gothdaughter

embracing my inner freak with a warm hug twenty-something | any pronouns | grad student

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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

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Art History for Theorists

by gothdaughter

15 books

Addressing marxism, feminism, racism, queerness, & more via art history

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Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History

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Upright Women Wanted

Sarah Gailey

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Lady_of_the_Library

Help me find the perfect reading setup

Throwing this out because I saw a similar post but need a bit more help.

If you read in a sort of reading chair, loveseat, desk chair to reading chair combo, etc, tell me if it's comfortable, why you love it, and where you got it plsssss? Help a gal out.

I typically read in bed, which is horrible for my posture and migraines, but it's the only thing somewhat comfy I have right now. I'm someone that likes to be mostly sitting upright, but still comfy lounging, and I like to have my legs propped up to avoid blood pooling to my feet.

Right now I have a gaming chair that is so uncomfortable I barely game, so I'd like something I can ideally use for reading and gaming but that's not a must.

If y'all have recs, help me out ❤️

Thank you!!!

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Upright Women Wanted

Sarah Gailey

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Upright Women Wanted

Sarah Gailey

In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.”Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.

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gothdaughter

Jan 18, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 5.0Plot: 3.5

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Okay, after sitting with my thoughts I feel good about a 3.5 ⭐️ for this book, a 4 might be too generous. I thought it was well-written and quite ridiculous and wry. I liked the cast. They function as Californian caricatures; sometimes they feel outlandish, but stick with understandable motives. I wish it followed through more on themes of sexual violence or assault, but it veered more towards guilt and childhood trauma at the end. I didn’t get the random anti-asian sentiment, I thought it might have been something our MC, Greta, grew up hearing on the west coast, but other characters seemed to do this as well. That was quite strange, but other than what I mentioned, it is definitely a very solid read. It was quite entertaining and I was very interested in the characters’ stories!

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Big Swiss

Jen Beagin

Greta liked knowing people's secrets. That wasn't a problem. Until she met Big Swiss. Big Swiss. That's Greta's nickname for her - she is tall, and she is from Switzerland. Greta can see her dressed top to toe in white, that adorable gap between her two front teeth, her penetrating blue eyes. She's a including the heads of infants and dogs. Well that's how Greta imagines seeing her; they haven't actually ever met in person. Nor has Greta actually ever been to Switzerland. Greta and Big Swiss are not in the same room, or even the same building. Greta is miles away, sitting at a desk in her own house, wearing only headphones, fingerless gloves, a kimono, and legwarmers, transcribing this disembodied voice. What Greta doesn't know is that she's about to bump into Big Swiss in the local dog park. A new - and not entirely honest - relationship is going to be born. A relationship that will transform both of their lives.

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Art Monsters

Lauren Elkin

For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it? Exploring the ways in which feminist artists have taken up this challenge, Art Monsters is a landmark intervention in how we think about art and the body. Weaving daring links between disparate artists and writers – from Julia Margaret Cameron’s photography to Kara Walker’s silhouettes, Vanessa Bell’s portraits to Eva Hesse’s rope sculptures – Lauren Elkin shows that their work offers a potent celebration of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, the personal and the political.

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wildestfire

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how many books are you currently reading?

I felt like I jinxed myself earlier when I replied to someone's post about how many books I read at the same time and now I have 5 books on my current read.

I am currently:

reading Frankenstein (I have 20 pages left but I am delaying for some reason), the national telepathy, and one hundred years of solitude (I am kind of waiting to be done with Frankenstein to continue with this one).

rereading jade city because I am seeing people reading it, and I have been wanting to go back to this world for so long now.

I unintentionally started listening to broken country very randomly, because I dont even enjoy that kind of books any way so and I didn't even mark it currently reading here because I already have like 4 books already

how many books are y'all reading and which one(s)? :)))

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how many books are you currently reading?

I felt like I jinxed myself earlier when I replied to someone's post about how many books I read at the same time and now I have 5 books on my current read.

I am currently:

rereading jade city because I am seeing people reading it, and I have been wanting to go back to this world for so long now.

how many books are y'all reading and which one(s)? :)))

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