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Rachel
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Love to read, cook & bake, film photography, the supernatural, and the macabre.
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Digital proof i went outside today. Not AI
Photo of an icy river in December Portrait of a woman outside Photo of an icy river Portrait of a woman and a film camera
December 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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From Ask the Dust by John Fante. Wow woowwww shooketh
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tion. I got up from the counter and walked away in fear, walkin fast down the boardwalk, passing people who seemed strange an ghostly: the world seemed a myth, a transparent plane, and all things upon it were here for only a little while; all of us, Bandini. and Hackmuth and Camilla and Vera, all of us were here for a little while, and then we were somewhere else; we were not alive at all: we approached living, but we never achieved it. We are going to die. Everybody was going to die. Even you, Arturo, even you must die. I knew what it was that swept over me. It was a great white cross pointing into my brain and telling me I was a stupid man, because I was going to die, and there was nothing I could do about it. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. A mortal sin, Arturo. Thou shalt not commit adultery. There it was, persistent to the end, assuring me that there was no escape from what I had done. I was a Catholic. This was a mortal sin against Vera Rivken. At the end of the row of concessions the sand beach began. Beyond were dunes. I waded through the sand to a place where the dunes hid the boardwalk. This needed thinking out. I didn't kneel; I sat down and watched the breakers eating the shore. This is bad, Arturo. You have read Nietzsche, you have read Voltaire, you should know better. But reasoning wouldn't help. I could reason myself out of it, but that was not my blood. It was my blood that kept me alive, it was my blood pouring through me, telling me it was wrong. I sat there and gave myself over to my blood, let it cany me swimming back to the deep sea of my beginnings. Vera Rivken, Arturo Bandini. It was not meant that way: it was never meant that way. I was wrong. I had committed a mortal sin. I could figure it mathematically, philosophically, psychologically: I could prove it a dozen ways, but I was wrong, for there was no denying the warm even rhythm of my guilt. Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, wh… and walked aray in o & people who seemed yth, a transparent ple I walk on and on, and still the land goes stretching away to the y a little while: all a to lera, all of us were be as ver achieved it. We are go Tsay unto myself, but what has happened to the sea? And I answer, the sea is back there, back in the reservoir of memory. The sea is a ere else; we were not ins horizons. A year, five years, ten years, and I have not seen the sea. myth. There never was a sea. But there was a seal I tell you I was bom on the seashore! I bathed in the waters of the sea! It gave me iven you, Arturo, en yea er me. It was a great when food and it gave me peace, and its fascinating distances fed my le I was a stupid man, bead dreams! No, Arturo, there never was a sea. You dream and you wish, but you go on through the wasteland. You will never see the thing I could do about sea again. It was a myth you once believed. But, I have to smile, for a. A mortal sin, Artum Tal the salt of the sea is in my blood, and there may be ten thousand was, persistent to the ed a roeds over the land, but they shall never confuse me, for my heart's from what I had done. In blood will ever return to its beautiful source. Then what shall I do? Shall I lift my mouth to the sky, stumbling Vera Rivken. and burbling with a tongue that is afraid? Shall I open my chest and ions the sand beach beg beat it like a loud drum, seeking the attention of my Christ? Or is it the sand to a place where be not better and more reasonable that I cover myself and go on? thinking out. I didnt he There will be confusions, and there will be hunger; there will be ating the shore. This ished loneliness with only my tears like wet consoling little birds, tum- u have read Voltaire, yes bling to sweeten my dry lips. But there shall be consolation, and ıldn't help. I could reas there shall be beauty like the love of some dead girl. There shall be ood. It was my blood tie some laughter, a restrained laughter, and quiet waiting in the n…
December 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Bout half way through this one. It’s really something. It reads like… drunkenly talking to yourself in the mirror.

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Photo of the book Ask the Dust by John Fante
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I post, then I delete, repeat.

I'm Disturbed, I'm Depressed, I'm Inadequate – I've Got It All!
Photo wearing a George Costanza shirt that reads “MASTER OF MY DOMAIN” Photo wearing a George Costanza shirt that reads “MASTER OF MY DOMAIN”
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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This ad is demonic
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December 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Can’t stop thinking about this
December 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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How are the holidays going?
Photo of Robert Smith of The Cure laying surrounded by various objects
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I just finished A Confederacy of Dunces. It was SO good. If you want to laugh, do yourself a favor and read this. It's brilliant with its comedic beats.

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Book cover of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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This is my third work finished by Billy Martin. I liked Lost Souls, and Exquisite Corpse is a favorite. A lot different than what I expected, some of these gut punched me a bit emotionally. His dedication to Toole on the first story felt so right as I’m reading Confederacy of Dunces too #booksky 💙📚
Cover of the short story collection Back cover reads: Abandoning past gothic trappings and using a cleaner, simpler style, Brite emerges as a writer of honesty and wit. — Publishers Weekly Brite describes sumptuous meals at swanky restaurants and icy death with equal aplomb, and her stories are spirited and snappy. - Booklist In her third short story collection, Poppy Z. Brite finds fresh ways of exploring territory both familiar and strange. Here you'll mect the Devil and his giant cat last seen in the pages of Bulgakov, the gourmand coroner of New Orleans, the mad-genius chef who can't stand to have his cheese list criticised, and an assortment of Crescent City characters who also appear In Brite's novels Liquor and Prime. Poppy Z. Brite has found a way of writing about New Orleans that bypasses the clichés and approaches the city's tie heart: the hard-working, hard-partying cooks; the ways in which race, class, and sexual orientation do and don't matter; the love of bottom feeders, be they crustaceans or politicos; the million little justapositions of sacred and profane, bizarre and mundane, sublime and ridiculous that make up the everyday life of New Orleans. Some of these stories are set elsewhere, but Brite always returs home in the end. Bite's short fiction has been praised by a diverse assortment of writers: Harlan Ellison, Michael Chabon, Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, Andrei Codrescu. In The Devil You Know you'll find her strongest work yet.
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Finally listening to the new Deftones album before the Full Cold Moon got me like

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Image of Chino Moreno kissing Shrek in front of the ocean. A full moon is behind them with the White Pony logo in its center
December 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I read two books that became favorites (left) and two books that were pretty meh (right)
I definitely didn’t commit as much time to reading in November but hopefully we can have a better time this month!
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Photo of two books: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov & The Twenty Days of Turin by Georgia De Maria Photo showing two books: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking & The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings… by Cait Flanders
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Happy December
Funny card that reads “Season’s Greetings” and pictures two ice age creatures engaged in bloody combat
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I’ve been spoiled!

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Photo of 4 books: The Lover by Marguerite Duras Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Ask the Dust by John Fante Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault
November 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I made it to 33 wtf
Photo Booth strip of a woman with short hair and glasses
November 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Post a villain more fun to watch than the hero
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Consenting to being perceived. How are you today? I have 733 followers. Are you real? Who are you people (read that like I’m Austin Powers)

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Selfie of a woman in glasses
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Strange Pictures by Uketsu which was translated into English this year! It was fun. Creepypasta in book form

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Cover of Strange Pictures by Uketsu translated by Jim Ron
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

5/20

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Cover of A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
November 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Name your favorite tv or film character ship.

Thousand Sunny!!!
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

4/20

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Photo of The Monk by Matthew Lewis
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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He cracks me up

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Photo of a large buff cat splayed out on his back relaxed
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Okay, so these are the books I have bought (mostly thrifted) recently. It's a sweet haul if I do say so myself. All of the titles & authors are in the alt text! I'm not sure which one I'm most excited about starting soon.

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8 books are pictured: 1) Ada or, Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov 2) An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor 3) The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector 4) Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 5) Perdido Street Station by China Mieville 6) The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Love by Raymond Chandler 7) Six of Swords by Carole Nelson Douglas 8) The Fall by Albert Camus
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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These two parts got me
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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47 pages. This book is so, so funny. The part where he's arguing with the policeman I was visualizing it like the video of the "Democracy Manifest" guy 😭 Just so self-important. It's a riot so far
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Cover of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Read this! Really creeped me out. I didn't know much about The Years of Lead in Italy, or really of Turin. Very interesting, I'll be thinking about it for a while. The themes of paranoia, surveillance, the collective oversharing/tension but still so lonely... all applicable today. #booksky 📚💙 💙📚
Cover of The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel by Giorgio De Maria
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM