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You can’t change the past, but it’s infinitely reframeable. You can tell the same story over and over a hundred different ways, and every version is a little right and every version is a little wrong.
How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann
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A restorationist restores a piece to its original form, whereas a conservationist simply preserves a piece so it won’t change any further. As the conservationists like to say: a restorationist would have put arms back on the Venus de Milo. A conservationist ensures no more limbs fall off. She seeks to be invisible, to neither reimagine nor reinvent, to keep what is broken exactly as it is, to never replace what is missing.
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Title: How to Be Eaten | Author: Maria Adelmann | Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2022)
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But no matter how many times you say it, you don’t get stolen time back.
- Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten
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—How to Be Eaten, Maria Adelmann (2022)
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I knew I should be grateful - for the sky, for the sun, for days at all - but I wanted to escape, to shoot out of the atmosphere into the blackness of outer space, or else I wanted to fold into myself, like origami, so that I could see only the darkness of my own inner edges. But even then - or especially then - I knew the dead women from my dreams would be waiting, stretching their bony, decaying hands out to me, begging me to give them faces, to give them names.
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how to be eaten.
dialogue prompts from how to be eaten: a novel by maria adelmann.
people know of you, but do they know you?
'absolute honesty' sounds like 'total crap', to me.
i do wonder what you've all heard about me.
i am just, in general, very hurt.
i know people don't like me.
whatever you heard, maybe it's not the whole story.
you can sell anything, if you know how to package it.
life shouldn't be lived behind a screen.
everything i have, i earned.
no pain without pleasure.
i should have known something was wrong.
what twenty-something hasn't fallen for some creepy asshole?
is originality the goal?
i wasn't special before this and i'm not special now.
i exist beyond your human concept of gender.
don't tell me that you liked me for my personality.
men don't have to pretend to be good.
when people recognize me, they cross the street.
the dead speak to you?
i don't have much room to call anyone else crazy.
nobody listens to what they don't want to hear.
do you really believe me? i don't blame you, if you don't.
i wouldn't waste a lot of time trying to figure out who believes you.
i was too tired to be afraid; or else, i was afraid all the time.
self-care is a neoliberal trap.
you need everything to be all fucked up.
i'm tired of treating you like shit.
i wouldn't even pay me to sleep with me.
a kid couldn't make up something like that.
you always need to be the most interesting person in the room.
thanks, mom, but i can take care of myself.
it's funny, how they can doubt you and blame you in the same breath.
you're always involved in some weirdo catastrophe.
it's easier to see the big picture when you're not involved.
it's easy to pretend you're too cool for something when you already have it.
one morning i tried to diy a sundial.
it's not so bad, kid. come out here and talk to me.
i wasn't actually trying to hurt you. i mean, physically.
if you lose your dignity while winning the game, have you really won?
i think martinis taste like pine trees.
it would've been good tv, but it was just real life.
i try not to waste too much time wanting things.
rich kids are 'inventive'. poor kids just lie.
there will always be a bunch of assholes who don't believe you.
not everything is a love story.
you have a lot of nightmares. what are they about?
where have you broken? where have you healed?
do you think you're capable of love?
i wanted to be me without the context.
my reputation has never been about me.
you look just like your picture.
what if, for some of us, moving on involves finding good in the bad?
talent doesn't mean as much as people pretend it does.
nothing's free and everything is sellable.
there are so many ways to be torn in half.
what would you do if you had money?
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book ask! 3 and 10?
3. What were your top 5 books of the year?
Hardest question first, I see. xD
Babel by R. F. Kuang
The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
The Monster of Eldenhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
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10. What was your favorite new release of the year?"
Hm, probably The Hanging City by Charlie N Holmberg. I'd heard a lot about it before it came out, and it didn't quite live up to the hype, but it was really fun.
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24 in 2024
i haven't seen any of these floating around yet, so i thought i'd get one started! here are 24 books i want to read in 2024 (and a bonus readerly goal):
Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Obsolescence: An Architectural History by Daniel M. Abramson
Offended Sensibilities by Alisa Ganieva
The Night, The Night by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel
Dawn by Sevgi Soysal
Trashlands by Alison Stine
The Girl in Red by Christina Henry
How to be Eaten by Maria Adelmann
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang
The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown
Black Tide by KC Jones
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
The Ambergris Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
The Great Cities Duology by NK Jemisin
The Spider and her Demons by sydney khoo
A Shining by Jon Fosse
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology edited by Vince A Liaguno and Rena Mason
Self-Portrait with Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land by Malcolm Devlin
Always North by Vicki Jarrett
At the Edge of the Woods by Masatsugu Ono
Bonus Readerly Goal: i'm gonna try REALLY hard to only buy a book after i read five (5), this year (pre-orders DNI). gotta get that backlist under control SOMEhow, right??
notes on the color-coding: the green books are Just Because books (with a couple little red riding hood adjacent retellings in there, which is writing-project-related). a few of these came in a translation subscription box, and i am Interested in Architecture, and i'd love to read more of both this year.
the blue ones are bookmarked for nano prep (i wanna write something fucked up about space this year, i think, it's still cooking). i know it's early for that, but The Vibes™ have to marinate for a while. will probably add some haunted house books to this part of the list!
lastly, the purple ones are driscoll adjacent! filling my words well with related vibes worked well, this year, and i want to do that again next year. since i read through the entirety of my previous ~driscoll vibes~ stack last year, i've been restocking it, so most of these are very recently purchased.
(please note that all this color-coding/explanatory text is absolutely optional and Extra™, if you want to play--you can add it if you'd like, but by no means feel Obligated To Do So lol)
tagging @asexualbookbird, @six-of-ravens/@sixofravens-reads, @agardenandlibrary, @freckles-and-books, and anyone else who wants to play!
#books#24 in 2024#reading goals#book talk#asexualbookbird#six-of-ravens#agardenandlibrary#freckles-and-books#if anyone would like me to remove their tag please say so! and no pressure to play#i'm just curious about what y'all want to read!#ALSO if anyone/any followers would like me to ADD you with an official tag please slide into my messages and let me know--i'm happy to add!#you can also just tag me in your own post and say 'thanks for the tag' if you're so inclined!! really whoever wants to play can#(i just know that i myself personally almost never respond because 'what if they don't really mean ME anyone')#(but i assure you that i mean --you-- anyone reading this)#(again: will also happily add you to tags if you'd like just let me know lmao)#(also also: yeah i'm making this instead of finishing off my 23 in 2023 reading list lmao)#(i got pretty far!! all that's left is bitch queen and daemon voices and both of those are literally in progress!!)#(so that's pretty good i think)#anyway ezra you're up lmaoo#not me procrastikn----booking?#procrastibooking#procrastiblogging even#in btw#driscoll
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is the book how to be eaten by Maria Adelmann any good?
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Books Read in 2023
A few standouts: Memory Called Empire and Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (how alien we all are in comparison); On Earth As It Is On Television by Emily Jane (how dysfunctional and yet beautiful the world is even under invasion); Women Talking by Miriam Toews (women finding their voice but not all in the same ways); How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann (haha, wow I see a theme emerging: women finding their voice after trauma); and Susan Vreeland's The Passion of Artemisia (namely for all it didn't tell me about the real-life female painter Artemisia who was raped by her father's friend and then put to the screws to validate her testimony--women have a LOT OF TRAUMA Y'ALL).
The Temeraire seies by Naomi Novik was a reread and although I'm on the last novel of the series right now, I won't finish it in the next seven hours. But I'll consider it a gift of 2023, to dip back into familiar and hopeful waters, as an encouragement to keep the faith: we can do better than this; we are all on a gyre, yes, but it is tending towards more complete love not chaos. I have to believe that.
May your new year be blessed.
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The nineteen-foot TV flipped on, and the blue-bearded face of my boyfriend filled the room. A half-smile drew across his face, just one side, like a person having a stroke. On the TV, his smirk was twice as long as my entire body. He looked like he could swallow me whole, but this was wishful thinking: Ashton clearly liked to torture his prey.
“Find anything interesting?” he asked. His words boomed around me, surround sound.
“No,” I said, but my voice shook.
“I asked you not to go in there,” he said.
Suddenly I saw Ashton as my sister saw him—not as a hero or a self-possessed business mogul but as an awkward and ugly asshole. His beard was designed to both counter and conceal his soft, stupid face. His pretentious tone was an attempt to elevate a bitter history of geeky uncoolness. I thought of all of the awkward grudge-holding school shooters, the vol-cel Nazis, the pudgy and petulant dictators, the pale men on power trips who were always either my bosses or my boyfriends.
It’s strange, to learn your boyfriend is a psychopath and to not be entirely surprised.
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“Tragedy isn’t capital,” says Gretel. “It doesn’t buy you anything. It doesn’t automatically make you a better person. And it certainly doesn’t make people fall in love with you.”
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To want is to be bewitched, I’ve long thought. If it’s beautiful or sweet, it will ruin you.
- María Adelmann, How To Be Eaten
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Different Support Groups
Getting invested in different Support Groups... Thought I'd share.
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The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Also got a few about haunted houses. Might make that a post....
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