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jackxo · 1 day

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𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚?

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ball-want · 3 days

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#manu rios #Tenrose #nashville #will byers #vriska serket #whor3 #solas #whisper girl #currently reading #cozy

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howlsmovinglibrary · 2 days

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Idk what hold Emily Henry has on me but I've been counting down days for her new release and THE FIRST CHAPTER SLAPS OK IM SO FULL OF HOPE!!

#currently reading #funny story by emily henry

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freckles-and-books · 3 days

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Currently reading!

#books #a tempest of tea #hafsah faizal #currently reading #fantasy

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burningvelvet · 2 days

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so im still persevering in charlotte brontë's shirley. yesterday i went to a poetry open mic & this guy read a really uncomfortable oversexual piece - it wasn't even a poem - but all i could think of was the part in shirley where she talks about being subjected to sir philip's bad poetry and her secondhand embarrassment... yeah, lots of good relatable social commentary and observations of everyday social experiences in this novel - i think charlotte reminds me of austen sometimes in those regards!

and in other news i'm also at the beginning of herman melville's moby dick. its much less boring than i thought it would be so far! some of the stuff with queequeg has been killing me - the descriptions of ishmael waking up with queequeg spooning him were like something out of a modern cartoon. and (not only because of that moment) i deeply wonder if the "head-seller" bit was supposed to be an innuendo for homosexuality/prostitution considering it was in the same chapter concerning ishmael's panic over having to share a bed with said "head-selller."

i'm so sad the ending for moby dick was spoiled for me but hopefully i'll be able to forget about that just like i somehow conveniently forgot about the main twist in jane eyre and subsequently managed to be more shocked by it than any other plot twist i've ever come across. the mind is a curious thing so we'll see

#book reviews #currently reading #moby dick #shirley #charlotte brontë #herman melville

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ufuktakalmisbirkiz · 2 days

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Hiçbir karşılaşma tesadüf değildir.

#kitap alintilari #kitap #kitaplar #reading #kitaplayasamak #kitaplik #kitap alıntısı #kitap alıntıları #kitaplığımdan #books #bookworm #authors #book blog #currently reading

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writtenroses1813 · 2 months

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I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

#funny #funny post #booknerd #books and reading #book blog #booklover #booksbooksbooks #booklr #bookworm #booktok #book tumblr #bookish #bookblr #reading #currently reading #books

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cansu-m · 2 months

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herigo · 4 months

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gatheringbones · 10 months

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judy grahn, from another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds, 1984

#judy grahn #lesbian literature #currently reading #transcribe later #horror! horror! horror!

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academia-core · 1 year

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elaborate book covers

#books #bookworm #reading #bookish #currently reading #bibliophile #bookblog #dark academia #light academia #dark academia aesthetic #aesthetics

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familyabolisher · 9 months

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I've walked past the Barbie branded selfie booth, sat through the reel of old commercials that precede the previews, and watched Margot Robbie learn to cry, and I’m still not sure what “doing the thing and subverting the thing,” which Greta Gerwig claimed as the achievement of Barbie in a recent New York Times Magazine profile, could possibly mean. This was the second Gerwig profile the magazine has run. I wrote the first one, in 2017, which in hindsight appears like a warning shot in a publicity campaign that has cemented Gerwig’s reputation as so charming and pure of heart that any choice (we used to call them compromises) she makes is justified, a priori, by her innocence. This is a strange position for an adult to occupy, especially when the two-hour piece of branded content she is currently promoting hinges on a character who discovers that her own innocence is the false product of a fallen world. But—spoiler alert!—the point of Barbie’s “hero’s journey” is less to reconcile Barbie to death than to reconcile the viewer to culture in the age of IP.

“Doing the thing and subverting the thing”: I haven’t finished working out the details, but I think the rough translation would be Getting rich and not feeling feel bad about it. (Or, for the viewer: Having a good time and not feeling bad about it.) One must labor under a rather reduced sense of the word “subvert” to be impressed with poking loving fun at product misfires such as Midge (the pregnant Barbie), Tanner (the dog who poops), and the Ken with the earring, especially given that the value of all these collectors’ items has, presumably, not decreased since the film opened. Barbie may feature a sassy tween sternly informing Robbie’s Stereotypical Barbie that the tiny-waisted top-heavy billion-dollar business she represents has made girls “feel bad” about themselves, but if anyone uttered the word “anorexia,” I missed it. (There was a reason Todd Haynes told the story of Karen Carpenter’s life and death with Barbies, and it wasn’t because an uncanny piece of molded plastic has the magical power to resolve the contradictions of girlhood and global capitalism.) There’s a bit about Robbie going back into a box in the Mattel boardroom, but Barbies aren’t made in an executive suite; they come from factories in China. On the one hand, it’s weird for a film about a real-world commodity to unfold wholly in the realm of ideas and feelings, but then again, that’s pretty much the definition of branding. Mattel doesn’t care if we buy Barbie dolls—they’re happy to put the word “Barbie” on sunglasses and T-shirts, or license clips from the movie for an ad for Google. OK, here’s my review: When Gerwig first visited Mattel HQ in October 2019, the company’s stock was trading at less than twelve dollars a share. Today the price is $21.40.

Christine Smallwood, Who Was Barbie?

#currently reading #sorry for not being The Ignorer re: bad IP film but this is good

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landsccape · 5 months

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lover-praxis · 7 months

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When performance artists Marina Abramović and her partner, Ulay, decided to end their twelve-year relationship—as lovers and artistic collaborators—they marked its ending by walking the length of the Great Wall of China. “People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one,” Abramović explained. On March 30, 1988, Abramović started walking from the eastern end of the Great Wall, the Gulf of Bohai on the Yellow Sea, and Ulay began walking from the western edge, in the Gobi Desert, and they each walked for ninety days, covering roughly 2,500 kilometers, until they met in the middle, where they shook hands to say goodbye. At a retrospective of Abramović’s work in Stockholm, two video screens showed scenes from The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk. One screen showed Abramović walking past camels on hard dirt covered with snow, while the other showed Ulay hiking with a walking stick over green hills. The tapes were running on a continuous loop, and it seemed beautiful to me that on those screens, years after their breakup, these two lovers still walked constantly toward each other.

Leslie Jamison, “The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were”

#currently reading #leslie jamison

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fangtastic-vampyra · 8 months

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buying books & reading books..two different hobbies.

#books and reading #books & libraries #books #bookstagram #bookstores #reading #used books #currently reading #book recommendations #booklr #comic books #library #support your local library #public libraries #school libraries #libraries #librarians #bookblr #book quotes

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wedarkacademia · 1 year

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