What are you reading?

i am reading the trial by kafka. now that i am in houston for the weekend i am going to find books for sale in the area. hi homer

im reading invisible cities (not sure abt the title in english sorry!) by italo calvino! it's pretty good and iirc my mom's favorite of this author she gave it to me before i moved out of the country :P my favorite of his is the nonexistent knight though

other than that i've really been craving to reread the martian chronicles by ray bradbury i rly love that one

I'd recommend a book called "In his own write", it's by a lovely guy.

just started Crime and Punishment as my attempt to get back in the reading groove and i've actually been making decent progress

re: harper

hi! i've only read metamorphosis but the trial has been on the list for years. i hope you find some cool stuff

re: anthy

i have a friend who's been recommending invisible city to me for a while. afaik there's an english translation too.

I haven't been able to read because of other priorities but I loved reading A Clockwork Orange over and over again. I sadly left the copy I got for my birthday in Mexico with my father but my brother would be able to send it to me. I want to be able to read all the classic literature, Catcher in the rye, crime and punishment, little women, to kill a mockingbird. Also i really like isadora moon books.

recently i began to re-read some h.p lovecraft stories, they are quite interesting even if they are somewhat short

Here are some books I very heavily recommend!!

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers.

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen.

couple hundred pages into the Malcolm X autobiography rn

Tried and failed to read All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, just couldn't get into it </3

currently a few chapters into the yermakov transfer... picked it up at the thrift store because the cover has a train on it but its pretty good so far!

currently reading "witches in america" by alex mar. i'm like halfway into it, it's essentially this autobiography of the author getting into witchcraft after filming a documentary about it. it's pretty good! definitely recommend if you're interested in that kind of thing. the author is very good at descriptions of people and actions and feelings and you can really visualize what she's trying to portray. will probably circle back with an update after i finish it.

Im reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco... Josh sawyer basically making pentiment based off his love of this book made me finally pick it up. monk mystery with lots of natural philosophy and theological discourse and a labyrinth.

re:Celeste

house of leaves was a crazy read.. i got the rec of a book called piranesi that has similar elements. Thomas Ligottis stuff also feels sorta related vibe wise if you like shorter stories.

Currently reading Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro. It's kind of short (143 pages), but it feels like A Lot. Very reflective and pretty sad. I'm currently half-way through the book.

I have personally been reading, "Black Power: The Politics of Liberation" By Kwame Ture (formerly Carmichael Stokely) It's been a wonderful read so far. I would recommend him to anyone, first getting into radical theories. Anyway, I also just finished Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane. It was a really nice read, super informative of what it was like to live in apartheid South Africa. I would recommend it as well.

Informative.

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Reading Wuthering Heights for summer reading. I need to like speedrun reading it cuz I'm only halfway through and I only have a few more days til summer ends. It's really good I just suck at finishing things and starting things in general >:P

currently reading 18th brumaire of louis bonaparte by karl marx because it's in the reading list i added to mine even if its gonna take 30 years to finish

that and It (by stephen king) am on chapter 15 i think (the smoke hole one) that book is also very good i love morioh/derry stories where it's a small town and Shit Happens in them

heavily recommend both tho before getting to 18th you should probably read something like capital (which is also v good but 3 volumes) to get used to marxs writing style because it's very different from most things + id say read the shining before it (one of my favorite books of all time i love hotel scaries) because it is very long

omg also reading wuthering heights right now!! that and the original sherlock holmes short stories; they're very hit and miss but a fun time overall his actual characterisation is really fun