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  “Sometimes, walking through the forest, as night fell, he did want to lie down on the ground and look at the stars. Yes, it was true. There were times when he felt that same melancholia his worst patients described, a sadness the size of the universe, which expanded in space, which recognised no borders, a cosmic sadness. But they were only moments. That’s what a sane person is, he thought, somebody capable of experiencing sadness for a moment and then setting it aside.” —Antonio Xerxenesky

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  Books I read in February, part 1, faves starred: *On Sundays She Picked Flowers - Yah Yah Scholfield The Land in Winter - Andrew Miller Cinder House - Freya Marske The Hole - Hiroko Oyamada Trip - Amie Barrowdale You Glow in the Dark - Liliana Colanzi *The True True Story of Raja the Gullible - Rabih Alameddine *Cape Fever - Nadia Davids O Sinners! - Nicole Cuffy #books #bookstodon

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  “I used to find comfort in the idea of a forest made of plywood, my life made into a set, because it was a resemblance of a life, without a life in it—no celebration nor pain, no responsibility nor desire. Sometimes serenity and purgatory wear the same face.” —Nicolette Polak, Bitter Water Opera #books #bookstodon #qotd

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  “I’ve missed something again, I’ve missed the opportunity not to shed blood.” - Rene Karabash, She Who Remains #books #bookstodon #qotd

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  “The mirror in the bathroom, chipped in the left-hand corner, where I still saw myself as a child, reflected a nasty gaze. Did I look at everyone like that, or just myself?” —Emanuela Anechoum, Tangerinn (translated by Lucy Rand) #books #bookstodon #qotd

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  Books I read in March--a light month: Slanting Towards the Sea - Lidija Hilje Bitter Water Opera - Nicolette Polek I Deliver Parcels in Beijing - Hu Anyan (tr. Jack Hargreaves) The Obake Code - Makana Yamamoto This Is Where the Serpent Lives - Daniyal Mueenuddin Brawler - Lauren Groff Women Without Men - Shahrnush Parsipur The Isle in the Silver Sea - Tasha Suri The Unveiling - Quan Barry *Whidbey - T Kira Madden *She Who Remains - Rene Karabash *Tangerinn - Emanuela Anechoum (tr. Lucy Rand) A...

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  RE: https://federatedfandom.net/@lunalein/116337399862736149 One book I did not finish this month: The Slip, by Lucas Schaefer. Does it get better after the first fifty pages?

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  Finished Brenda Navarro’s new book Eating Ashes last night. She has an amazingly light touch with really heavy issues of grief, identity, poverty, and family, so that it was an easy read even though it’s fairly bleak. the narrator’s voice stays vibrant. also, lovely use of onomatopoeia—i worlds love to know more about how that worked in translation. #books #bookstodon

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  “When I see you again, it’s exactly like I’m falling to pieces. It’s like it’s raining somewhere. Like old things dying, time making a detour, like I’m breathing in a new orchid.” —Astrid Roemer, On a Woman’s Madness #books #bookstodon #qotd

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  “A dangerous joy was gathering in my heart: the kind of joy that makes you do things you remember all your life, not necessarily with fondness.” - Cameron Reed The Fortunate Fall #books #bookstodon #qotd

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  Books I read in April (*favorites): Sisters in Yellow—Mieko Kawakami Saoirse—Charleen Hurtubise *Eating Ashes—Brenda Navarro *Persona—Aoife Josie Clements On A Woman’s Madness—Astrid Roemer Ruth—Kate Riley *We Lived on the Horizon—Erika Swyler Gloria Don’t Speak—Lucy Apps What Hunger—Catherine Dang The Keeper—Tana French We Are Green and Trembling—Gabriela Cabezón Cámara The Will of the Many—James Islington Little One—Olivia Muenter The Witch—Marie NDiaye Honeyeater—Kathleen Jennings #books

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  i loved the ultimate fate of the narrator’s father so much.

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  @gwynnion pre-fucking-cisely