#Kirsten Bakis

[fitsofgloom]

When The Wolves Were Running

#lives of the monster dogs #kirsten bakis #warner books #1997

[gennsoup]

"No love is like any other."

Kirsten Bakis, The Lives of the Monster Dogs

#Kirsten Bakis #The Lives of the Monster Dogs #love #love quotes #American literature #sci fi literature #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes

[pythonpie]

Go read Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis

#lives of the monster dogs #my art #kirsten bakis

[mercuryhomophony]

📝?

Favorite quote:

"Letter from Ludwig Postmarked March 28

I have seen the souls of the dead, traveliing in a branching river; they look very much like white blood cells, a pale doughnut-like shape, I cannot tell whether there is anything in the centers, or whether the centers are empty. When one of them comes to a fork in the river, it need not go either one way or the other; it may go both ways."

#Lives of the Monster dogs #this is the beginning of a letter written towards the end of the book #by Kirsten Bakis #and I love this passage #this is how it begins #and I have wanted to write something responding to it #the character who writes it #one of the titular monster dogs #is insane - by his own admission #and he tries desparately to convey something to the protagonist and to his friends #tied up in history and the faded line between mythology and man #if you ever have a chance to get a hold of this book i recommend reading it #this scifi story where the victor frankenstein loves his creation so much that he never lives to see them #where so many ghosts fight to live so many lives #where so many lives fight to revive so many ghosts #where the line between science and spirit life and death sanity and madness is so fine #and the saving grace equally so perhaps #i have a lot of feelings about this book and have since i read it #and its so hard to concretely talk about them #also if you have read and like this book talk to me please

[devoutjunk]

Novel Syllabus 2024

This coming year I think I'm going to be on here more often than I am on twitter or elsewhere, and as part of that, I'm going to start documenting the process of writing my novel more actively. I want to return to/resurrect the momentum and energy I had while writing the first draft and be more intentional about setting aside time to work, even when it's difficult. Below are my writing goals for the coming year as well as my reading list of texts for inspiration, genre/background research, comps, etc. Would welcome any suggestions of texts (any genre/discipline) pertaining to Antigone, death & resurrection, Welsh and Cornish myth and folklore, ecology & environmental crisis, and the Gothic.

Writing Goals

Reach 50k words in draft 2 overall

Finish a draft of Anna's timeline

Finish a draft of Jo's timeline

Polish & submit an excerpt for the Center for Fiction Prize

Reading

* = reread

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & The Apocalyptic

The Memory Theater (Karin Tidbeck)

Who Fears Death (Nnedi Okorafor)

Urth of The New Sun (Gene Wolfe)

Slow River (Nicola Griffith)

Dream Snake (Vonda McIntyre)

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Marlon James)

Notes from the Burning Age (Claire North)

Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)*

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)*

The Last Man (Mary Shelley)

The Drowned World (J.G. Ballard)

Strange Beasts of China (Yan Ge, trans. by Jeremy Tiang)

City of Saints and Madmen (Jeff VanderMeer)

Freshwater (Akweke Emezi)

The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)

Pattern Master (Octavia Butler)

Sleep Donation (Karen Russell)

How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)

The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis)*

The Golden Compass (Phillip Pullman)*

The Green Witch (Susan Cooper)

The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Black Sun (Rebecca Roanhorse)

Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)

Lives of the Monster Dogs (Kirsten Bakis)

Brian Evenson

Sofia Samatar

Connie Willis

Samuel Delaney

Jo Walton

Tanith Lee

Retellings

A Wild Swan (Michael Cunningham)

Til We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)

Gingerbread (Helen Oyeyemi)

Circe (Madeline Miller)

The Owl Service (Alan Garner)

Literary Myth-Making, Mystery, and the Gothic

Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)

Frenchman's Creek (Daphne Du Maurier)

Possession (A.S. Byatt)*

The Game (A.S. Byatt)*

The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry)

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

The Secret History (Donna Tartt)*

The Wild Hunt (Emma Seckel)

King Nyx (Kirsten Bakis)

The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)

The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)

Beloved (Toni Morrison)

The Night Land (William Hope Hodgson)

Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice)*

Sexing the Cherry (Jeanette Winterson)*

Night Side of the River (Jeanette Winterson)

Bad Heroines (Emily Danforth)

All the Murmuring Bones (A.G. Slatter)

The Path of Thorns (A.G. Slatter)

Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)

Prose Work, Perspective, and Stream of Consciousness

The Chandelier (Clarice Lispector)

The Waves (Virginia Woolf)*

The Years (Virginia Woolf)

The Intimate Historical Epic / Court Intrigues

Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)*

Menewood (Nicola Griffith)

Dark Earth (Rebecca Stott)

A Place of Greater Safety (Hilary Mantel)

Research

The Mabinogion (trans. Sioned Davies)

Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory)

The Collected Brothers Grimm (Phillip Pullman)

Angela Carter's Collected Fairytales

Mythology (Edith Hamilton)

Underland (Robert Macfarlane)

The Wild Places (Robert Macfarlane)

Wildwood (Roger Deakin)

Vanishing Cornwall (Daphne Du Maurier)

Lonely Planet: Guide to Devon & Cornwall

A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World (David Gessner)

The Lost Boys of Montauk (Amanda M. Fairbanks)

A Cyborg Manifesto (Donna J. Harraway)

A Treasury of British Folklore (Dee Dee Chainey)*

The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (Eileen M. Hunt)

Antigone's Claim (Judith Butler)

Theories of Desire: Antigone Again (Judith Butler)

Ecology of Fear (Mike Davis)

#reading lists #novel tag #the gothic #antigone #the mabinogion #arthuriana #du maurier

[undercrowns]

@loveisworry tagged me eons ago to list nine books that I like/would recommend. I'm finally reading again so here we go, vaguely sorted fiction -> non-fiction:

The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner: I think it's best to go into The Thief knowing as little as possible so I won't say much about the plot, instead I'll say that MWT is truly a master at using structure and form to convey character and narrative ideas! THE heist novel of all time. Also these books make you insane so there's that

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke: Honestly one of the books of the decade. Extremely different from Jonathan Strange if you've only read that one; it drops you in the deep end from the first word which I always admire (try not to know too much about this one going in either. In fact I'd mistaken it for a completely different book at first and kept wondering when the House was going to turn into the magical school I thought the book was about). Features many topics that interest me: the self as an idea and the mutability thereof, buildings that are maybe alive and maybe love you, loving and caring about people even when things suck so bad

Watchmaker of Filigree Street/Lost Future of Pepperharrow: Natasha Pulley I love you. Do you want to learn a lot about clocks while also losing it as everything goes in the wrong direction. You should. I'd recommend all of Pulley's books (still trying to get my hands on an ARC of the new one!), but Pepperharrow is my favorite of the bunch; I felt every available human emotion reading it and potentially a few others. They're all also SO funny to me while also making me cry multiple times. (originally read these after they appeared on many @lotstradamus rec lists, truly thank you)

Lives of the Monster Dogs, Kirsten Bakis: I don't know that I've ever read anything quite like this book and I have a tough time explaining it. I wrote in my rec to a friend that it's about being nostalgic for something that was painful for everyone involved, but at the same time held so much genuine wonder. Also about trying to understand your place in a world that has no place for you. I don't know what else to say; I loved it.

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel: I love a SCHEMER I love INTRIGUE I love to feel a creeping sense of inevitable dread spread out over three books! Hilary Mantel was simply a genius

The Multitude, Hannah Faith Notess: I debated what (if any) poetry to put on this list and in the end I went with The Multitude simply because I think many people haven't heard of it and Yoshi: A Pastoral is one of my favorite ever poems. beloved i will wait for you / always in the roadless shade

H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald: I came to this a few years after it was popular so maybe everyone has read it already, but I think it's a lovely meditation of grief and nature and how sometimes you just have to pick a (very specific and maybe odd) thing and do it to get through life

Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century, Sam Willis: I love an extremely niche book and I LOVE boats, particularly tall ships. This book was basically made specifically for me, in that it's clearly a labor of love by someone very knowledgeable on a topic that I'm already interested in. If anyone has recs in this vein (about ships or not) please send them my way!!

On the Death and Life of Languages, Claude Hagège (Tr. Jody Gladding): Another of the niche topic books, this time about how and why languages die out and the ramifications of their loss. I haven't read the original French so I can't comment on the faithfulness, but the translation is wonderfully done imo. Some turns of phrase I'm still thinking about

Honorary Mentions: The Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett (only read if you're willing to be in over your head but if you are!!!! they are a masterpiece) The Locked Tomb series, Tamsyn Muir (very polarizing books, I'm obsessed), the Temeraire series, Naomi Novik (dragons fighting in the Napoleonic wars largely featuring the Navy, tailored exactly to my interests)

tagging if you want @valentinetexass @veryspecificfantasies @unrealcities !

#what i like in fiction is to feel emotions so strong i feel like my head is going to pop off #what i like in nonfiction is to learn all kinds of minutiae that i then convey to all my friends for weeks #please send any recs that fit this description my way #almost forgot to mention the raven cycle #NO ONE is doing it like TRC!!! #the only YA books I've read since childhood that have been any good tbh

[glassamphibians]

what are you reading??

the lives of the monster dogs by kirsten bakis! its a collected history of the 150 Monster Dogs that lived in new york city in the early 2010s after rebelling against their creators. surely you remember the Monster Dogs

#super weird litfic told through diary entries letters opera excerpts etc im really enjoying it so far #it was written in 97 and the only difference from the actual 2010s is that people carry laser guns at night lol #glass reads

[kammartinez]

#history #anna fort

[kamreadsandrecs]

#history #anna fort

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

[gennsoup]

It's as if all the things we see and remember are parts of a long equation that always adds up to a seamless, irrefutable proof of the present--but that's the problem: the present changes from one moment to the next. We never arrive; there isn't any place to arrive.

Kirsten Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs

#Kirsten Bakis #Lives of the Monster Dogs #present #time #American literature #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes

[mightystargazer]

Another year, another readinglist complete. Been slowing down lately, trying to give my ears a little rest and catching up on some movies and TV-series as well!

D. J. Molles Extinction

Terry Pratchett A Life With Footnotes

Kirsten Bakis Lives of the Monster Dogs

Justin Woolley Shakedowners

Rick Gualtieri Strange Days

Rick Gualtieri Everyday Horrors

Rick Gualtieri Carnage À Trois

Rick Gualtieri The Liching Hour

Charles Stross The Atrocity Archives + The Concrete Jungle

Charles Stross The Jennifer Morgue + Pimpf

Charles Stross Down on the Farm

Charles Stross The Fuller Memorandum

Charles Stross Overtime

Charles Stross The Apocalypse Codex

Charles Stross The Rhesus Chart

Charles Stross The Annihilation Score

Charles Stross The Nightmare Stacks

Charles Stross The Delirium Brief

Charles Stross The Labyrinth Index

Charles Stross Dead Lies Dreaming

Charles Stross Quantum of Nightmares

J.N. Chaney Legacy of Stars

J.N. Chaney Blue Shift

J.N. Chaney Distant Horizon

J.N. Chaney Kingdom Come

W. Bruce Cameron Puppy Tales - Max's Story

Chuck Wendig Wayward

Mark Wayne McGinnis Rise of the Gia Rebellion

Chris Philbrook Dark Recollections

Chris Philbrook Alone No More

Chris Philbrook Midnight

Chris Philbrook The Failed Coward

Chris Philbrook Wrath

Chris Philbrook In the Arms of Family

Chris Philbrook The Trinity

Chris Philbrook Cassie

David M. McGoings Catharsis꞉ 2066

Eric Carter Dead Things

Eric Carter Broken Souls

Eric Carter Hungry Ghosts

Eric Carter Fire Season

Eric Carter Ghost Money

Eric Carter Bottle Demon

Greg Beck lemuria

Greg Beck Beyond Odin's Gate

Julia Huni The Vacuum of Space

Julia Huni The Dust of Kaku

Julia Huni The Trouble with Tinsel

Julia Huni Glitter in the Stars

Julia Huni Sweeping S'Ride

Julia Huni Orbital Operations

Larry Correia, John Brown Gun Runner

Dean Koontz The House at the End of the World

Ballingrud, Nathan The Strange

J.N. Chaney Blackest Ocean

John O'Brien Chaos

John O'Brien Return

John O'Brien Sanctuary

John O'Brien Taken

John O'Brien Awakening

John O'Brien A New World

John O'Brien Takedown

John O'Brien Conspiracy

John O'Brien Reckoning

John O'Brien Storm

Iain Rob Wright Witch - The Cursed Manuscripts

Jasper T. Scott Under Darkness

Charles Stross Escape from Yokai Land

Chuck Wendig Under The Empyrean Sky

Chuck Wendig Blightborn

Chuck Wendig The Harvest

Jeremy Robinson Torment

Nate Johnson The End of Everything

Paul Tassi The Last Exodus

Paul Tassi The Exiled Earthborn

Paul Tassi The Sons of Sora

M. R. Forbes Starship for Sale

M. R. Forbes head-case

M. R. Forbes Keep Away

M. R. Forbes Candy Bomb

M. R. Forbes Blue Burn

Brad Magnarella Shadow Deep

Brad Magnarella Godly Wars

Terry Pratchett Nightwatch

Jamie McFarlane Junkyard Ghost Ship

Richard Laymon Flesh

J.N. Chaney Fields of Fire

Creepypasta Accounts from a lonely broadcast station v1

Creepypasta Accounts from a lonely broadcast station v2

Creepypasta Accounts from a lonely broadcast station v3

Brad Magnarella Blue Curse

Brad Magnarella Blue Shadow

Brad Magnarella Blue Howl

Brad Magnarella Blue Venom

Brad Magnarella Blue Blood

Brad Magnarella Blue Storm

Daniel Church The Hollows

Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Sean Thomas Fisher A Little More Dead

Sean Thomas Fisher Gunfire & Sunshine

Craig Alanson Failure Mode

J.N. Chaney Orion Colony

J.N. Chaney Orion Uncharted

J.N. Chaney Orion Awakened

J.N. Chaney Orion Protected

Craig Martelle Battleship Leviathan

Craig Martelle Leviathan's War

Craig Martelle Leviathan’s Last Battle

Craig Martelle Leviathan's Trial

Craig Martelle Leviathan Rises

Craig Martelle Leviathan's Fear

Hugh Howey Wool

Hugh Howey Shift

Hugh Howey Dust

J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert Severed Ties

John Saul Black Lightning

Mark Tufo Shores of Despair

Richard Yancey The 5th Wave

Richard Yancey The Infinite Sea

Richard Yancey The Last Star

Mark Tufo Resurgence

Diana Rowland My Life as a White Trash Zombie

Diana Rowland Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues

Diana Rowland White Trash Zombie Apocalypse

Diana Rowland How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back

Diana Rowland Zombie Gone Wild

Diana Rowland White Trash Zombie Unchained

Willow Mason Selective Spells

Willow Mason Vexatious Voodoo

Willow Mason Muddled Mutt

Ash Bishop Intergalactic Exterminators Inc

J.N. Chaney Renegade Star 1-4

Jaime Hernandez Urban Gridlock

Jaime Hernandez Suburban Jungle

Dean Koontz After Death

Chris Philbrook The Lost & the Found

D. M. Guay 24-7 Demon Mart

D. M. Guay Angel Trouble

D. M. Guay (Re)Possessed

D. M. Guay Revenge of the Furballs

Rick Gualtieri Bigfoot Hunters

Rick Gualtieri Devil Hunters

Rick Gualtieri Kraken Hunters

Chuck Wendig Zeroes

Wendy Northcutt The Darwin Awards, vol. 1

Stephen King Holly

Charles Stross Season of Skulls

Damien Hanson, Joseph Phelps BuyMort Grand Opening

Damien Hanson, Joseph Phelps How I Became the Accidental Warlord of Arizona

Damien Hanson, Joseph Phelps Rise of the Window Puncher

Jimmy Juliano Dead Eleven

N. C. Reed Odd Billy Todd

Rick Yancey The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp

Robert Charles Wilson Spin

John Scalzi Starter Villain

Dean Koontz Strange Highways and Other Stories

Mark Tufo Devils Desk

Chuck Wendig Black River Orchard

Greig Beck The Fossil

M.D. Massey Invasion

M.D. Massey Incursion

M.D. Massey Counteraction

M.D. Massey Gabby's Run

M.D. Massey Extinction

Terry Pratchett A Stroke of the Pen

Michael Mammay Generation Ship

Joe Hill The Pram

Robert Jordan New Spring

Robert Jordan The Eye of the World

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising

#reading #list #readinglist #2023 #readinglist2023

[beefstatic]

pls choose for me i can't decide

#beth blabs

[tatianaluz]

Tagged by @helloallec like a week ago. Whoops!

what is your astrological big 3?

Scorpio Sun, Taurus Moon, Sagittarius Rising

last song?

Lemme check my Spotify... The Power of Love by Celine Dion, apparently.

currently reading?

Uhhhh multiple books. Lol. I'm reading an ARC of King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis and listening to the audiobooks of Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle and Pageboy by Elliot Page.

last movie?

Jurassic Park? I think? Though mostly because I happened to be in the room while my dad and sister were watching it. That movie still stresses me out. XD

it’s karaoke night at your fave dive bar, which song are you singing?

Oh no. Um. Huh. Probably something by My Chemical Romance. Welcome to the Black Parade would be fun. Lol.

currently working on?

I did some tidying up in my room earlier. Oh! And thinking about dnd angst because things sure did happen to Wioletta last session! Asdfghjkl.

Tagging a few random mutuals hmmmm: @diabeticgirl4 @thomas-mvller @bienchanter @serbamf @herpriorities and @yyydelilah

[asecondglassofcinnamonwine]

September + October 2023 Reading Wrap-Up

I'm back

September Read Count: 6 books Average Page Count: 372 pages/book Goodreads Unread Count: who knows Owned Unread Count: 11 books

October Read Count: 8 books Average Page Count: 408 pages/book Goodreads Unread Count: 449 books Owned Unread Count: 10 books

September Books: The Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi The Science of Discworld - Terry Pratchett & Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen The Robots of Dawn - Isaac Asimov The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt The Helm of Midnight - Marina J Lostetter Live of the Monster Dogs - Kirsten Bakis

October Books: The Consuming Fire - John Scalzi *Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb Slaughterhouse-Five, or, the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death - Kurt Vonnegut Jr *The Pursuit of William Abbey - Claire North The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three - Ellen Datlow *The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Sundial - Shirley Jackson *The Golden Fool - Robin Hobb

Read from Owned TBR: 3 Day/Night Challenge: 3 Finishing Series: 4 *Starred Reads: 4 Nonfiction: 1 Deep-Dive Author: 2

Genres: Scifi: 4 Fantasy: 4 Horror: 3 Historical Fiction: 2 History: 1

#cinnamon reads of 2023

[tenapricots]

Everyone should read Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis because (1) it’s now my most favorite book of my life and (2) it’s one of the most Wormwood books I’ve ever read even though it predates him

#at least a lot of the dogs’ psychology reminds me of my Wormwood #lives of the monster dogs #mops hacker’s diary 10/10 #also there’s a whole libretto within this book