Kaylee's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:41:12 -0700 60 Kaylee's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories]]> 22929586 A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.]]> 406 Lucia Berlin 0374202397 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.22 2015 A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
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]]> Critique of Pure Reason 18288 'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics and to bring about a complete revolution'

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It presents a profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason, its knowledge and its illusions. Reason, Kant argues, is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are not therefore entitled to draw conclusions about the natural world from these concepts. The Critique brings together the two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Kant's transcendental idealism indicates a third way that goes far beyond these alternatives.]]> 785 Immanuel Kant 0521657296 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.95 1781 Critique of Pure Reason
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]]> <![CDATA[The Great Gatsby: But Nick has Scoliosis]]> 57309624 Dick C. Heese Kaylee 0 to-read 4.31 The Great Gatsby: But Nick has Scoliosis
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]]> <![CDATA[Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together]]> 212924187 From celebrated trans activist and author of Mutual Aid Dean Spade comes a practical manifesto for how to live out your radical political values in your intimate relationships

Around the globe, people are faced with a spiraling succession of crises, from the pandemic and climate change-induced disasters to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. Many of us feel mobilized to organize and collectively combat these issues on both a personal and political level, often dedicating our lives to the forwarding of progressive ideas and the daunting goal of trying to bend the world toward justice.

But too often we think of our political values as outward-facing positions again dominant systems of power. Rarely, if ever, do we pursue the same kind of justice close to home, in our relationships to ourselves and to those closest to us. No matter how ardently we want to see the world change, our lives and connections will continue to stagnate unless we liberate ourselves from the cultural scripts that too often dictate our behavior toward others.

How do we become intentional about our levels of connection? How do we separate our expectations of love from the baggage left to us by our parents? How do we divest from the idea that one romantic partner will be the solution to all our problems? This book offers a roadmap for how to bring our best thinking about freedom and justice into step with our desires for healing and connection.

Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. Love in a F*cked-Up Worldis a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands, preparing us for the work of changing the world.
]]> 352 Dean Spade 164375646X Kaylee 0 to-read 4.37 Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
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]]> Death Styles 185127021 In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne , Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day and accepting a single icon as her starting point, however unlikely—River Phoenix, Mary Magdalene, a backyard skunk—McSweeney follows each inspiration to the point of exhaustion and makes it through each difficult day. In frank, mesmeric lyrics, Death Styles navigates the opposing forces of survival and grief, finding a way to press against death’s interface, to step the wrong way out of the grave.]]> 136 Joyelle McSweeney 1643622307 Kaylee 0 4.25 Death Styles
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]]> The Sound and the Fury 10975 366 William Faulkner Kaylee 0 to-read 3.86 1929 The Sound and the Fury
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]]> Doctor Zhivago 130440
Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel.]]> 592 Boris Pasternak 0679774386 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.03 1957 Doctor Zhivago
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]]> <![CDATA[On The Reproduction Of Capitalism: Ideology And Ideological State Apparatuses]]> 17884089
Published now for the first time in English, On the Reproduction of Capitalism develops systematically Althusser’s conception of historical materialism, outlining the conditions of reproduction in capitalist society and the revolutionary struggle for its overthrow. Written in the afterglow of May 1968, the text addresses a question that continues to haunt us today: in a society that proclaims its attachment to the ideals of liberty and equality, why do we witness the ever-renewed reproduction of relations of domination? Both an activist and a conceptually innovatory text, On the Reproduction of Capitalism is an essential addition to the corpus of the twentieth-century Left.]]> 288 Louis Althusser 1781681643 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.32 1970 On The Reproduction Of Capitalism: Ideology And Ideological State Apparatuses
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]]> Cyborg Detective 43841519 Cyborg Detective delivers a reckoning to the ableism of the Western Canon. In her latest poetry collection, Jillian Weise investigates and challenges the ways that nondisabled writers represent disability in their work. From an acerbic letter calling out William Carlos Williams’s medical conviction that “poetry heals� to a reverse-perspective biohack of Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral� to a stark chronicle of violence against “disabled women� in international headlines, no metaphor for “blind moon� or “deaf skies� goes unquestioned. Part invective, part love poem, Cyborg Detective holds a magnifying glass to the fetishization and marginalization of disabled people, in particular women, while claiming space and pride for the people who already use technology and cybernetic implants to survive.]]> 112 Jillian Weise 1942683855 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.07 2019 Cyborg Detective
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]]> The Beautifully Worthless 380869 152 Ali Liebegott 0974638846 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.02 2005 The Beautifully Worthless
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]]> An Elemental Thing 753801 194 Eliot Weinberger 0811216942 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.30 2007 An Elemental Thing
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]]> <![CDATA[The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World]]> 48582 Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction

Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception.

For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as inanimate. How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth?

In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.]]> 368 David Abram 0679776397 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.16 1996 The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
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]]> Aesthetic Theory 85818 Aesthetic Theory is Theodor W. Adorno's magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best viewed, providing a framework within which his other major writings cohere.]]> 416 Theodor W. Adorno 0816618003 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.14 1970 Aesthetic Theory
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]]> Fascination: Memoirs 39655238 312 Kevin Killian 1635900409 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.07 2018 Fascination: Memoirs
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]]> <![CDATA[Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee]]> 1909875
Born in Harlem in 1907, Lee was a Renaissance man. A musical prodigy on violin and piano at eleven, by thirteen he had become a successful jockey and by his twenties a champion boxer. After wandering into auditions for the WPA Negro Theater Project, Lee took up acting and soon shot to stardom in Orson Welles's Broadway production of Native Son , later appearing in such classic films as Lifeboat and the original Cry, the Beloved Country . But Lee's meteoric rise to fame was followed by a devastating fall. Labeled a Communist by the FBI and HUAC as early as 1943, Lee was pilloried during the notorious spy trial of Judith Coplon in 1949, then condemned in longtime friend Ed Sullivan's column. He died in 1952, forty-five and penniless, a heartbroken casualty of a dangerous and conflicted time. Now, after nearly a decade of research, Mona Smith revives the legacy of a man who was perhaps the blacklist's most tragic victim.
Mona Z. Smith is a former reporter for The Miami Herald and an award-winning playwright. Imagine an actor as familiar to audiences as Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, and Morgan Freeman are today—who is then virtually deleted from cultural history. Such is the story of Canada Lee. Among the most respected black actors of the 1940s and a passionate civil rights activist, Lee was reduced to a footnote in the history of the McCarthy era, and his death was one of a handful directly attributed to the blacklist.

Born in Harlem in 1907, Lee was a Depression-era Renaissance man, reinventing himself numerous times during one of our country's darkest a musical prodigy on violin and piano, he made his concert debut at New York's prestigious Aeolian Hall at eleven; by thirteen he had become a successful jockey; in his teens, a pro boxer; and in his twenties, a leading contender for the national welterweight title, until an unlucky blow to the head cost him the sight in one eye and his fighting career. After wandering into auditions for the Federal Theatre Project's Negro Unit, Lee took up acting and shot to stardom in Orson Welles's Broadway production of Native Son . He later appeared in such films as Alfred Hitchcock's classic Lifeboat and the original Cry, the Beloved Country with a young Sidney Poitier.

But Lee's meteoric rise to fame was followed by a devastating fall from grace. Labeled a Communist by the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee as early as 1943, Lee was pilloried during the notorious spy trial of Judith Coplon in 1949, and his career was ultimately destroyed when his longtime friend Ed Sullivan denounced him in his nationally syndicated column. Lee died in 1952, forty-five and penniless, a heartbroken victim of a dangerous and conflicted time. Now, after nearly a decade of research, Mona Z. Smith revives the legacy of a man who was perhaps the blacklist's most tragic victim. "Armed with extensive research and huge files hoarded by [Lee's] widow, Smith has put together a richly detailed . . . narrative . . . Becoming Something does an important [service by making] possible much more discussion and reflection on a life that still has lessons to teach us."� Clyde Taylor, The Washington Post Book World "Armed with extensive research and huge files hoarded by [Lee's] widow, Smith has put together a richly detailed . . . narrative . . . Becoming Something does an important [service by making] possible much more discussion and reflection on a life that still has lessons to teach us."� Clyde Taylor, The Washington Post Book World

"Mona Z. Smith has used her considerable gifts as a dramatist and storyteller to illuminate the astonishing odyssey of Canada Lee, a man who challenged racism in every quarter, here and abroad, for thirty years, and usually prevailed. Here at last is a full-length portrait of this forgotten hero."� Daniel Mark Epstein, author of Lincoln and Whitman and Nat King Cole

"A biography of Canada Lee has been long overdue. The story of his dramatic rise and fall is as important as it is moving, and Mona Z. Smith tells it with theatrical flair. This is a first-rate book."� Hazel Rowley, author of Richard The Life and Times

"Smith, a former investigative reporter for the Miami Herald who wrote a play about Lee under the same title, completed years of research and interviews to support her premise that Lee was the victim of unjust accusations fueled by the political climate. She makes a convincing case in this groundbreaking biography, providing a thought-provoking example of the tragic impact of a nation's and an art form's paranoia."� Library Journal

"Smith deftly depicts New York's theater scene, showing how Lee became one of the first African-Americans to gain acceptance in white theater, and thoroughly documents Lee's outspoken support for civil rights. Lee's speechmaking caught the attention of Cold War Red-baiters, and in 1949, he started hearing rumors he'd been blacklisted. While he did work in one final film�1951's Cry, the Beloved Country —the strain of not being able to work or support his family may have irritated his hypertension, leading to kidney failure. Smith's admiration for Lee—his artistry, his desegregation campaigns, his generosity toward the needy, his fellowship with other African-American artists—is so overwhelming that Lee emerges as a two-dimensional character. Still, students of African-American, theater and Cold War history will find this a valuable reference."� Publishers Weekly

"Serviceable biography of the pioneering African-American actor, staunch civil-rights advocate, and blacklist victim. Before he ever walked onstage, Canada Lee (1907-52) had been a classical violinist, a professional jockey, and a prizewinning boxer, and he fought throughout his acting career for roles that reflected the full range of black people's characters and experiences. His biographer, a former reporter for the Miami Herald, adequately outlines Lee's achievements . . . Smith, who had the cooperation of Lee's widow, paints an attractive portrait of a man who loved a good time, always offered a helping hand to his friends, and continued to support the causes he believed in even after he knew what the consequences would be."� Kirkus Reviews]]> 448 Mona Z. Smith 0571211453 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.50 2004 Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tinkerbell Hilton Diaries: My Life Tailing Paris Hilton]]> 323951 112 Tinkerbell Hilton 0446694304 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.82 2004 The Tinkerbell Hilton Diaries: My Life Tailing Paris Hilton
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]]> <![CDATA[The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark]]> 18657891
A groundbreaking new book, in which Josh Cohen uses his experience as psychoanalyst, literature professor and human being to explore the conception of private life.]]> 223 Josh Cohen 9781847085 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.84 2013 The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark
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]]> Scorched Earth: Poems 214152163 The striking sophomore poetry collection from the award-winning author of the “beautiful, vulnerable, honest� (Ross Gay, New York Times bestselling author) I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood.

Dive between the borders of ruined and radical love with this lyrical poetry collection that explores topics as expansive as divorce, the first Black Bachelorette, and the art world. Stanzas shift between reverence to irreverence as they take us on a journey through institutional and historical pains alongside sensuality and queer, Black joys.

From a generational voice that “earns a place among the pantheon of such emerging black poets as Eve Ewing, Nicole Sealy, and Airea D. Matthews� (Booklist, starred review), Scorched Earth is a transcendent anthology for our times.]]> 112 Tiana Clark 1668052075 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.22 Scorched Earth: Poems
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]]> Mercury 11053338 Mercury comprises a group of long poems. These interlocking works speak to the substance and essence of what is said, transmitted, transacted, "communicated" between persons. Reines proposes that substance and essence are opposites, and explores this in contexts including commercial cinema and internet porn.

Your music makes me feel lonely
Your music makes me feel lonely
Your music
Makes me feel lonely
Picking a lemon
Late at night
My heart tightens
I fear nature
Your music makes me feel lonely
I must be responsible for it
I’m alive
I have this hair helmet on
I’m so alive
I say yes to the megaplex
You say it’s awful isn’t it awful
I say yeah
So what. Something sentimental
This place
I agree
Huge
We’re gonna go into the movie
. . .
The day is long enough
The day is long enough
The day is so long enough

To contain all this and more]]> 242 Ariana Reines 1934200476 Kaylee 4 4.23 2011 Mercury
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I want to love myself by what I desire ❤️
]]> Septology (Septologien, #1-7) 60246552
Jon Fosse’s ​SٴDZDz is a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience � incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.]]> 825 Jon Fosse 1804270067 Kaylee 5 4.50 2022 Septology (Septologien, #1-7)
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I will miss reading this every morning and night for the past week, like a dream/former life
]]> Ways of Seeing 2784 John Berger’s Classic Text on Art

Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times a critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" —Peter Fuller, Arts Review

"The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" —Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling.]]> 176 John Berger 0140135154 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.93 1972 Ways of Seeing
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]]> Ethan Frome 5246
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.

In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book.]]> 99 Edith Wharton Kaylee 0 to-read 3.42 1911 Ethan Frome
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]]> <![CDATA[Returning the Sword to the Stone]]> 56707513 85 Mark Leidner 1734456639 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.61 Returning the Sword to the Stone
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]]> I Am the Cheese 48974 233 Robert Cormier 0141300515 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.77 1977 I Am the Cheese
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]]> <![CDATA[Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry]]> 139781 Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry won theNational Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A new collection of Robert Hass's essays will be published by Ecco in 1998.]]> 308 Robert Hass 088001539X Kaylee 0 to-read 4.31 1984 Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
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]]> Gravity and Grace 730139 Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition - by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1952 - this Routledge Classics edition offers English readers the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever, by incorporating a specially commissioned translation of the controversial chapter on Israel. Also previously untranslated is Gustave Thibon's postscript of 1990, which reminds us how privileged we are to be able to read a work which offers each reader such 'light for the spirit and nourishment for the soul'. This is a book that no one with a serious interest in the spiritual life can afford to be without.]]> 224 Simone Weil 0415290015 Kaylee 5 4.32 1947 Gravity and Grace
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All that I wish for exists, or has existed, or will exist somewhere. For I am incapable of complete invention. In that case, how should I not be satisfied?
]]> I Loved You for Your Voice 169565 256 Sélim Nassib 1933372079 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.82 1994 I Loved You for Your Voice
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]]> <![CDATA[Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life]]> 111896 574 Andrew Motion 0374524076 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.21 1982 Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
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]]> Woman At Point Zero 20936483 108 Nawal El Saadawi Kaylee 0 to-read 4.17 1975 Woman At Point Zero
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]]> <![CDATA[The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)]]> 75489 the unconscious, repetition, the transference, and the drive. Along the way he argues for a structural affinity between psychoanalysis and language, discusses the relation of psychoanalysis to religion, and reveals his particular stance on topics ranging from sexuality and death to alienation and repression. This book constitutes the essence of Dr. Lacan's sensibility.]]> 304 Jacques Lacan 0393317757 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.12 1973 The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
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]]> Dust Sucker 122758441 48 Jen Calleja 1739616006 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.25 2023 Dust Sucker
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]]> <![CDATA[An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures]]> 53492652 Passion According to GH with a book that looks suspiciously like a romance novel?

In The Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures, Clarice Lispector tries to discover how to bridge the gap between people, or how to even begin to try.

A woman struggles to emerge from solitude and sadness into love, including sexual love: her guide on this journey is Ulisses, who (yes) leads her patiently into the fullness of life.

The Apprenticeship was a bestseller and, as her biographer Benjamin Moser writes, "This accessible love story surprised many readers. When it came out, an interviewer said: 'I thought The Book of Pleasures was much easier to read than any of your other books. Do you think there’s any basis for that?' Clarice answered: 'There is. I humanized myself, the book reflects that.'”]]> 176 Clarice Lispector 0811230619 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.24 1969 An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
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]]> Obit 53029244 Obit, Chang writes of "the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking." These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died ("civility," "language," "the future," "Mother's blue dress") and the cultural impact of death on the living. Whereas elegy attempts to immortalize the dead, an obituary expresses loss, and the love for the dead becomes a conduit for self-expression. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the living.]]> 113 Victoria Chang 1556595743 Kaylee 5 4.29 2020 Obit
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]]> The Left Hand of Darkness 18423 The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.]]> 304 Ursula K. Le Guin Kaylee 0 to-read 4.11 1969 The Left Hand of Darkness
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]]> <![CDATA[Understanding the Borderline Mother]]> 85662
Four character profiles describe different symptom clusters that include the waif mother, the hermit mother, the queen mother, and the witch. Children of borderlines are at risk for developing this complex and devastating personality disorder themselves. Dr. Lawson's recommendations for prevention include empathic understanding of the borderline mother and early intervention with her children to ground them in reality and counteract the often dangerous effects of living with a "make-believe" mother.

Some readers may recognize their mothers as well as themselves in this book. They will also find specific suggestions for creating healthier relationships. Addressing the adult children of borderlines and the therapists who work with them, Dr. Lawson shows how to care for the waif without rescuing her, to attend to the hermit without feeding her fear, to love the queen without becoming her subject, and to live with the witch without becoming her victim.
A Jason Aronson Book]]> 330 Christine Ann Lawson 0765703319 Kaylee 5 Ooouuhhhhh 4.40 2000 Understanding the Borderline Mother
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]]> <![CDATA[Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal]]> 213702691 Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.

Palestine is a microcosm of the on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured—the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial.

Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and condemnation.

How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple dignity for the Palestinian.]]> 256 Mohammed El-Kurd Kaylee 0 to-read 4.89 2025 Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
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]]> Elegy 563644 92 Mary Jo Bang 155597483X Kaylee 0 to-read 4.00 2007 Elegy
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]]> <![CDATA[He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art]]> 37941588 A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets

What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death and fame, heaven and oblivion. Above all, He Held Radical Light is a love letter to poetry, filled with moving, surprising, and sometimes funny encounters with the poets Wiman has known. Seamus Heaney opens a suddenly intimate conversation about faith; Mary Oliver puts half of a dead pigeon in her pocket; A. R. Ammons stands up in front of an audience and refuses to read. He Held Radical Light is as urgent and intense as it is lively and entertaining--a sharp sequel to Wiman's earlier memoir, My Bright Abyss.]]> 128 Christian Wiman 0374168466 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.26 2018 He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
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]]> The Rachel Incident 73971348 A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three

Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them.

When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred’s glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife. Aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph.]]> 304 Caroline O'Donoghue 0593535715 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.12 2023 The Rachel Incident
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]]> The Blessing: A Memoir 456604 256 Gregory Orr 1571781412 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.17 2002 The Blessing: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved]]> 540175 In a wooden coffin.
The fire ate his body;
The flames devoured her.
I put the beloved
In a poem or song.
Tucked it between
Two pages of the Book.
How bright the flames.
All of me burning,
All of me on fire
And still whole. There is nothing quite like this book—an “active anthology� in the best sense—where individuals find the poems and songs that will sustain them. Or the poems find them. Gregory Orr is the author of eight books of poetry, four volumes of criticism, and a memoir. He has received numerous awards for his work, most recently the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Orr has taught at the University of Virginia since 1975 and was, for many years, the poetry editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review . He lives with his family in Charlottesville, Virginia.]]> 200 Gregory Orr 1556592299 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.34 2005 Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
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]]> frank: sonnets 53317415 WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY
WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION
WINNER OF THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY

A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl , a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

“The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,� Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss’s working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and addiction, Christ and motherhood, showing us what we can do, what we can do without, and what we offer to one another when we have nothing left to spare. Like a series of cels on a filmstrip, sonnets captures the magnitude of a life lived honestly, a restless search for some kind of “beauty or relief.� Seuss is at the height of her powers, devastatingly astute, austere, and―in a word―frank.]]> 137 Diane Seuss 1644450453 Kaylee 5 all-time-favorites 4.50 2021 frank: sonnets
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]]> <![CDATA[Poetry as Survival (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft)]]> 540174
Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of work by Keats, Dickinson, and Whitman with quotes from three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems to show that writing personal lyric has helped poets throughout history to process emotional and experiential turmoil, from individual stress to collective grief. More specifically, he considers how the acts of writing, reading, and listening to lyric bring ordering powers to the chaos that surrounds us. Moving into more contemporary work, Orr looks at the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Stanley Kunitz, and Theodore Roethke, poets who relied on their own work to get through painful psychological experiences.

As a poet who has experienced considerable trauma―especially as a child―Orr refers to the damaging experiences of his past and to the role poetry played in his ability to recover and survive. His personal narrative makes all the more poignant and vivid Orr's claims for lyric poetry's power as a tool for healing. Poetry as Survival is a memorable and inspiring introduction to lyric poetry's capacity to help us find safety and comfort in a threatening world.]]> 242 Gregory Orr 0820324280 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.30 2002 Poetry as Survival (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft)
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]]> <![CDATA[Fun To Be Dead: The Poems of Bob Flanagan]]> 216078799
Including ~
The Kid is the Man (1978)
The Wedding of Everything (1983)
Slave Sonnets (1986)
Fuck Journal (1987)
A Taste of Honey (with David Trinidad) (1990)
The Book of Medicine (the unfinished manuscript)

"Cause for celebration: Bob Flanagan’s tortured, elegant poetry is finally back in print! Alive with carnality, love, abjection, relentless self-exposure and fatalist laughs, these poems are as fresh and stunning as when they were first written. Bob's work lays bare the eroticism of punishment and the punishing possibilities of the erotic. Every meticulously chosen word between these covers drips with blood, cum and tears." - Amy Gerstler, author of Index of Women]]> Bob Flanagan Kaylee 0 to-read 5.00 Fun To Be Dead: The Poems of Bob Flanagan
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]]> <![CDATA[All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)]]> 58393241 A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of imperial violence and interpersonal abuse, from a poet both "tender and unflinching" (Khadijah Queen)

Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran's poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.]]> 112 Paul Tran 0143136844 Kaylee 5 Perfect obvsly 3.84 2022 All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy]]> 22245334
To answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber—one of the most prominent and provocative thinkers working today—takes a journey through ancient and modern history to trace the peculiar and fascinating evolution of bureaucracy over the ages.

He starts in the ancient world, looking at how early civilizations were organized and what traces early bureaucratic systems have left in the ethnographic literature. He then jets forward to the nineteenth century, where systems we can easily recognize as modern bureaucracies come into being. In some areas of life—like with the modern postal systems of Germany and France—these bureaucracies have brought tremendous efficiencies to modern life. But Graeber argues that there is a much darker side to modern bureaucracy that is rarely ever discussed. Indeed, in our own “utopia of rules,� freedom and technological innovation are often the casualties of systems that we only faintly understand.

Provocative and timely, the book is a powerful look and history of bureaucracy over the ages and its power in shaping the world of ideas.]]> 261 David Graeber 1612193749 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.03 2013 The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
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]]> Small Fry: A Memoir 39218044
Small Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs's poignant story of a childhood spent between two imperfect but extraordinary homes. Scrappy, wise, and funny, young Lisa is an unforgettable guide through her parents' fascinating and disparate worlds. Part portrait of a complex family, part love letter to California in the seventies and eighties, Small Fry is an enthralling book by an insightful new literary voice.]]> 383 Lisa Brennan-Jobs 0802128238 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.76 2018 Small Fry: A Memoir
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]]> Rise Up 666135 American Poet

Approaching pleasure and terror with the same searching and determined curiosity, Rise Up traverses political, natural, and domestic landscapes with gentle agility. Beautifully crafted surfaces give way to sincere depth.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Green Light (2004, shortlisted for the Griffin Prize), Satellite, and A Hummock in the Malookas. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing.


]]> 72 Matthew Rohrer 1933517182 Kaylee 5 4.16 2007 Rise Up
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Read in one sitting while having a burger and fries and shake in ann arbor�.. awesome
]]> Tastes Like War 56047271
Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. In her mother’s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her parent’s childhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her mother’s multiple voices at the table. And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her—but also the things that kept her alive.]]> 289 Grace M. Cho 1952177944 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.88 2021 Tastes Like War
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]]> <![CDATA[Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War]]> 5366000 Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical violence between the United States and Korea and the unexamined reverberations of sexual relationships between Korean women and American soldiers.]]> 232 Grace M. Cho 0816652759 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.22 2008 Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
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]]> <![CDATA[Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude]]> 1337117 As we come to the end of the century, the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today, it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of twentieth-century poetry.
International in its coverage, these volumes depart from the established poetic modes that grew out of the nineteenth century and instead bring together the movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition.
The first volume offers three "galleries" of individual poets—figures such as Mallarmé, Stein, Rilke, Tzara, Mayakovsky, Pound, H.D., Vallejo, Artaud, Césaire, and Tsvetayeva.
Included, too, are sections dedicated to some of the most significant pre-World War II movements in poetry and the other arts: Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Objectivism, and Negritude. The second volume will extend the gathering to the present, forming a synthesizing, global anthology that surpasses other collections in its international scope and experimental range.
Poet-editors Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris provide informative and irreverent commentaries throughout. They challenge old truths and propose alternative directions, in the tradition of the revolutionary manifestos that have marked the art and poetry of the twentieth century. The result is both an essential source book for experiencing the full range of this century's poetic possibilities and a powerful statement on the future of poetry in the millennium ahead.

]]> 839 Jerome Rothenberg 0520072278 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.43 1995 Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude
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]]> Martyr! 139400713 A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.]]> 331 Kaveh Akbar 0593537610 Kaylee 0 4.22 2024 Martyr!
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]]> Destroyer and Preserver 8912427 88 Matthew Rohrer 1933517506 Kaylee 5 4.18 2011 Destroyer and Preserver
author: Matthew Rohrer
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> Say Translation is Art 57380529 24 Sawako Nakayasu 1946433551 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.52 2020 Say Translation is Art
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]]> A Hundred Lovers: Poems 58082217
“A book of love poems that consciously and subversively hearken back to Shakespeare’s sonnets, marking Hofmann’s position as one of our necessary poets of erotic desire.� —Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Tradition

A Hundred Lovers is a catalog of encounters, sublime, steamy, and frank. Inspired by French autofiction, the poems feel both sharp and diaristic; their lyrical, intimate world brings us everyday scenes imbued with sex. "Eros enters, where shame had lived," the speaker observes, as the poems explore risk and appetite, promiscuity and violence, and, in the wake of his marriage, questions about monogamy and desire.

Bringing us both the carefully knotted silk ties of the wedding pair and their undress in a series of Hockney-like interiors where passion colors every object, Hofmann speaks plainly of the saliva, tears, and guts of the carnal, just as he does of the sublime in works of art. A Hundred Lovers invites us to consider our own memories of pleasure and pain, which fill the generous white space the poet leaves open to us between his ravishing lines.]]> 80 Richie Hofmann 0593320980 Kaylee 5 all-time-favorites, to-reread 3.90 2022 A Hundred Lovers: Poems
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]]> So to Speak (Penguin Poets) 62366359
The three sections of Terrance Hayes� seventh collection explore how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. In “Watch Your Mouth,� a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of birds; in “Watch Your The Kafka Virus,� a talking cat tells jokes in the Jim Crow South; in “Watch Your Head,� green beans bling in the mouth of Lil Wayne, and Bob Ross paints your portrait. On the one hand, these fabulous fables, American sonnets, quarantine quatrains, and ekphrastic do-it-yourself sestinas animate what Toni Morrison called “the writerly imagination of a black author who is at some level always conscious of representing one’s own race.� On the other hand, these urgent, personal poems contemplate fatherhood, history, and longing with remarkable openness and humanity. So To Speak is the mature, restless work of one of contemporary poetry’s leading voices.]]> 112 Terrance Hayes 0143137727 Kaylee 5 4.18 So to Speak (Penguin Poets)
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]]> Olivia 205611362 149 Dorothy Bussy 8833211762 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.25 1949 Olivia
author: Dorothy Bussy
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average rating: 3.25
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]]> <![CDATA[Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books)]]> 23129746 than the little Mars rover
never shutting down, digging up
rocks, so far away from Bond Street
in a light rain. I wonder
if he makes little beeps? If so
he is lonelier still. He fires a laser
into the dust. He coughs. A shiny
thing in the sand turns out to be his. Matthew Rohrer has received the Hopwood Award for poetry, a Pushcart Prize, was selected as a National Poetry Series winner by Mary Oliver, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. He is the co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. , and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty . He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing . He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.]]> 112 Matthew Rohrer 1940696038 Kaylee 5 all-time-favorites, to-reread 4.06 2015 Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books)
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]]> Empire of Signs 770926 128 Roland Barthes 0374522073 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.89 1983 Empire of Signs
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]]> Light in August 10979 Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely outcast haunted by visions of Confederate glory; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.]]> 507 William Faulkner 0679732268 Kaylee 5 3.93 1932 Light in August
author: William Faulkner
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average rating: 3.93
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I’m not sure??? I compulsively read like a hundred pages a day so i had to give it 5 but im just not sure
]]> The End of the Affair 1287447 192 Graham Greene 0140184953 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.06 1951 The End of the Affair
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]]> Blood in My Eye 489637 195 George L. Jackson Kaylee 5 4.55 1972 Blood in My Eye
author: George L. Jackson
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]]> The Book of Frank 9457848 Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles.

Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surreal portrait," The Book of Frank is also, in the words of “candid portrayal of human cruelty and its resultant fantasies of escape."

]]> 176 C.A. Conrad 1933517492 Kaylee 5 to-reread 4.41 2009 The Book of Frank
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]]> Love and Other Poems 51009761 Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time, and specifically the months of the year as an overarching structure, Dimitrov elevates the every day and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, NASA’s golden record to the Ouija board, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.� While he navigates darkness and fear, loneliness and guilt, Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy even in despair. There is a determined curiosity about who we are as people and a shameless interest in the idea of hope. These poems are obsessed with everything around us, even the terrible and fraught.]]> 116 Alex Dimitrov 1556595999 Kaylee 5 4.09 2021 Love and Other Poems
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]]> Of Being Numerous 1079359 Book by Oppen, George 64 George Oppen 0811203360 Kaylee 0 4.50 Of Being Numerous
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]]> Carceral Capitalism 34551009 Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.

What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police?—from Carceral Capitalism

In this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)'s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s. The essays illustrate various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, cybernetic governance, and algorithmic policing. Included in this volume is Wang's influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, “Against Innocence,� as well as essays on RoboCop, techno-policing, and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible.

Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later. Predatory lending has a decidedly spatial character and exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges, car loans, rent-to-own scams, payday loans, and bail bond loans. Parasitic governance, Wang argues, operates through five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automation, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence. While these techniques of governance often involve physical confinement and the state-sanctioned execution of black Americans, new carceral modes have blurred the distinction between the inside and outside of prison. As technologies of control are perfected, carcerality tends to bleed into society.]]> 359 Jackie Wang 1635900026 Kaylee 5 4.62 2018 Carceral Capitalism
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All of you are getting this book for your next birthday
]]> <![CDATA[Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept]]> 133284 366 W.E.B. Du Bois 0878559175 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.20 1940 Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy]]> 28007898 The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state’s violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice including information never released to the public published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event.

On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, during the four long days and nights that followed, the inmates negotiated with state officials for improved living conditions. On September 13, the state abruptly ended talks and sent hundreds of heavily armed state troopers and corrections officers to retake the prison by force. In the ensuing gunfire, thirty-nine men were killed, hostages as well as prisoners, and close to one hundred were severely injured. After the prison was secured, troopers and officers brutally retaliated against the prisoners during the weeks that followed. For decades afterward, instead of charging any state employee who had committed murder or carried out egregious human rights abuses, New York officials prosecuted only the prisoners and failed to provide necessary support to the hostage survivors or the families of any of the men who'd been killed.

Heather Ann Thompson sheds new light on one of the most important civil rights stories of the last century, exploring every aspect of the uprising and its legacy from the perspectives of all of those involved in this forty-five-year fight for justice: the prisoners, the state officials, the lawyers on both sides, the state troopers and corrections officers, and the families of the slain men.]]> 752 Heather Ann Thompson 0375423222 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.45 2016 Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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]]> In Search of Duende 31580 99 Federico García Lorca 0811213765 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.36 1933 In Search of Duende
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]]> <![CDATA[Winter Recipes from the Collective]]> 56269266 The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient.

Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, dolente, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, animoso, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister's death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts.

"Some of you will know what I mean," the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, "all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last." This magnificent book couldn't have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life.]]> 46 Louise Glück 037460410X Kaylee 3 4.01 2021 Winter Recipes from the Collective
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]]> Shade and Breeze 210496033
The three of them form a solitary world in a small Ostrobothnian town on the west coast of Finland. Má and Hieu, constantly on a collision course with each other and the community’s suffocating social codes. They live among people who want to talk openly about everything, who don’t understand the necessity of sometimes remaining in the shade.

In sensitive and transfixing prose that has the effect of a series of tableaux, and with chapter headings reminiscent of the intertitles in a silent film, Tran’s multi-award-winning debut is a moving story about love, the compulsion to create, and the meaning of family.]]> 259 Quynh Tran 1915267285 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.29 2021 Shade and Breeze
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]]> Time 45693780
On October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree from the poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late seventies in Tunisia, sparking a collection of poems that would unspool over the next decade in a continuous discovery of the present moment. Originally written in French, these poems collapse time into single crystallized moments then explode outward to take in the scope of human history. In Time, we see an intertwining of war and love, coffee and bombs, empathetic observation and emphatic detail taken from both memory and the present of the poem to weave a tapestry of experience in non-linear time.]]> 144 Etel Adnan 1643620045 Kaylee 0 4.25 2019 Time
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]]> Enter Ghost 59725231 A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet

After years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. This is her first trip back since the second intifada and the deaths of their grandparents: while Haneen made a life here commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia stayed in London to focus on her acting career and now dissolute marriage. On her return, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.

At Haneen’s, Sonia meets the charismatic and candid Mariam, a local director, and finds herself roped into a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Sonia is soon rehearsing Gertude’s lines in classical Arabic and spending more time in Ramallah than in Haifa, along with a dedicated group of men from all over historic Palestine who, in spite of competing egos and priorities, each want to bring Shakespeare to that side of the wall. As opening night draws closer it becomes clear just how many violent obstacles stand before a troupe of Palestinian actors. Amidst it all, the life Sonia once knew starts to give way to the daunting, exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.

A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. Timely, thoughtful, and passionate, Isabella Hammad’s highly anticipated second novel is an exquisite feat, an unforgettable story of artistry under occupation.]]> 336 Isabella Hammad 080216238X Kaylee 5 4.13 2023 Enter Ghost
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]]> <![CDATA[From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America]]> 27311802
Johnson’s War on Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity. But these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans� role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime. The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act empowered the national government to take a direct role in militarizing local police. Federal anticrime funding soon incentivized social service providers to ally with police departments, courts, and prisons. Under Richard Nixon and his successors, welfare programs fell by the wayside while investment in policing and punishment expanded. Anticipating future crime, policymakers urged states to build new prisons and introduced law enforcement measures into urban schools and public housing, turning neighborhoods into targets of police surveillance.

By the 1980s, crime control and incarceration dominated national responses to poverty and inequality. The initiatives of that decade were less a sharp departure than the full realization of the punitive transformation of urban policy implemented by Republicans and Democrats alike since the 1960s.]]> 464 Elizabeth Hinton 0674737237 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.16 2016 From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
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]]> The Good Soldier 7637
Ford Madox Ford wrote The Good Soldier, the book on which his reputation most surely rests, in deliberate emulation of the nineteenth-century French novels he so admired. In this way he was able to explore the theme of sexual betrayal and its poisonous after-effects with a psychological intimacy as yet unknown in the English novel.]]> 222 Ford Madox Ford 1593082681 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.68 1915 The Good Soldier
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]]> Life Studies 385580 90 Robert Lowell 0571046541 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.99 1959 Life Studies
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]]> A Dying Colonialism 66935 181 Frantz Fanon 0802150276 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.26 1959 A Dying Colonialism
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]]> Cruel Optimism 11347563
Arguing that the historical present is perceived affectively before it is understood in any other way, Berlant traces affective and aesthetic responses to the dramas of adjustment that unfold amid talk of precarity, contingency, and crisis. She suggests that our stretched-out present is characterized by new modes of temporality, and she explains why trauma theory—with its focus on reactions to the exceptional event that shatters the ordinary—is not useful for understanding the ways that people adjust over time, once crisis itself has become ordinary. Cruel Optimism is a remarkable affective history of the present.]]> 342 Lauren Berlant 0822351110 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.15 2011 Cruel Optimism
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]]> The Space of Literature 184882 279 Maurice Blanchot 080326092X Kaylee 0 to-read 4.33 1955 The Space of Literature
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]]> The Fire Next Time 464260 The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,� written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as “sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle…all presented in searing, brilliant prose,� The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.]]> 106 James Baldwin 067974472X Kaylee 0 to-read 4.55 1963 The Fire Next Time
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]]> Citizen: An American Lyric 20613761 Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.]]> 169 Claudia Rankine 1555976905 Kaylee 5 read-asap 4.27 2014 Citizen: An American Lyric
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]]> Song of Solomon 11334 338 Toni Morrison 140003342X Kaylee 5 how-to-read-and-why 4.15 1977 Song of Solomon
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]]> A Blind Salmon 125046011 A Blind Salmon engages in Julia Wong Kcomt's characteristically unflinching plumbing of the human body and traces fanged emotions with sticky precision, exploring mothering, multilinguality, and madness.

Tusán writer Julia Wong Kcomt’s sixth collection of poetry, A Blind Salmon is her first full-length collection available in English. Written while she was living in Buenos Aires, the collection crosses borders between Berlin, Buenos Aires, Chepén, Tijuana, and Vienna. It takes up sameness and difference, shot through with desert sand.

In these poems, Wong Kcomt renders homage to writers such as the Peruvian poet and visual artist Jorge Eduardo Eielson, who died in Milan as she was writing them. She fingers the filmy line between poetry and narrative prose to build a lyrical menagerie all her own.]]> 132 Julia Wong Kcomt 1646053060 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.67 2008 A Blind Salmon
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]]> <![CDATA[While Standing in Line for Death]]> 34146740 in the backseat a
portion of the music is
mucus flying into stillness
at what point do we submit
to the authority of flowers
at what point after it enters
the mouth is it no longer in the
mouth but the throat the colon
making sumptuous death of the world
this is what crossing the line gains
no need to pretend we
are the people we
want to be in
the next life
bone under
tongue drives
taste of snow to metal� CAConrad is the author of (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon , and The Book of Frank , as well as several other books of poetry and essays. Most recently, he has co-edited Selected Poems of John Wieners . A 2014 Lannan Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2011 Pew Fellow, he also conducts workshops on (Soma)tic poetry and Ecopoetics.]]> 160 C.A. Conrad 1940696550 Kaylee 5 to-reread Thank you 4.31 2017 While Standing in Line for Death
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Thank you
]]> <![CDATA[The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir]]> 214175247 An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life—one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in “slummy, one-horse towns�; obsessive desire; bursts of comedy; and indispensable friendships, reflecting on the way art, music, and a deep connection to nature helped her on a singular journeyto become a beloved, Grammy-nominated artist.

Neko Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans.InThe Harder I Fight, the More I Love You,Casebrings her trademarkcandor andprecisionto a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisiblegirl “raised by two dogs and a space heater� in rural Washington state toher improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent. In luminous, sharp-edged prose, Caseshows readers what it’s like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child, to take refuge in the woods around her home, and to channel themonotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music, camaraderie, and shared experience into art.

The Harder I Fight, the More I Love Youis a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world, despite the obstacles we face.


]]> 271 Neko Case 1538710501 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.07 2025 The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
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]]> My Ántonia 17150 219 Willa Cather 1583485090 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.82 1918 My Ántonia
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]]> Things in Nature Merely Grow 221149574 Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.

“There is no good way to say this,� Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.

“There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.�

There is no good way to say this—because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, “a single point in a timeline.� Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she “doing the things that work,� including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death.

This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. As Li writes, “The verb that does not die is to be. Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later, only, now and now and now and now.� Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.]]> 176 Yiyun Li 0374617325 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.33 Things in Nature Merely Grow
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]]> <![CDATA[Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood]]> 123109596
Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang’s trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives and highway bike rides to dropping out of an MFA program, becoming a National Book Award finalist, and writing her trenchant book Carceral Capitalism . Alien Daughters charts the dream-seeking misadventures of an “odd girl� from Florida who emerged from punk houses and early Tumblr to become the powerful writer she is today. Anarchic and beautifully personal, Alien Daughters is a strange intellectual autobiography that demonstrates Wang’s singular an early life lived where every day and every written word began like the Tarot’s Fool, with a leap of faith.]]> 408 Jackie Wang 1635901928 Kaylee 0 4.37 Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood
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]]> <![CDATA[It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over]]> 209622883 It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known—where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another. A tale for our dispossessed times, and one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love.]]> 132 Anne de Marcken 1804270741 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.84 2024 It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
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]]> <![CDATA[Crime and Punishment (Paperback)]]> 146312515 624 Fyodor Dostoevsky Kaylee 5 how-to-read-and-why 4.47 1866 Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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]]> Hyperdream 6356810

But what if? What if death did not inevitably spell the end of life?



Hyperdream invests this fragile, tentative suspension of disbelief with the sheer force of its poetic audacity, inventing a sort of magic telephone: a wireless lifeline against all the odds to the dearly departed.



It is a book about time, age, love and the greatest loss. A book which turns on death: on the question or the moment of death, depending on it, expecting it, living off it, taking place at once before and after, but at the same time turning against it, contesting it, outwriting it hopefully, desperately, performatively, as an interruptible interruption.



Hyperdream is a book of mourning, but also of morning, a tragedy-with-comedy and a universal family romance in which it transpires that the narrator is the veritable offspring of a “treasure of literature� in the form of a bed, purchased by her mother from a certain W. Benjamin in 1934, slept on for 40 years by her brother and dreamt of by her friend “J.D.”]]> 176 Hélène Cixous 0745643000 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.13 2006 Hyperdream
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]]> I, Little Asylum 21568501
When you live at La Borde as a child whose parents work in the clinic, the place feels mostly like an incredible space of freedom: a castle, an immense park, forests and ponds. Through a series of vignettes painted in impressionistic strokes, Emmanuelle Guattari tenderly evokes the whimsical days of a childhood spent in that extraordinary place.]]> 87 Emmanuelle Guattari Kaylee 0 to-read 3.62 2012 I, Little Asylum
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]]> <![CDATA[B Jenkins (Refiguring American Music)]]> 7407456 128 Fred Moten 0822346966 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.44 2009 B Jenkins (Refiguring American Music)
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]]> A Time for Everything 6705926 In the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two glowing beings, one carrying a spear, the other a flaming torch . . . This event is decisive in Bellori’s life, and he thereafter devotes himself to the pursuit and study of angels, the intermediaries of the divine. Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring through to the present, A Time for Everything reimagines pivotal encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences; Lot’s shame in Sodom; Noah’s isolation before the flood; Ezekiel tied to his bed, prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the emergence of sensual, mischievous cherubs in the seventeenth century. Alighting upon these dramatic scenes � from the Bible and beyond � Knausgaard’s imagination takes flight: the result is a dazzling display of storytelling at its majestic, spellbinding best. Incorporating and challenging tradition, legend, and the Apocrypha, these penetrating glimpses hazard chilling questions: can the nature of the divine undergo change, and can the immortal perish?

]]> 499 Karl Ove Knausgård 098003308X Kaylee 0 to-read 4.15 2004 A Time for Everything
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]]> Ethics 205218 Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, the emotions, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding—moving from a consideration of the eternal, to speculate upon humanity's place in the natural order, the nature of freedom and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, the Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection. The Ethics is presented in the standard translation of the work by Edwin Curley. This edition also includes an introduction by Stuart Hampshire, outlining Spinoza's philosophy and placing it in context.]]> 186 Baruch Spinoza 0140435719 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.10 1677 Ethics
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]]> The Hearing Trumpet 46987 199 Leonora Carrington 1878972197 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.06 1974 The Hearing Trumpet
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]]> <![CDATA[Juvenilia (Yale Series of Younger Poets)]]> 7455174 104 Ken Chen 0300160070 Kaylee 5 Wow 3.67 2010 Juvenilia (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
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]]> The Elementary Particles 58314 The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.

Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale.]]> 272 Michel Houellebecq 0375727019 Kaylee 5 :0 3.91 1998 The Elementary Particles
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]]> Carol 10117779 The Price of Salt is story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce. They fall in love and set out across the United States, pursued by a private investigator who eventually blackmails Carol into a choice between her daughter and her lover. With this reissue, The Price of Salt may finally be recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.]]> 320 Claire Morgan 1408808978 Kaylee 0 to-read 4.00 1952 Carol
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]]> Death in Venice 53061
Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.
In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."]]> 142 Thomas Mann 0060576170 Kaylee 0 to-read 3.77 1911 Death in Venice
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