#agustina bazterrica

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#tender is the flesh #agustina bazterrica #dystopian #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls #i've seen this around a lot but i never realised it was translated wow

[marbleheavy]

this is out of left field but a book rec list!! specifically, books that have to deal with consumption of women/cannibalism/ecofeminist themes (basically, feminist, food-centric horror)

1. The Vegetarian by Han Kang

This book is SO good but definitely check the trigger warnings. Told from three different perspectives, it follows a woman after she has a life-altering dream that makes her go vegetarian, much to the dismay of her family. The thing that stuck with me most about this book is how it portrays the normalized but profound betrayals by men that women experience. It’s a mix of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and My Year of Meats

2. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

Another meat-centric book! This one switches between two women, one in America and one in Japan, as they navigate the world of meat consumption and how patriarchy and misogyny are reflected in it. There’s a very mixed-media feel to this as every section starts with a poetry excerpt by Sei Shonogan and one of the main characters, Jane Takagi-Little, is directing a series on American meat consumption to promote eating meat in Japan. All of Ruth Ozeki’s books are wonderful so if you like this, you should read them all.

3. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterriva

This one is straight up cannibalism. It’s about a man, Marcos, who works at a meat processing plant that makes “special meat” (human) and is gifted a “specimen” for him to eventually slaughter himself. The specimen is a woman, Jasmine, who Marcos eventually forms a relationship with. This one is overtly dystopian and although certainly very dark, a little more palatable because it allows the reader to feel more distant from the reality of the book. Of course, though, there is till some very striking commentary on the abuse and exploitation of animals, women, and people as a whole.

4. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

This one is different from the others in that the consumption comes from fungus and not literal people, but there’s still a deep-seated sense of rot. The main character, Alex Easton, returns to the ancestral home of their childhood friend as they learn she’s dying. There is a distinct supernatural element to this, but still very heavy with animal and body horror.

5. A Certain Hunger by Chelsea Summers

Dorothy Daniels, the main characters, is a food critic, sex lover, and psychopath. This one, again, explores the relationship between the treatment of women as sexual beings and commercialized consumption. Also, again, cannibalism. However, this one is very White Feminism, so take that into mind.

all of these books are very good but all have very heavy trigger warnings, so please please look them up before reading. happy reading, my pals <3

#book recommendations #book rec #ecofeminism #cannibalism #literary fiction #the vegetarian #my year of meats #tender is the flesh #what moves the dead #a certain hunger #han kang #ruth ozeki #agustina bazterrica #chelsea summers #t kingfisher #feminist horror #feminist books #marble book recs

[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || January || 7 || Award Winning

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #book photo challenge #bookshelf #bookshelves #shelfie #book spines #agustina bazterrica #leerreadinglire #booklr #bookblr #adultbooklr

[melonreads]

thrift store finds! $2!!!

#bookblr #thrifting #agatha christie #murder on the orient express #tender is the flesh #agustina bazterrica

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: In the Barn

Harlan Ellison: listen up you chucklefucks Ellison: it only happens once in a lifetime that an author emerges fully formed like athena from the forehead of zeus Ellison: tonight you are going to hear from such an author Ellison: a bold new truth teller who will put you all to shame Ellison: a man named Ellison: piers anthony

Ellison: that's right, piers anthony Ellison: when you hear this story, it's gonna blow your tiny little peanut minds King: Poe: Lovecraft: Koontz: Barker: Barker: so Poe: no no clive Poe: just no

Piers Anthony: ok guys you're gonna really love this story Anthony: just let me top off the tank first Anthony: [huffing a pair of panties like dennis hopper huffing ether in Blue Velvet]

Anthony: ok so there's this earth where a disease has contaminated all the animals Anthony: so people gotta turn to human lifestock Agustina Bazterrica: yes yes Anthony: for milk Bazterrica: Bazterrica: oh yeah i guess you could do that Bazterrica: do they use human livestock for meat too Anthony: what? why would you think about that Bazterrica: it just seems the logical extension to the premise Anthony: Anthony: i guess Anthony: now if there was human lifestock, it would be pretty messed up to have sex with them right Bazterrica: yeah that would surely be a huge taboo Anthony: messed up Anthony: but also Anthony: very very interesting

Anthony: so this guy is a milk inspector and his job is to inspect milk production in different dimensions Anthony: you know, to make sure that nothing unethical is happening Anthony: cuz we wouldn't want to do business with unethical people Anthony: we have really high ethical standards here about that

Anthony: so he goes to the dimension where there's no animals Anthony: BUT Anthony: everyone's drinking milk Anthony: they LOVE it Anthony: it's like a huge thing Anthony: and this guy is all "wow, how strange" Anthony: "i wonder where all the milk is coming from" Koontz: i know! i know the answer! Anthony: no you don't dean, sit down

Anthony: so everyone loves milk Anthony: and there's all these barns everywhere Anthony: where they produce milk Anthony: but what animal is making the milk? that's the question Anthony: the answer is man Anthony: the most dangerous milk of all

Anthony: so they got these human livestock women Anthony: with big milky boobies Anthony: and the milk inspector is all "gosh, if i go into the barn, i might see a naked girl" Edward Lee: i like this guy Lee: highly relatable character

Lee: bro Lee: bro how big are the tits Anthony: oh they're real big Anthony: like Anthony: like big ol' melons Lee: Anthony: something wrong? Lee: no bro Lee: i mean Lee: i mean i guess that's pretty big

Anthony: it makes you think, tho Anthony: is the way we treat animals any better than the way these farmers treat their big mommy milker hucows Bazterrica: do they eat the livestock people Anthony: yeah i'm not getting into that Bazterrica: but Anthony: big mommy milker hucows

Anthony: [pantomiming] big mommy milkers Ellison: goddamn Ellison: you assholes hear all that? Ellison: like the goddamn shakespeare of our time

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #stephen king #clive barker #edgar allan poe #dean koontz #hp lovecraft #edward lee #harlan ellison #agustina bazterrica #piers anthony

[wanna-bewitch-you]

The way a lot of people don’t understand “Tender is the Flesh” at all makes me more angry than it probably should.

People will view it as an extremist vegan book, and that is not the point. It’s not about how humans treat animals, it’s about how humans treat other humans.

Although I am sure that the meat industry today isn’t great and could be more humane, that isn’t the focus of the book.

It’s an allegory for capitalism, classism, exploitation, greed, etc.

As with all dystopian books it uses an extreme situation, industrialized cannibalism in this case, to scrutinize current societal issues.

#tender is the flesh #agustina bazterrica #booklr #reading #horror novel #dystopian

[33misc]

I’m here to recommend a book to all of my fellow Hozier fans! - The Unworthy (Las Indignas) by Agustina Bazterrica

It fucking has everything!!! Wasteland setting and crippled nature, only woman characters, cultlike situations and religious imaginery. Little spoiler : it even has a little digging up your lover from the ground scene so I’m just assuming the writer listens to Hozier too.

Really worth it!!!

#may post some framents later #bookblr #book recommendations #las indignas #agustina bazterrica #the unworthy #Book #unreal unearth #hozier lyrics #andrew hozier byrne #wasteland baby #francesca #hozier reference #lgtbtq book #hozier #take me to church #eat your young #in a week

[certified-rat-bastard]

Agustina Bazterrica ~ tender is the flesh ~

#words #literature #agustina bazterrica #tender is the flesh

[godzilla-reads]

Started Reading: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (trans. Sarah Moses)

#godzilla reads #karma #my pets #tender is the flesh #agustina bazterrica #reading #translated books #booklr #bookworm #bookish #book blog #bibliophile #booknerd #books and cats

[phaedraismyusername]

Just chucking my 10 pence into the ring for Women in Translation month with a handful of recs on the off chance it'll be of use to someone

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

- a short novel about a Korean woman who decides to become a vegetarian after a bad dream and how the people (mainly men) around her react to the decision and her subsequent spiral into stranger and stranger behaviour.

Convenience Store Woman by Sakaya Murata

- the story follows a neuro-divergent middle aged Japanese woman who loves her job at a convenience store more than anything and just wants to be left alone to do what makes her happy and how the people around her pressure her into conforming to what society expects from her (finding a man, getting a "real job", etc) and how those expectations negatively impact her life.

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

- a strange winding Argentinian novel about a dying woman and a young boy sitting in hospital together and telling stories. I don't really know the best way to sell you on this one other than you'll have to try it to know if you'll like it lol. But if you like a whole lot of weird and appreciate narratives and themes around environmental abuse then this could be for you.

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

- another Argentinian book but this time it's just a straight up consumption horror lol. It follows a man who works at an abattoir essentially in a dystopian society where animal meat is now poisonous to people so they've started breeding and mass-processing humans for meat instead. Does what it says on the tin and pulls absolutely no punches in the process lol.

Confessions by Kanae Minato

- an excellent little Japanese thriller. A class room of teenagers are sat down by their teacher on her last day of work to talk about her resignation after her young daughter died in an accident on school grounds, only for her to reveal that she knows that two of the students are responsible for her death, and the steps she's taken to set her revenge into motion. The rest of the book jumps pov every chapter as you watch the consequences ripple out from there.

and last but not least

Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang

- a Chinese sci-fi novel that follows a group of Mars-born teenagers who, after a civil war between planets, have spent their formative years on Earth as delegates and are now returning to Mars and how they deal with that, basically. It's the longest book on this list by far at around 600 pages but the writing is beautiful and the conversations about Mars being a communist ideal while Earth has reached the pinnacle of what capitalism can create are done in a way that doesn't feel at all soapbox-y and feels very fair in exploring the pros and cons of each system. Just an all around excellent book.

#women in translation #wit month #book recs #the vegetarian #convenience store woman #confessions #vagabonds #tender is the flesh #fever dream #sakaya murata #kanae minato #samantha schweblin #han kang #hao jingfang #agustina bazterrica #books #recs

[thebackestofburners]

Me sitting alone in my car finishing my audiobook copy of Tender is the Flesh and contemplating life

#tender is the flesh #Agustina Bazterrica #Booklr #Bookish #Books #Mag Tag #Mango tag

[impervioustotheworldssoftdecay]

one thing I like about "Tender is the Flesh" is how it's not a perfect dystopia. The systems has cracks showing, people are sometimes more, sometimes less aware of the inhumanity of this. Not everyone is 100% on board, 100% brainwashed, no matter what the media tries to instill in people. Think of the job applicant getting sick when seeing the slaughtering process for example.

That's what draws you in though, that's the terrifying aspect of it. This world seems so realistic and natural, it's not comfortingly distant from our own reality. And even "good" people, normal people who sort of recognize the atrocity of it, participate in the system because they need to.

#pers. #tender is the flesh #agustina bazterrica

[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || January || 18 || Book stack

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #book photo challenge #dracula #bram stoker #red white and royal blue #casey mcquiston #the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society #salman rushdie #the spanish love deception #elena armas #siri hustvedt #agustina bazterrica #tender is the flesh #desy icardi #books #booklr #leerreadinglire #book stack #bookblr

[radiantdanvers]

Just finished reading tender is the flesh and I just want to say... Jasmine deserves the world and I hope the rest ESPECIALLY Marcos a very happy die.

#tender is the flesh #agustina bazterrica #Booklr #dystopian fiction #tw cannibalism #tw animal cruelty #Wtf did I just read #Maybe the dad is an exception

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Grosser than Gross

Eric Raglin: report to the goop troop Shelley Lavigne: and we always stick together Raglin: yeah we're the goop troop Lavigne: best of friends forever Raglin: bop-a-loo bop boppa loo wop Lor Gislason: YEAH

Lor Gislason: bloop bloop time for goop King: excuse me lor you're actually supposed to say "submitted for the approval of the midnight society" Barker: no hang on Barker: this has a nice ring to it

Poe: oh clive you can't be serious David Cronenberg: i'm going to start saying that too Poe: you guys Poe: you can't just change the intro! Poe: we all agreed!

Barker: not to mention they have that great song Poe: that was just the goof troop theme song Poe: with the word "goof" replaced with "goop" Barker: was it? Poe: yes we Poe: we did the exact same joke the last time lor was here

Barker: it's a catchy song King: we should get a theme song! Poe: no we shouldn't King: i bet the rock bottom remainders could whip up a good- Poe: NO we shouldn't

Eric Raglin: better watch out, these stories are pretty gross King: what's gross? Raglin: grosser than gross King: what's grosser than gross? Raglin: Biting into an apple and finding a half a worm King: King: ew

Raglin: oink oink piggies here's some stories straight from the pig pen of depravity Raglin: the swine waller of decadence Raglin: the hog lagoon of disgustingness Raglin: like the 1980s Mad Scientist monster lab kit new from Mattel, these stories have been declared "too gross"

Raglin: you ever think about what would happen if you had really bad acne Raglin: like REALLY bad pus Shelley Lavigne: i have also been thinking about pus by coincidence Lor Gislason: bloop bloop me too King: boy you guys really love pus

Shelley Lavigne: what if there was a party in the heart of a deadly epidemic Poe: wait this is interesting Lavigne: a pox party Poe: sure go on Lavigne: and it was really horny Poe: uh Barker: yes go on

Lor Gislason: bloop bloop what if you made clothes out of baby skin? Gislason: like on an industrial scale? Gislason: bet they'd find some real weasel words to hide that reality King: you really think people would do all that? Agustina Bazterrica: no let him cook

Bazterrica: what if there was a world with cannibalism on an industrial scale CB Blanchard: people are always talking about the bad things about cannibalism Blanchard: capitalism Blanchard: and never about the good things about cannibalism Blanchard: that it's hot

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #stephen king #clive barker #edgar allan poe #david cronenberg #eric raglin #lor gislason #cb blanchard #agustina bazterrica #shelley lavigne

[worthy-prince-i-knowt]

the holy trinity

#in other words i’m a debating vegetarianism now #labour #paris paloma #tender is the flesh #agustina bazterrica #the handmaid's tale #margaret atwood #humanity #i won’t elaborate