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shoujo-dump · 7 months

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Manga recommendations for people who love Hikaeme ni Itte mo, Kore wa Ai manga, dedicated to @aengelren and all the other readers that enjoy the series ❤️

I have listed some categories below that are similar to the genres & subgenres of Hikaeme ni Itte mo, Kore wa Ai. Hopefully there might be some new series there that will be added to your reading list. Please note that not all series are obviously identical to Hikaeme, however I have used a ⭐ to indicate series that I think share most similarities with the series either in more than one genre or if the series have a similar atmosphere/general vibes to Hikaeme ni Itte mo, Kore wa Ai.

If you love the art style of Hikaeme, then I recommend checking out other series created by the same mangaka:

Hatsukoi ni Kiss (omnibus of 8 oneshots)

Kanjuku Summer End (oneshot)

Koi Wazurai no Ellie

Machiko wa Oborekake (oneshot)

Fast Romance:

Kare Kano (has anime adaptation!)

Koi no Mae ni, Amaku Hajimete. Hikaeme Elite-kun ga Watashi ni Dake Hatsujou shite imasu 🌶️

Museru Kurai no Ai wo Ageru ⭐

Ore Monogatari!! (has anime adaptation!)

Suki tte Ii na yo. (has anime, movie and live action adaptation!)

Delinquents:

Atashi no Banbi

Boku ni Hana no Melancholy

Five

I My Me Mine ⭐

Hajimete Koi o Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi (however doesn't seem to be an official nor fan English translation anywhere, the series has live action adaptation though!)

Hana yori Dango (has anime and several live action adaptations)

Hana Nochi Hare: Hanadan Next Season (has live action adaptation)

Haru no Ogawa wa Dokidoki Suru yo. (oneshot)

Iincho to Furyou-kun

Junai Tokkou Taichou!

Kimi ni Koishite Ii desu ka.

Kokuhaku Suru Aite o Machigaemashita

Megane, Tokidoki, Yankee-kun

Me no Tsukedokoro ga Deep Desho

Mikansei Demo Koi ga Ii

Mochizuki-san ka no Yankee ⭐

Raou-kun wa Watashi ni Kamau

Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun (has anime and live action adaptation!)

Webcomic: Kono Yankee wa Ubu Sugiru!

Love Interest Changes:

Futari de Koi wo suru Riyuu

Koukou Debut (has live action adaptation!)

Male Lead Falls in Love First:

Batsuichi ga Moteru nante Kiitemasen

Chorokute Kawaii Kimi ga Suki

Einheli no Hanayome 🌶️

Furare Girl

Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai (anime adaptation is going to be released in 2024!)

Kanojo ga Kawaii Sugite Ubaenai

Kimi wa Kawaii Onnanoko

Mainichi Kiss shite ii desu ka?

Namaikizakari.

Sakura wa Watashi wo Sukisugiru ⭐

Slow Jet Coaster

Tsuiraku JK to Haijin Kyoushi (has live action adaptation!)

Webtoon: A Good Day to Be a Dog (available on webtoons.com)

Webtoon: The Fantasie of a Stepmother

Webtoon: As You Wish, Prince

Webtoon: The Reason Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion (also has anime adaptation!)

Webtoon: Writer's Block of Romance

Webtoon: Your Ultimate Love Rival

Straightforward Male Lead:

Hamuko to Gao-kun

Kuchibiru ni Kimi no Iro

Living no Matsunaga-san

Midori no Himitsu (oneshot)

Neko to Kiss

Takane no Ran-san

Unmei no Hito ni Deau Hanashi

Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki ⭐

Yubisaki to Renren (will have anime adaptation in 2024!)⭐

Opposites attract:

Beast Master

Kimi ga Kirai na Koi no Hanashi

Kimi ni Todoke (has anime, live action )⭐

Saruyama!

Webtoon: Midnight Poppy Land (read the official English translation on webtoons.com, it currently has over 100 chapters) ⭐

Kuudere Female Lead:

Akuma to Love Song

Webtoon: I Failed to Oust the Villain!

Webtoon: Villains Are Destined to Die

Warm Ambience:

Honnou Switch 🌶️⭐

Houkago, Koishita.

Koori Zokusei Danshi to Cool na Douryo Joshi (has anime adaptation!)

Ojou-san to Yobanaide

Tonari no Stella ⭐

#manga recommendations #shoujo recommendation #josei recommendations #manga reccs #shoujo reccs

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lalunameli · 5 months

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4-Koma Translation:

Scan provided by @tnbscans

ユーリ先生と深夜の紅茶

4杯目作：小川クロ

Late Night Tea with Yuri-sensei

4th Cup By: Ogawa Kuro

Panel 1:

(Yuri is listening to the radio)

ヒーローウレディオゥ！

Hero Radio!

Panel 2:

ハアイ！

Hiiiii!

様々なヒーロゥ！の情報をお送り…

I have information about various heroes...

Yuri thinking: 相も変らぬバニングリッシュだな

It's the same as Bunninglish

TN: Bunninglish - the English words Morita has to say as Bunny, such as the English titles of each episode during the next episode previews.

(Sound effect: くるくる - stir stir)

Panel 3:

ヒーローネーム

Hero Name:

”ハンサムメガネ”さん

"Handsome Megane (glasses)"-san

(Sound effect: ずず (sip sip)

Panel 4:

Yuri thinking: 実にわかりやすく

It's really easy to understand

(Picture of Chibi Bunny with Handsome Megane written around his face)

明確なヒーローネームだ…

It's clearly a hero's name...

#my translations #tiger and bunny #4 koma #yuri petrov #barnaby brooks jr #hero radio #ユーリペトロフ #ユーリ・ペトロフ #ルナティック #タイバニ #管理官 #bunninglish

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luxe-pauvre · 1 year

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I love your monthly lists, please keep them going! There were no fiction books in your best of 2022 so I'm wondering what your best books of 2022 by genre were?

I'm going to take some liberties in choosing my own very rough genres/categories here and put my five favourites in each.

Non-Fiction (medicine/sciences)

The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety by Frank Tallis

Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Madden Keefe

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Joy of Science by Jim Al-Khalili

Honourable mentions: And Finally by Henry Marsh, How to Survive a Plague by David France, The Sleeping Beauties by Suzanne O'Sullivan.

Non-Fiction (everything else)

Expert by Roger Kneebone

Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak

Accomplishment by Michael Barber

Honourable mentions: Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato, The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova, Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman.

Fiction

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan

Circe by Madeline Miller

Bunny by Mona Awad

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

Honourable mentions: The Harpy by Megan Hunter, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado.

#Amazing how I restricted *myself* to five each and then couldn't do it.#books #reading

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milomoonsies · 4 months

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also while im knocked out can u please rec me ur fav books thank you!

(Oh god I'm always terrified of this question because my tastes aren't like...refined or anything?? Like i have no secret recs)

First off favorite author:

Megan Abbot. Changed my life. No one writes female characters and the inner toil of being a woman the way she does. Her writing style is...actual heaven. Her women are wretched, heartbreaking, so real, and it always hits too close to home.

I recommend anything she's written.

Start with The End of Everything and Dare Me

I have too many favorites but these are books that I keep stacked on my desk (they're all either dark drama and/or thriller-y) and I've realized I gravitate towards these kinds of writing styles when choosing what to read next:

The Secret History, The Little Friend, The Goldfinch - all by Donna Tartt (I kiss the ground she walks on)

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara (don't read this book unless you want to be completely destroyed and reborn and destroyed again, it's life-changing)

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn (this was her first novel! It is *chef's kiss* about wretched, heartbreaking women, her writing is god-tier)

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa (I can't even with this one)

The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn (this man started a movement, shit got weird after this, like I was front-row-seat there for it)

#i barely ever read fantasy #but everyone and their dog is reading fourth wing so alas #and im not used to anyting lighthearted or fun #like i keep expecting someoen to get murdered

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queer-xmen-tournament · 1 year

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Where this blog goes next

For a really long time, I've been wanting to create a fanmade X-Men team composed of exclusively queer mutants- and now, I figured since I already have this blog, why not let tumblr decide?

So what I've done, is created 7 spots on the team, based on each characters power and skill set, and grouped a bunch of characters together for a singular poll for each spot. Before the polls go out, I'm going to make a little propaganda post for each person in the group, to make sure everybody knows who is who, and why they should vote for them!

This is only including people who are out as queer in universe, so even though Gabby has been implied to be queer, and Kate has been confirmed to be bi, neither of them are really "out" in their respective universes yet, so they couldn't really be on the team yet.

Here are the groups:

The Psychic

Captain Britain | Betsy Braddock

Askani | Rachel Summers

Negasonic Teenage Warhead | Ellie Phimister

Leo Eng

Alef Chernekhov

The Powerhouse

Iceman | Bobby Drake

Rictor | Julio Richter

Pyro | Simon Lasker

Tempo | Heather Tucker

Good Arson | Rex Ridley

Theia

Kappa | Megan Ogawa

Christopher O'Leary

The Shapeshifter

Mystique | Raven Darkholme

Gimmick | Carmen Cruz

Morph | Benjamin Deeds

Jessie Drake

Faceshopper | Soph

The Warrior

Shatterstar | Gaveedra Seven

Fang | Akihiro

Anole | Victor Borkowski

Mercury | Cessily Kincaid

Jonas Graymalkin

Bling! | Roxy Washington

Madin

Bouncer | Renata Da Lima

The Gimmick

Escapade | Shela Sexton

Loa | Alani Ryan

Aphelion | Reed

Darkveil | Darnell Wade

Jumbo Carnation

Brutha Nature | Jacob Williams

Morgan Red

Monica Sellers

Hector Pullman

The Flyer

Northstar | Jean-Paul Beaubier

Pixie | Megan Gwynn

Galura | Elle Diwa

Aura Charles

Michael Diwa

Liana

The Additional Psionic

Karma | Xuân Cao Mạnh

Destiny | Irene Adler

Prodigy | David Alleyne

Somnus | Carl Valentino

Hindsight | Nathaniel Carver

Pity Girl | Nora Kuang

Christian Frost

Bad Guy | Gabe

Alice Campbell

I hope to start posting these on Monday!

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earlgreyhui · 2 years

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Hey I was reading your absolutely stunning fic for kavetham, DO NOT GIVE NAMES TO THE ANGELS! Other than wanting to let you know you really pen beautifully crafted language, (I was seriously distracted from reading to marvel over your skill), I'm interested if there's any poetry or books you really recommend? I can't help but think you'd have some really great recs.

hi!!!!! omg thank you so much for asking!!! do not be alarmed but i am fighting the frenzied urge to find absolutely Everything i have ever enjoyed and cram it into this one post like I will never ever get a second chance if I forget a single thing this time around. if I had let the impulse win you would never have seen this response until 2 months later & I would probably have spent something like 70 hours curating it like the single manuscript of the culmination of my entire life's worth.... no i'm taking it easy. i am so calm and rational right now

poetry: haven't read many collections sadly, just scattered poems, but I love what I've seen from Emily Berry e.g. this and this, both from Unexhausted Time. and then Anne Carson e.g. The Glass Essay is really just divine, just sublime. Mary Oliver is great also. possibly my favourite from her that i've seen is Every Morning tbh. finally a shoutout to the current poem-in-residence in my brain that i can't stop thinking about... Nightfishing by Gjertrud Schnackenberg goes soooo hard & on that topic, i am sorry, this is entirely too much and i will shut up soon but one last rec for the blog @/lunchboxpoems which seems to always hit the spot for me with every last poem they post!!!

books: this is so hard but among the books i've read recently! there are

- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien; written so gorgeously and also broke me so thoroughly i was crying in sporadic bursts for three hours straight while reading it

- Cold Enough For Snow, by Jessica Au; just written so very masterfully. an absolute stunner and quite short actually, so perfect if you want a slimmer read!

- The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yōko Ogawa (transl. by Stephen Snyder); unlike the other books listed here, not included so much for its writing qualities, but very much a plot-carried book; it's written wonderfully, of course, but in what i like to call a 'functional' way that doesn't dilute attention from the touching meaningful wholesome ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING storyline 10000/10 for making me sob

- Strange Beasts of China, by Yan Ge (transl. by Jeremy Tiang); LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN this book is such a dark divine hallucinogenic kind of trip and it's everything i love. clear and direct prose that hits like a slow knife opening skin. slightly disjointed but not disorienting structure and story that unfolds bit by bit over a myriad of seemingly separate narratives

- The Waves, by Virginia Woolf; kind of a staple for gorgeous writing in any list and pretty much rewired my brain maybe

- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong; on the subject of books with writing as a vehicle for the story vs the story as a vehicle for the writing (which i didn't really get into but we would b here forever,,,), i do think ocean vuong, with his poetry background, has this inimitable class of writing that's very. sorry for my lacking vocabulary. poetic and does fall into the second class of writing. it's less plot driven but one of the most beautiful lucid vivid pieces of writing i've ever read.

speedrun mention: Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto & transl. by Megan Backus; The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood; The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman (actually basically everything he's ever written is a joy and has all my adoration); also a blanket recommendation for all the translated fiction published by Tilted Axis Press which brings me so much unfathomable joy. could go on forever but i swear im done for real this time. thank you so much for giving me this excuse to gush about some of my favourite things. have the most beautiful weekend dear asker 🌱🌟

#ask

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amongtomesandtales · 2 years

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Jo’s Reading of the Month

🗓 July

· Total: 18

· 📙Rereads: 0 · 📚 Library: 8 · 🎧 Audiobooks: 7 · 📖 Off my tbr: 3

End of the month currently reading: Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene - Highs: I listened to ADHD hos piger og kvinder by Lotta Borg Skoglund (Danish translation from the Swedish) ★★★★★... and whoo boy did I feel seen. First chance I get I will buy a physical copy of this and highlight every relevant part for when I go in for my referral/assessment next year. Gotta back myself up as much as I can and Skoglund explained so many things so very very well. The second major high for this month was Perla by Carolina de Robertis ★★★★★. It got me confused, frantically reading, sobbing and smiling. Also I just looove Robertis’ writing... it’s so gorgeous, and melodious and rhythmic and I love that I also feel like this now, having read both Perla and The Gods of Tango. Makes me hopeful for her other books I’ve got standing unread on my shelves lol. I might even go so far as giving her the title of my all-time favourite author, if this five-star trend continues... - Honourable mentions: Freedom is A Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis (collections like these I rarely rate, but it was really good!) The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner ★★★★ Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories by Oksana Zabuzhko - As with most short story collections, some hit more than others, and while this one took me a while to actually read - and I do find 50+ pages to be too long for a short story (this one had two such stories) - the stories I did like were worth the overall rating of ★★★★ - Lows: I really didn’t get along with Vagabonds by Eloghosa Osunde despite having been really keen on it before starting it ★★. I also dnf’ed three things this month which were My Mess Is a Bit of a Life by Georgia Pritchett, Women with ADHD by Sari Solden as well as The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa.

Balance

Are my books balanced? (how much I’ve read vs. how much that’s come in) 19 / 8

#reading wrap up #book recommendation #reading #Jo pipes up #monthly wrap up #what even happened to me this month #I didn't feel like I was reading that much #and yet... 18???#also #I just realised I wrote last month's wrap-up as July's #but obvs that was June's #this is July's

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camelliadegal · 4 months

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TỔNG HỢP YAOI ĐÃ ĐỌC THEO TÊN TÁC GIẢ / COMPILATION OF YAOI READING BY AUTHOR'S NAME 💟

A 💜

Akihisa Teo

Arata Licca

Abuku

B 💜

C 💜

Cocomi

D 💜

E 💜

Endou Enu

F 💜

Fuyushima Shigure

G 💜

Gui

H 💜

Hakase

Hasumi Hana

hagi

Hanasawa Namio

I 💜

Itsuki Makoto

J 💜

Josee

K 💜

Kuroda Kurota

Kubota Maru

Kurahashi Choko

Kuroi Morry

Kinoue Marika

L 💜

M 💜

Mottasu Tonoka

Machi Yamashita

Minazuki Akira

Megane

Mori Moyori

Mikka Mita

Miyama Kaoruko

Momose An

Mikami Shino

N 💜

Nagisa Ayumu

Nojiro Guri

Natsuno Hiroko

Nannan

O 💜

Okuda Waku

Okino Nico

Ogawa Chise

P 💜

Q 💜

R 💜

S 💜

Sakura Rico

Scarlet Beriko

Suehiro Machi

Saku Hiro

Shikke

Sangou Mitsuru

Sakimoto Saki

T 💜

Totofumi

Tsuyuhisa Fumi

Tsukino Kakeru

U 💜

Usui Iroha

W 💜

Wataru Nagi

Y 💜

Yuukura Aki

Yoriko

Youga Rayri

Yanase Seno

Z 💜

Zozo Hoshikura

Zarame Same

#yaoi #boy love

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bookclub4m · 1 year

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Episode 167 (version 2) - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report

(Hello! This is a re-upload. The first version had a syncing error that snuck in at the very end of the editing process. We've re-exported it and this version sounds much better!)

This episode we’re talking about our 2023 Reading Goals! We discuss intentions, resolutions, anti-resolutions, and give a report on how well we fulfilled our reading goals last year.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

2022: Year of Book Two

Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two

2023 Resolutions

Matthew:

Read more graphic novels

Take pictures of favourite reads

Jam:

Theme for the year: Intention

Return to tracking picture book reading

Media We Mentioned

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, narrated by Kim Mai Guest, Johnathan McClain, Candice Moll, Lincoln Hoppe, Donnabella Mortel, Jonathan Todd Ross, Erin Spencer & Steve West

Illuminae Files (books 1-3) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, narrated by Moira Quirk

Steven Erikson

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol 1 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol 1 by Ryoko Kui, translated by Sébastien Ludmann

Links, Articles, and Things

Which Pokemon are the Most Goth?

Matthew reviews his manga reading from 2022 on Twitter

List of One Piece manga volumes - Wikipedia

25 Dystopian Fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

Leila by Prayaag Akbar

Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Caster by Elsie Chapman

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings

Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez

The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson

The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina

On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee

Legend by Marie Lu

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher

Futureland by Walter Mosley

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi

We Light Up the Sky by Lilliam Rivera

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Freedom Race by Lucinda Roy

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 7th. It'll be our annual Valentine’s Day episode, and we’ll be talking about the genre of Holiday Romance!

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condenadoshq-archive · 3 years

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caritas que quieran ver acá? me encanta todo <3

AYYYYY que lindo que te guste, amor!! por acá te dejo sugerencias:

fems: joey king, irene ferreiro, kim doyeon, danielle rose russell, hande ercel, takahashi juri, camila morrone, minatozaki sana, ester expósito, casimere jollette, halle beiley, barbara palvin, mina el hammani, ella purnell, rachel keller, ludovica martino, maddison brown, gideon adlon, kim dahyun, rowan blanchard, benedetta porcaroli, cemre baysel, megan donnelly, emilija baranac, luna wedler, chloe bailey, serenay sarikaya, miyawaki sakura, madelyn cline, elle fanning, lili reinhart, danna paola, bruna marquezine, nicha yontararak, tati gabrielle, dove cameron, yoo jeongyeon, odessa young, son seungwan, kim sojung, milena tscharntke, maia mitchell, olivia holt, nana komatsu, alexa demie, rhea raj, aybuke pusat, jung eunbi, malena villa, jaz sinclair, choi yuna, willow smith, marilyn lima, ennik somi douma, bae joohyun, emma mackey, kim jisoo, park sooyoung, katie douglas, kristen froseth, lalisa manoban, jessica barden, china anne mcclain, hirai momo, park jihyo, kaylee bryant, lee ahin, benedetta gargari, hunter schafer, lulu antariksa, nagao mariya, ogawa mizuki, kim minji, chonnasorn sajakul, yoo jeongahn, avani gregg, kelsey chow, katryn newton, giorgia whigham, ryan destiny, molly gordon, lee dabin, philippine stindel, alice pagani, sofia acrson, aslihan malbora, liana liberato, maude apatow, jenny boyd, kiernan shipka, melisa senolsun, kim yerim, adelaide kane, margaret qualley, courtney eaton, camila mendes, maya hawke, becky g, sophie turner, halston sage, alina boz, maría pedraza, nicola peltz, sadie soverall, aparna brielle, veerle dejaeger, mackenzie foy, taissa farmiga, lily rose depp, yandeh sallah, kaitlyn dever, macarena garcía, alycia debnam carey, laura harrier, son chaeyoung, anne winters, mishti rahman, myoui mina, im nayeon, maddie hasson, priscila quintana, ellie bamber, kiana ledé, olivia dejonge, kat mcnamara, saoirse ronan, josefine frida pettersen, abigail cowen, alva bratt, davika hoorne, florence pugh, jessie mei li, natasha liu bordizzo.

masc: avan jogia, dylan minette, dong sicheng, asa butterfield, kris wu, kim jongdae, ju haknyeon, cody fern, bright vachirawit, darwin gray, jake bugg, robin migné, mizuguchi yuto, deaken bluman, chance perdomo, hong jisoo, toby wallace, nick robinson, logan lerman, björn mosten, angus cloud, min yoongi, rudy pankow, michel biel, alfie enoch, jack mulhern, gavin leatherwood, austin abrams, hero fiennes tiffin, jackson wang, wolfgang novogratz, cameron monaghan, lu han, dacre montgomery, qian kun, nicholas galitzine, im changkyun, son hyunwoo, harris dickinson, park jinyoung, reece king, kim jongin, santiago segura, wong yukhei, thomas doherty, lee jooheon, kim yugyeom, do kyungsoo, brandon flynn, lucas jade zumann, shin wonho, keith powers, noah centineo, charlie plummer, bill skarsgard, kj apa, romee flyn, kwon soonyoung, chris veres, jung hoseok, takada kenta, nicholas galitzine, oh sehun, neels visser, wen junhui, diego tinoco, lim jaebeom, jeon jungkook, park chanyeol, liu xiening, jacob elordi, tom webb, kim junmyeon, ben hardy, nakamoto yuta, huang zitao, troye sivan, toby regbo, jeremy allen white, axel auriant, tarjei sandvik moe, lee jihoon, hoi seungcheol, xu minghao, omar ayuso, logan shroyer, alex wolff, brenton thwaites, adachi yuto, terada takuya, lee minhyuk, keynan lonsdale, thomas hayes, matthew daddario, kunpimook bhuwakul, matthew noszka, choi youngjae, kim seokjin, yoo kihyun, ross lynch, kim namjoon, henrik holm, timothee chalamet, pol granch, maxence danet-fauvel, lorenzo zurzolo, freddy carter.

dorcas.

#* most wanted.#anonymous

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azulso · 4 years

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Friendly reminding you that the 10% of mutants are LGBT

1.- Iceman - gay

2.- Northstar - gay

3.- Psylocke - bisexual

4.- Kitty Pryde - bisexual

5.- Shatterstar - bisexual

6.- Rictor - gay

7.- Mystique - bisexual and gender fluid

8.- Destiny - bisexual

9.- Daken - bisexual

10.- Rachel Grey - bisexual

11.- Sauron - sapiosexual

12.- Boom Boom* - Queer

13.- Anole - gay

14.- Pixie - Queer

14.- Mercury - bisexual

16.- Bling! - lesbian

17.- Loa - bisexual

18.- Graymalkin - gay

19.- Prodigy - bisexual

20.- Morph / Benjamin - gay

21- Hindsight - gay

22.- Karma - lesbian

23.- Pyro - gay

24- Christian Frost - gay

25 - Fantomex - bisexual

26 - Cluster - bisexual

27.- Darkveil - trans

28- Jumbo Carnation - gay

29 - Tempo - lesbian

30 - Wiccan - gay

31 - Speed - bisexual

32 - Doop - pansexual

33 - Deadpool - pansexual

34 - Negasonic Teenage Warhead - lesbian

35.- Galura / Gabrielle Diwa - lesbian

36 - Michael Diwa - bisexual

37 - Carmen Cruz - lesbian

38 - Renata Da Lima - lesbian

39 - Jacob Williams - trans

40 - Escapade - trans

41 - Somnus - gay

42 - Gwenpool - aromantic and asexual

43 - Spectre - queer

44 - Cam Long - non binary and queer

45 - Aura Charles - queer

46 - Megan Ogawa - bisexual

47 - Solem - bisexual

48 - Leonara Eng - trans

49 - Morgan Red - non binary and asexual

50 - Morph* - non binary

51 - Jamie Rogers - asexual

52 - Hector Pullman - gay

53 - Christopher O’Leary - bisexual

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demadrugadahq · 3 years

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Caritas femeninas que quieran ver por aquí?

¡hola, corazón! acá te comparto un súper lista y de todas formas por este lado podés acceder a sugerencias previas hechas por mis compañeras.

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¡espero que te sirva!

Dai.

#faceclaims.#admin: dai.

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dendre · 4 years

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A mai nap ugyanúgy megfelelő arra, mint bármelyik másik az eddigi 2020-asokból, hogy megosszam kedvenc 2019-es lemezeim listáját. Az elmúlt két évtizedben ezt mindig megtettem év végén, tavaly valahogyan elmaradt (leginkább mert nem törődtem vele és csak valamikor januárban csináltam meg) és most, hogy Loraine James bejelentett egy új EP-t (https://pitchfork.com/news/loraine-james-announces-nothing-ep-shares-new-song-listen/), eszembe jutott ez a lista, mert hogy Loraine James tavalyi LP-je a 2. rajta. Szóval teljes relevanciával, íme a kedvenc 2019-es lemezeim. Tényleg csak annak reményében, hogy hátha talál rajta valaki valami olyant, amit nem ismer és majd boldoggá teszi a meghallgatása.

01. FKA twigs: Magdalene 9.5 (r&b) 02. Loraine James: For You And I 9.0 (idm) 03. Default Genders: Main Pop Girl 2019 9.0 (future pop) 04. Tyler, The Creator: Igor 9.0 (experihip-neosoulhop) 05. Mattiel: Satis Factory 9.0 (garázsyéyé-lofisoul) 06. Murlo: Dolos 9.0 (UK bass) 07. Yin Yin: The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers 9.0 (world funk) 08. The Sonic Dawn: Eclipse 9.0 (pszichpop) 09. Special Request: Vortex 9.0 (hardcore breaks techno) 10. Barker: Utility 9.0 (deconstructed house)

11. Holly Herndon: Proto 9.0 (kísérleti elektronika) 12. Ot to, Not To: It Loved To Happened 9.0 (mark hollis of experimental r&b) 13. Hand Habits: Placeholder 9.0 (slowfolk-dreamtweepop) 14. Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains 9.0 (indiefolkrock) 15. Sault: 5 9.0 (soul-afrobeat) 16. Michael Kiwanuka: Kiwanuka 9.0 (soul) 17. Kokoko!: Fongola 9.0 (kongói afrohouse) 18. The Caretaker: Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 6 9.0 (dark ambient) 19. Girl Band: The Talkies 9.0 (noise-art-posztpunk-rock) 20. Erika de Casier: Essentials 9.0 (r&b)

21. Special Request: Zero Fucks 9.0 (jungle) 22. Klein: Lifetime 9.0 (glitch) 23. PJ Harvey: All About Eve 9.0 (színpadi zene, de úúdeszép) 24. Nilüfer Yanya: Miss Universe 9.0 (gitárpop-pop) 25. Rosalie Cunningham: Rosalie Cunningham 9.0 (pszichrock, kabarépop, artpop) 26. Ari Lennox: Shea Butter Baby 9.0 (neosoul) 27. Anderson.Paak: Ventura 9.0 (neosoul) 28. Kaytranada: Bubba 9.0 (zsánertelen pop) 29. Bon Iver: i,i 9.0 (glitch-ambient-r&b-pop) 30. Andrew Wasylyk: The Paralian 9.0 (instrumentális pasztorál)

31. Minor Poet: The Good News 9.0 (00’s indierock) 32. Little Simz: Grey Area 9.0 (uk hiphop) 33. Kano: Hoodies All Summer 9.0 (grime) 34. slowthai: Nothing Great About Britain 9.0 (uk rap, grime) 35. Rapsody: Eve 9.0 (hiphop) 36. Rina Mushonga: Into A Galaxy 9.0 (pop) 37. Angel Olsen: All Mirrors 9.0 (art-barokk-kamarapop) 38. Hayden Thorpe: Diviner 9.0 (szofiszti-artpop) 39. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Ghosteen 9.0 (ambinet-crooner) 40. Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 9.0 (pop)

41. Kornél Kovács: Stockholm Marathon 8.5 (housepopdeepoutside) 42. Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell!! 8.5 (pianopop) 43. Y La Bamba: Mujeres 8.5 (latin alt, indiefolk) 44. Yves Jarvis: The Same But By Different Means 8.5 (neopsych-folksoul) 45. Helado Negro: This Is How You Smile 8.5 (bossa-indiefolkronica) 46. Rev Magnetic: Verses Universe 8.5 (electro shoegaze) 47. Woolfy vs Projections: Destinations 8.5 (diszkó) 48. Clairo: Immunity 8.5 (pop) 49. Brittany Howard: Jaime 8.5 (pszich-jazz-hop-funk) 50. Jpegmafia: All My Heroes Are Cornballs 8.5 (expri-hiphop)

És innentől már tényleg csak akit nagyon-nagyon érdekel :)

Szóval tavaly ugye januártól elkezdtem pontosan dokumentálni, hogy miket hallgattam meg az új termésből, mi mennyire tetszett. Hozzávetőleges, sokszor csak félig hallgatott lemezek értékelése volt, de aztán valamikor június-júliusban ráuntam, mert nem úgy haladt, ahogyan terveztem, sok tervezett meghallgatás felhalmozódott, nehéz projekt ez, mert hát egyre több jó, de nem kiemelkedő lemez van, masszív túltermelés zajlik. De hát ki mondja meg bárkinek, aki hangszerhez nyúl, hogy ne tegye. Vagy legalábbis ne adja közre, ami kijön belőle. De ha nem mondjuk senkinek ezt, akkor ki értékeli ezt a mérhetetlen mennyiséget, tényleg csak tipp: évente sokszázezer lemez jelenik meg. És hát hogyan lehet objektíven értékelni, ha nem úgy, hogy a lehető legtöbbet megpróbáljuk hallani? Nem csak, azt a pár tucatot, amit a hype, meg a haverok elénk hoznak.

Én ezt továbbra sem unom csinálni, továbbra is érdekel, hogy mi történik, kíváncsi vagyok, örömet okoz. De néha ráunok. Vagy elsodor. Azért az év második felét is behúztam úgy-ahogy, de év vége helyett valamikor 2020 januárban lett ez a lista, amire még később is rátettem tán két lemezt. Nincs vége ötvennél, amikor abbahagytam a szöszölést vele, akkor ennyi volt (138), amire úgy gondoltam, hogy ha évek múlva ránézek erre a listára, nem baj, ha a 112. helyen lévőről is beugrik majd valami.

Nem tudom mennyi 2019-es lemezt hallottam összesen, tippre ezerpárszázat, abból ez a java, van jó pár tucat, amit felírtam, hogy még mindenképp meghallgatni, de nem került rá sor. És én sem felejtem el, hogy simán lehetne még egyszer ennyi olyanból, amiről alig pár ember hallott, de ott van Bandcampen, mint 2019-es lemez.

Nem szigorú, nyilván. A lista mindig csak játék!

1. FKA twigs: Magdalene 9.5 (r&b)

Loraine James: For You And I 9.0 (idm)

Default Genders: Main Pop Girl 2019 9.0 (future pop)

Tyler, The Creator: Igor 9.0 (experihip-neosoulhop)

Mattiel: Satis Factory 9.0 (garázsyéyé-lofisoul)

Murlo: Dolos 9.0 (UK bass)

Yin Yin: The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers 9.0 (world funk)

The Sonic Dawn: Eclipse 9.0 (pszichpop)

Special Request: Vortex 9.0 (hardcore breaks techno)

Barker: Utility 9.0 (deconstructed house)

Holly Herndon: Proto 9.0 (kísérleti elektronika)

Ot to, Not To: It Loved To Happened 9.0 (mark hollis of experimental r&b)

Hand Habits: Placeholder 9.0 (slowfolk-dreamtweepop)

Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains 9.0 (indiefolkrock)

Sault: 5 9.0 (soul-afrobeat)

Michael Kiwanuka: Kiwanuka 9.0 (soul)

Kokoko!: Fongola 9.0 (kongói afrohouse)

The Caretaker: Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 6 9.0 (dark ambient)

Girl Band: The Talkies 9.0 (noise-art-posztpunk-rock)

Erika de Casier: Essentials 9.0 (r&b)

Special Request: Zero Fucks 9.0 (jungle)

Klein: Lifetime 9.0 (glitch)

PJ Harvey: All About Eve 9.0 (színpadi zene, de úúdeszép)

Nilüfer Yanya: Miss Universe 9.0 (gitárpop-pop)

Rosalie Cunningham: Rosalie Cunningham 9.0 (pszichrock, kabarépop, artpop)

Ari Lennox: Shea Butter Baby 9.0 (neosoul)

Anderson.Paak: Ventura 9.0 (neosoul)

Kaytranada: Bubba 9.0 (zsánertelen pop)

Bon Iver: i,i 9.0 (glitch-ambient-r&b-pop)

Andrew Wasylyk: The Paralian 9.0 (instrumentális pasztorál)

Minor Poet: The Good News 9.0 (00’s indierock)

Little Simz: Grey Area 9.0 (uk hiphop)

Kano: Hoodies All Summer 9.0 (grime)

slowthai: Nothing Great About Britain 9.0 (uk rap, grime)

Rapsody: Eve 9.0 (hiphop)

Rina Mushonga: Into A Galaxy 9.0 (pop)

Angel Olsen: All Mirrors 9.0 (art-barokk-kamarapop)

Hayden Thorpe: Diviner 9.0 (szofiszti-artpop)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Ghosteen 9.0 (ambinet-crooner)

Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 9.0 (pop)

Kornél Kovács: Stockholm Marathon 8.5 (housepopdeepoutside)

Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell!! 8.5 (pianopop)

Y La Bamba: Mujeres 8.5 (latin alt, indiefolk)

Yves Jarvis: The Same But By Different Means 8.5 (neopsych-folksoul)

Helado Negro: This Is How You Smile 8.5 (bossa-indiefolkronica)

Rev Magnetic: Verses Universe 8.5 (electro shoegaze)

Woolfy vs Projections: Destinations 8.5 (diszkó)

Clairo: Immunity 8.5 (pop)

Brittany Howard: Jaime 8.5 (pszich-jazz-hop-funk)

Jpegmafia: All My Heroes Are Cornballs 8.5 (expri-hiphop)

Jamila Woods: Legacy! Legacy! 8.5 (neosoul, alt r&b)

Fontaines D.C.: Dogrel 8.5 (artpunk)

Special Request: Offworld 8.5 (ambient techno)

Caterina Barbieri: Ecstatic Comutation 8.5 (progelectro)

Sault: 7 8.5 (soul-afrobeat-dub)

O’Flynn: Aletheia 8.5 (nu-disco)

Yak: Pursuit Of Momentary Happiness 8.5 (pszichrock)

Rap: Export 8.5 (experi-elektronika)

Nivhek: After… 8.5 (ambient-dreampop)

Big Thief: Two Hands 8.5 (folkrock)

Flamingods: Levitation 8.5 (psychdisco)

Physical Therapy: It Takes A Village-The Sounds Of Physical Therapy 8.5 (posztmind

Thom Yorke: Anima 8.5 (elektroartpop)

Kali Malone: The Sacrificial Code 8.5 (drone)

Octo Octa: Resonant Body 8.5 (euro-house)

Danny Brown: U Know What I’m Sayin? 8.5 (boombaphiphop)

Joose Keskitalo: En lahde surussa 8.5 (finn psychfolkpop)

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Bandana 8.5 (gangsta/boombap hiphop)

Chromatics: Closer To Grey 8.5 (diszkódreampop)

Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow 8.5 (dalszerzőpop)

VC-118A: Inside 8.5 (elektro-techno)

Vampire Weekend: Father Of The Bride 8.5 (indiepop)

Ohtis: Curve Of Earth 8.5 (folkamericana)

Callum Easter: Here Or Nowhere 8.5 (szellemjárta, másvilági lofipop)

Durand Jones & The Indications: American Love Call 8.5 (chicago soul, retrosoul)

Black Pumas: Black Pumas 8.5 (psychsoulrock)

Ogawa & Tokoro: Planetary Exploration 8.5 (bedroom electronica)

Sessa: Grandeza 8.5 (brazilpop, mpb)

96 Back: Excitable, Girl 8.5 (nu-electro)

Georgia: Time 8.5 (absztrakt elektronika)

Galcher Lustwerk: Information 8.5 (deep house)

Angel Bat Dawid: The Oracle 8.5 (jazz)

Injury Reserve: Injury Reserve 8.5 (experihiphop)

75 Dollar Bill: I Was Real 8.5 (drone-jam, pszichrock)

Richard Dawson: 2020 8.5 (artrock, progfolk)

Rustin Man: Drift Code 8.5 (posztjazz-artrock)

Kali Malone: The Sacrificial Code 8.5 (drone)

Dave Harrington: Pure Imagination, No Country 8.5 (artrock-postjazz)

DJ Healer: Lost Lovesongs / Lostsongs Vol. 2 8.5 (ambient-broken beat)

Fire! Orchestra: Arrival 8.5 (experibigbandjazz)

Nkisi: 7 Directions 8.5 (future techno)

Special Request: Bedroom Tapes 8.5 (idm, ambient techno)

Denzel Curry: ZUU 8.5 (avanttrap)

Megan Thee Stallion: Fever 8.5 (traprap)

Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats: Anger Management 8.0 (hiphop)

Stats: Other People’s Lives 8.5 (gitáros groovepop)

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Miri 8.5 (mande)

These New Puritans: Inside The Rose 8.5 (posztpop)

Tropical Fuck Storm: Braindrops 8.5 (artrock)

Fennesz: Agora 8.5 (ambient)

Agent blå: Morning Thoughts 8.5 (indie-dream-posztpunk)

Henning: Natter Utan Dagar 8.5 (softrock, “markknopflerwave”)

Blanck Mass: Animated Violence Mild 8.5 (noise-electro)

Bent Knee: You Know What They Mean 8.5 (artrock)

Flume: Hi This Is Flume 8.5 (wonky)

Feels: Post Earth 8.5 (lofi-posztpunk)

Fling: Fling Or Die 8.5 (indiepsychpop)

Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon: Kalba 8.5 (ghánai xylofon, folkronika)

Floating Points: Crush 8.5 (progelectronika)

Junior Brielle: Tampa 8.5 (80s electropopsvédesen)

Equiknoxx: Eternal Children 8.5 (idm-dancehall)

Pixx: Small Mercies 8.5 (artsynthpop)

Lafawndah: Ancestor Boy 8.5 (keleties altr&b, deconstruct tribal glitch bass)

The Comet Is Coming: Trust n The Lifeforce 8.5 (ambient-electrojazz)

Woman’s Hour: Ephyra 8.5 (dream-szintipop)

Lemonheads: Varshons 2 8.5 (feldolgozáslemez)

Emotional Oranges: The Juice Vol. 1 8.5 (nudisco, szofiszti r&b)

Bill Callahan: Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest 8.5 (americana, altcountry)

Piroshka: Brickbat 8.5 (indierock)

Bigwave: Romantic 8.5 (japán future funk, disco)

Methyl Ethel: Triage 8.5 (indie-szinti-pop)

100 gecs: 1000 gecs 8.5 (bubblegum bass)

Lingua Ignota: Caligula 8.5 (neoclass darkwave)

Tree: We Grown Now 8.0 (hiphop)

Sun Runners: Lust For Life 8.0 (waporwave)

Giant Swan: Giant Swan 8.0 (industritechno)

Black Dresses: Love And Affection For Stupid Little Bitches 8.0 (noise pop)

Anthony Naples: Fog FM 8.0 (outsider house)

Weyes Blood: Titanic Rising 8.0 (softpop)

Sister John: Sister John 8.0 (szép gitárzene)

Moor Mother: Analog Fluids 8.0 (industrihiphop)

Wilco: Ode To Joy 8.0 (alt-rock)

Big Thief: U.F.O.F. 8.0 (folkrock)

Paula Temple: Edge Of Everything 8.0 (industri-techno)

Charli XCX: Charli 8.0 (electropop)

Sleater-Kinney: The Center Won’t Hold 8.0 (indierock)

Tayla Parx: We Need To Talk 8.0 (pop)

Teebs: Anicca 8.0 (downtempo)

#2019 #2019 évvége #2019 aoty #album of the year 2019 #fka twigs #loraine james

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10ambuzz · 4 years

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A nearly complete list of my TRB

Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 2.5 stars

Descendant of The Crane by Joan He

The Poppy War by R.F Kuang (SERIES) 5 stars

1Q84

Sin eater by Megan Campisi

Goldilocks by Laura Lam

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman (SERIES)

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland

Queen of the conquered by Kacen Callender

Sapiens a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (SERIES)

The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith

The Wrath and the Dawn bY Renee Ahdieh DNF

Uprooted by Naomi Novik 3.5 stars

Circe by Madeline Miller 4.5 stars

Beach read by Emily Henry 3.5 stars

Clap When you Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Child Thief by Brom

The City of Brass by S.A Chakraborty (SERIES)

Catherine House by Elizabeth Thomas

Children of Blood and Bone (SERIES)

His Dark Materials- Phillip Pullman

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix- JK Rowling

Red Rising- Pierce Brown

Archipelago- Monique Roffey

A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S Naipaul

The Birth of Venus- Sarah Dunant

Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury

Quiet- Susan Cain

Frankenstein- Mary Shelley

Eragon- Christopher Paolini (SERIES but i only have the first book)

The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa 3 stars

The Lost Book of Adana Moreauby Michael Zapata

#THIS IS NOT ALL OMG #im never going to read some of these #im adding faster than im reading #to read #i added more books #that was the opposite of what was supposed to happen

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dillydedalus · 4 years

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october reading

books. i read ‘em.

the bird king, g. willow wilson ugh i’m disappointed with this - i expected it to be more about the fall of granada, rather than just taking that as a jumping-off point for a very slow story of how fatima (concubine to the last andalusian sultan) and her bff hassan (magical mapmaker) escape from lady inquisitor luz to a magical/legendary island. that’s more of an expectation mismatch, but i also found this just a bit boring and confused, didn’t like the characters or the emotional moments. 2.5/5

lanark: a life in four books, alasdair gray y’all... this is a weirdo pomo mess which gray himself describes as ‘a portrait of the artist as a frustrated young glaswegian’ (instant love), it’s about duncan thaw growing up in post-war glasgow (not a good place) and lanark, sans memories, finding himself in the city of unthank (probably The Bad Place), where the sun hardly ever shines and people grow dragonskin, but really it’s about art & cities & politics & scotland & hell. it’s completely nuts & has a chapter where the protagonist meets the author in the process of writing and there’s a chapter-long sidebar detailing all instances of plagiarism in the book (incl. the lack of influence from robert burns, more sinister than all plagiarism). it’s a bit flabby in places & could stand to be a 100-200 pages shorter, but damn. 4/5

the memory police, yoko ogawa (tr. from japanese by stephen snyder) very atmospheric, quietly disturbing magical realist(ish) book about an island on which sometimes certain things (birds, roses, ribbons, fruit) just disappear, with the inhabitants losing their memories and emotional connection to the thing. the disappearances seem to occur randomly and on their own, but the memory police makes sure that no disappeared items remain and that those who can still remember also... disappear. really liked the quiet slow dread building here, the mysterious workings of the disappearances, and the interplay between the main story and the novel the narrator is writing while worrying whether words too will soon disappear. 4/5

trick mirror: reflections on self-delusion, jia tolentino collection of nine essays about roughly, life & self-image & politics in the social media age (and its predecessor, the reality tv age), gender politics and uh scams and self-delusions. many of these essays felt vaguely like things i’d read before online (& i might have) & didn’t offer anything completely new but i liked the examinations of big wedding culture, and her take on the ‘difficult woman’ archetype of millenial feminism. tolentino in general is an engaging, sharp writer, and even when she’s writing about familiar topics, she often puts an interesting spin on things. 3.5/5

here in berlin, cristina garcía and the anglophone-berlin-books saga continues. a cuban-american woman with a mild personal crisis goes to berlin (as people w/ personal crises so often do) and there collects a variety of snapshot stories from berliners (by birth or choice or accident), mostly about world war 2 and the latin american diaspora in berlin. some of the snapshots are p interesting or bizarrely funny but mostly they retread the same ground (history, trauma, collective & personal responsibility, commemoration etc) without really saying anything new (except the connection garcía makes between the nazis and south american dictatorships). there’s also a pretty annoying attempt to create authenticity by peppering in german words and phrases which sometimes aren’t even appropriate or spelled correctly* (get a german proofreader you cowards i’ll do it for free... like wtf is ‘volkenbrot’). 2/5 *i ordered it used and got an ARC, so maybe some of these issues were fixed for the final version but lmao. volkenbrot.

wilder girls, rory power this is annihilation as YA, set on an island called raxter where a mysterious illness called the tox has taken over, transforming the wilderness, the animals (deers grow canines y’all), and most of all the girls at raxter boarding school. the narrator’s eye has fused shut & something is growing under it, her friend has grown an extra spine, other girls have gills or claws. less fortunate girls (and most of the teachers) just die. there was a lot i liked about this, especially the tox and the ambivalent relationships the girls have to their changed bodies, but the last third just... eh. also, like, i like tumblr monster-girl poetics as much as the next person, but this is really overdoing it. 2.5/5

nach mitternacht (after midnight), irmgard keun KEUN HYPE TRAIN!!! this one’s super interesting because it’s the first novel keun wrote in exile, published 1937 and set at around the same time. the protagonist, sanne, is a naive and politically uneducated 19-year-old who is repeatedly & very dramatically confronted with the political reality she lives in, first when her aunt denounces her to the gestapo and later when her boyfriend franz is arrested. for most of the (very short) novel, sanne is observing and not quite understanding the increasing legal discrimination against jews, culture of paranoia and denouncement, and glorification of fascist ideology, which makes for a very disturbing reading experience, especially with the reader’s retrospective knowledge, but the climax is truly nightmarish & devastating. 4/5

children of god, mary doria russell the sequel to the sparrow, which i read & loved earlier this year. in this one, emilio sandoz, still in recovery from the trauma of his first trip to the planet rakhat, is forced to return there (bc the pope thinks it’s god’s will lol) and finds the planet changed after decades (space travel makes time weird) of revolution and civil war. i liked this but it’s not as good as the sparrow, the characters (except my man emilio) aren’t as interesting & well-developed and the dual timeline structure isn’t as well-executed but hey. there’s some closure for emilio & that made me hella emosh. 3.5/5

the wilful princess & the piebald prince, robin hobb a novella telling the true (?) story of charger farseer, the piebald prince, a historical figure that has great influence on the six duchies of fitz’s time, especially regarding the treatment of the witted (people who can magically bond with aninmals) and how fitz is framed & reviled as the ‘witted bastard’. this was cool & i enjoyed how it twists the story, but it’s not worth reading if you haven’t read the main series. 3/5

the inheritance, robin hobb/megan lindholm collection of short stories by hobb under her two pseudonyms - i mostly skipped the lindholm ones (sorry), but the three hobb ones were really really good. the first is about the first expeditions into the rain wilds (i love the cursed shores so much & wish there was a full trilogy about the first settlers there), the second is about bingtown & wizardwood, the third is about how sometimes you gotta kill your abusive ex & if you’re lucky, your cat will help you do it. it’s great & the cat is called marmelade. 4/5 for the hobb stories only

unholy land, lavie tidhar alternate history + multiple realities + high-concept pulp - lior tirosh, a pulp author (it’s meta) returns to his homeland, the jewish state palestina, established in east africa in the early 20th century, and there becomes involved in... rival plots to destroy/stabilise the borders between the worlds, not only between this alternate one and our real one, which tirosh seems to occasionally slip into, but all the million others, including one where the moon broke. love the concept, but this is so vague & confusing on so many points and the ending so abrupt that i was left kinda frustrated & unsatisfied (also bc we never find out much more about the world where the moon broke). 3.5/5

tigermilch (tiger milk), stefanie de velasco german ya book about two teen girls growing up in a poor neighbourhood in berlin. nini’s father is absent, her mother depressed, while jameelah’s father died in iraq and her mother is worried that they might be deported, and their bosnian friend amir’s sister is dating a serb. it’s some pretty harrowing stuff & it’s good to see Issues (TM) addressed in german ya in a way that doesn’t feel super didactic & preachy, but ultimately i’m really not the target audience here. 3/5

sea monsters, chloe aridjis

weirdo brainy dreamy novella about a girl in 80s mexico running away from mexico city to the beach because she’s looking for ukrainian circus dwarfs (???). i liked a lot about this (atmosphere, poetic & mythical allusions, a lot of the writing, the depictions of mexico city and the weird beach culture are both really cool) but a lot of the time this was so dreamy that i just kinda zoned out. 3/5

i am currently reading emma by jane austen bc i forgot about my monthly austen project until the last few days of the month lol & one of the hugo long list anthologies. the one with the cool fox on it.

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