#milkman by anna burns

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#milkman #anna burns #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[quotespile]

Cats are not adoring like dogs. They don’t care. They can never be relied upon to shore up a human ego. They go their way, do their thing, are not subservient and will never apologise. No one has ever come across a cat apologising and if a cat did, it would patently be obvious it was not being sincere.

Anna Burns, Milkman

#literature #quotes #Anna Burns #Milkman #quote #books #lit

[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Anna Burns #Milkman #quote #lit #books #words

[dreamgirlevil28]

#90s goth #visual archive #kinderwhore #coquette #photography #my photos #milkman #anna burns #jewerly #soft pink #pink blog #lace skirt #pearl earrings

[midaugust1998]

"Why invest your heart in one person in the world you love and wanted to spend the rest of your life with when maybe not that long down the road they were going to abandon you for the grave?"

Anna Burns- Milkman

#anna burns #milkman #irish literature #literature #prose

[thehappyscavenger]

Books Read in June 2023

The Magus by John Fowles

I kept taking this out of the library and returning it without reading it and was set to do it again when someone said it was the most bonkers book they had ever read which meant I just had to read it.

It honestly is weird and trippy as fuck and so convoluted and ridiculous with the plot points. The only reason it semi-works is because John Fowles is a really great writer that kept me hooked the whole time. I don't know if I liked it but I don't regret reading it.

A weirdo kind of thriller.

Milkman by Anna Burns

LOVED this. Def going to be one of my faves of 2023. Set during the troubles this book is about an 18 year old girl who is set upon by the predatory Milkman, an older man with shady terroristic ties. I love the way Burns describes how confining this society is and how it's infused with coded meaning that is mostly unspoken. I need to read more Burns stat!

The Burning of the World by Béla Zombory-Moldován

This is a WWI memoir extracted from a larger, unpublished manuscript painter Béla Zombory-Moldován was trying to write and left unfinished.

Kind of thin on the ground. Zombory-Moldován didn't see much of the war (he only spent a day in action) though it was enough to leave him with a disability and PTSD. I don't want to discount what he went through, which was clearly a lot, but the whole memoir is only 140 pages, and it goes by quickly. Interesting but minor work.

#The Magus #John Fowles #Milkman #Anna Burns #The Burning of the World #Béla Zombory Moldován #currently reading

[putoutallthestars]

Da série "o meu pai e melhor que o teu", em que a uma filha faz um apelo desesperado para que a visitem. Basta apanhar um voo para Dublin e depois o Dart até Dun Laoghaire (sentido de Howth) 🌊🇮🇪🍀

Declaro inaugurada a era de photo dumps no Tumblr.

#quirky novellas #anna burns #mostly hero #dublin #ireland #by the sea #dun laoghaire #photo dumps #summer is here #howth #milkman #memories #blue skies #life on the island #emerald isle #adulting #life is painful #saudades #life is joyful #everything everywhere all at once #faber stories #feeling lucky

[andreabadgley]

Back on a plane, headed home from Vegas.

#milkman #books #Anna burns

[adamcadre]

~1600 words

#Adam Cadre #calendar #visitor recommendation series #Milkman #Anna Burns

[wordsmithie]

They were kissing now, tightly embracing; he, leaning her over, supporting her by her back, her waist - and her, arms about his neck, letting him hold her, letting him support her, letting him lean her over. Soon indeed, it seemed he was kissing her backwards off her feet. It was one of those 'you'll never be kissed like this until you smell like this' Christmas French perfume advertisements and here too, I noticed - though they didn't - others had come to view them as well. ... After completing the Jean Paul Gaultier kiss, and oblivious still of us, the audience, third brother swept his true wife off her feet and up into his arms.

- Milkman, Anna Burns

#milkman #anna burns #book nerd #this description tickled me #reads

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Milkman | Author: Anna Burns | Publisher: Faber & Faber (2018)

#books #Milkman #Anna Burns

[werewolfetone]

OH and also the Milkman by Anna Burns

Hi anon idk if u are still here but >6 months after u sent me these 2 asks I have finally read both of these books 👍

Milkman was ok. broadly I liked it and the writing style was really interesting -- felt almost dreamlike and vaguely threatening due to the lack of any names etc. there were bits where I felt it dragged somewhat but there were also bits where I'll just be walking down the street and one of the lines pops into my head for no reason and I keep thinking about it for the rest of the day. Country, on the other hand, I really liked. Also a very interesting style which worked really well with the story, and I liked the author's handling of the political dimension of the story more than I've liked most other books about the troubles. My only complaint is that it was almost too short... I wish that Nellie had come up again + would have been nice if it had adapted the entirety of the Iliad rather than stopping after Hector's death but whatever. Definitely recommend both of them but like... I'd recommend Country slightly more

#asks #anon #books #jory.txt

[quotespile]

After generation upon generation, fathers upon forefathers, mothers upon foremothers, centuries and millennia of being one colour officially and three colours unofficially, a colourful sky, just like that, could not be allowed to be.

Anna Burns, Milkman

#literature #quotes #Anna Burns #Milkman #quote #books #lit

[firstfullmoon]

what are some of your favourite (non poetry) books? I'm always looking for more books to read and I'm always deeply in love with the poetry you recommend so I'd love to see which books you love as well!

hiii i love on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong, chavirer by lola lafon, they can’t kill us until they kill us by hanif abdurraqib, salt slow by julia armfield, real life by brandon taylor, the book of delights by ross gay, milkman by anna burns, the lonely city by olivia laing, cain by josé saramago, if beale street could talk by james baldwin, to the lighthouse by virginia woolf, the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson, the friend by sigrid nunez, blue nights by joan didion, swimming home by deborah levy, wolf hall by hilary mantel, etc. mostly fiction but there is some non-fiction in there if you like

#also a little l- [gunshot]

[ladylucksrogue]

9 People You Would Like to Get to Know Better.

Thanks for the tag, @merlyn-bane :)) I did this a couple weeks ago, but I will absolutely not ignore a tag

1. 3 ships: Obitine for sure. I also like Codywan a lot. My favorite guilty pleasure lately is Obikin...I mean I don't really see it canonically but I absolutely adore an AU or all the stuff that's being written lately. I think I enjoy the chaos. I will absolutely read other ships too, but those are my top 3.

2. first ever ship Vegeta and Bulma from Dragonball Z. That was my first ever fandom. I've written for them, also for a minor and relatively hated ship in One Piece, specifically Nami and Zoro. Crazy enough, those fics are getting a ton of attention lately because of the Netflix series, and people are like OMG I love their chemistry, and I'm sitting there like, see?

Last song: Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis. I'm on a nostalgia kick lately.

Last movie: Shotgun Wedding. Ok, so hear me out, hubs and I were bored and had no expectations for this movie at all, I thought it'd be terrible. I really enjoyed it, it was such a hot mess and I could just shut off my brain and enjoy it for what it was.

Currently reading: I'm supposed to be reading Milkman by Anna Burns for book club. I haven't yet. I just downloaded the audiobook because Ijust don't have the capacity to read right now.

Currently consuming: Had scrambled eggs and homemade hash browns for dinner. Drinking coffee.

Currently craving: Sleep, a vacation, a way to shut my brain off. It's been a rough week. The whole conflict in Israel has been a huge topic this week at work. War and all its collateral damage is a heavy topic and it's been bringing up a lot of old stuff I'd rather keep buried because I have a job to do. I've also been fighting a cold the past couple weeks and my autoimmune condition has flared up I think as a result. So brain fog, pain and exhaustion are just a thing right now and it's really effected my motivation and ability to do anything fun like write. I hate to complain or rant about stuff like this but sometimes it just needs to come out.

I'm not sure who I tagged before,so forgive me if you get this again...

Tagging: @forcearama @foreverchangingfandomsao3 @quigonsjeans @howlbrooklyn @intermundia @kcrabb88 @impossibleprincess35 @manywinged @notaghost3

#get to know me asks #ask me questions #ask game

[whentherewerebicycles]

"Consider this handful of fascinating characters. nothing much will happen to them or between them but you will observe their development with great interest" sounds EXACTLY like what I like to read. Any other recommendations for this kind of lit?

ooh let me think. well this one (the razor’s edge) is very engaging so far. I actually picked it up while looking for another one that has a similar vibe—john williams’s stoner, which I think is so insanely good although just know that its depiction of disability reflects its midcentury context. fitzgerald’s this side of paradise also comes to mind… haven’t read it since college but I read it many times in college because I liked it so much lol. all of elizabeth bowen’s novels are like this, very novel of manners-y, like woolf but a bit weirder and darker. oh oh and I was so obsessed with mary renault’s the friendly young ladies I wrote two of five chapters of my dissertation about it lol… if you like historical fiction her Alexander the Great trilogy is also exceptional. I mean a lot happens in those books historically speaking haha but they’ve got that slow burn character study feel. mmm let’s see for more recent stuff I think sally rooney does quite a good “let’s put these characters under the microscope” contemporary novel of manners and they’re somehow always devastating even though nothing much happens. I also loved Anna burns’s milkman although no one I’ve made read it except my diss advisor liked it as much as I did lol. hmm and then veering abruptly into fantasy, katherine addison’s the goblin emperor is famously like, a wonderful book about people and relationships in which nothing much happens at all. I can absolutely rec more midcentury lit if you like, too—very little happens but the characters are so rich.