My friend is reading this one🤔.
Prairiegirl_reading I say whatever works at this point!! 😂 4d
My friend is reading this one🤔.
panAnother book that took me longer to finish than it should have. These are older stories as Csath was writing in the early 1900s. The stories themselves were quite oppressive. Csath was an opium addict who eventually murdered his wife before committing suicide and many of his stories reflect the noise in his head. CW for animal abuse, etc. One of the few Europa that wasn‘t really for me. #europacollective
#CoverLove #Gray One of my favorite books and one of my favorite authors!
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
pickAn interesting text that deals little with the actual picture itself and more on the psychology of the human lust for pleasure without conscious.
I can‘t wait to discuss the book at club next week.
Now on the 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒅 blog, the interesting history of Arthur Machen's use of #shapenotes in his 1907 horror novel, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔:
#HollowSquare #SacredHarp
https://strongsongsofthedead.com/blogs/news/weird-fiction-author-arthur-machens-...
Highly-strung, very silly, very cringy. Possibly the first example of (non-explicit) slash “erotica“ written by a virgin young woman with access to a stash of “forbidden books“, but definitely not the last 😂
The politics are muddled but interesting. There is a lot of internalised classism and sexism, as should be expected in a 1884 book.
I'll read a more mature work from this author before passing judgment on her.
A young heiress plays gender-bending domination games in life and in bed with a young working-class man, who's trapped and unwilling. I can see how revolutionary and subversive this is for a 1884 novel written by a then 24-year old female writer, but it is a bit of a slog for me: decadent, fin-de-siècle works aren't my cup of tea. I can see that it would appeal to others, as it did to Oscar Wilde, who made a hidden reference to it in Dorian Gray.
"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."
