#yelena moskovich

[soracities]

"But I remember, and remembering is like an open wound."

Clarice Lispector, Selected Cronicas

Nothing hurts! Nothing hurts! “Nothing hurts!” [...] “Except for— Re...mem... ber ...ng. Re...member...ing. Remembering.”

Yelena Moskovich, The Natashas

"—I'm not crying, it's just...that I remember"

Sandra Cisneros, Caramelo

#q #lit #quotes #quote compilation #clarice lispector #yelena moskovich #sandra cisneros #remembrance like a stairwell in the dark #x #m

[soundbulb]

LIVING (OR DYING?) IN THE VALLEY OF THA MAGNET

Eroticism / George Bataille // My Least Favorite Life / Lera Lynn // Paradise / Toni Morrison // The Golden Bough / James Frazer // The Wonder (2022) // Fox Confessor Brings The Flood / Neko Case // True Detective (S01E03) // A Door Behind A Door / Yelena Moskovich // The Book Of X / Sarah Rose Etter // Vision of Tondal / Hieronymous Bosch // Amnésie & Fosse / Min Jun Yeon // Day and Night / Max Ernst

#webweaving #migraine #surrealism #true detective #toni morrison #the wonder 2022 #neko case #hieronymus bosch #max ernst #yelena moskovich #door behind a door #the book of x #vision of tondal #min jun yeon #htl #ht #tha magnet is always on #postcard #im #l #petri dish

[litandroses]

Haven’t had time to read lately, I’ve been studying for licensure so I’ll be giving these very few recs for Pride Month instead! I think I’ve mentioned some of these books before but giving them another boost wouldn’t hurt.

1. A Door Behind a Door by Yelena Moskovich

In Yelena Moskovich's spellbinding new novel, A Door Behind A Door, we meet Olga, who immigrates as part of the Soviet diaspora of '91 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There she grows up and meets a girl and falls in love, beginning to believe that she can settle down. But a phone call from a bad man from her past brings to life a haunted childhood in an apartment building in the Soviet Union: an unexplained murder in her block, a supernatural stray dog, and the mystery of her beloved brother Moshe, who lost an eye and later vanished. We get pulled into Olga's past as she puzzles her way through an underground Midwestern Russian mafia, in pursuit of a string of mathematical stabbings.

2. Waiting on a Bright Moon by Neon Yang

Xin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and its far-flung colonies— a role that is forced upon magically-gifted women “of a certain closeness”. When a dead body comes through her portal at a time of growing rebellion, Xin is drawn deep into a station-wide conspiracy along with Ouyang Suqing, one of the station’s mysterious, high-ranking starmages.

3. The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho

A tale of first love, bad theology and robot reincarnation in the Chinese afterlife. In the tenth court of hell, spirits wealthy enough to bribe the bureaucrats of the underworld can avoid both the torments of hell and the irreversible change of reincarnation. It's a comfortable undeath … even for Siew Tsin. She didn't choose to be married to the richest man in hell, but she's reconciled. Until her husband brings home a new bride. Yonghua is an artificial woman crafted from terracotta. What she is may change hell for good. Who she is will transform Siew Tsin. And as they grow closer, the mystery of Yonghua's creation will draw Siew Tsin into a conspiracy where the stakes are eternal life – or a very final death.

4. After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang

Dragons were fire and terror to the Western world, but in the East they brought life-giving rain…

Now, no longer hailed as gods and struggling in the overheated pollution of Beijing, only the Eastern dragons survive. As drought plagues the aquatic creatures, a mysterious disease—shaolong, or “burnt lung”—afflicts the city’s human inhabitants.

Jaded college student Xiang Kaifei scours Beijing streets for abandoned dragons, distracting himself from his diagnosis. Elijah Ahmed, a biracial American medical researcher, is drawn to Beijing by the memory of his grandmother and her death by shaolong. Interest in Beijing’s dragons leads Kai and Eli into an unlikely partnership. With the resources of Kai’s dragon rescue and Eli’s immunology research, can the pair find a cure for shaolong and safety for the dragons? Eli and Kai must confront old ghosts and hard truths if there is any hope for themselves or the dragons they love.

After the Dragons is a tender story, for readers interested in the effects of climate change on environments and people, but who don’t want a grim, hopeless read. Beautiful and challenging, focused on hope and care, this novel navigates the nuances of changing culture in a changing world.

5. The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

A "highly imaginative and utterly exhilarating" (Thrillist) debut that is "the best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever. I expected many things from this trip. I did not expect a family.

A ship captain, unfettered from time. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. A millennia-old woman, haunted by lifetimes of mistakes. In this captivating debut of connection across space and time, these outsiders will find in each other the things they lack: a place of love and belonging. A safe haven. A new beginning.

But the past hungers for them, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.

6. Robbergirl by S.T Gibson

SAVE THE WITCH, KILL THE SNOW QUEEN

In a Sweden wracked by war and haunted by folk stories so dark they can only be spoken of in whispers, Helvig has been raised by her brigand father to steal whatever treasure catches her eye. When her men ambush a girl on the road with hair pale as death and a raven perched on her shoulder, Helvig cannot resist bringing home a truly unique prize: a genuine witch. Drawn irresistibly into the other woman’s web, Helvig soon learns of Gerda’s reason for walking the icy border roads alone: to find the Queen who lives at the top of the world and kill her. Anyone else would be smart enough not to believe a children’s story, but Helvig is plagued by enchantments of her own, and she struggles to guard the sins of her past while growing closer to Gerda. As Christmastide gives way to the thin-veiled days when ghosts are at their most vengeful, the two women find themselves on a journey through forest and Samiland to a final confrontation that will either redeem them or destroy them entirely.

7. The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein

Before Verity . . . there was Julie.

When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital.

Desperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveler boy who found her when she was injured, and his standoffish sister, Ellen. As Julie grows closer to this family, she witnesses firsthand some of the prejudices they've grown used to-a stark contrast to her own upbringing-and finds herself exploring thrilling new experiences that have nothing to do with a missing-person investigation.

Her memory of that day returns to her in pieces, and when a body is discovered, her new friends are caught in the crosshairs of long-held biases about Travelers. Julie must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to keep them from being framed for the crime.

This exhilarating coming-of-age story, a prequel to the Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity, returns to a beloved character just before she first takes flight. 

BONUS:

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (release date: August 30, 2022)

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this new epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds.

The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.

But that god cannot be contained forever.

With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.

Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.

Note: This bonus is UNIQUE fantasy, I swear it.

#book recs #book recommendations #pride month #pride reading challenge #a door behind a door #yelena moskovich #the pearl thief #elizabeth wein #waiting on a bright moon #neon yang #the vanished birds #simon jimenez #the terracotta bride #zen cho #after the dragons #cynthia zhang #robbergirl #st gibson #the spear cuts through water #bookblr #booklr #litblr #authors of color

[wizardnuke]

MAYBE YOU AND I ARE BOTH DAMNED.

liam o'brien / richard siken / leigh bardugo / the dear hunter / yelena moskovich / tamsyn muir / doctor who / leigh bardugo / my chemical romance / liam o'brien

#I need you all to ignore that I made this web weave a while ago and accept that I have improved upon it . #web weave #feeling insane just found this in my drafts. once again ignore i posted a similar one a while back. look at this #shadowgast #stealth shadowgast. #this is My Blog I get to redo the Concept that haunts me like a specter #take my fucking hand and never be afraid again! just cause my hands around your throat! #do you know the INSANITY i felt when i listened to that dh song and it said The Shadowgast Line. which came first!!

[sindirimba]

It's not my place and it's none of my business. But sometimes you can feel it when a person has the same twist in their heart as you. A Door Behind A Door, Yelena Moskovich

#book of nile #the old guard

[a-star-that-fell]

we are truly not alone in this

skylines and turnstiles, mcr // the nutritionist, andrea gibson // same, hannah napier rosenberg // a door behind a door, yelena moskovich // condos, wtnv

#web weaving #parallels #i almost put the rodbt manual in here but uh. lol #caption later #jules speaks

[lgbtqreads]

Hello! Are there any queer books that you could recommend centered around eastern european characters?

Absolutely - check out Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski, This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke, Virtuoso and A Door Behind a Door by Yelena Moskovich, Strong Enough by Melanie Harlow and David Romanov, Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu, The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros, and Moldovan Hotel by Leah Horlick, for a few. (Some of these are set in Europe and some center Eastern European immigrants to other countries.)

#LGBTQReads #Eastern European #Ashkenazi

[tortoazul]

Isn’t it funny, yes, what we do, with our freedom. Last night, yes, I was afraid, because I have been afraid for so long, to kiss you. Would you understand something like that? You said, Come for me.

Yelena Moskovich, Virtuoso

#book #quotes

[risikopress]

Yelena Moskovich presenting Nadezhda in the Dark at Kransen, Antwerp, 11.11.23. Poster by @inescox.

#black #risograph

[kapemunaquotes]

It’s not my place and it’s none of my business. But sometimes you can feel it when a person has the same twist in their hearts as you .- Yelena Moskovich, A Door Behind a Door (2021)

[soundbulb]

when it gets like this I go back to this you know what I mean

#true detective #white oleander #lana #laura marling #yelena moskovich #htl #ht #music #postcard #foh

[wizardnuke]

leigh bardugo / hozier / jonathan sims / tamsyn muir / brick + mortar / liam o'brien / leigh bardugo / doctor who / yelena moskovich / my chemical romance

#UM. DOES THIS MAKE SENSE. #web weave #I don't know what to tag this with. some kind of love is happening here

[soracities]

Nothing hurts! Nothing hurts! “Nothing hurts!” [...] “Except for— Re...mem... ber ...ng. Re...member...ing. Remembering.”

Yelena Moskovich, The Natashas

#q #lit #quotes #prose #yelena moskovich #the natashas #notes on the human condition #on memory #dolor ante lucem #reading #contemporary lit #m #x

[jacobwren]

The Employees: Olga Ravn in Conversation with Yelena Moskovich

#olga ravn #yelena moskovich

[johnbiscello]

#yelena moskovich

[mariacallous]

speaking of fucked up books, whatcha reading queen?

Still trying to finish Lark Rise to Candleford primarily- the book is 550+ fucking pages and I've been ploughing through it (as much as I can in between other things) since Friday - thank god I've only got about 100 pages left.

I also found my copy of Jane Austen Made Me Do It with which I shall dive into with much relish. plus I'll start People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn.

I'm also trying to get through The Natashas by Yelena Moskovich, but it's a weird read and I'm not fully into it yet (described as a "startlingly original novel that recalls the unsettling visual worlds of Cindy Sherman and David Lynch and the writing of Angela Carter and Haruki Murakami").

I also recently picked up The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple and I'm rather looking forward to getting into it.

#as always I enjoy discussing books and reading and love getting and receiving recommendations