[meme] formative adulthood reads, because i'll babble about books forever

more coming lmao, i'm making some hard cuts while looking at my goodreads five-star reviews and still coming up with a shit ton

(some other plurk i'll do formative teen reads because there are some good ones there too)

still more coming

oh just the one more oka

*okay

will come back and talk about them later when i'm not on my way out the door, but i think the takeaway is that i love books that are horrific and brutal and unflinching and sad and beautiful

i need them to ruin me but i also need them to not be edgy

One of my most disappointing moments was reading a book of short stories by the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz and realizing he could not write female characters at all

It's still a gorgeous book, but it very much benefits from being about a monastic order...

(also every book on here that I've read, I've loved, so I'll be adding the others to my to read list....)

this is i think the singular one that isn't deeply sad (and it is a children's book, though i read it as a young adult I THINK? i might have read it in high school), but it also has a passage that means a lot to me

actually according to goodreads i read it in 2005 so it should be in my eventual teen plurk instead, oops

Kira🌵 oh man that sucks, though perhaps not surprising

and clearly we need to trade book recs if we have similar tastes!

yes! the ones on here I know are Station Eleven, Passage, Canticle, The Sparrow and The Road

lmao my most singular opinion on The Road is "i agree with almost everything people who hate it say about it, it's just that those things are why i love it"

just here poaching your reads because we seem to have the same tastes

The Sparrow wrecked me when I read it in...my early 20s I think?

Now I want to reread it. Get wrecked again.

i still think about the sparrow on occasion

Boo👻Berry clearly i need to swap recs with you too