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Books by women that make me feel melancholy, introspective, indolent & antsy all at once.
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
The Gathering by Anne Enright
My holy trinity of "the feels" ugh
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the summer book by Tove jansson
outline by Rachel cusk
How To be both by Ali smith
A gentleman in Moscow by Amor towles
The pursuit of love by Nancy mitford if you want something fluffy
edited to remove one I forgot is super sad
Mar 2, 2024
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I got into a spiral last year where I began to mostly only read books about women who are going thru some shit. Would love to continue my journey if you have any additional recs! Here are the books I've read so far:
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Guest by Emma Cline
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton (not completely tortured)
for nicky999doors inspired by their my year of r&r rec <3
May 15, 2024
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First one is obvious - Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Made me think about the interior lives of men more than I usually do which I found a nice thing to do, it made me love people more.
Private Rites by Julia Armfield. The same writer who write the hypnotic Our Wives Under The Sea. Itโs about grief and death and climate catastrophe. I would recommend reading it and then when youโve finished have a film night and watch His Three Daughters (2023) and The Room Next Door (2024). In that order. I accidentally consumes these three things in that order and it created something perfect in my mind.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I love video games and itโs the first time Iโve ever seen them portrayed with love in basically anything, made me think a lot about my relationship to games and others through them.
Nov 5, 2024
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