you feel better. don't worry too much about it, because i see that it will all unfold by itself. i also see that lately you have been staying well within your comfort zone, there's nothing wrong with that but right now the cards want you to let go a little and experience what life has to offer. i'm seeing that you may start a new journey soon and a lot of new changes will be coming soon. the cards are saying that you should embrace the new changes that are coming into your life with an open mind and heart. you need to be ready to be open and adapt to whatever you may learn or experience. book passage: “Travel, in the broadest sense possible, encompasses the furthest reaches of a culture. Networks driven by survival, by desire, by a twinning of the two, have flung bodies and stories away from homes for all of history, and all of prehistory, too. These movements make history. They make history history.” - excerpt from 'Blueberries' by Ellena Savage that's all for this reading! i hope you enjoyed or resonated and please don't forget to leave feedback so i can improve.

#tarotblr #free readings #ask

[whereangelsplay]

last book I bought: I recently was in SF with some friends and we stopped by Green Apple Books. I picked up Pure Colour by Sheila Heti, Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star, and Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au.

borrowed: Motherhood by Sheila Heti from my neighbor Bri

was gifted: Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff by Sara Borjas was gifted to me by lovely friend Mariah for my birthday 🤍

gave/lent to someone: I let me neighbor Bri borrow The Wall by Marlen Haushofer and Blueberries by Ellena Savage

And I lent Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton to my friend Viv ✿

started: Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au

I love it so far ���� and Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton 🌿

finished: Dept. Of Speculation by Jenny Offill

gave 5 stars: Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin because of the many times this book made me bust out laughing in public ❤️

gave 2 stars: I wanted to give Dept. Of Speculation 2 stars because of how boring I thought it was.

didn't finish: Middlemarch by George Eliot

I know I’ll read it all the way through some time in my life 😵‍💫

#books #I tag all of you

[the3-nd]

Blueberries by Ellena Savage

#bookish #booklr #litblr

[maxvchamp]

things i want to read next year:

i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki by baek sehee

i’m glad my mom died by jannette mccurdy

heaven by mieko kawakami

all the lovers in the night by mieko kawakami

11.22.63 by stephen king

in the miso soup by ryu murakami

blueberries by ellena savage

last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo

the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald

my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa mosfegh

the unabridged journals of sylvia plath

TERRY PRATCHETT omg

crying in the bathroom: a memoir by erika l. sanchez

macbeth by william shakespeare

the lesbiana’s guide to catholic school by sonora reyes

babel, or the neccesity of violence: an arcane history of the oxford translators' revolution by r. f. kuang

the unbereable lightness of being by milan kundera

everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily r. austin

all this could be different by sarah thankam matthews

the death of ivan ilyich by leo tolstoj

things i want to REREAD:

catcher in the rye by j.d. sallinger

the secret history by donna tartt

no longer human by osamu dazai

#yes i havent read macbeth sue me #one of two school readings i missed #another one being hamlet #sorry willy #this is so random #yes i MIGHT be crazy #but then i will have four month vacation #after my finals #i'll read them all if i graduate i promise #thought about rereading little life BUT HELL NO #feel free to take some inspirations #OOOH AND ALSO YELLOWFACE BY R. F. KUANG #but only if it gets published in my first language #im not that fluent #2023 #tbr

[thegirlsread]

ellena savage, ‘notes to unlived time’ in blueberries

#ellena savage #blueberries #notes to unlived time #currently reading

[lazyydaisyyy]

In the questionnaire, I select the statement ‘I work to live’, which is true, but only in the sense that to pay for the debt of living a person is required to work.

Ellena Savage, Blueberries: What Kind of Body Makes a Memoir

#ellena savage #blueberries #Blueberries: What Kind of Body Makes a Memoir #words #lit #quote #quoteoftheday

[firstfullmoon]

did you read a book this year that disappointed you?

several :-( but the latest one was blueberries by ellena savage which was so wholeheartedly recommended to me but unfortunately left me quite unsatisfied

[joy2paris]

Books/"Articles" to read - either for diss or in general (to be edited and continued. some descriptions taken from those who have recommended them):

Temporary - Hilary Leichter. A woman takes on a series of wild, impossible temporary jobs

Either/or - Elif Batuman. A college sophomore embarks on a quest for an interesting life

So Distant From My life - Monque Ilaboudo. A young West African man attempts to leave his home and migrate to Europe, only to find out the journey and his future isn't what he planned it to be. Set in Burkina Faso and explores imperialism, migration and the queer experience in Africa.

The Rooftop - Fernanda Trias. A paranoid narrator refuses to let her family (her sick father and her newborn child) outside of their house and tries to navigate life with minimal contact with the outside world. Set in Uruguay. Explores paranoia, motherhood and class struggle.

All your Children, Scattered - Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse. French. Story of 3 generations, torn apart by the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez. We often forget that bias is built into our environment as we often imagine social issues in their theoretical instead of physical manifestations.

Inflamed - Rupa Marya. Deep medecine and the anatomy of injustice.

Cane, Corn & Gully - Safiya Kamaria Kinsbasa. A collection of poems about Barbados, slavery, colonialism, patriarchy and oppression as a whole.

Autobiography of my Mother - Jamaica Kincaid

The Will to Change - Bell Hooks

Sula - Toni Morrison. Follows the life of a young black girl and the small town/settlement she lived in, exploring racism and female friendships.

Happening - Annie Ernaux. Autobiographical account of French feminist Annie Ernaux's experience with accessing abortion when it was illegal in France. Powerful and important. Will make you cry whilst also getting you to admire the myriad ways in which wmen resisted and continue to resist state violence.

Postcolonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz. Collection of poetry exploring the experiences of Native Americans and how it feels to have your land taken from you and changed into something you no longer recognise.

Hey, Good Luck Out There - Georgia Toews

The Life of the Mind - Christine Smallwood

Blueberries - Ellena Savage

Post-Traumatic - Chantal V. Johnson

The Spirit of Intimacy - Sobonfu Somé

The Four Agreements - Miguel Ruiz

The Mysticism of Sound and Music - Inayat Khan

"A Face in the crowd" - Phillippe Le Goff, 22 Sept 2023. Marshall Berman, the celebrated political philosopher and urbanist died 10 years ago this month. His deep commitment to a Marxist humanism, a 'Marxism with soul' has still much to teach us.

"The Day Hip-Hop Changed Forever" - Ahmir Questlove Thompson

"[missing first few words]..Quiet?" The sound of gentrification is silence - Xochitl Gonzalez

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong. A touching memoir, beautifully lyrical

Post-Humous Memoirs of Brá Cubas - Machano de Assis. Perfect blend of beautiful writing and 'plot'.

Meltdown - ben elton

African Writers Series - Saqi and Banipal books

"What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?" - Claire Dederer Nov 20th 2017. questioning the separation of the artist and art think piece

TED Youtube video - "Your elusive creative genius" - Elizabeth Gilbert. from the author of Eat, Pray, Love. talks about the creative process and the idea of "genius"

"How friendships change in adulthood" - Julie Beck, The Atlantic

"Ugliness is Underrated: In Defence of Ugly Paintings" - Katy Kelleher, July 31 2018 (The Paris Review)

"The Husband Did It" - Alice Bolin The Awl, Feb 2015

"Is Therapy-speak making us selfish?" - Rebecca Fishbein, Bustle

"You May Want to Marry my Husband" - Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Mar 3 2017

"The joy of sulk"- Rebecca Roache

"A thin line between mother and daughter" - Jennifer Egan, Nov 14 1997

The Unabridged Journals - Sylvia Plath

Flaubertian (comparative more Flaubertian, superlative most Flaubertian) Of or relating to Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), influential French novelist in the style of literary realism.

Though he is an iconic figure of the realist movement, Flaubert is equally well known for his imaginative Orientalist works of fiction.

"The Plight of the Eldest Daughter" - The Atlantic, by Sarah Sloat

"A Poet's Faith" - Life and Letters 11 Dec 2023 Issue, by Casey Cep, The New Yorker

(up to 12 May from scrolling through screenshots on camera roll)