#all's well

[genterie]

@linaluvsbooks on instagram

#linaluvsbooks #books #the secret history #donna tartt #mona awad #all's well #isaac bashevis singer #the pentent #mieko kawakami #breasts and eggs #elif batuman #the idiot #just kids #patti smith #if we were villains #m. l. rio

[etredusoir]

Books with a "tinge" of pink.

Do you ever just stare at the book you're reading because of how beautiful the cover is? I know I did with these books. Long story short, I enjoyed Bunny so much that I'm currently re-reading and annotating it right now.

— Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, Bunny by Mona Awad, All's Well by Mona Awad

#cleopatra and frankenstein #my year of rest and relaxation #all's well #bunny #coco mellors #ottessa moshfegh #mona awad #bookblr

[shakespearenews]

College: a time of freedom, of frivolity, of friskiness. Freshmen Lulu and Marianne test their limits as they party through the school year in search of their place in the world: Marianne is newly eighteen and navigating her parents’ recent divorce, while Lulu tries to reignite a spark with her high school sweetheart. But when their drama-nerd-roommate Harriet brings in baggage from a student production of All’s Well That Ends Well, ideas of consent and manipulation start to seep into their lives. 

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #writing #new writing #playwright #new play #shakespeare and adaptation #the bed trick #college #all's well #all's well that ends well #keiko green #seattle #seattle shakespeare

[daphneblakess]

books i read in 2022: all’s well by mona awad

“But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn’t know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would leave a bad taste. That would just be bad theater, wouldn’t it? A bad show. You want a good show. They all do. A few pretty tears on my cheeks that you can brush away.”

#all's well #mona awad #all's well that ends well #macbeth #storyseekers #booksociety #my edits #2022books

[journeytodrawiii]

I am alive

Hey y'all! I know there've been nothing but crickets from my blog for quite some time now, but rest assured — not that any of y'all were worried — I am just fine. I have just returned from an ✨AMAZING✨ school trip to Greece. Those memories are something so mystical and endearing and I am certain I will cherish them for the rest of my life. Being gone for over a week, however, does lead to the piling up of responsibilities and I've found myself rather swamped. I am still doodling little things and journaling about my trip that I hope to share with y'all soon. Alright, take care now!! Love y'all!!! 💗💗💗💗

#letting y'all know i'm well #all's well #just busy is all #but i'm making do #and life will go on #and so will i #love y'all #<333 #ramblings #yapping

[nerdynatreads]

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book review || All’s Well by Mona Awad

Wow, the chronic pain rep in this is fantastic. Her pain is a consistent topic that underlays all thoughts and interactions - as well as the consistent dismissal of the pain she feels by everyone around her, both male medical professionals and her female colleagues.

Love how she doesn’t pull any punches in her inner dialogue - is brutally honest and darkly funny, loves of quips that lean into sex.

Lots of Miranda getting lost in her own head, reminiscing, creating fictional conversations, or imaging scenarios, before crashing back into the present. It’s an unusual style, but it manages to be funny, while being oh so dark and with a constant oppressive tone, due to her pain

It’s hard to decide whether Miranda really is seeing all of these pitying looks and annoyed expressions or if she’s simply reading into them. It’s clear Miranda is incredibly bitter, and while being in her head leads us to sympathize with her, it also can be quite frustrating and exhausting.

An odd combo of confusion of what’s happening and perfect understanding, particularly in the more horrific moments, but then the tone shifts to very upbeat and happy, making for this unsettling contrast.

Use of repetition is very clever, showcasing the shifting of emotions and the power behind them.

Oh yeah, as we hit the third act and reach opening night, we start getting lost in more and more of Miranda’s imagined scenarios and delusions, to the point where it’s getting more difficult to decide what is actually happening and what Miranda perceives is happening. At the same time, you can tell that Miranda is losing her grip on reality as well.

While Miranda has grown from her pain, it’s like mentally she’s trapped in her memories of how her life once was, in the dream happiness she believes her life to have been.

Y’all, the way witchcraft became such a prevalent theme! I did not expect that, but it also fit so perfectly with the Shakespeare and the New England setting. The horror elements at the beginning start to feel more like magical realism, which pairs well with the witchy angle.

The pacing is also incredibly fast at the end. I couldn’t stop listening.

5 / 5 stars

#book review #all's well #all's well by mona awad #mona awad #horror books #book recs #book recommendations #bookblr #booklbr #book tumblr #booktube #booktuber #book youtube #cat #kitty #kitten #studyblr

[pizza-planet]

where the FUCK is the love for mona awad’s all’s well.......... bunny is amazing and i rated it 5 stars, but all’s well is also incredible!!! is it because it isn’t ~dark academia~?? it isn’t as ~aesthetic~ ???? chronic pain isn’t aesthetically pleasing, babes, but i promise if you enjoyed bunny, you’ll like this too

#all's well #mona awad #books #ramblings

[shortskirtsandsarcasm]

Awad set out to create a book that is every genre at once and it somehow works.

If you have chronic pain, be prepared for an excellent and excruciating enunciation of the main character living with pain in her back and hips. I think I had so much empathy for Miranda’s pain that it made my own chronic pain worse. Mona Awad is such a talented writer, that I think it was worth it in the end.

Some tell you, "Oh, whatever feels good". But nothing ever feels good, does it?

For the full review of this title, see my Medium page and my website.

#books #booklr #book #book review #books and libraries #book rec #reading #bookworm #book recommendations #all's well that ends well #all's well #mona awad #bunny #dark academia #shakespeare

[convulsionofhonesty]

14, 60, 71 for the book ask game💕

hellooo thanks for asking !

14. a book that made you trip on literary acid

not sure if i'm interpreting this correctly but if this is asking for like fever dream books then i have to say anything by mona awad, either bunny or all's well!

60. a book that you think about at 3 am

last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo! everything about this book is so atmospheric and emotional and i just find myself thinking about it all the time, it really sticks with me!

71. your favorite lgbtq+ fiction

last night at the telegraph club (again lol), on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong (it's not really like a central theme iirc but it is important to the narrative/character), loveless by alice oseman, the great believers by rebecca makkai (really heavy topic though)!

#mine #ask #bunny #all's well #last night at the telegraph club #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #in the dream house #loveless #the great believers

[pinkbowjournal]

Women who cast wispy shadows. All feathered hair and cryptic smiles. Reeking of duplicity and mugwort.

Mona Awad, All’s Well. 

#mona awad #all's well #quotes #gemini #sagittarius #cancer

[sassyalone]

I hear the music switch. Judy isn't roaring about getting happy anymore. She's singing softly again about shadows. Like she never stopped. Just the sad, familiar swell of strings filling the air. It's gone. Gone from me, gone from the bar. Taking the cold dark with it. And I'm still here. I open my eyes, where there are tears now. There I am in the cracked mirror, sitting in the shattered bar. No blooms of flame around my head or rope of smoke at my throat. Just my sea-straggly hair shimmering with small flowers. Just my hands around my miraculously unspilled Scotch. And my tear-streaked face impossibly smiling. Not the brightly beaming face of the young woman from the old Playbill photo, not anymore. No more eyes like stars, no more blinding eclipse. This face shines another light. This face says I have lived, I'm alive. This face says I've known joy and pain, known them both. I'll know them both again.

All’s Well

#all's well #mona awad #books of 2022

[myclutteredbookshelf]

January Reading Wrap Up

Every book I completed this month:

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

All’s Well by Mona Awad

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

The Dawn of Yangchen by F. C. Yee

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

#sherlock holmes #midnight in the garden of good and evil #the only good indians #all's well #parable of the talents #the dawn of yangchen #to the lighthouse #the atlas paradox #my best friend's exorcism #ariel

[el-im]

hate ! how much doing the right thing can feel like shit

#'who do you take me for??' 'my friend 🥺' #i said 'and i'm sure that would normally bend steel but--' #fuck off and DIE #captain's log #i didnt say that i said. they're double replacements--they're easy. i have full confidence in your ability to do them. and/or to find #someone with a little less integrity and get them to acquiesce. and again--i'd be more than happy to check them before class to see if #all's well #he said 'ok' #DIE #!

[shakespearenews]

You’ll note that some of these implements are ornate—“picks” feels like a lackluster descriptor. Fancy toothpicks were a mark of sophistication in Shakespearean-era Britain, so much so that the Bard of Avon mentioned them in several of his plays, including Much Ado About Nothing, King John All’s Well That Ends Well, and Winter’s Tale. They remained a big deal in life and literature well into the 1800s, making cameos in the likes of Sense and Sensibility (here’s a whole podcast episode about toothpicks in the Regency era; thanks to Stannie Holt for the tip) and Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #object lessons #material culture #toothpick #toothpicks #snackstack #much ado about nothing #all's well #the winter's tale

[miniaturecatmentality]

guys I just found the greatest video on the internet

#tiktok #tiktoks #well actually this is from #instagram reels #Instagram #but we all know what i mean #short form videos #comedy #hahaha #🤓 #funny #praying mantis #entomology #entomology jokes #and something else entirely #dogs #little dog #chihuahua #creachur #bad jokes #yeah #i think thats enough tags

[sleepygaymerdisease]

#'who was this about' dont worry <3 #EDIT hi i didnt realize this would get notes LOL. um everyone reblog with what character ur thinking of because im NOSEY i WANNA SEE #edit 2 to everyone trying to guess what the character i made this for was. youre all wrong. this was about kamen rider #youd think lupin because of my profile picture but alas i have other interests as well... #anis gaymer moments