#sam j miller

[resentful-reads]

The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller

#resentful reads #the art of starving #sam j miller #growing up poor #growing up strict #bookblr #book quotes #book excerpt #disordered eating mention

[luxaofhesperides]

conspicuous plumage from boys, beasts & men by sam j. miller

There were hundreds of birds in that clearing. Paper, plush, and cardboard. Gifts from people who loved my brother. Pieces of him; physical expressions of what he'd made them feel. I thought about that. We watched those birds rise into the air. We watched them fly.

#sam j miller #boys beast and men #conspicuous plumage #my edit #bookedit #litedit #digital collage #collage #adult literature #books #short stories

[shortstorytournament]

Short Story Tournament

THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET by Oscar Wilde (1887) (link)

It seemed to me the face of some one who had a secret, but whether that secret was good or evil I could not say. Its beauty was a beauty moulded out of many mysteries - the beauty, in face, which is psychological, not plastic - and the faint smile that just played across the lips was far too subtle to be really sweet.

58 REASONS FOR THE SLATE QUARRY SUICIDES by Sam J Miller (2013) (link) - tw: suicide, bullying

56. Because Carries punishment for killing her foes was to die, and mine was to live.

#short story tournament #the sphinx without a secret #oscar wilde #58 reasons for the slate quarry suicides #sam j miller #polls #round 1

[tachyonpub]

#sam j miller #birthday

[stardustandrockets]

What's a book that left you speechless?

It has been a while since I've read Blackfish City. This dystopia novel takes place on a floating city in the Arctic Circle. It's a queer, multi-POV story that will leave you questioning a lot of things. At least, it did me. I remember really liking how thought-provoking and relevant the story was. It took me a little bit to get through, but was so worth it. The twist and turns and how the author weaves the characters' stories together left me speechless at the end.

Have you read it? I was lucky enough to get a copy annotated by the author from a book box that no longer exists and it's so fun to have that insight.

Today is the last day of the 'Fight Like Hell' @rainbowcrate challenge. The prompt was to showcase the mug inspired by The Deep by Rivers Solomon with something watery. What better than a book set on a floating island in the Arctic and turning my dining room windows into the ocean? 😉

Synopsis: After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city's denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges--crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side--the city is entranced. The "orcamancer," as she's known, very subtly brings together four people--each living on the periphery--to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves.

#RCMay23 #rainbow crate #rainbow crate book box #blackfish city #sam j miller #the deep #rivers solomon #lgbtq reads #lgbtqia #queer book recs #read with pride #read queer all year #queer book box #lgbtqia book box #queer authors #stardustandrockets #backlog from june #june 27

[mycupofstars]

— Angel, Monster, Man, Sam J. Miller

#now living rent free in my head forever #queer #queer prose #new weird #sam j miller

[topshelf2112-blog]

It’s new release Tuesday & I found myself unable to resist this colorful & eclectic pile!

@charlesemersonwinchesteriii one of these is just for (because) of you! ❤️

#queer fiction #sam j miller #geraldine brooks #kaitlyn tiffany #kelly devos #new release tuesday #my reading life

[chapterchapterbook]

"Fine line between good business and a fucking war crime," he said. "Ain't that a goddamn epitaph of capitalism"

-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City

#blackfish city #sam j miller #book #book quote #bookblr #book blog #bookish #reading #so many books so little time #chapterchapterbook

[displayheartcode]

spoilers in the tags!

#I would actually have three nickles but still #gideon the ninth #kid wolf and the kraken boy #the Dybbuk in love #tamsyn muir #Sam J Miller #sonya taaffe

[anotherpersononinternet]

Digging deep into the hundreds of musical heritages that people brought to this city. No singing, no lyrics. They don't even speak between song, and you understand this, you appreciate it, because you know as soon as they opened their mouths they would cease to belong to everyone. The language they used, their accents, would place them definitively in a box, mark them off as coming from one continent or another, one city, possibly this one, and a cheer would go up, from the people who belong to that same box, and everyone else would feel the slightest bit less included in the tight warm embrace of the song. Music is the common property of all humanity, but people come from particular groups. For as long as the song lasts, for as long as they say nothing, you can pretend you are part of the same group

Blackfish City - Sam J.Miller

#lecture #citation #quote #book #bookworm #booklover #reading #livreaddict #Blackfish city #sam j miller

[resentful-reads]

The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller

#resentful reads #the art of starving #sam j miller #the art of starving rulebook #rule 51 #bookblr #book quotes #book excerpt #disordered eating mention #disordered eating recovery #taos #getting better

[laciere]

We walk. Two bodies, two wild separate beings. Sex tingles all through me: the hunger of it, for the joy that is more than just the pleasure of it, or the pride of being desired. of connecting to someone on a profound and pre-human level. Of shedding the skin of your own unutterable separateness. And still: the fear. A face like that--he'd spent his whole life knowing he could get whatever he wanted. Someone so beautiful--his hungers could easily become extreme. He could murder me. Drug me, chain me up in a basement, torture me for ages. Or drunk jock bros could burst out of nowhere to bash us. Cops could bust our heads. But this too--this fear, this risk--is part of the joy.

Boys, Beasts, & Men by Sam J. Miller (2022, Tachyon Publications)

#sam j miller #reading log #boys beasts & men #lgbt literature #This Man Gets It

[plantdad-dante]

Book #44 - The Art Of Starving by Sam J. Miller

(first and last time read, content warning for depictions and discussions of eating disorders, a central topic of this book. The book, btw, at least my copy, contains no such warnings, so to anyone who might want to read this, maybe look up a full list beforehand.)

I.............. hng.

I guess I mellowed out on this book.

In the beginning, I was still convinced I would like this book. That it would be cathartic to read. That's where the first surprise came, though, about 20 pages in: I didn’t want Matt to sink deeper before he got better, I wanted him to get help right then and there, or at least to take a step back and re-evaluate his stupid, poorly established revenge plan. And, to be honest, that was nice. It was nice not to relate to him.

Then it started wearing on me. And very quickly, I started disliking Matt. There was a cruelty about him and his plan, a meanness I couldn’t brush aside or excuse with any of his problems.

About a third of the way in, he got Tariq drunk and then let him drive a car, and I started hating Matt a bit.

(Oh, yes. Tariq. And also Matt’s family. I like them. I like them a hell of a lot more than Matt.)

Two thirds in and I thought I might end up hating the whole book. Matt was infuriating me at every turn and his hypocracy and still not resolved tendency to any form of violence was having me yell at him all the way through a 100-page binge.

It is a bit ironic, that the lesson he learned in the very end was the one I was yelling at the book from page 1. The world being shitty and cruel isn’t to be taken as a fucking instruction manual.

I mellowed out on this book because I am not as angry at Matt anymore as I was before. I mean, I still think he shouldn’t have his powers to begin with because he clearly  doesn’t care about the ethics of them (and because power is about the restraint of it and Matt has proven again and again throughout the book that he has trouble with that). But I guess I can’t be that angry at someone anymore when they finally pledged to try and be better.

In certain aspects, anyway. His hunger for power and his lack of self-reflexion in that field is still disconcerting and I know the last chapter was probably meant as a hopeful outlook for the future, but I instead got grumpy that he still hadn’t learned his lesson about revenge.

Yes, the world is cruel at times and we need to be angry and let it feel that anger, but we shouldn’t become that world. We shouldn’t use its methods.

Matt still has a lot to learn.

#cw eating disorder #the art of starving novel #sam j miller #dante's discard pile

[tachyonpub]

#josh rountree #the legend of charlie fish #FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB #the mysterious bookshop #sam j miller #Benjamin Percy #nyc

[lgbtqreads]

Exclusive Cover Reveal: We Mostly Come Out at Night ed. by Rob Costello

Today on the site, I’m delighted to be revealing the cover of We Mostly Came Out at Night, a YA anthology edited by Rob Costello and releasing from Running Press Books on May 21, 2024 that’s the perfect intro to spooky season! Here’s the gist: An empowering cross-genre YA anthology that explores what it means to be a monster, exclusively highlighting trans and queer authors who offer new tales…

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#Alexandra Villasante #Anthology #Brittany Johnson #Claire Kann #David Bowles #Frances Soo Ping #H.E. Edgmon #James Fenner #Jonathan Lenore Kastin #Kalynn Bayron #Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. #michael thomas ford #Naomi Kanakia #Rob Costello #Sam J. Miller #Sarah Maxfield #Shae Carys #Val Howlett #We Mostly Come Out at Night #YA

[isbergillustration]

Holding Hands

#my art #sketchbook #acrylic painting #worked out the major beats and possible ending of this story during writing workshop yesterday (thank you Sam J. Miller whose book Blackfish #City is a significant inspiration) and I am gonna start rewriting it from the start and maybe even do some research