#jenn ashworth

[ceaselesslyborne]

Recent Reads

1. The Disaster Tourist: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

An interesting and thought provoking plot that introduced and explored a range of perspectives on what, I hope, is the no-longer-shadowy world of disaster tourism. I was impressed with the simplicity and ease with which the protagonist and reader were quickly immersed in vividly precarious world. It was both strange and disturbingly real. It was somewhat predictable, but there were a number of well developed characters considering the length of the story, and though I’m not normally a fan of ambiguity, it made a pleasant change to confront a protagonist whose fate/motivations/character are never explicitly revealed or judged. The reader is left to draw their own conclusions, to evaluate their own opinions.

2. Redhead by the Side of the Road: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A slow one, but poignant and, for me, definitely one that resonated personally. A powerful, bittersweet, but ultimately hopeful ending, which honestly... I needed. The characters made the novel, and though I don’t think this book is for everyone, I found warmth and humour and understanding in Tyler’s words that make me want to read more of her work.

3. Things we Say in the Dark: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A really fun seasonal read with a unique and compelling and clever structure. I genuinely can’t choose a favourite story/section; I found the collection to be very cohesive and consistently strong. Logan is a skilled writer easily able to inspire fear, dread, anxiety, disgust, and a host of other heart-pounding sensations. I chose to rate it as I did purely because I felt the tropes and tone were too familiar, though I suspect this has more to do with me becoming slightly desensitised and needing to increase the diversity of my reading choices - or at least switch more frequently between genres. That being said, I really want to read more of Logan’s books!

4. The Death of Vivek Oji: ⭐️⭐️

Struggling to articulate exactly why, but this just... didn’t sit well with me. There was some wonderful explorations of themes such as loyalty, honesty, identity, and family, but it was heavy. Bleak. I understand that stories like this are important, necessary, and that we cannot always have happy or even hopeful endings, but I’ve read too many similar tragedies. There was no payoff for the emotional investment, and it’s difficult to invest in the first place when you know the fate of the protagonist from the beginning, and the protagonist seems... content with that fate? Maybe I just read this at the wrong time. (Pro tip: don’t read sad books when you’re sad!)

5. Ghosted: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Some wonderful character development throughout, and definitely made a significant emotional impact. I do feel that the story drew on slightly longer than necessary, but the reader was kept guessing and I was happy enough to follow the clues and reflect on the myriad relationships and characters offered.

6. White Ivy: ⭐️⭐️

I was disappointed by this book, which had such a promising premise, and started so strongly! Yang is, no doubt, a skilled writer, but it was challenging to persist with a story in which none of the characters seemed to have any notable, let alone likeable, traits. The pacing felt off, and I found myself wanting to skim through most of the book whilst other significant moments seemed to be passed over without making the impact they could have. Though it wasn’t a bad read, it didn’t feel like anything new or remarkable.

7. Earthlings: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ok, so this book is definitely not for everyone, and anyone picking it up expecting another Convenience Store Woman is... in for a shock™️! Please research content/trigger warnings before reading! Heartbreaking and heartwarming and disturbing and, yes, gross, this will satisfy your need for something strange. It was a good palette cleanser (or warper) after some underwhelming and sluggish recent reads, and left me with a not-unpleasant out of body sensation wondering wtf I’d just read. Simply put, this was my jam.

8. Our Wives Under the Sea: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

First, a very unrelated note: I read and finished this in the course on one stormy, muggy night which definitely set The Mood™️. I’m not quite sure how to discuss this book. Armfield has captured the sea itself: something vast and unfathomable, changeable, consuming, incomprehensible, and primordial. Dreamy and viscerally, elementally haunting, Our Wives is surreal, horror adjacent, but hits in a very tangible way. I personally loved the style, and the dual perspective and relatively short chapters made what could have been a slow read a very easy one. Through a fantastical lens, Armfield invites us to explore ideas about relationships, communication, trauma, and grief, loss, and reality. A lot is up for interpretation, and I think you could find something new in this book with every re-read.

9. Becoming My Sister: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Okay, so on the scale of ‘normal’ to ‘introduced to V. C. Andrews at a wildly inappropriate age by a mother who clearly had no memory of the book she’d just given her daughter, and no way to anticipate the oncoming obsession’, it’s pretty clear where I fall. Personally I’ve never been disappointed by an Andrews book, and this one was no exception. The writing is witty and thrilling and subtly eerie, and Andrews is absolutely fantastic at drawing the reader into the grip of twisted, claustrophobic family dynamics. Her characters are lifelike, haunted and haunting. She has a singular understanding of the pain and beauty of girlhood, womanhood, and coming of age. I would almost describe this as a ‘guilty pleasure’ read but honestly I’m not sorry. No shame.

10. Ghosts: ⭐️⭐️

Such a promising premise, and so many elements I can usually connect with, but... I think this is just a story I’m tired of reading. It was vague/disconnected and judgemental in a way that reduced the impact of the book overall, at least for me. There was little to humanise or identify in the protagonist (or indeed most of the characters), and I felt the most interesting aspects of the book were not given the focus they deserved, both of which meant key emotional moments fell flat for me. I think for the right person, at the right time, this is a beautiful and moving story; that person just wasn’t me.

#bookblr #book review #bookworm #cj goes to the library #the disaster tourist #yun ko eun #redhead by the side of the road #anne tyler #things we say in the dark #Kirsty Logan #the death of vivek oji #akwaeke emezi #ghosted #jenn ashworth #white ivy #susie yang #earthlings #sayaka murata #our wives under the sea #julia armfield #becoming my sister #v. c. Andrews #ghosts #dolly alderton

[alwaysalreadyangry]

Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth is doing its best to rewire my brain

#jenn ashworth #lit

[thingsreadinthedark]

I feel like my feelings for this book will change it into a five star read for me in the future.

I just wanted it to be a little bit shorter. It was a smidge too long. However, other than that it was perfect in its madness, even the ending.

#chantel’s reading notes #ghosted #Jenn ashworth #recently read #recently finished #chantel’s reading diary #goodreads #bookblr #book tumblr #readers of tumblr

[helianthus-tarot]

Upon seeing ur posts relating to books, here I am! Im a bookworm but i dont read much books since i cant afford lots of books 🥲. I'll just dump whatever books i can rec, alright? Make sure to check Goodread before you buy them 🥰

These are some recs of books i've read since 2020 to today. Feel free to pick whichever fits ur challenge! (☆ mark is a memoir)

Doctor Faustus by Christian Marlowe (this is a classic btw, not sure if you'll like it 😬)

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee ☆

Deaf Utopia by Nyle DiMarco ☆

Look Closer by David Ellis

Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo

A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer ☆

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee ☆

I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya ☆

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim by Sabeeha Rehman ☆

Crying in the H Mart by Michelle Zauner ☆

True Biz by Sara Nović

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

They Called Me a Lioness by Ahed Tamimi ☆

Familiar Things by Hwang Sokyong

Almond by Sohn Wonpyung

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Ghosted by Jenn Ashworth

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

That's a long list, you read a lot and books by authors from different backgrounds too it seems! Thanks for the recommendations 🤍🤍🤍

Recommend a book! ❤️

#asks #book journaling

[water-gaw]

numbers for you too!! 🩷 9, 23, 30 for the fic writer asks? ✨

Thank you, Sol! 🩷

9. What fic meant the most to you to write?

Hands down, this one: House Rules. This is an idea I'd been thinking about for ages. I've always wanted to write a magical house story, and I'd been thinking about how this trope shows up in stories, from the benevolent house magic of Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light to the horrific, like Jenn Ashworth's Fell and Allison Rumfitt's Tell Me I'm Worthless. For this fic, I reshaped the idea for this specific pairing, and I was really happy with the magic system in particular. 23. Share the final version of a sentence or paragraph you struggled with. What about it was challenging? Are you happy with how it turned out?

Oh, this one was hard. Mostly all the paragraphs are challenging, and afterwards I can't remember why? But, this, from here. Nothing about the trip to Mo Ran’s place registers for Chu Wanning. All she knows is the proximity of Mo Ran’s body to her own in the shadowed space of the cab. Strapped in, only their hands are touching, resting side by side on the seat between them. It looks incidental, casual, even. Each point of contact sears Chu Wanning’s skin. She’s aware of every minute movement Mo Ran makes, down to the rise and fall of her chest as she breathes. They could move as one like starlings in flight, changing direction with single-minded focus.

I wanted the bird metaphor in there as an image for how in sync they are, and it took a little while to figure out how to do that. And yes, I do like it now

30. What's something that you want to write in 2024?

The Bingliushen fic I keep inflicting on everyone in Ficwip at all wip sharing opportunities! It makes me cackle as a concept, and I'd like to take that energy into the new year.

2023 review ask game

#ask games #answered

[leguin]

2023 books

alright, calling it bc i’m not optimistic about finishing anything else in the next week - here’s this year’s reading list.

january

- the vampire lestat by anne rice

- bedroom rapper: cadence weapon on hip-hop, resistance, and surviving the music industry by rollie pemberton/cadence weapon

february - was reading queen of the damned

march

- queen of the damned by anne rice

- endurance: shackleton’s incredible voyage by alfred lansing

april

- the liar’s dictionary by eley williams

- drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk (trans. antonia lloyd-jones)

- desert notes/river notes by barry lopez

- an imaginary life by david malouf

- eastbound by maylis de kerangel (trans. jessica moore)

- the forest museum by pip craighead

may - was reading the thirty years war

june

- the thirty years war by c.v. wedgwood

july

- taoism: the road to immortality by john blofeld

- the tale of the body thief by anne rice

august

- the badger by jenn ashworth

- storm in june by irene nemirovsky

- pulling the chariot of the sun by shane mccrae

september

- i don’t want to talk about it: overcoming the secret legacy of male depression by terrence real

october

- peaces by helen oyeyemi

november

- going postal by terry pratchett

- the futurological congress by stanisław lem (trans. michael kandel)

- stations of the tide by michael swanwick

december

- waxing on: the karate kid and me by ralph macchio

- the postcard by anne berest

#booklist 2023 #also started and didn't finish another 10 or so books but i barely remember them at this point... #currently reading the myth of normal the making of the atomic bomb and the manhattan project

[gracedenton]

KAIYA WAEREA Read Sick Writers - T-Shirt Campaign 2021

Referencing is a love language!

Image Description: The front design is a center alighned reading list, reading:

"Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Heroines by Kate Zambreno When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer How to be a Person in the Age of Autoimmunity by Carolyn Lazard Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry The Rejected Body by Susan Wendell Exposure by Olivia Sudjic The Body Multiple by Annemarie Mol The Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain by Leslie Jamison I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz Sanatorium by Abi Palmer Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth The Undying by Anne Boyer Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha"

The back design reads "READ SICK WRITERS" across the sholder blades, with a colophon in smaller type on the bottom left of the tee. The typeface is a relaxed blackletter gothic caligraphy based on femenist ephemera. For more info in this check out Nat Pypers webiste.

The Tangerine is a warm red, and the Vintage White is a warm off-white.

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[libreramune]

Booklist

My current booklist, with a little over 200 books total, some of which I am currently reading and two that I've finished. Everything will be in alphabetical order and below the cut because this is gonna be a long one.

Please also keep in mind that there may be issues with the listed writers or books that I don't know (I don't really inhabit spaces where I'd find this information out and googling every book or writer I find to see if they're controversial is depressing and I'm not doing that). I'd still like to know though so if you see someone on my list give me a heads up.

A

🤎 A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa

🤍 A Magic Steeped In Poison by Judy I. Lin

🤎 A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

🤍 After the Sun by Jonas Eika

🤎 Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

🤍 All Flesh Is Grass by Clifford D. Simak

🤎 All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell

🤍 All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

🤎 All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thompson Mathews

🤍 Annhilation by Jeff Vandermeer

🤎 Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum

🤍 August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White

B

🤎 Before the Coffe Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

🤍 Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

🤎 Borne by Jeff Vandermeer

🤍 Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens

🤎 Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

🤍 Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

🤎 Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi

C

🤎 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

🤍 Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka

🤎 City by Clifford D. Simak

🤍 City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer

🤎 Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au

🤍 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (COMPLETED)

🤎 Coraline by Neil Gaiman

🤍 Crying in H Mart by Michell Zauner

D

🤎 Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer

🤍 Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano

🤎 Devil House by John Darnielle

🤍 Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi

🤎 Dishonored: The Corroded Man by Adam Christopher

🤍 Dishonored: The Return of Daud by Adam Christopher

🤎 Dishonored: The Veiled Terror by Adam Christopher

🤍 Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

🤎 Don't Say We Didn't Warn You by Ariel Delgado Dixon

E

🤍 Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

🤎 Edenville by Sam Rebelein

🤍 Edge Case by Yz Chin

🤎 Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin

🤍 Enchanted Pilgrimage by Clifford D. Simak

F

🤎 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (COMPLETED)

🤍 Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson

🤎 Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin

🤍 Fire Season by Leyna Know

🤎 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

🤍 Flux by Orion Carloto

🤎 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

🤍 Funny You Should Ask by Elisa Sussman

G

🤎 Ghost Forest by Pik Shuen Fung

🤍 Ghosted by Jenn Ashworth

🤎 Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

🤍 Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

🤎 Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang

🤍 Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #1 by Mō Xiāng Tóng Xiū

🤎 Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

H

🤍 Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

🤎 Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami

🤍 Heaven's Official Blessing #1 by Mō Xiāng Tóng Xiū

🤎 Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

🤍 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

🤎 Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky

I

🤍 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

🤎 I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-Hee

🤍 Idol, Burning by Rin Usami

🤎 If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

🤍 Infinite Country by Patricia Engel

🤎 Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan

🤍 Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flynn

J

🤎 Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang

K

🤍 Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto

🤎 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

🤍 Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

🤎 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

L

🤍 Laserwriter II by Tamara Shopsin

🤎 Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

🤍 Letter to a Future Lover by Ander Monson

🤎 Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata

🤍 Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

🤎 Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

🤍 Loteria by Cynthia Pelayo

🤎 Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park

M

🤍 Made to Kill by Adam Christopher

🤎 Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

🤍 Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer

🤎 Memorial by Bryan Washington

🤍 Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

🤎 Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West

🤍 Mister N by Najwa Barakat

🤎 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

🤍 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N.I.M.H. by Robert C. O'Brien

🤎 Ms. Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami

🤍 My Year Abroad byChang Rae-Lee

N

🤎 Never Whistle At Night by Shane Hawk

🤍 Night Film by Marisha Pessl

🤎 Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey

🤍 Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

🤎 Normal People by Sally Rooney

O

🤍 O Beautiful by Jung Yun

🤎 Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

🤍 Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint by Sing Shong

🤎 Our Wives Under the Sun by Julia Armfield

P

🤍 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

🤎 Paradise Rot by Jenny Hual

🤍 People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami

🤎 Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

🤍 Popisho by Leone Ross

🤎 Postmarked the Stars by Andre Norton

🤍 Pretend I'm Dead by Jen Beagin

Q

R

🤎 Revival Season by Monica West

🤍 Ringworld #1 by Larry Niven

S

🤎 Saltwater by Jessica Andrews

🤍 Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada

🤎 Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

🤍 Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow

🤎 Send Nudes by Saba Sams

🤍 So Bright the Vision by Clifford D. Simak

🤎 Solo Leveling #1 by Chugong

🤍 Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

🤎 Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin

🤍 Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina

🤎 Stories from Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Rofena

🤍 Strange Weather In Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

🤎 Supper Club by Lara Williams

🤍 Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

🤎 Swimming In the Dark by Tamasz Jedrowski

T

🤍 Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel

🤎 Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

🤍 Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima

🤎 The Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

🤍 The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay

🤎 The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

🤍 The City Inside by Samit Basu

🤎 The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

🤍 The Deep by Rivers Solomon

🤎 The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

🤍 The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada

🤎 The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada

🤍 The Fallen by Thomas E. Sniegoski

🤎 The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang

🤍 The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

🤎 The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oli

🤍 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

🤎 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

🤍 The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada

🤎 The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

🤍 The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Davila

🤎 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

🤍 The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

🤎 The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

🤍 The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

🤎 The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

🤍 The Local by Joey Hartstone

🤎 The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

🤍 The Midcoast by Adam White

🤎 The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

🤍 The Nakano Thrift Store by Hiromi Kawakami

🤎 The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected In the Water by Zen Cho

🤍 The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

🤎 The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin

🤍 The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart

🤎 The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

🤍 The Rig by Roger Levy

🤎 The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado

🤍 The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System by Mō Xiāng Tóng Xiū

🤎 The Secret History by Donna Tart

🤍 The Stange Bird by Jeff Vandermeer

🤎 The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

🤍 The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

🤎 The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien

🤍 The Visitors by Clifford D. Simak

🤎 The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber

🤍 The Werewolf Principle by Clifford D. Simak

🤎 The White Book by Han Kang

🤍 The World After the Fall by Sing Shong

🤎 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

🤍 They Walked Like Men by Clifford D. Simak

🤎 This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

🤍 This One Sky Day by Leone Ross

🤎 This Weightless World by Adam Soto

🤍 This World Is Full of Monsters by Jeff Vandermeer

🤎 Those Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

🤍 Time and Again by Clifford D. Simak

🤎 Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

🤍 Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist

U

V

W

🤎 Way Station by Clifford D. Simak

🤍 We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman

🤎 Weather by Jenny Offrill

🤍 Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo

🤎 Welcome to Nightvale by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

🤍 What Is Not Your Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

🤎 What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

🤍 When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

🤎 When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill

🤍 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

🤎 Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes

🤍 Where the Evil Dwells by Clifford D. Simak

🤎 Why Call Them Back From Heaven? by Clifford D. Simak

🤍 Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin

🤎 Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

X

Y

🤍 You Have A Friend In 10A by Maggie Shipstead

🤎 You Made A Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

🤍 Yvinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

Z

#🔖booklist #🧾announcement #bookblr #readingblr

[ceaselesslyborne]

02/09/22

First September library selection! Looking forward to introducing more seasonal gothic/spooky reads and, of course, some real horror as autumn gets fully underway.

- CJ

#bookblr #bookworm #tbr pile #cj goes to the library #the disaster tourist #yun ko-eun #redhead by the side of the road #Anne Tyler #things we say in the dark #Kirsty Logan #the death of vivek oji #akwaeke emezi #ghosted #jenn ashworth #white ivy #susie yang #earthlings #sayaka murata #our wives under the sea #julia armfield #becoming my sister #v. c. Andrews #ghosts #dolly alderton

[fluoresensitivearchived]

I was hot and clammy and I couldn’t see properly: the world started to tunnel in and fade away. It was letting go of me, I think.

Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma, Jenn Ashworth

#🌙 #jenn ashworth #written word #wrow.

[oestmac]

June Book Haul

Most Wanted - Lisa Scottoline

The Kindness of Strangers - Katrina Kittle

Cold Light - Jenn Ashworth

An Amish Match - Jo Ann Brown

An Amish Reunion - Jo Ann Brown

His Amish Sweetheart - Jo Ann Brown

Danger in Plain Sight - Marta Perry

#books #mine #book haul #june #amish #lisa scottoline #katrina kittle #jenn ashworth #jo ann brown #marta perry #most wanted #the kindness of strangers #cold light #an amish match #an amish reunion #his amish sweetheart #danger in plain sight

[yugocar]

“Let me tell this woman about Debbie, whose face I can hardly remember (who is easy to find on Facebook), not to make her laugh, although that’s a cowardly part of it, but because I want to demonstrate to her something I still can’t help but hope is true of art generally and might one day be true for me in particular: the things we sickly humans make can be more complex and intelligent, more humane and more precious, than the wounded people who make them. / Alone in my bed, I feel ashamed.

What I don’t tell her is that I have lost my faith in fiction, which was supposed to be able to hold and transform everything. I am writing a novel, and working on several short story commissions, but I’m typing through a lump in my throat because I can’t make a story about the most important thing I have to tell.”

Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma, Jenn Ashworth

#reading list logs #sharing things helps motivate me to read #creating archives helps motivate me period #words ignite

[hanibalistic]

same anon who asked for book recommendations, thank you so much for responding ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ i’ll look into those books in the near future. furthermore, i’d love for article recommendations !

no problem! i hope you have fine with the books! and yes, i will be happy to give some articles (as well as some video essays you can double as audio article, i suppose) to read!

articles/essays:

the uncanny child by elisa gabbert

reality is plasticine by eloghosa osunde

panic is worse than pain: how fiction failed me after trauma by jenn ashworth

video essays:

who's afraid of modern art: vandalism, video games, and fascism

artificial loneliness (this is about red dead redemption 2, which is a game i really liked, so it may not necessarily be interesting to people who doesn't know the game but ultimately, i think it's a good watch)

lady bird, fences, and why you don't need to forgive your parents

#anonie #reply

[weirdletter]

Great British Horror 5: Midsummer Eve, edited by Steve J. Shaw, Black Shuck Books, 2020. Info: blackshuckbooks.co.uk.  Great British Horror 5 continues the annual series showcasing the best in modern British horror. Every year, the series will feature ten British authors, plus one international guest contributor, telling tales of this sceptered isle. The 2020 edition, Midsummer Eve, features eleven more previously unpublished stories from authors at the very top of their game.

Featuring: Midsummer Eve – Stephen Laws Midsummer Eve – C.C. Adams Midsummer Eve – Kelly White Midsummer Eve – Lisa Morton Midsummer Eve – Stewart Hotston Midsummer Eve – Rachel Knightley Midsummer Eve – Linda Nagle Midsummer Eve – Robert Shearman Midsummer Eve – Jenn Ashworth Midsummer Eve – Simon Clark Midsummer Eve – Aliya Whiteley

#book #anthology #weird fiction #horror fiction #british horror #british folk horror #folk horror #midsummer eve

[rathertoofondofbooks]

See my new #BookHaul in this week's Stacking the Shelves post (25 March)

See my new #BookHaul in this week’s Stacking the Shelves post (25 March)

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews, which is all about sharing the books that you’ve acquired in the past week!

  These are the & eBooks I bought this week:

Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook

I’m a huge Joy Division and New Order fan, so can never resist a book about them. This has been on my radar since it was first published so when I spotted it in a kindle…

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#Alicia Cook #Amanda Prowse #Book Haul #Books #Dani Atkins #ebooks #Helen MacKinven #Jenn Ashworth #Jim Ody #Joy Division #Laura Marshall #Lucinda Berry #Lucy Jones #Mark Stewart #Miranda Doyle #New Order #Peter Hook #Sally Rooney #Stacking the Shelves #Stephen Lee Naish

[lamski]

Tyranny of ageing and the endless oscillation of relationships.

.- Self Portrait by of my grandfather, working as a photographer.

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This rekindling in creative and engaging in cultural activities all started with listening to the Radio 4 show, ‘The Faith of Children or Kumbaya and All That’ back in April 2015 – I was working away on my work presentation and was listening to this on the background.

There was one particular segment on the radio show by Jenn Ashworth who mentions her faith and the creative visionary behind it and being taught that if you had talent if you were good at something. It becomes your responsibility to develop it and share it with the world.

Then later in the same year (i.e. 2015), I find out that my grandfather had passed away at age of 82 through Social Media (i.e. WhatsApp message). This wasn’t the first time reading such tragedies on a media tool. Early on Facebook - people were sharing similar stories before they were frowned upon (for not following proper etiquette).

I wasn’t particularly close to him but this was personal and it was a terrible way of finding this out... this feeling of unknowing left me wanting to know more about my grandfather – what was his childhood like, his favourite things to what made him tick. Finding out all this related information, pushed me to diverge and yearn to re-define my life. This new manifesto of knowledge, having a sense of realisation and the dawn of a new synthesis.

References:

- Some Articles About Bob Dylan and Edvard Munch > https://www.needsomefun.net/some-articles-about-bob-dylan-and-edvard-munch/

- Munch’s The Scream… and the appeal of anguished art > https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17139576

- Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible By Kelly Baum, Andrea Bayer, Sheena Wagstaff

- Who's Afraid of Modern Art?: Essays on Modern Art and Theology in Conversation By Daniel A. Siedell

- Radio 4 Show > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pmpdw

- 5 stages of grief > https://psychcentral.com/lib/the-5-stages-of-loss-and-grief/

- Nielsen Norman Study > https://www.nngroup.com/articles/too-fast-ux/

#observing the everyday #personal narrative #epiphany #conduct of life #experience #ageing #relationships