List of all the books I’ve read
just wanted to keep a list of what I’ve read throughout my life (that I can remember)
Fiction:
“The Outsiders,” SE Hinton
“The Weirdo,” Theodore Taylor
“The Devil’s Arithmetic,” Jane Yolen
“Julie of the Wolves series,” Jean Craighead George
“Soft Rain,” Cornelia Cornelissen
“Island of the Blue Dolphins,” Scott O’Dell
“The Twilight series,” Stephanie Mayer
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee
“Gamer Girl,” Mari Mancusi
“Redwall / Mossflower / Mattimeo / Mariel of Redwall,” Brian Jacques
“1984,” and “Animal Farm,” George Orwell
“Killing Mr. Griffin,” Lois Duncan
“Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain
“Rainbow’s End,” Irene Hannon
“Cold Mountain,” Charles Frazier
“Between Shades of Gray,” Ruta Sepetys
“Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe,” Edgar Allen Poe
“Lord of the Flies,” William Golding
“The Great Gatsby,” F Scott Fitzgerald
“The Harry Potter series,” JK Rowling
“The Fault in Our Stars,” “Looking for Alaska,” and “Paper Towns,” John Green
“Thirteen Reasons Why,” Jay Asher
“The Hunger Games series,” Suzanne Collins
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Stephen Chbosky
“Fifty Shades of Grey,” EL James
“Speak,” and “Wintergirls,” Laurie Halse Anderson
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” Margaret Atwood
“Mama Day,” Gloria Naylor
“Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Bronte
“Wide Sargasso Sea,” Jean Rhys
“The Haunting of Hill House,” Shirley Jackson
“The Chosen,” Chaim Potok
“Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman
“Till We Have Faces,” CS Lewis
“One Foot in Eden,” Ron Rash
“Jim the Boy,” Tony Earley
“The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox,” Maggie O’Farrell
“A Land More Kind Than Home,” Wiley Cash
“A Parchment of Leaves,” Silas House
“Beowulf,” Seamus Heaney
“The Silence of the Lambs / Red Dragon / Hannibal / Hannibal Rinsing,” Thomas Harris
“Cry the Beloved Country,” Alan Paton
“Moby Dick,” Herman Melville
“The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings trilogy / The Silmarillion,” JRR Tolkien
“Beren and Luthien,” JRR Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
“Children of Blood and Bone / Children of Virtue and Vengeance,” Tomi Adeyemi
“Soundless,” Richelle Mead
“The Girl with the Louding Voice,” Abi Dare
“A Song of Ice and Fire series / Fire and Blood,” GRR Martin
“A Separate Peace,” John Knowles
“The Bluest Eye,” and “Beloved,” Toni Morrison
“Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley
“The Giver / Gathering Blue / Messenger / Son,” Lois Lowry
“The Ivory Carver trilogy,” Sue Harrison
“The Grapes of Wrath,” and “Of Mice and Men,” John Steinbeck
“The God of Small Things,” Arundhati Roy
“Fahrenheit 451,” Ray Bradbury
“The Night Circus,” Erin Morgenstern
“Sunflower Dog,” Kevin Winchester
“The Catcher in the Rye,” JD Salinger
“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” Sherman Alexie
“The Good Girl,” Mary Kubica
“The Last Unicorn,” Peter S Beagle
“Slaughterhouse Five,” Kurt Vonnegut Jr
“The Joy Luck Club,” Amy Tan
“The Sworn Virgin,” Kristopher Dukes
“The Color Purple,” Alice Walker
“Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston
“The Light Between Oceans,” ML Stedman
“Yellowface,” RF Kuang
“A Flicker in the Dark,” Stacy Willingham
“One Piece Novel: Ace’s Story,” Sho Hinata
Non-fiction:
“Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl,” Anne Frank
“Night,” Elie Wiesel
“Invisible Sisters,” Jessica Handler
“I Am Malala,” Malala Yousafzai
“The Interesting Narrative,” Olaudah Equiano
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Rebecca Skloot
“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Harriet Jacobs
“The Princess Diarist,” Carrie Fisher
“Adulting: How to Become a Grown Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps,” Kelly Williams Brown
“How to Win Friends and Influence People,” Dale Carnegie
“Carrie Fisher: a Life on the Edge,” Sheila Weller
“Make ‘Em Laugh,” Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway
“How to be an Anti-Racist,” Ibram X Kendi
“Maus,” Art Spiegelman
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou
“Wise Gals: the Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage,” Nathalia Holt
“Persepolis,” and “Persepolis II,” Marjane Satrapi
“How to Write a Novel,” Manuel Komroff
“The Nazi Genocide of the Roma,” Anton Weiss-Wendt
“Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz,” Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel
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from an outside perspective it’s really feeling like they’re emphasising kim dokja’s status as an eldritch god. like,,, you don’t feel it through orv because kim dokja himself has just enough knowledge from reading twsa to navigate, and on his own you can really tell how human he actually is, but. take things from a distanced perspective, and suddenly. suddenly, it’s azathoth and the outer gods of lovecraftian lore, played completely straight. i’ve heard enough people compare azathoth and kdj that i think i can say this much
you wanna know something i’ve thought about a lot regarding kdj and the oldest dream? about yjh becoming a terrorist, and how kimcom willingly went back into the fray, how they returned to the previous timeline - and how some people couldn’t comprehend their choices at first? it makes me think of that old trope of ‘going mad from the revelation’, how some people say that gazing upon this otherworldly being’s true form or ‘learning the truth of the world’ would surely make someone go mad.
go mad with what, though? insanity? or grief? because so, so often, one’s pain is incomprehensible to outsiders, and fail to understand how or why you lash out or break down. it’s a depressing pattern in real life, too. kdj goes mad with grief and self-hatred, learning the truth; kimcom take on the insane route of going through the apocalypse again just to reach the end; yjh is unable to heal, to cope with a world without the scenarios and without his companion to bear through it, and so he fights over the replica of the arc. from an outsider’s perspective, without the understanding that the people involved are all brokenhearted over truths only they know, it might come off as insanity. but it’s all just grief.
with that said, however, to have someone jung heewon KNEW, cruel as he was, replaced by someone from a world beyond - and to start singing the praise of someone else’s name? to say ‘i need to find them?’ how all of them look to one name that outsiders simply DO NOT KNOW, to hail this unknown person as important, as an idol, as… as a god…
the 41st turn before their version of shin yoosung travelled to the other worldlines is a forgotten story, and by orv logic forgotten stories are outer gods. in lovecraftian lore, the outer gods sought to wake the blind idiot god azathoth, who in orv is represented by kdj dreaming for ‘eternity’. also, the Outer Gods of orv (the one actually being called as such right now) see the side story - which is the ‘forgotten’ 41st turn, now being written in where once it was not - as their chance to finally be written on the wall. so it’s. it’s. this is just singshong taking their lovecraftian elements to their logical extreme
interestingly, however, kdj isn’t the only reader anymore, is he? orv places a lot of emphasis on communication and writing on the wall, but in the side story it could perhaps be interpreted as ‘trying to be read by one person in particular’. and then the readers that die are labelled as ‘kdj33’ or ‘kdj47’, reducing them to being ‘just a part’, but… they’re all different people. they’re all people who took in kdj’s story, thus his story becomes a part of their own - but only a part. i’ve said that before, but.
well, you can’t force your own narrative on to someone else.
han sooyoung tried that, actually, didn’t she? tried to get kdj back through ending the story early only to realize the hurt she was causing and backing off. you can’t always reach people in the way you want. that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t stop trying, but there’s also a point where you need to recede, to compromise. am i making sense? i have no idea where singnshong is taking this story, but i’m looking at hsy with lee hakhyun and ceokdj with the readers turned kdj fragments and the outer gods wanting their story written on the wall and. i feel like i’m starting to see a pattern. i could also be hallucinating, but i could also not be. i offer this for your consideration
okay i put this aside for a bit but yes. oh my god. eldritch kdj.. i had not heard about this before, but that's so interesting thinking about it through that lens. and in the side story, hsy forcing the memories of orv on jhw to try to break her.. the explict mentioning of han sooyoung being seen as a 'god' in that moment...
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fun fact, if you don't remember! lovecraftian horrors are also mentioned as outer gods in orv
chapter 179. when talking with the devourer of dreams, kdj mentioned these modifiers
the fear of sarnath - bokrug
horror from the hills - chaugnar faugn
master of r'lyeh - cthulhu
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now, adding my own thoughts - the pattern is identity. stories.
there's something wrong with everything in this turn.
the kkomas were cute. until it was revealed that they were dead readers. though.. is that not also kind of what the yoo joonghyuk kkomas are? they may have all been yoo joonghyuk, but their lives in that turn were their own. <- however. the difference here is that while the yjh kkomas were all 'yoo joonghyuk' these kdj kkomas were NOT. they all had their own lives before being brought to wos, and upon being killed and placed in the theater.. they lost themselves.. which is terrifying to think about. you die, and you're brought back to watch your companions go on without you, but you're not yourself anymore. you're kim dokja, who wants to continue watching the stories on the screen.
the transmigrated readers. until the latest chapters, we hadn't been shown the real effect of the readers possessing characters in this world (honestly, we were led to believe that most people transmigrated into 'extras' without their own story. but that's not true, is it?). cheon inho has no one close to him as far as we know (lol), but that's not the same for others. what about the people who knew the possessed characters? lee hakhyun realizes this in the latest chapter, that maybe him and the readers coming here were an additional disaster for the people that lived here.
lee hakhyun's problems,, he's constantly going back and forth on 'lee hakhyun' and 'cheon inho', and there's clearly something wrong with the way he sees himself... we know more about him that he does currently, and if he does find out. i don't think things are going to end well.
and of course. everything about kim dokja. his name is in everyone's minds, the readers are desperate for a source of hope and he has become that to them. kim dokja is being idolized. even before the scenarios, there were those using kim dokja's story in the same way he used yjh. it's not framed as a negative, if that's what you need to do survive, then you should always do what you can to survive, no matter what. but even when you borrow stories, you need to stay yourself. you are your own person.
there's a clear connection with all of these, and it's identity. who someone is, the way they're seen, their stories. what makes you yourself? stories make up who you are, and these outer gods want their own stories written down on the wall to define themselves. rep kdj wanting the readers to forge a new story, lee hakhyun discovering stories that were never told in orv.
right now, nobody's happy. time is running out for the outer gods, the readers have unwittingly destroyed others by taking over these 'extras', kimcom are still desperately searching for their star, our dear protagonist is continuing to doubt himself. and kim dokja is still watching.
...this is orv. not everyone will get their happy ending. their goals oppose each other. we can hope for the best, but that isn't going to happen.
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cora’s bad time hell simulation steps or how to play “sprite station for girl” “harvest moon ds cute” the wrong way
(all ways are wrong this game is Accursed)
ok so here’s what my disorganized “guide” to myself for harvest moon ds for girl (aka indecipherable notes i wrote to myself as i played and revised as i tested various things and restarted due to mistakes) looks like. at some point when i become a real gamer i will write a legible guide meant for eyes to look at but uhhh this is how i play this accursed game personally
i’m not sure if anything i wrote will make any sense since i wrote it as notes to myself so probably definitely use fogu and fc2 jonason wiki (may not work but some pages should be archived) instead
ALSO if you’ve never played or barely played the game it won’t make sense at all! hmds was my first harvest moon so i am used to various horrors!
my play style is probably not fun in general HOWEVER if you are a grinding hell goblin like me then it’s GREAT!!!! if not you may still find it amusing that the game gives you permission to play like this
(it’s a great background task game while doing like productive stuff but otherwise playing this way would probably be unbearable)
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anyway after that the days go a lot faster, you’ll get the island on summer 1, so on spring 30 i put all my money into million G tickets and sell 200 of em, do the 5x money thing, and save the rest. so when thomas comes the next day to sell you the 900 million G island you can just sell 180 tickets and do the 5x money thing again with like ~600 million G tickets left over. it takes up inventory but you’ll get the shelf in a few days. basically you just need to remember to order from the TV shopping every saturday and place orders with gotz and gray whenever they finish stuff.
random tips
after unlocking the fuckass hot spring sprites (the ones that require you to spend a total of 700 1 hour sessions in the hot springs) i usually grind grazing points— if you put your animals outside for 5 hours you get a “Love Point”, but if you interact with them after they earn that LP then the timer switches over and you can get another LP after 5 more hours. if you wear the time ring the whole time it’s 2.5 hours. i’m not very good at explaining this but basically if you’re super efficient you can get way more animal LP than you realistically should, which is great because the touch glove petting minigame is Bad!!!!
i usually wait on getting the rest of the purple sprites (the ones that require you to hire the purple team and ask for healing) until i’m totally done with the indigo team, cuz i wanna get HG’s purple heart event asap, but you can switch the order if you want
by summer y1 you’ll basically have a feel for everything. aside from Skye, Leia, HG and WP everyone can be married early-mid autumn if you want
if you want to Gay (in the japanese version only) keira is the quickest to marry. leia is the quickest to max affection but it’s impossible to get leia year 1 because the bottle you need to fish up can only be caught in spring. you have to wait until at least year 5 for WP and iirc year 6 for HG.
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