Walking into the bookstore like

what if Murakami was a totally normal dude and it was just his English translator who was really weird about women

Fantasy is when you pretend Black ppl didn't exist in the past and sci-fi is when you pretend Black people won't exist in the future

not to be a bitch but i like reading books now.

94 years ago today with Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." - L.M. Montgomery

"No one can get into a novel about a haunted house without hitting the subject of reality head-on; either I have to believe in ghosts, which I do, or I have to write another kind of novel altogether." - Shirley Jackson

"...the thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly." - Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters

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Are there any novels written from 1850-2000 that I should read?

“I am aware that, every time I have a conversation with a book, I benefit from someone's decision against silence.” - Yiyun Li

I'm sorry but how hot was Nawal el Saadawi

Ezra Pound by Wyndham Lewis

“The best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read,” said Gayl Jones.

“The best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read." - Gayl Jones

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it; the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show." - Andrew Wyeth