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Courtesy of my handy dandy Storygraph app
The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination
- I am a heavily involved BDSM girly (i love the movie Secretary if u guys get that reference), and I'm excited to see how this book navigates domination, authority, and pleasure mixed in together
Women Who Run with the Wolves
- I'm very excited to get into my Lilith era and see if this book speaks to her. I bought this book around the time I bought the Goddess book
East of Eden
- I saw Brittany Broski describe the book's plot and I knew I had to put it on my list
Dracula
- I'm obsessed with Bram Stoker's Dracula and I think it's time for me to dive into this masterpiece fr
The Iliad
- I saw a tiktok describing the intro of the book and the fact that people are saying Dr. Emily made this the easiest translation of the epic, and this will help me dive into classics more bc I really want to read more of them
The Fire Next Time
- I'm such a James Baldwin nerd and I want to get into more of his works so badly
The Inner Tarot: A Modern Approach to Self-Compassion and Empowered Healing Using the Tarot
- I'm an astrologer/tarot reader, and I want to try to integrate tarot in a more practical and tangible way in my life
Now will I get thru all of these books in 2024? Maybe! Maybe not, but I'm excited to see where the year takes me <3
Apr 23, 2024
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Ever since I graduated college (I was an English major), I haven't really felt the urge to read that much anymore, but I'm starting now (more like since 2022) and I don't think I have had this much fun reading since high school (I had an intense YA novel phase)
1. All About Love by bell hooks
- Obviously everyone on the internet knows this book and/or has heard about it somehow!! This book is a very basic book when it comes to people wanting to know more about themselves and how to love themselves and the community around them. It was mostly about stuff that I'm already thinking about so it was okay.
2. Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks
- NOW THIS ONE??? This one is fucking delicious!! It takes a more anecdotal look at how to incorporate love btwn self and community thru bell's own life thru the rise of feminism in the 60's and 70's. I found myself really jiving with this more bc oftentimes in my life I've felt invalidated when it comes to not only romantic love, but also just wanting to be loved and desired in general. So if ur a lovergirl/boy/person, I'd highly suggest reading this bc bell gives us the voice and tools to understand why we want love and care about the topic itself so much, while helping us to pursue it in a healthy way.
3. Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology for Women by Jean Shinoda Bolen M.D.
- This book is an interesting one bc it takes the archetype of 7 Greek goddesses: Hera, Persephone, Demeter, Hestia, Athena, Artemis, and Aphrodite and talks about how each goddess can show up stronger in every woman at different parts of her life. It also explains if they have more than one goddess in them or more energy of one than the other, what the strengths and weaknesses are, and how to make them adapt to modern life
I'm reading this rn and I'm enjoying it fully (mostly bc I am a greek mythology buff), but it's also helping me recognize a lot of the parts of me that I knew were there, but it just helps me look at it from a different lens.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- He's like our generation's James Baldwin and he wrote this book as a letter for his son, and the first time I read this, I actually cried. It was that beautiful to see a black man taking the time to eloquently articulate how the world views black people and how his son (who has privilege) can operate within our society. An incredible book to read if u would want to read a father connect with his son in a very intimate and refreshing way :)
I'll make another post about the books I want to read this year :)))
Apr 23, 2024
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This year I couldn't read that many books because of the thesis, but I read some, aside from everything I recommended under the section On Reading, from my profile in case you want to check it out.
· A Little Life- Hanya Yanagihara: my controversial opinion is that it was meh. I was expecting to have a divisive opinion like almost all of the people who read it but I thought the conversations were a bit monotonous and because there's a behavioral pattern that goes for 800 pages, I sort of already knew what to expect. Like every time Jude feels a little bit of happiness I would go in my head like all right, what's the other traumatic event that follows?😒 It didn't need to be 800 pages long but I still enjoyed the plot.
· Blindness-José Saramago: José Saramago is such a good writer for chaos. Loved Death with Interruptions as well. I think these are two of my favorite books.
· Carmilla-Sheridan Le Fanu. Loved it. I'm biased because I love vampires, but still. Now I want to read Carmen María Machado's edition I found out exists because someone commented it to me under their post.
· Cat Person-Kristen Roupenian. One of my favorite short stories.
· Heaven-Mieko Kawakami: the descriptions of bullying were pretty brutal but there's something about this book that made me go meh. Maybe it's because I thought it was so matter of fact that I didnt feel the prose was particularly moving.
· How To Win Friends And Influence People-Dale Carnegie. (My humiliation rituals are not for you to comment on). I've applied some of the advice and it works, who would've known?
· Soy Una Tonta por Quererte-Camila Sosa Villada. Read this collection of short stories after her book Bad Girls, which remains superior before my eyes, even though I enjoyed most of the stories.
· The Garden of Time-JG Ballard. Read this because I wanted to understand that MET Gala theme. Enjoyed it.
· The Yellow Wallpaper-Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Probably my favorite short story ever.
Jan 1, 2025
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Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Here After by Amy Lin
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Lies And Weddings by Kevin Kwan
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
I'm A Fan by Sheena Patel
Also throwing in my current read, A Lady For A Duke by Alexis Hall. I hear that it gets kinda slow in the middle, which I'm coming up on, but the first half alone makes it one of the greatest romances I've ever read.
Nov 5, 2024
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I finally started a new job I've been wanting to for months, and I have been there for a week
And I had a big breakthrough and I feel so good and so successful, I'm on cloud 9 and now I want to go into a coma all weekend and sleep bc I'm tired af LMAOOOOO
I'm so so proud of myself
Jul 13, 2024
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Idk who is into astrology on here (like really into it), these transits are fucking me up so badly my god
Apr 22, 2024
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Late last year I was saying (as an astrologer and I was looking at the 2024 transits and just things happening in my life) that Summer 2024 is going to feel like soooooo many people coming back to their interests or personality traits that they had when they were younger!!
We're just older, more mature, and now can actually really delve into our niche interests :)
in: wearing sunscreen, early morning walks with friends, yerbamate, skorts, summer playlists curated by friends, abandoning your phone for grass, trying new fruits, sincerity
out: plastic water bottles, sweating, irish exiting (guilty…..), being a pigeon hater (nyc people unleash urself from this fear)
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