Rec | GROTESQUE GIRLHOOD

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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) Jennifer’s body (2009) Bottoms (2023) Carmilla (2019) The Beguiled (2017) Tv: Yellowjackets

@mouse

May 13, 2024

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@lucius

I've been meaning to read Carmilla. How is the movie adaptation?

May 14, 2024

@mouse

lucius loads of people hated it because it didn’t really lean into the vampireness but I thought it was good! It’s different to the book but I thought it was great and made some of the queer politics of it a bit more obvious

May 14, 2024

@lucius

mouse hell yeah. i'll need to read and then watch

May 14, 2024

@bumbythefool

Oh.... the list is hitting. This is so it. Also, I read Bunny like 5 years ago and remember liking it, but I appreciate an honest review of a popular book. Thank you!

May 14, 2024

@mouse

bumbythefool my pleasure! If you’ve a hankering for nasty creepy womanhood, as opposed to girlhoood, I could do that too haha. it’s probably my favourite genre

May 14, 2024

@bumbythefool

mouse That ask is still cooking but it is coming to pi.fyi for sure once I get through some of these recs!

May 14, 2024

@mouse

Also I’m sure the book Bunny would also fit great here, but unlike the rest of the world I really didnt like it!

May 13, 2024

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Books about tortured women

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 “tortured”. 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

@mouse

May 15, 2024

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Some books recs

Milk Fed - Melissa Broder The Water Cure - Sophie Macintosh Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor

@caskeyc

Apr 15, 2024

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here are some I’ve liked

Fiction: In Watermelon Sugar-Richard Brautigan. Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada. Death in her Hands-Ottesa Moshfeg. Mist-Miguel de Unamuno. Animal-Lisa Taddeo. This is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill. Death With Interruptions-José Saramago. The Family of Pascual Duarte-Camilo José Cela (This one is extremely violent and graphic, so beware). Flowers in the Attic-V.C Andrews. 100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel García Marquez. Non-fiction: Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs. Educated-Tara Westover. I’m Glad My Mom Died-Jennette McCurdy.