dystopian novel, a smog has settled over the planet and mostly all crops and animals have been wiped out. ppl live on a mung bean protein flour. a chef gets hired at a tech entrepreneurās private compound in Italy where sheās able to indulge in all pleasures sheās been denied for so longā¦ but isnāt able to find the desireā¦. at first ;-)
lots of lush descriptions of food and sex (iām rly reading a lot ab these two things latelyā¦.hmm), and themes of power, privilege, belief, and DESIRE!!!ā¦ā¦..
Mar 26, 2024
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For summer, I love to dwell in the grotesque. I love books that are so horrible and disgusting that I simply just cannot look away.
One of my top recommendations for this genre is āa certain hungerā by Chelsea Summers.
This book follows a young woman, who is a food critic that absolutely loves her job. She has a taste for the finer dinning, is extremely analytical and smart. But aside from food Dorothy has a taste for something else; love, specifically a string of lovers.
I find this book repulsive, and interesting because it intertwines themes of love and cannibalism and it explains how all consuming love can be sometimes.
May 26, 2025
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by Chelsea G. Summers. sometimes a girl is a woman who eats people
Jan 30, 2024
this is about a food critic who sometimes kills and eats men. sheās crazy but also very #girlboss
May 26, 2025
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the comfort in the ebb and flow, the cyclical nature of it all
Mar 5, 2024
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it's like.... kind of insane that we (not me, of course) made the internet to be any other way. imagine if the real world were algorithmic... how kooky would that be?? you'd only ever talk to people who've already gotten a thumbs up from 10,000 other people that they're cool and worthy of being heard and it would be super weird and parasocial bc everybody else would be trying to get their attention too. and maybe you'd only be able to see people like in that episode of Black Mirror w Jon Hamm where some ppl are crystal clear in color and others are blurred out and grey and inaccessible to you. well, that's what an algorithmic internet feels like!!!! and it's terrible! i like being able to post on here whenever a thought softly lands in my head and know whoever happens to refresh their page or hop onto the app when i hit SHARE will be able to see it right away... it's the beauty of your words being seen at the right time with no filters or algorithms shoving u into a corner.....and being able to see others in the same way <3
Feb 6, 2024
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i love that our seemingly high-tech phones still cannot do the job of capturing the moonās ethereal essence. itās so humbling and vulnerable to attempt to take a photo of her and have it come out all ugly and orb-like. itās literally none of ur business to see what she looks like anytime apart from the present moment!
(and please donāt tell me if samsung or google pixel have invented technology to do a better job of this. it wouldnāt sit right with meā¦ like trying to sneakily undress a woman without her consent when she has explicitly stated sheād rather remain demurely clothed and mysterious)
Mar 17, 2024