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6) “For Esme— With Love and Squalor” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My favorite so far!!!!

5) “Down at the Dinghy” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4) “The Laughing Man”- DNF

This one ended up being too out-dated, couldn’t finish it. Maybe I’ll circle back, but I just want to keep going for now.

3) “Just Before the War With the Eskimos” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2) “Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

1) “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” (reread) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I resonated with this in such deep ways. I don’t like god, but if I can find him anywhere, it won’t be in man.

I've never had a book make me cry on the first page before. This one, I can tell, will be tough to get through, but as insistent as gravity. Reading along with Samira Wiley's audiobook— she is a beautiful narrator for this.

If this is somewhat modeling the seven plagues of Egypt from the Bible, then I already have a feeling of what tragedy is ahead. Now, a swarm of locusts eating crops does not automatically mean that, but what if...

Giving it one more go (and so far it’s been going MUCH better)

A direct parallel to Cain and Abel: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” vs “How do I know… Am I supposed to look after him?”

Ruby Dee answer my prayers and make an unabridged audiobook you’re the only one I trust to read Ms. Hurston

Grabbed this today because I loved The Empusium so much… this is gonna be a banger, I can tell already. She may be a new favorite author.

To do another “well actually” piece: Freud at this time, I think, would have proposed (initially) that women suffering from hysteria likely suffered childhood abuse (later changed to appease the masses and got victim blamey about it) but it’s not shocking with how they’ve spoken about Freud that they wouldn’t take him seriously and fall back on “women go crazy without men” type shit

LORD, I forgot since Freud was Jewish people considered psychoanalysis a “Jewish science” and thought it fake and barbaric. Genuinely what was wrong with people, it couldn’t have just been that damn snuff box.

Also mind you “the greatest poets have been men” 1)fuck it— while not widely accepted, there’s a theory Homer could have been a woman 2) women were not ALLOWED to read let alone write for hella long 3) Women commonly published under male pseudonyms at this time (my loves George Eliot, George Sand, The Brontës (Ellis, Acton, and Currer Bell), and Louisa May Alcott (A.M. Barnard))

Mind you, the women writers that “they don’t have” and “aren’t read” at this point (1913) have been: Murasaki Shikibu, Sappho, Aphra Behn, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Mme de Stael, George Eliot, Ann Radcliffe, George Sand, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning… not exhaustive of course… just Western lit too…

My one tiny complaint is that during the Victorian Era (Industrial Rev/Transatlantic Slave Trade), gender roles switched, so no one thought of women as hypersexual beings anymore. By 1913, women ESPECIALLY were thought to be asexual, mechanical homemakers that had no taste for being in public. These mens’ views align more with Shakespeare’s time.

“a maid of Lesbos” lord almighty

Freud subtweeted

The pencil parallel with Mann, I am stoked dude

Genuinely this is how you do a feminist retelling. Not that “turning every woman into a slighted femme fatale girl boss” shit everyone keeps writing.

In my opinion she is doing Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” proud. It’s a beautiful recall to that world while also making it her own. And so far… I’m lowkey creeped out.

Restarting this

Does anyone know wtf is going on

the prison on d'If... COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO FOLLOWS ME EVERYWHERE, BELOVED OF MINE

…pardon me…?

Love the Genesis-like writing

Oh??? My god??? Slitting your wrist to feed your starving siblings??? Hello????

She may be terribly abusive and an evil woman but she has a point… a philosopher if you will… GRANDMA IS TEAM FUCK MEN GET MONEY!!!!