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for lovers of violent, sickening, beautifully written short fiction. fernanda melchor (b. Veracruz, mx) creates such vivid and raw imagery. part of my contemporary lat American fiction reading journey, she has quickly become my favorite living author
synopsis: at a gated community in Veracruz, the young neighborhood gardner starts spending time with a deranged, wealthy teenage resident and quickly becomes wrapped into a violent scheme against a woman next door
Apr 9, 2024
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Isabel Allende you have done it again! A magnificent short story with beautiful writing, incredible characters, and such a beautiful world.
I also finally read Paradise Rot and let me tell ya that was an eerie little book!!! The visuals of decay were so descriptive and took me right into the apartment. Brilliant, disturbing, and gorgeously written
Mar 6, 2024
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ambient, haunted, divine feminine. love that gurl
Dec 3, 2024
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although i could NOT stomach Tender is the Flesh, i fell in love with the gruesome and poignant short stories presented in this collection. if you like horror, feeling hopeless, being disgusted in psychological and physical ways, you may enjoy this!!!
Jul 31, 2024
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ok I’m biased bc these are some of my faves but these are a few movies that either changed how i viewed the world or how I appreciated the power of film:
(in no particular order)
donnie darko
akira
melancholia
prisoners
atonement
interstellar
the shining
gummo
pulp fiction
kill bill
carrie (1976)
martyrs
arrival
pan’s labryinth
dazed & confused
dogtooth
the virgin suicides
thirteen
sorry there’s so many I got excited 😭
Apr 10, 2024
On a medieval history binge on YT and this video is super interesting for many reasons but my biggest takeaway was the insane priests of medieval Prague who had several recorded complaints against them including:
1. A priest who was running a brothel from his home
2. A priests who got in trouble for continuously seeing a prostitute but said it was okay bc he paid her immediately after and made her leave
3. A priests gets caught in a brothel and doesn’t want to get arrested so runs naked through the streets back to the parish
then they would tell their parishioners not to have sex at Sunday mass 💀 so I guess men still had the audacity literally 1000 years ago
Jul 9, 2024
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Got to see a midnight screening of The Shining at the Angelika when I was in high school. So so cool experiencing movies that came out like 20 years before you were born in a theater with other people 🫢
tied with Donnie Darko (also a midnight screening) - watched this movie many times on a laptop so the big screen was an upgrade. also it came out when I was like 2 years old so i was super excited to get to watch it in a theater and pretend it was 2001
May 1, 2024