Here’s the list I’ve compiled from my research and y’all’s suggestions…
THEORY Volatile Bodies - Elizabeth Grosz Unbearable Weight - Susan Bordo The Body in Pain - Elaine Scarry The Queer Art of Failure - Judith Halberstam The Monstrous-Feminine - Barbara Creed The Dread of Difference - Barry Keith Grant Men, Women, and Chain Saws - Carol J Clover Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters - Judith Halberstam Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film - Harry M. Benshoff The Medusa Reader - Marjorie Garber/Nancy J. Vickers Coming to Writing & Laugh of the Medusa- Helene Cixous Accursed Share - Georges Bataille Death and Sensuality - Georges Bataille Intercourse - Andrea Dworkin History of Shit - Dominique Laporte History of Sexuality Vol 1 - Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault Gender Trouble - Judith Butler Bodies That Matter - Judith Butler Powers of Horror - Julia Kristeva Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine - Barbara Creed Horror and Male Masochism - Barbara Creed Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors - Susan Sontag Phallic Titty Manifesto & The Skin-Cloth - Jackie Wang Technologies of the Gendered Body - Anne Balsamo Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici The Thirst for Annihilation - Nick Land Against Sex Positivity - negationparty Dictatorship of Postfeminist Imagination My Words to Victor Frankenstein - Susan Styker To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body - Felix Guattari Assuming a Body - Gayle Salamon The Absent Body - Drew Leder
LITERATURE Dracula - Bram Stoker Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson Aliens & Anorexia & I Love Dick - Chris Kraus The Thief’s Journal - Jean Genet Blood and Guts in High School & Hannibal Lecter My Father - Kathy Acker
ART/MUSIC My Body & Stitch Bitch & Patchwork Girl - Shelley Jackson Diamanda Galas interview in Re/Search Rhythm 10, Rest Energy, Breathing In/Breathing Out - Maria Abramovic Interior Scroll - Carolee Schneemann The Litanies of Satan - Diamanda Galas
I will do this with you or anyone. Lez talk.
I need a word that describes the feeling of urgency/excitement/overwhelm over already having piles of books to read and then having to add on to the lists of books you want to find. I’ve only read a handful of these and I read some others + articles that deal with the history of monstrosity and sexuality for a paper I did last semester. Why can’t I learn to not sleep ever
Finally reorganized my office bookcase so I don’t lose my mind trying to write a diss chapter, a conference paper, half a dozen grant applications, and a novel at the same time ️
I love the way this looks on my shelf and the gorgeous blue ombre and cover art! But I’m so sad for the conclusion to this amazing series. So far it’s started strong and I look forward to devouring every second of it!
“To the stars who listen and the dreams that are answered”
Although it wasn’t a full ACOTAR novel, A Court Of Frost And Starlight was still a really fun short read that brought back all your favourite characters. It was a good break in the waiting period between ACOWAR and the next book which im highly anticipating! It was more based in characterization and how all the characters were recovering which was really important to touch on, but it also set up some plot points to be delved into more in future novels.
Overall, it was a really cute in between read, but still important to the series. If you haven’t read A Court Of Thorns And Roses by Sarah J Maas, and you’re a YA or fantasy fan, I would highly recommend it.
Hello lovelies! This is just a quick update that I have finally, after trying a couple times, successful set up a Goodreads account. I have shelves all of my 2018 reads so far and I few of my late 2017 reads. I will try to slowly mark down the rest of the books on my bookshelves as I get more comfortable with the site, but feel free to go follow me as I will be pairing my Tumblr reviews with extended versions on Goodreads and you will be able to see what I recommend and what I’m currently reading all in one place!
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Batman: Nightwalker, by Marie Lu was just released on January 2nd! I admit I was looking forward to this release ever since it was announced, being a huge batman fan and a fan of Marie Lu’s Young Elite books. So far it’s been incredible, it jumps right into the excitement and the detail is amazing! I haven’t finished it, yet, but I would already recommend it.
Merry night before Christmas and happy holidays to everyone celebrating this season. My favourite part of Christmas is family tradition. My whole family comes up and we bake a dozen sponge and black cakes. What are your traditions?
Hey guys! Sorry I’ve been absent for the past little bit. I’ve been very busy stage managing for a local musical. Luckily I’ve been able to get some reading in, in-between shows. I’ll get back into a regular posting routine ❤️
Finished reading the grisha trilogy in a week. It was amazing, I couldn’t put it down. I would highly recommend it.
