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[girljeremystrong]

cat!!!! hi!!!! i want to get my non-reader friend into reading. he probs won't read anything over 150-200 pages so i'm trying to find an entertaining short book. all the short books i love are essays or philosophy or things i think he could like in time but would probably find dry at the start (especially cause he hasn't read anything recreationally for years). so im at a loss and wanted to know if u have any recs for short books that are page-turners/easy to read <3 hope ur having a good day beloved xo

hello my love <3

first of all sorry for replying late but i was sleeping and then i had to go to the BANK but anyway i have compiled a little list of books i loved that are under 200 pages. there are lots of classics that are shorter and i've included them even though i think some of those would be stuff that you or him might have already read!

contemporary fiction

open water by caleb azumah nelson: THIS IS SUCH A GREAT ONE that i can't imagine anyone not enjoying. truly. it's a love story between two black young british people but it's far from a tiktok romance novel. it explores themes of race and masculinity and vulnerability and it's soft but also very real and it's wonderful. honestly if i had to only recommend one it would be this!

small things like these by claire keegan: very good and quietly hopeful story of a man in a little irish town at christmas. everybody was talking about this book last year and with good reason, it's great.

whereabouts by jhumpa lahiri: the story of a woman in the town she lives in and how it can change in a year. this is an introspective one but jhumpa lahiri is a genius so it reads very easily and it's so wonderfully written.

interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri: short stories, mainly dealing with indian characters in the US. they feel absolutely universal while teaching something about culture and belonging. won the pulitzer in 1999.

how not to drown in a glass of water by angie cruz: a woman narrates the story of her life to her counselor who's trying to find her a job. it's funny and hopeful and memorable. the author is so great (she wrote another one called dominicana that is a masterpiece although is longer!)

kim jiyoung, born 1982 by cho nam-joo: the story of a new mum living in korea that explores the estrangement of being a woman and having to give up so much. it's definitely more serious but it's written very well and it doesn't feel heavy at all.

swimming in the dark by tomasz jedrowski: this one is incredible. it's the story of a polish university student who falls in love with another man in the 1980s in an obviously very repressive society. so he's in love but he wants protest and he can't ignore the struggles and the disparity around him. it's very political but also lyrical and tender.

someone who will love you in all your damaged glory by raphael bob-waksberg: okay this breaks 200 pages at 256 pages long. but it's so good. everybody would love this. it's by the creator of bojack horseman if that can be an incentive somehow. it's a collection of stories that are so unconventional and bizarre in the most incredible way. they are funny stories and sweet and absurd and sad. i really loved reading this book.

infinite country by patricia engel: the story of a colombian family dealing with deportation. it's from the pov of elena who is the eldest daughter. it's a beautiful book that deals with very real struggles and it does it beautifully.

classics

recitatif by toni morrison: very short story (about 20 pages) but so clever and so well written of course. it's the story of two women who have known each other since they were children. they lose touch and then they reconnect when they're older. one of them is white and one of them is black, but the author never tells you which is which. so it's a great story about race.

the cossacks by leo tolstoy: the story of a man who loses his fortune and retires to a cossack village. it's very russian... but it's very well written and definitely explores some of the themes that tolstoy will then explore in war and peace like the purpose of life and war and his love of nature.

white nights by fyodor dostoevsky: again very russian. but less than 100 pages long! it's the story of a young man living in st petersburg who one day meets a girl and they become fast friends. they both feel like outcasts, so together they feel like they can belong. it is actually great.

giovanni's room by james baldwin: lots of baldwin's books (both his fiction and non-fiction) are short ones actually. this one is the story of a man in paris who, while waiting for his girlfriend to get there, falls in love with a man. it's an incredible story dense with love and passion and shame and it is wonderful.

the old man and the sea by hemingway: old man tries to catch big fish after not being able to catch any fish for a long time. but also so much more than that and nobody made me read this in school so i only read it at 25 and it blew me away. everybody told me it would be so sad but i think it's actually hopeful and a little bit it is a story about community? and it tells you that there's people waiting for you to come back.

of mice and men by steinbeck: again i read it in my mid twenties and loved it. it's a gut punch. it's about two men clinging together as laborers in california. it deals with what it means to feel powerless in a tyrant world.

franny and zooey by salinger: one of the best books ever i think. franny and zooey are brother and sister and they are two young people experiencing existential doubts. it's a book about family and about growing into adults and about the alienation that comes with that. salinger knows how to write young people in a crisis so well and how to make it engaging and entertaining.

having compiled this list i now see that my tastes definitely are oriented in a certain way but i hope at least one of these can work for your friend. i tried to include all the shorter books that i have read and loved and i think that generally anyone could enjoy them, but you never know!

hope you're having a great day too!!! mwah!!

#reasoncourt #ask #books

[oreganosbaby]

do you think tom is more of spongebob or a patrick? and which character in spongebob is the most like roman?

(just trying to improve the vibe of the asks ur getting)

im gonna be real, i didn't watch Spongebob much as a kid so i have no opinions here

#succ sesh #reasoncourt #dalia replies

[confinesofmy]

3, 7, 24 <333

hi sursh thank you for the ask! :)

3. favorite rarepair

i guess rava/stewy? i love the dynamic of two people who love someone finding a way to fit together with each other, and i also think the two of them know more about ken than all of his shrinks put together so they share this terrible awareness of him. so yeah, i like to picture them getting cosmos and spilling the tea, both bemoaning the stupid shit kendall pulled this time until eventually it's not even about ken anymore and they realise they haven't actually mentioned kendall in weeks.

7. season 4 predictions? (/is it futile to even guess?)

i hope with all my heart that logan's gonna die this season but idk if it'll happen. i do think we're going to learn he has prostate cancer/something that could be terminal. 👀

24. dream guest star

shohreh aghdashloo as stewy's mom who i like to think is named donya!!! i don't know why we would ever meet stewy's mom but i just love shohreh and she would be perfect perfect perfect for the role of mrs. donya hosseini. ♥

#reasoncourt #adam talks too much #suck sesh #ask

[transsexualism-archive]

🎶 <3

hi again :^)

uhm this songs main appeal isnt the lyrics . . .

send me an  ♪ i will put my music on shuffle and give you a song and my favourite line from it

#reasoncourt #ask games

[saipng]

WHITE (and yellow) <333

surshy darling dearest baby do you think mr armstrong will be willing to give me the forbidden thomasgreggories based on my vibes alone. i think so

#and by ‘vibes’ i mean my massive gun obviously #i hope you bags are packed btw the hbo hq storming is coming sooner than christmas #reasoncourt #answered

[gregwambsganss]

♪ <3

Obsessions- MARINA

A day, a day, when things, things are pretty bad

But don't let it make you feel sad

The crackers were probably bad luck anyway

#reasoncourt

[peniscat]

i was tagged by @bicreature!! kiitos <3

last song: haluun takas mun perhoset by pehmoaino

last movie: uhhhhhhhh i don't really watch movies i'm sorry!! i've been meaning to watch more cronenberg movies and i kind of want to see saw x though.

reading: briefly, a delicious life by nell stevens

watching: i am in the process of getting through abbott elementary and the bear but i am still suffering from the effects of succession ending so everything else feels bleak :/

consuming: corn snacks with nacho cheese flavor

craving: orange soda that i have in the fridge

i am tagging @reasoncourt @oddeyelesbian @romansmartini @girljeremystrong @chiefofmilfs but no pressure <3

#once in my lifetime i did one of these!!!

[transmutationisms]

succ characters fave philosophers, shamelessly inspired by @reasoncourt saying kendall likes nietzsche

kendall: yeah it's nietzsche for sure im not even gonna try to argue with that. he is that guy (derogatory)

roman: doesn't read philosophy proper, but follows an ig account that posts completely decontextualised philosophy quotes of the day. leans accelerationist. once it was a nick land quote and roman experienced emotions about it

shiv: claims it's beauvoir but never made it more than 20 pages into the second sex. she did read the judith jarvis thomson abortion essay in undergrad, though

connor: do i even have to say it. it's jordan peterson. literally don't ask connor about lobsters you'll be here all day. he also owns two different translations of the maxims of la rochefoucauld and he cried when roger scruton got cooked

logan: it used to be tacitus but then ewan said he liked tacitus and logan changed his answer out of spite. now he claims it's sun tzu but he never actually got around to reading the art of war

ewan: says it's tacitus just to piss off logan. probably really into bentham or peter singer though

greg: i just don't think greg reads books i'm sorry. he did google "nero and sporus" once but what he found disturbed him and he just closed the tab and tried not to think about it

willa: sartre

gerri: doesn't have time to read philosophy for real but keeps up with whatever nyt is recommending. probably has a personal relationship with martha nussbaum

tom: ayn rand

nate: nietzsche. kendall used to read it aloud to him in shanghai while they were fucking

stewy: says it's camus just to annoy kendall

jess: says it's nietzsche just to shut kendall up

rava: has banned the word nietzsche from her household. probably into lauren berlant or something

frank: i mean obviously shakespeare. also wittgenstein

karl: wittgenstein to bond with frank, heidegger just because

cyd peach: chomsky but she only read manufacturing consent

marcia: camus but for real. she doesn't know why this pisses kendall off because she tunes him out whenever he's not talking about business

karolina: i think it would be funny if karolina was really into, like, debord and baudrillard and every night she just goes home and looks at herself in the mirror and thinks about the nature of representations and the spectacle and such. she still cashes all her paychecks, though

laird: brian massumi but also just because i think it would be funny

lawrence: would tell kendall it was the marquis de sade, but these days he's actually been more into mark fisher

megathump: the book of job

[lastfridgemagnetleft]

rules: tag 10 people you want to know better! (thanks for tagging me teddy 🥰 @realbrucespringsteen)

relationship status: haunted

fav color: burgundy or pastel pink

song stuck in your head: *static noise* head empty only tinnitus

last song you listened to: crush - tessa violet

3 fav foods: souffle omelette, gyoza, pav bhaji

last google: ranch dressing recipe

dream trip: relaxing at the beach with friends

anything I want right now: a good night's sleep ;_;

tagging: @gloss518062 @georgeromerosanalcavity @culkinism @gregwambsganss @iamtheforestandiamthefire @eastgaysian @togansweep @toganvorce @girljeremystrong @reasoncourt (no pressure of course ^_^)

#tag games

[tomwambsmilk]

i must ask did you get this url after 3x09 came out and roman talked about toms milk or did you have it already when that line dropped. if you had it then was that like your november 5th

The answer to that question is actually neither, and it made me realize that the public knows very little about the true origins of tommy milk. Well - maybe it’s time to crack the lid a little on this secret.

The date is June 26, 2022. Vi @tomwambsgoose recently got an anon ask saying that they’d unfollowed the succession tag bc of her hallmark tomgreg Christmas poster. Vi pops into the succession discord server with this:

And since the discord server is basically like a giant game of improv where you can only “yes, and”, sursh @reasoncourt, sai @saipng, and ming @tomwambsgirl all get involved, and it escalates from there:

Until finally, true inspiration strikes:

And the rest, as they say, is milkstory🥛

#milkposting #asks #anon #what a fucking throwback #this is such a small selection of messages too. this convo went on for HOURS

[wambsgender]

9 people you want to know better!

[thanks for the tag @cottonsquab 😸]

last song i listened to: stardawg ammi cookies zombie by greebo (banger please please listen) or kovis by käärijä (the eurovision disease persists. Please please help me)

currently watching: fargo s2! love an anthology series but i am still just too fascinated by lorne malvo in season 1 to fully appreciate this next story just yet tho

currently reading: nonfiction im getting through each essay from Culinary Shakespeare: Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England because the couple i read for my degree fucking ruled. fiction im flipping between The Butcher of Berner Street by Alex Reeve and The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton. neither have knocked my socks off really but i still wanna finish them

current obsession: i mean aside from the constant underlying succession fixation the bear is all ive been thinking about for months now. but to be honest i haven't rlly had time to be insane about anything other than flat/job hunting T_T

no pressure: @reasoncourt @lastfridgemagnetleft @togansweep @georgeromerosanalcavity @horrorcomedies @tomwambsmilk @sanpape @girljeremystrong @eastgaysian

#tag games

[girljeremystrong]

do u have a book rec that will ruin me emotionally? i want to be upset. but in a nice way. sort of like how la vita è bella makes me upset or a thousand splendid suns makes me upset. i need a bittersweet ending i will think about forever. or something. sorry for the random question shshsjsjs <3 all g if you can’t think of anything i just thought i’d ask you first

of course i do!! ❤️

so here are some book that are upsetting and heartbreaking and made me upset and made me cry:

the great believers by rebecca makkai

i cried and cried and didn't recover for days. a dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s chicago and contemporary paris.

the fortune men by nadifa mohamed

how frustrating and sad this was, made me cry and made me mad! the story of a murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times.

tin man by sarah winman

why is love so miserable? ellis and michael are twelve when they first become friends, and then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. but then we fast forward a decade or so, to find that ellis is married to annie, and michael is nowhere in sight, what happened in the years between?

the summer that melted everything by tiffany mcdaniel

this writer is outstanding! when a local prosecutor publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the country town of breathed, ohio, nobody quite expected that he would turn up. they especially didn't expect him to turn up a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy.

betty by tiffany mcdaniel

i cried through entire chapters of this. a stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life. "a girl comes of age against the knife."

swimming in the dark by tomasz jedrowski

so sad and infuriating!!! set in early 1980s poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide

crying in h mart by michelle zauner

just hundreds of pages about a death so sad and inevitable. a memoir about growing up korean american, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.

the prophets by robert jones jr.

everything about this is upsetting and maddening. a novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a deep south plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.

yolk by mary h.k. choi

to me all stories about siblings are intrinsically tragic. a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters switching places and committing insurance fraud to save one of their lives.

mayflies by andrew o'hagan

so sad but also a glorious celebration of life. a memorial to youth's euphorias and to everyday tragedy. a tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.

salvage the bones by jesmyn ward

an absolute masterpiece!!! hurricane katrina is threatening the coastal town of bois sauvage. esch and her three brothers are stocking food. she's fourteen and pregnant. as the twelve days that comprise the novel's framework yield to the final day, the unforgettable family pulls itself up to struggle for another day.

tell the wolves i'm home by carol rifka brunt

sad and sweet and also nothing is more heartbreaking than how people with aids were treated in the 80s. a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them. in 1987 after her uncle dies of hiv a fourteen year old girl gets to know his uncle's partner.

an american marriage by tayari jones

this woman is an incredible writer! this book is so absolutely frustrating. newlyweds celestial and roy are the embodiment of both the american dream and the new south. but as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart. roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime celestial knows he didn’t commit.

flowers for algernon by daniel keyes

heart-wrenching!!!! it's the story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse.

and among the classics:

if this is a man by primo levi

the account of the author's experience from when he was captured to his transfer as part of 650 italian jews from to auschwitz in poland and his experiences until the end.

all quiet on the western front by erich maria remarque

with the fire and patriotism of youth a group of german schoolboys sign up to go to war. what follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.

giovanni's room by james baldwin

an american expatriate living in the south of france, reminisces about his life, while his ex-lover, an Italian immigrant named giovanni, is set to be executed in the morning.

if beale street could talk by james baldwin

a moving story of love in the face of injustice. tishis a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child. they have pledged to get married, but tonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. their families set out to clear his name.

#i hope at leat one of these will work!!!!! #thank you for asking!!! ❤️ #book recs #books #ask #reasoncourt

[humanveil]

taged by @strelka​ to post 10 of my favourite songs with names in the titles and i love wasting time so i made it a playlist

tagging @reasoncourt @fairydyke-mothr @theoriginofloves

forgot the songs don't show on mobile when you embed a playlist SO

adam's song - blink 182

andria - la dispute

carmen - lana del rey

frankly, mr shankly - the smiths

jolene - dolly parton

katharina - annenmaykantereit

me and michael - mgmt

patricia - florence + the machine

romulus - sufjan stevens

stacy's mom - fountains of wayne

#come on eileen also a fave of mine and i didn't wanna double up. so. #love that this covers most bases of my music taste

[togansweep]

thank you for tagging me @iheartcannibalism <3 (doing this here because I rarely ever use my main blog these days). 10 songs from my on repeat playlist on shuffle:

Women III - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

I Would Die 4 U - Prince

The Swing of Things- a-ha

Valentine's Day - ABC

Uptown Girl - Billy Joel (this song makes me sad now because it reminds me of tomshiv)

Modern Woman - Billy Joel (tom about shiv when they first started dating)

What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers

Train of Thought - a-ha

Ghosts Again - Depeche Mode

This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads

tagging: @toganvorce @reasoncourt @wambsgender @eastgaysian @romroyking <33

#feeling very middle aged man music taste lately #very tomcore

[transsexualism-archive]

hehehe

OMG . . . good morning beloved <3

#reasoncourt #asks

[georgeromerosanalcavity]

Tagged by @reasoncourt to post my lockscreen, last song i listened to, and last screenshot

Tagging @tomwambsgirl @saipng @gregwambsganss @emi1y @arunima @lastfridgemagnetleft

#tag game