Milk Fed - Melissa Broder
The Water Cure - Sophie Macintosh
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor
Related Recs
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Books:
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Fen - Daisy Johnson
We Have Always Lived In The Castle - Shirley Jackson
The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Angela Carter
Films:
The Craft (1996)
Jenniferβs body (2009)
Bottoms (2023)
Carmilla (2019)
The Beguiled (2017)
Tv:
Yellowjackets
May 13, 2024
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Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link
Milk Fed - Mellisa Broder
Recollections of My Nonexistence - Rebeca Solnit
The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh
Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Memorial - Bryan Washington
Helgoland - Carlo Rovelli
Normal People - Sally Rooney
Jul 9, 2024
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For riotgrrrl
This is quite hard at I pretty much only read books by and about women, and there are parts of most books that could be considered βtorturedβ. So my loose criteria were books that are set predominantly in the mind of the woman and deal with their mental illness or societally unconventional behaviour.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
I Love Dick - Chris Kraus
The Woman Destroyed - Simone de Beauvoir
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters
Milk Fed - Melissa Broder
Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
A Touch of Jen - Beth Morgan
Cursed Bread - Sophie Mackintosh
Death Valley - Mellisa Broder
May 15, 2024
Top Recs from @caskeyc
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1. Don't set an alarm and wake up naturally. Snooze for however long you want to, it's okay
2. Have breakfast. For me it's toast. Have it with butter/jam/honey and a lot of water and coffee and juice.
3. Listen to an album in full and do some puzzles until it ends. I like to stick a record on and do the nyt games (connections, then wordle, then the mini, then I'm ready for a crossword)
4. Shower and use all your best stuff. Smell great. Make your hair feel soft.
5. Wear an outfit you don't get to wear that often. I tend to wear the same thing over and over at work so I wear something a bit more fun and less practical.
6. Go outside. I live near a road with secondhand shops that are great browsing but quite tempting on a budget. To beat the temptation just look in the windows and then walk round the streets or to a green space if it's a nice day. Walk as fast or as slow as you like. Try and spot cats that might let you stroke them. See how each place you go smells different. Walk down streets that you've not been down before just because.
7. Come home and decide how much energy you have. If you have energy do an activity (I would write, play an instrument, do some art, read, play a game) if you don't then watch something from your watchlist. Saturdays feel like a good day to watch something new.
8. Cook yourself a meal. Start before you're hungry and spend ages on it. Use every pot. Listen to music. Sing whilst you wash the dishes.
9. Play! Video games, board games, internet games, card games, phone games, rearrange your plushies, embrace your inner child. Play with ideas, experiment with felt tip pens, write a limerick. Get silly with it.
10. Talk to your friends. Invite them over, call somebody up, text that person back you didn't have time to. I like to spend a good day off by myself then have a great time talking to people after I've recharged.
11. Have so much fun getting to do whatever you want you fall asleep at whatever time. Monday - Friday is about appeasing your body clock, Saturdays are for filthy pleasures like falling asleep at 3am because you were too busy flirting or reading or watching videos.
Apr 16, 2024
Re: my last rec I'm kinda realizing reading this might have changed my life actually
Apr 16, 2024