BeautyOfLiterature
My book taste goes from here to there and everywhere. Love to get new, less known suggestions!
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This is how i found out that verbal consent doesnt mean anything when they're a still a minor. What the actual fuck?
I'm diving in to this book blind, and clearly wasn't expecting the content to be about this. My bad i should've done my own research. But i'm WILDLYY uncomfortable with the writing style: there's little to no world building and we get vague description of names and scenes of the people in István's life, but the lady's assault was written very descriptively and vulgar in contrast.
Only at the first 10% and i'm really hoping this is not what the entire book is about.
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Flesh
David Szalay
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Booker Prize Winners
These are mostly in order by year
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I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Baek Se-hee
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Oxford Reading List for English
Found this online - a reading list of a first year English course at Oxford University. Wanted to create this for my own enjoyment and figured someone else might like it too! I only added the fiction and poetry books and I also did not add any companions.
The last bit (from bottom up to Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway) are required reading - top half is recommended.
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The Killer Question
Janice Hallett
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What to say about this book that hasn’t been said yet? For me this really was the perfect book at the perfect time. Personally being forced to make a big choice about what I want out of life and then reading a book that emphasises the importance of art through it all was so meaningful.
As a Shakespeare girly through and through, I love how he is used in a modern and mirroring way. There are already so many adaptations - to take not the texts themselves but the context of when Shakespeare created them (Black Plague England) and mirror that to some modern version of a dystopian America was absolutely original, effective and amazing. I couldn’t love this book any more than I do - a new favorite.
Warning because I do see people mention this in chatter online : yes, it’s a “soft” dystopian book. I personally loved this and I don’t need the violence and cruelty explicitly stated to know that a dystopian world is never just beautiful art. But I guess some people find that unrealistic and it took away from the story from them, so keep that in mind!
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Female Lost Generation
The books written by female American authors during the infamous Lost Generation literary movement in the 1920s (-ish, we may veer a little bit to 1910s and 1930s) Europe. Mostly Paris centred, but again, I think some other works ar worth while too and might be written somewhere else. Some works will be written during the lost generations and others are more reflective of the time and written later. A companion and new perspectives on the Hemingways and Fitzgeralds.
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BeautyOfLiterature commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I have received some wonderful news from 2 of my good friends who are pregnant!
It's the first for one and the second for the other.
Friend 1 is in my book club too, she likes literary fiction, strong female MCs, with a touch of romance. She likes Elizabeth Gilbert, Sally Rooney, Trent Dalton.
Friend 2 loves cosy Japanese/Korean fiction, like "Before the Coffee gets Cold" and "Days at the Morisaki Bookshop".
I'd love to buy them each a fiction with motherhood/pregnancy themes and a nonfiction about pregnancy, something essential like "What to expect when you're expecting" but something more modern?
Would love to hear the community's recommendations. Thank you. ❤️👶🏼
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I’m in the Leesjury, which is a book club in the entirety of Flanders, so the books are always in Dutch. The thing is, how do you post stuff for that? I’m currently reading Zoethout by Marita De Sterck and I despise the writing and wanted to complain about it in a post — so instead of having to type the awful quote once, i had to type it, translate it, edit the translation and then post it. Add to that that I am not a good translator lol
I mainly just hope people will actually read that post because I did not go through the torture of all that to be the only one to have to read it 😃 But yeah, I love sharing my thoughts because it also helps me remember the book better (though idk if i want to remember this one) so I prefer having to work to translate stuff than to not share my thoughts at all :)
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