#the pisces

[softpoetrygf]

yes babe you’re so bunny a certain hunger my year of rest and relaxation boy parts the pisces gone girl milk fed nightbitch the bell jar the virgin suicides earthlings pizza girl vladimir and ily for it

#books #unhinged women #femcel #bunny mona awad #a certain hunger #my year of rest and relaxation #boy parts #gone girl #milk fed #nightbitch #the bell jar #the virgin suicides #earthlings #pizza girl #the pisces #vladimir julia may jones

[mood2you]

Books and a Cold Drink for the JOMPBPC

I'm pretty obsessed with the $2 peach punch at Walmart

#gilead #the pisces #books #jompbpc

[wordsthatmattered]

I didn't want to be seen too closely or I might have to look at me too.

- The Pisces by Melissa Broder

#the pisces #melissa broder #quotes #book quotes #reading #wordsthatmattered

[bookloure]

Some *spoilery* thoughts on The Pisces; some photos by the sea.

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Most people who dislike "The Pisces" say that it's because the main character is very unlikeable. And it's true: Lucy is disgustingly selfish. She has a messy relationship with sex; her sexual fantasies tend to be deviant; she sometimes thinks she's better than other women; she often justifies her bad decisions; she makes terrible decisions to follow her whim and infatuation.

But this depiction of Lucy is precisely why I love the book. It's the point. Women are allowed to be selfish and horrible. They're allowed to make the most terrible decisions and be so appalling—and still deserve love, acceptance, and life.

Women are only ever allowed to be good; any woman who is voracious, lustful, a cheater, or has a complicated relationship with sex is hated. Recognizing that women can be bad and still deserve empathy is, I think, the whole point of the book. And I love that.

I liked that the merman had to kill Lucy and that she survived. And most of all, I loved that her sister forgave her immediately after what she did to her dog. As women, we must be the first to embrace our sisters, even after we lose something precious because of their selfishness and bad decisions.

#bookblr #booklr #book review #the pisces #melissa broder

[wiproaringreading]

Okay my Reading Goals for the JOMP are these, like, generally, annually, for the new year!

#books #jompbpc #yellow #the rosie project #a slow fire burning #the pisces #jumped the gun on the prompts list 😅

[prettytothink-so]

i'm only a few chapters into death valley but between this and the pisces i'm starting to suspect no one can write a depressed character quite as realistically as melissa broder can

#death valley #the pisces #melissa broder #booklr #books

[daddymikeyway]

He’s just like me fr fr

#the pisces #I watch Casey Aonso on YouTube and she reccomended this book and holy shit #I’m glad I’m reading it #it’s raunch and funny and relatable #who hasn’t lied and been like ‘yeah that was great but I have to go’ #to get out of sex

[peach-tea-leaves]

Just One More Page Challenge Day 9: Biggest Weakness

The Pisces encapsulates two big weaknesses for me when it comes to buying books:

unique, eye-catching covers

weird as hell premise (no spoilers 😉)

While I ended up not loving this book, I have to admire Broder for her creativity and powerful writing!

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #just one more page challenge #the pisces #melissa broder #the pisces melissa broder

[itsallhoney]

not to be like “this is my joker” but this is my joker (source)

#melissa broder #the pisces #books #book to movie #adaptation news #if jenny slate is in the film i will be worse #my post

[camillehenri]

I wondered what most people my age were doing right now. Probably something boring involving children and applesauce.

Melissa Broder, The Pisces

#art #quotes #books #book quotes #melissa broder #the pisces #literature #sunday

[kisari-vibes]

Anyways apologies to anyone who read "The Pisces" but I am not strong enough to read the last 20-15 chapters of the book and just chickened out to the last chapter. It's definitely a good book with an unlikable protagonist, but I also think that's the point. It's not wrong to have an unlikable protagonist, but I just don't think the book was for me. It definitely intrigued me though.

#The Pisces #okay Kisari we get it you can't handle unstable women #actually I don't think I can handle too much of the crazy stuff that happens in this book but I'm not going to call it bad for that #but like by the time there's about 20 chapters left you definitely know where the book is going like a car crash that you can't stop #and you know it won't stop #I do like the use of the mermaid/merman/siren part tho #that's all I'm here for I'm just straight up a mermaid character enthusiast at this point and might re-read a few books about them #Because I read a bunch during my Emily Windsnap era but It's been too long for me to remember them #but like if this gets turned into a movie #for all you girlies who want your joker or something she's for you #go wild Lucy apologists you know who she is

[mood2you]

Blog 13: It's been 2 weeks

And nothing much has happened, just small things. You can find various shorter posts, probably, I know I told the story of almost getting lost at night in a housing tract.

As you know, it was hot this week, and so I went swimming. I always take to things like that nervously, how do you get to the pool and back (answer: barefoot on the way back), how long do you stay at the pool (answer: couldn't be longer than 2 hours), what if someone looks at you funny at the pool. Actually, someone did have a fit, aparently some kids jumped the fence--silently--and the guy let their very presence ruin his Sunday with his little daughter, and they kept telling him, very eloquently, to mind his own business and not start a scene in front of her, and then called him a Karen. It was kind of funny, but sad of course, very un-neighborly and immature, and they got it on film. He said he'd just called the cops, I didn't let it stop me because he didn't, he did not stop yelling at them long enough to make any call. Both parties left before I'd finished Instructions for a Heatwave, which I mentioned in some other post. The instructions are bits of laws supposedly from the 1976 heatwave about not stealing water, not using water for frivolous purposes. The laws had it laid out, but it said drinking water was okay but it never mentions cooking with water. Some things like bread use water instead of milk, but other things require quarts of water to boil and then throw the water away.

I'd been eating at Jack In The Box a lot last week because I like their pumpkin spice eggrolls (croissants) but I hate their pumpkin spice milkshake and their monster taco is only good reheated as if they don't let their cheese melt properly. Their chicken teriyaki bowl is getting smaller and smaller.

I started The Pisces but it has such mixed reviews and it seems so mean. I see reviews for all manner of books that use the word vulgar negatively, well I think that part is interesting, all the gross stuff, but it's mean. I watched Renfield which was also gross, silly action where people explode into vicera. Both properties have group therapy and both poke fun at the idea that your boss could be abusive. But in Renfeild his boss (the specific person he is in therapy over) comes to a meeting and kills everyone, a typical fear of people with abusive partners in group, but it's not like you can turn people away especially not manipulative people. I thnk the movie has a lot to say but some of it went over my head, "there's more Renfeild-type-people than Dracula-type-people." In The Pisces she is a writer living in her rich sisters house over summer, she's her own boss and she's just dealing with agents and dogs. And now suddenly I'm the mean one for saying that. It's one of the Group members that says she has a pattern of abusive bosses, and it's like, yeah, we all do (except people with no boss) that doesn't make it okay. I'm gonna read the Pisces until the fabled mermaid sex all the reviews have as a sticking point.

#blog #tumblr #the pisces #jack in the box #swimming

[ghostlover98]

I hate seeing tiktoks suggesting The Pisces (Melissa Broder) as an unhinged girlie book, like no she just shags a merman. That is not unhinged. I would think most people given the chance would shag a hot merman.

#melissa broder #the pisces #mermen #maybe the fact she kills the dog but that is accidental #also he likes her period but that does not mean SHE is unhinged #bookrecs

[witski]

the pisces is interest and idk, yeah, lucy is kinda shitty but. i kind of like her?

#i just love female characters even when they’re the worst. lucy u have done nothing wrong except forgetting to feed the dog!!!! #the pisces #reading

[addisonclarke]

Last time I anticipated seeing someone the butterflies turned out to be warning signs

Fluttering their wings faster the closer I got to him like a bad game of hot and cold

When it ended it shattered the world around me, taking all of my soft parts with it and I hate to admit that I wondered if I would ever love someone like that again but you

You make both my lungs deflate whenever you’re around and most people exhaust me but I could never be tired of you but how I can tell you that

How can you not know when I watch you speak like I will never hear anything more important in my life and when I catch my breath when we make eye contact for too long

Why do I have to say it

Please don’t make me say it

And I hope you don’t have someone waiting for you

I hope you go to an empty house waiting for the right woman to make it a home and when you think about loving someone for the rest of your life I hope you think of me

#my writing #poetry #writing #poems #the pisces #a love letter to someone that doesn’t want it #an excerpt from a book i might write #the archer #the cancer

[snoopers-gonna-snoop]

Currently Reading: The Pisces by Melissa Broder

Kinda disappointed about the fish man being just a man with a tail instead of a Shape of Water type fish man, but I’ll take what I can get.

#coquette #book blog #girl blogger #the pisces #melissa broder #feminine rage #hyper feminine #shape of water