#paradise rot

[phaedraismyusername]

Happy International Lesbian Day! Here's some super brief book recs to celebrate

Books dealing with love, loss, longing and abandonment

This is How You Lose The Time War is a short but beautifully written epistolary novel between two agents on opposite sides of a time war as they slowly fall in love.

Our Wives Under the Sea is one of the most beautifully written debuts I've ever read about a woman whose wife comes home wrong after they thought she'd died at sea and how it feels to grieve the loss of someone who's still in your home.

Lucky Red is a western novel about a young girl working in a brothel who meets her first female gunslinger and falls head over heels for her, and the consequences that come with loving dangerous people.

Body horror galore

Camp Damascus is about a young woman living in a super conservative christian town built around the worlds most successful conversion camp and the horrors that are uncovered there when praying the gay away fails.

To Be Devoured is about a woman whose fascination with the local vultures turns into obsession and the urge to know what carrion tastes like overtakes her life and leads her down stranger and stranger paths.

Chlorine is about a girl whose entire life revolves around being a competitive swimmer, and how abuse, neglect, and obsession with being the best takes its toll on the young women caught up in these destructive cycles.

Flawed character studies

Big Swiss is about a woman who has a kitchen floor reset in her 40s, moves away and starts a new life as a transcriber for a sex therapist and becomes obsessed with one of his clients before inserting herself into this poor woman's life.

The Seep is a speculative sci-fi set in a future where there's been a quiet alien invasion that has given people the ability to make almost any changes to their own bodies and what that world feels like to someone who doesn't want to partake.

Milk Fed is about a woman in therapy who feels cut off from almost everything until she meets another woman who triggers in her a melding of sex, hunger, and religion and where that takes her. Huge trigger warnings for ED content. It gets tough, y'all.

Fantastical wlw books

Bitterthorn is an amalgamation of fairytales retold as a slow burn sapphic love story between a sad young girl from a cursed land and the evil witch who takes her as a companion in the latest of the generational sacrifices made to appease her.

All the Bad Apples may be set in contemporary Ireland but it is a fairytale following a young girl as she travels across the country looking for a sister she refuses to believe is dead and the people she meets along the way.

Gideon the Ninth needs no introduction on this site but for the sake of formatting - lesbian necromancers in space who find themselves in an isolated murder mystery plot. It's not a romance but it is a love story and this series will change your life if you let it.

Translated novels

Boulder is a short character study following a free spirited woman when she accidentally settles down with the woman she loves and how love and resentment can take up the same space in your chest when life doesn't turn out the way you hoped it would.

Notes of a Crocodile is a cult classic coming of age story about queer teens in Taipei in the 1980s. It was written in the 90s so please keep that in mind if you choose to read it.

Paradise Rot is about an international student studying in Australia and her growing obsession with her housemate as they share a space that allows no privacy. I've never read anything that feels stickier.

#international lesbian day #book recs #long post #maybe a too long post #but i had the recs so here we are lol #this is how you lose the time war #our wives under the sea #lucky red #camp damascus #to be devoured #chlorine #big swiss #the seep #milk fed #bitterthorn #all the bad apples #gideon the ninth #boulder by eve baltasar #notes of a crocodile #paradise rot #i ran out of tags 😭😭😭 #booklr

[palahnyook]

But my dreams are full of apples, and in the dark my body slowly transforms into fruit: tonsils shrinking to seeds and lungs to cores. I dream of white flowers blossoming under my nails, as if under ice. Then my nails break, open up like clams, and in the finger flesh there are little sticky fruit pearls.

— Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval

I will travel far beyond the path of reason Take me back to Eden, take me back to Eden

— Sleep Token, Take me back to Eden

#eden and hunger and fruit and #total and absolute brainrot for these topics lately #are you still hungry? has hunger made you deaf and blind? hopefully you are not immune to touch #my ramblings #can you see how much you mean to us? #sleep token #vessel #sleep token art #sleep token fan art #worshitposting #worship #sleep token vessel #vessel sleep token #fan art #paradise rot #jenny hval #take me back to eden

[punk-rockdyke]

#edvard munch #jenny hval #expressionism #girls against god #paradise rot

[dmsr-art]

I just read this really bizarre novella called Paradise Rot, and I feel like you'd enjoy the ride toooooo

thank u for the recommendation anon i love weird fucked up books!! i searched the title and found this reddit post and immediately ordered a copy 🫡

edit: anon my fucked up book recommendation for YOU is tender is the flesh (if u haven't read it already)

#book recs #paradise rot #vee asks

[seriseriously]

Hi flesh and corruption nation if you like sapphism (I know what you are) you should read Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval it is literally if a Norwegian girlie moved in with an Australian avatar of the corruption with a taste of the flesh in Melbourne and then they were gay and it’s so so so good

Like imagine if a statement was 200 pages. That’s literally Paradise Rot

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[mychaotic-academia]

Just started reading Paradise Rot this morning. 10/10 so far.

I’m here for odd girl autumn

#dark academia #chaotic academia #academia #academia aesthetic #aesthetic #booklr #books #chaotic academic aesthetic #dark academic aesthetic #reading #paradise rot #jenny hval

[uxiealcremiee]

Finished reading !!

#paradise rot #book

[primoridaldyke]

Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval

#paradise rot #poetry #jenny hval

[itllcometohauntyou]

. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁ alison, i said we’re sinking . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

#slowdive #shoegaze #souvlaki #mojave 3 #jenny hval #paradise rot #booklr #book quotes #slowcore #music #aesthetic #Spotify

[strawberry-library]

my to-read list of 2024 (updated 4.12):

speak

gone girl

bridget jones’s diary

anna karenina

yellowface

a certain hunger

life ceremony

american psycho

shopaholic, vol. 2

my to-buy list of 2024 (so far):

paradise rot

homebodies

#berry filled with thoughts #academia #2024 #new years #speak #gone girl #bridget jones’s diary #anna karenina #yellowface #paradise rot #homebodies

[phaedraismyusername]

2022 was a soil, rot, and fungus kind of reading year for me and I regret nothing

The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley

A post-apocalyptic novella following a group of isolated men years after a plague killed off all of the women. Its told from the perspective of a young man who's place in the group is to tell stories of what was, and when they stumble upon a secret in the woods, what could be. Its weird, mildly distressing, kinda gross, but super super interesting. Highly recommend.

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

Translated from Norwegian by Marjam Idriss, it follows an international student studying in Australia who finds herself in a bizarre living situation with an older woman in a converted space with no internal walls and no privacy. It focuses on sexuality, exploration, and obsession, with some of the most viscerally tactile descriptions I've ever read. It's uncomfortable and frequently gross in that way only female authors can be, but I don't regret reading it.

Eartheater by Dolores Reyes

Translated from Argentinian by Julia Sanches, this book is about a young girl with a compulsion to eat earth which gives her visions of missing people and victims of violent crimes, and how this ostrasices her from her family as a child, and how she chooses to use this ability to help the community when she's older. I found this one a little harder to connect with, translated novels often feel drier and more distant to me because of what's lost from the native language, but reading the authors note really really helped contextualise it and increased my appreciation for what the author was doing so I recommend reading it too.

Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford

It's short, it's weird, it's a five star read, what else can I say. It follows a young healer, living in a small community with her father, as she learns to exist amongst people who are scared of what she is, but need her skills, and how far she'll go to protect that connection when she thinks she's found it. It's full of the healing power of nature, moral ambiguity, ethical greyness and dark themes. I loved it.

What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher

Possibly my favourite author of the year, This is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe (which I have not read) and follows main character Alex as they return to the home of their childhood friends after learning one of them is sick and possibly dying. T Kingfisher is an author who's style either works for you or it doesn't, and for me it really really does. The blend of humour, dread, and body horror was a joy and I read it in one sitting with no effort at all. And it's chock full of fungus, which is apparently my jam now.

#the beauty #aliya whiteley #paradise rot #jenny hval #eartheater #dolores reyes #follow me to ground #sue rainsford #what moves the dead #t kingfisher #book recs #succumbus to my fungus #2022 reads #books #booklr

[smokefalls]

But my dreams are full of apples, and in the dark my body slowly transforms into fruit: tonsils shrinking to seeds and lungs to cores. I dream of white flowers blossoming under my nails, as if under ice. Then my nails break, opening up like clams and in the finger flesh there are little sticky fruit pearls.

Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot (translated by Marjam Idriss)

#Jenny Hval #Paradise Rot #quote #fiction #queerlit #horror #2023 reads

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Paradise Rot | Author: Jenny Hval | Publisher: Verso Books (2009)

#books #Paradise Rot #Jenny Hval

[withallmytove]

We are wine, we are cheese, we are crackers.

-- Paradise Rot

#jenny hval #paradise rot #queer #weirdcore

[novemb-r]

“I don’t desire total freedom, or total misanthropy. Do you get that? I desire magic, the same alchemical reaction that transforms hatred to a new or strange form of love.”

Jenny Hval, Å Hate Gud / Girls Against God

#jenny hval #girls against god #Å hate gud #paradise rot #norwegian literature #literature #lit #words #book quote #quotes #norsk litteratur #misanthropy #magic

[decomposingpoet]

“Her skin was soft, softer than I remembered, as if she was rotten too, a fallen Eve. Under us I could hear the apples rumble. Not a real sound, but a sort of internal buzzing, like how you can imagine hearing nails and hair growing or buds opening.” ― Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

#rotcore #moldcore #jenny hval #paradise rot #rot #wlw