purknotperc

Reader of many books, enjoyer of some and hater of others. Indifferent to many.

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

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Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Brian Goldstone

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purknotperc

Jul 07, 2026

A Raisin in the Sun

5.0

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

A good play is representative of a singular moment in time. By that metric, this is a fantastic play. Other reviews have mentioned the family dynamics, the selfish whims of Walter, and the push and pull of power and progress both within and around the play's environment.

Themes of colonial dominance, misogynoir, ego v necessity, and the condition of the racial and gendered caste system of the United States in the 1950s are all summarized via the exploration of Walter's character at the expense of the women surrounding him.

The narrative chooses to remain hopeful, which is a credit to Lorraine Hansberry's expert storytelling. Many fictitious works of the time are intentionally and consistently tragic. Hansberry refuses to accept that inevitable sorrow is the only thing built into the Black American experience, and refuses to caricature her characters for the sake of sensationalism. A Raisin in the Sun is a realist interpretation of Chicago life. The dialogue felt natural, the characters and environment familiar. I will read more of Hansberry's work soon.

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A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun.""The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.

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Women Talking

Miriam Toews

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Thoughts from 25% (page 130)

Sorry but this one-sided beef against Sejanus is just hilarious. Tf is Snows problem? Biggest hater-no reason

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New horror reader !

Hi ! With my bf, we want to try reading a horror book for the first time, any recommendations for our first read ? We are not scared easily with movies, but idk if comparing it with books is relevant ! Thanks <33

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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

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Help with female authors!!

i like to have nonsense challenges to complete like Pokedexs and i'm elaborating a 40 female autors list, help me with the last 4 i feel like i'm forgetting important people and i'm going insane, TW: some authors aren't included in the list cause i have read them, but feel free to recomend everything you think of this is the current list (some titles are in spanish or catalan lol i'm trilingual)

Banana Yoshimoto → Kitchen, The propositions Almudena Grandes → El lector de julio verne, las edades de Lulú Clarice Lispector → The hour of the star, agua viva Magda Szabo → the fawn, Abigail Elena Ferrante → La amiga estupenda, un mal nombre Han Kang → Human Acts, La vegetariana… Ursula Le Guin → La saga de terramar Mikeko Kawakami → Heaven, sisters in yellow … Sally Rooney → Intermezzo, Normal people … Margaret Atwood → The handmaid’s tale, the penelopiad Edith Wharton → The age of innocence, Ethan frome… Toni Morrison → Beloved, the Bluest eye Mary Shelley → Frankenstein, Matilda Maggie O'farrell → Hamnet, portrait of marriage Annie Ernaux → El acontecimiento, Pura passion Charlotte Brönte → Jane Eyre, Villette Kate Chopin → the awakening, the story of an Hour Agustina Bazterrica → Cadáver exquisito, las indignas RF Kuang → Taipei story, Babel Virgina Woolf → Orlando, una habitación propia Robin Hobb → the Mad ship Donna Tartt → La història secreta, el jilguero Mercè Rodoreda → la plaça del diamant Pat Barker → the voyage home, the silence of the girls Isabel Allende, Simone de Beauvoir → el segundo sexo, la mujer rota Marjane Satrapi → persepolis Qiu Maojin → notes of a crocodile Octavia Butler → parabole of the sower Leslie Feinberg → stone butch blues Min jin lee → Pachinko Louisa May Alcott → Little Women Elizabeth Gaskell → North and South Sylvia Plath → Ariel Iris Chang → The Rape of Nanking Amal El-Mohtar → This is how to loose the time War 46 47 48 49

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Mongrels

Stephen Graham Jones

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on the fringes of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them. He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows with his Aunt Libby and Uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. They are mongrels, mixedblood, neither this nor that. The boy at the center of Mongrels must decide if he belongs on the road with his aunt and uncle, or if he fits with the people on the other side of the tracks. For ten years, he and his family have lived a life of late-night exits and close calls—always on the move across the South to stay one step ahead of the law. But the time is drawing near when Darren and Libby will know if their nephew is like them or not. And the close calls they’ve been running from for so long are catching up fast, now. Everything is about to change. A compelling and fascinating journey, Mongrels alternates between past and present to create an unforgettable portrait of a boy trying to understand his family and his place in a complex and unforgiving world. A smart and innovative story—funny, bloody, raw, and real—told in a rhythmic voice full of heart, Mongrels is a deeply moving, sometimes grisly novel that illuminates the challenges and tender joys of a life beyond the ordinary in a bold and imaginative new way.

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The Ag Knowledge to Veganism Pipeline

I got about halfway through this book in my teen years, but am going back and reading it in its entirety now. I remember it being a summary of the industrialization and consolidation of the American agricultural industry. It was interesting. I have since developed my interests in nutrition, food science/development, and agricultural systems, and think it would be good to revisit this text. I have a very different perspective on the impacts of the American food production and propaganda system now.

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Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis

Christopher D. Cook

If we are what we eat, then, as Christopher D. Cook contends in this powerful look at the food industry, we are not in good shape. The facts speak for more than 75 million Americans suffered from food poisoning last year, and 5,000 of them died; 67 percent of American males are overweight, obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States and supersizing is just the tip of the the way we make and eat food today is putting our environment and the very future of food at risk. Diet for a Dead Planet takes us beyond Fast Food Nation to show how our entire food system is in crisis. Corporate control of farms and supermarkets, unsustainable drives to increase agribusiness productivity and profits, misplaced subsidies for exports, and anemic regulation have all combined to produce a grim harvest. Food, our most basic necessity, has become a force behind a staggering array of social, economic, and environmental epidemics. Yet there is another way. Cook argues cogently for a whole new way of looking at what we eat―one that places healthy, sustainably produced food at the top of the menu for change. In the words of Jim Hightower, "If you eat, read this important book!"

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