Rec | THIS IS PLEASURE BY MARY GAITSKILL

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Rec'd on 📚 books that you read in one sitting?

It has like 80 pages. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman has like 10 pages or so. In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan is also very short. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. Animal by Lisa Taddeo.

@mariamaria

Nov 28, 2024

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here are some I’ve liked

Fiction: In Watermelon Sugar-Richard Brautigan. Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada. Death in her Hands-Ottesa Moshfeg. Mist-Miguel de Unamuno. Animal-Lisa Taddeo. This is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill. Death With Interruptions-José Saramago. The Family of Pascual Duarte-Camilo José Cela (This one is extremely violent and graphic, so beware). Flowers in the Attic-V.C Andrews. 100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel García Marquez. Non-fiction: Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs. Educated-Tara Westover. I’m Glad My Mom Died-Jennette McCurdy.

@mariamaria

May 30, 2024

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short books <3

i did a quick search on my goodreads and here are some <150 page reads that i gave 5 stars! heart berries by terese marie malhot- uniquely told memoir about the life of an indigenous canadian woman a room of one's own by virgina woolf- classic, brilliant feminist text happening by annie erneaux- annie erneaux has lots of really short books. i've read two by her and both have absolutely blown me away, this one is about her experience having an illegal abortion in 1960s france the eye by vladamir nabakov- only 100 pages and thrilling!

@abbooooo

Jan 26, 2025

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Short reads!

Foster by Claire Keegan (96 pages) Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (118 pages) Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (163 pages) Imaginary Museums by Nicolette Polek (128 pages) Bonus Rec (bc its a little over your page range but so worth the read): No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (205 pages)