#the book was beloved by Toni Morrison btw

[strixton]

#polls #i know peace is a play but i had to add it #This is only a tiny portion of all the books we read so i picked the ones i could remember first #toni morrison #beloved #bluest eye #invisible man #the epic of gilgamesh #the divine comedy #moby dick #don quixote #the sound and the fury #the reivers #william faulkner #peace #aristophanes #on of my teachers had a thing for faulkner i swear #fuck that teacher btw i hate him #honestly i adored peace since it was so funny #i didn't put the odyssey cause i think everyone would have picked that #i also didn't put the bible or the Quran cause we read those too #like not religiously but to study them #school #high school #book #books #bookblr

[filmnoirsbian]

Hi !! I was wondering if you had any book recs/favorite books? Things that you think of as inspiration or just plain like? Genuinely curious. <3 im in love with your work btw i spent the other day binging your patreon

Some favorites that deeply impacted me from a young age up into teenagedom: the Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate, Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, Oddly Enough by Bruce Coville, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Little Sister by Kara Dalkey, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede, The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, Piratica by Tanith Lee, the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, Holes by Louis Sachar, The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg, Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori, The Sea-Wolf by Jack London, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins, Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath, Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan, The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg, The Iliad and Odyssey (allegedly) by Homer, The Táin by many people, Harlem by Walter Dean Myers, Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, The Wall and the Wing by Laura Ruby, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein, The Hainish Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin, Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, The Ethical Vampire series by Susan Hubbard, The Howl Series by Diana Wynne Jones, the Curseworkers series by Holly Black, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters, An Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, Beloved by Toni Morrison, A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente, World War Z by Max Brooks, This is Not A Drill by K. A. Holt, Fade to Blue by Sean Beaudoin, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Crush by Richard Siken, Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, Devotions by Mary Oliver, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Some favorites read more recently: The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey, Engine Summer by John Crowley, Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, Reprieve by James Han Mattson, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, Kindred by Octavia Butler, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel, The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib, The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica, The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, She had some horses by Joy Harjo, Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón, The King Must Die by Mary Renault, Books of Blood by Clive Barker, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, Cassandra by Christa Wolfe

Plays: The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Electra by Sophocles, Los Reyes by Julio Cortázar, Angels in America by Tony Kushner, August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco, The Trojan Women by Euripides, Salome by Oscar Wilde, Girl on an Altar by Marina Carr, Fences by August Wilson, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond

Graphic novels: The Crow by James O'Barr, DMZ by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, Eternals (2021) by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribić, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Tank Girl by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

#watchmen is difficult to recommend on account of the misogyny but beyond that it really did change my life lol #asks #an open window #book recs #also i know technically eternals isn't a graphic novel it's a comic run directly related to the avengers and such at large BUT #it is sooo so good and u don't really have to know much abt what the avengers losers are up to in order to understand it #i didn't include any other favorite comic runs bc they require other things to be read for context. ur welcome.

[motifcollector]

inspired by @iloveyoumorethangod here are 9 book recommendations!! these are my fave novels atm, limited to what i've read in the past 2.5 years or so (since beginning of 2021) so not counting some old faves i need to revisit. i think i like stories about obsession... also these are not in order btw!

ALSO would love to see anyone's faves!! also also feel free to add me on goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/9264448-peyton) or storygraph (https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/ghosthardware) bc i love keeping up w what people are reading! (i use both sites)

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (trans. Denys Johnson-Davies); Beloved by Toni Morrison; The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie; The Lover by Marguerite Duras (trans. Barbara Bray); Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood; The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky); Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore

Honorable mention: Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy

#literature #book recommendations #reading list #peyton.txt #favorite books

[allypacino]

for the book asks: 9, 27, 30?

HELLO uwu thanks for the ask:

9. Who is my favourite author?

My all time fave is probably?? Toni Morrison because the fluidity in her style stuns me and she has such a wealth of knowledge in regards to how people are... Her studies of human behaviour are second to none imo. And I love the things she writes about! Very cliche but Beloved genuinely changed how I thought you could write about history. Just a great writer.

27. Has a book ever scared you?

I feel like I don't read enough straight up horror tbh: what I can think of is this novella by Stephen King called Apt Pupil, about a kid who realised that the old man in the neighbourhood was a nazi. I genuinely abandoned the novella collection I read it in after finishing that story agajsjsjdjf I think supernatural horror doesn't really scare me per se but Stephen King is great at evoking the fear of putting kids into dangerous situations.

The story is super fucked up and comes with a lot of trigger warnings if anyone seeing this is curious enough to read it btw!

30. Is there a book that changed your life?

This made me procrastinate tf out of answering this ask. I was gonna go with the picture of dorian gray as probably the first book I ever engaged in ~literary discourse~ with but I think my final answer is a children's book

Ami: Child of the Stars (and the rest of the trilogy) by Enrique Barrios is something I obsessively read as a 7-8 year old like genuinely every day over and over again. This is a Chilean sci-fi children's series that basically proselytises New Age spirituality and made me so obsessed with like... World peace and utilitarianism and the abolition of money. The backstory for these books is that my aunt gave them to me bc she was in a cult lmao. But yeah I think it shaped my view of humanity and what we could be for the longest time. Definitely changed my life

#asks #sketcheun

[spacehorrors]

3, 4, and 9

What were your top five books of the year?

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Morena Garcia

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Annihilation by Jeff Vandemeer

We Have Always Lived In A Castle by Shirley Jackson

I did this based on books I have read this year btw! It's been a year of great books for me it's really solidified what I like rather than just reading.

Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

Definitely, I'm going off my Goodreads because my sense of time is so whack and because early this year seems like so long ago but this was the year Toni Morrison became my favourite author ever.

Recently I've also 'discovered' Stephen Graham James and I'm going to be working through the rest of his books next year.

Did you get into any new genres?

YES. I've skipped loads of the new authors I got into because I couldn't list them all because I basically became invested in gothic horror this year so I've read so many new things.

Yeah. It's just been the year of gothic horror I didn't realise how much I loved hauntings!

#ask games #gilfhijikata #thank you for askinggggg

[estherruth-jonsatrash]

17 Questions 17 Answers

thanks @athimbleful for the tag!

Nicknames: When I was a kid my older sister called me Baloo (the bear from the Jungle Book). I still don’t know why.

Zodiac: Virgo

Height: 5′2 and very self-conscious about it honestly.

Hogwarts House: I know this probably makes me a traitor to the younger millennial generation I belong to but I’ve only seen one of the movies and read none of the books. My friend says Ravenclaw?

Last thing googled: Teutonic. It was mentioned in an episode of Buffy (watching for the first time) and I couldn’t remember the meaning of the word: it’s of or relating to the ancient Teutons or German peoples, btw.

Song stuck in my head: The Moon Song by Karen O & Ezra Koenig (it’s from that movie Her’s soundtrack, the one with Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson’s a robot). 

Followers: 71 hey everybody!

Hrs of sleep: Like on the regular? Idk, maybe 6. I don’t sleep that great.

Lucky number: nope

Dream job: I graduated from undergrad in May and I’m currently applying to grad school to work in activism in fair housing--which would be my dream job. Or as a writer, but I haven’t written original stuff since quarantine lol.

Currently wearing: A black t-shirt and gray leggings.

Favorites (I can’t decide favorites for most things tbh but I’ll try)

Song: I’ve been listening a lot to Come Give Me Love by First Aid Kit, a cover of an older Swedish folk song.

Instrument: Acoustic guitar probably

Author: No I can’t choose! I’ll say I loved the Neopolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, Beloved by Toni Morrison is one of my faves, and I was a little obsessed with Stephen King as a teenager.

Animal Noises: Little piglets oinking.

Random: umm well my favorite color is pink and I like girly things.

Recent picture: my husband after a haircut.

tagging: @snaxjoestar, @vivilove-jonsa, @what-would-wonderwoman-do, @direwolfjon or whoever wants to play! But also no pressure!

#tagging games

[lucy-ghoul]

I was tagged by the lovely @lvcilla to share my tbr list for 2021. (sofia, your list was excellent btw!)

Well, first. Bold of you to assume I have a clear idea on what I’m going to read in 2021 lmao, but still, let’s give it a try:

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Trevis

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Requiem for the American Dream by Noam Chomsky (or Manufacturing Consent, but my brother has read both and suggested I should start with Requiem)

Richard III by William Shakespeare (yes, I haven’t read that one yet. I’ve read a decent amount of Shakespeare’s works, but of course not all of them. I’m going to remedy!)

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

Medea by Euripides

Persuasion by Jane Austen

De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

Animal Farm by George Orwell (1984 is one of my favorite books, but somehow I haven’t read this one yet)

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Sei personaggi in cerca di autore by Luigi Pirandello

The Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud (or at least the first volume)

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

The Sundering by Jacqueline Carey (thanks to @feanoriel; I was sold at “romance for the Witch-king of Angmar”)

Bedlam and Seasons of War from the Skulduggery Pleasant saga by Derek Landy (I need to catch up)

There are also some books that have been collecting dust on my shelf for an embarassing amount of time (The Idiot by Dostoevskij, Sylvia Plath’s diaries, The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka) but I’m not sure I’ll be able to read them this year, That’s the intention, though.

Tagging @moviestorian, @wheel-of-fish, @eyes-like-the-night and anyone else who wants to do this ❤️

#tagging game #about val #txt

[greenteabtch]

Yoo I was tagged by everyone’s favorite person @isalavhenan ~! Your tags are always super fun so thank you thank youu 

Tag 10 people you want to know better! ( i don’t know ten ppl but we’ll do our best )

Name: Bryanna

Gender: is a prison but I just say female

Star Sign: Sagittarius Sun, Capricorn Moon, Scorpio Rising

Height: 5′11″ (me lookin at ya’ll quietly)

Sexuality: bi bi bi

Favorite Book: Beloved by Toni Morrison OR Song of Solomon

Current Time: 5:53pm (PNW)

Average Amount of Sleep: I like to sleep around 1:30am and then I wake up at 9:00am so usually exactly 7.5-8 hours 

Dogs or Cats: Both! I adore cats a little extra but dogs are big enough to crush me which I appreciate.

Number of Blankets I Sleep With: 5 year round-- thin sheet, plush blanket, thick blanket, comforter, furry accessory blanket

Blog Established: uhh This one last December (2019), and then I was actually active at the end of February. I’ve had a tumblr since 2013 though!

Favorite Animal: Black cats, deer, bear, buffalo

Number of Followers: 350 or smth and i lov every single one

Reason for URL: It’s catchy and in honor of Elayna Lavellan ofc :)

Something I’m Grateful For: All of you who take the time to reply to my posts or comment in the tags! And even support me when I make something completely random. You’ve all made this a wonderful and exciting place that I look forward to sharing content on every day and I adore seeing everything every single one of you puts out :) Your ocs and fics and art are so creative and fantastic I am inspired by you everyday.

Haha ok tagging (if they’d like n haven’t done it yet) @mrs-theirin, @thecadmiuminkwell, @its-dragonage-trash, @twinlaurels, @sweethawke, @alistairssock (you have an amazing url btw i’m obsessed with it), @otheliame, @kirkwallgremlin and now i’ve tagged a lot of people and it makes me nervous so bye and i hope u have fun

#tagged #not da

[blacklinguist]

hi! what are your fav books by black authors? i'm trying to read more poc fic this year but i don't really know where to start (i read beloved by toni morrison and i adored it, if that helps!)

you can check my goodreads for my fav reads overall [my ‘nice reads’ shelf], black authors i’ve read [my ‘black people’ shelf...] and things i am planning to read! 

at the moment i’m reading taste of power and that’s all-consuming [and non-fiction]. i haven’t gone extensively into black fiction yet, but there are some titles written by other authors of color that i’ve looked at.

*poc fic is inaccurate btw! --> fiction by people of color / non-white fiction would work :-]

#trespassers w #anon #books #bookblr #i have a bunch of toni morrison on my shelf right NOW .. will work through them in the next few weeks

[queerofcups]

i've basically only read y/a my entire life. i stopped reading actual books in the last few years because of how bad the writing is in y/a fiction. But every time I try to read another genre I get lost in all the options I don't even know where to begin! Do you have any book recs? (this is a different anon btw- not that it matters)

i mean, i dont think that’s entirely fair. YA definitely leans toward more simplistic writing, but that’s not necessarily the same thing as being bad, its just less complex/complicated. 

All but one of the books I recced in my last post are non-YA. I’m running out of recs now because I’ve really just now gotten into reading for fun so most of my other recs are like--things I read for school. 

Maggie Nelson’s Bluets is good. NK Jemisin’s Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and the sequels are good. Stacyanne Chin’s autobiography/memoir, The Otherside of Paradise is good. IF you want the opposite of simple writing, One Hundred Years of Solitude is amazing. Mia McKenzie’s The Summer We Got Free. Toni Morrison’s Beloved is probably my favorite book. 

That’s pretty much what I got

#ask me a thing #Anonymous

[shcherbatskayas]

1, 2, 15, 30.. i need the juicy literature answers

i’m here with the Juicy Literature Answers™

1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?

OKAY so if you wanted the insight into your local delaney, you’d have to read one hundred years of solitude, chronicle of a death foretold, hamlet, anna karenina, the bluest eye (criminally underrated honestly), persuasion (CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED HONESTLY), romeo and juliet, a room of one’s own, slaughterhouse-five, the stranger, and war and peace, and those are just the ones off the top of my head so i’m probably missing like, twenty more books lmao. as for watching, 2005 movie version of pride and prejudice (the book is great but the movie? literally embedded into my soul), mp100, and dog pound. and for music, the entire from the aeroplane over the sea album and “wake” and “epilogue” by the antlers. and then you’ve got most of your delaney

2. have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who?

i don’t think i’ve found a writer who thinks totally, exactly, 100% like i do, but a lot of virginia woolf stuff sounds like my internal monologue most of the time. and when i dissociate my internal monologue turns everything mersault ever said in the stranger and that’s just how it is on this bitch of an earth. 

15. five most influential books over your lifetime.

HARD QUESTION AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. okay. ooooooookay. a lot of these ones are somewhere in the first answer but. yknow. 

1. one hundred years of solitude. it just blew me away, dude. owned my life. still owns my life a little bit. probably always will.

2. crime and punishment. i read it to spite my 10th grade english teacher and it dragged me seriously into classic lit hell because i loved it that much. that was also the year i read war and peace bc i had no chill when i was 15. 

3. the bluest eye. a lot of the abuse i suffered as a kid happened to pecola and just the written confirmation that it was Not Okay helped me so much. 

4. as lame as this is, harry potter. it got me into reading when i was a kid and without it, i probably wouldn’t be on tunglr dot fuck screaming about toni morrison books (also, speaking of which, guess which bitch is buying beloved later tonight????? it’s this one!!!) 

5. the stranger. it just made a lot of sense to me and i read it feverishly at 3 am one night in the middle of july and it was such an Experience that i’ll never be able to let go of it. 

30. pick one of your favorite quotes.

selected at random because i have so many favorites, but i just love this one a lot. 

"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will."--William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”

(I really recommend that short story btw, it’s a gateway drug into faulkner and i’ve been craving more ever since i read it because it’s just That Good.) 

send in an identity ask!

[nike-shawn]

ALRIGHT SO I’M FINALLY DOING ONE OF THESE THANKS @mendesflowers  

ehem.

- last movie i watched : la la land and i’m in loooooove

- last song i listened to : power trip by j cole

- last book i read : i’m currently reading this book on astrology but the last book i FINISHED is Beloved by Toni Morrison and i’m still shook

- last thing i ate : a hamburger lol 

- where would you want to time travel to : honestly i have no idea. maybe the 20s? everyone seems happy enough in like great gatsby (which is another book that i’m currently trying to re-read btw)

- fictional character i would hang out with for a day : definitely stefan salvatore

- if i could be anywhere right now i’d be : on a beach in the caribbean somewhere

- i tag @raineshawn and @mercyimagines even though i’m like 2873% sure they’ve been tagged already 

#about me