my kid, playing an Avatar the Last Airbender game on his Gameboy Advance emulator: "HAH! Woe betide YOU!!"
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Lauren Bajek
Профиль VivelyLiterary agent at Liza Dawson Associates / open to queries / art, sewing, native plant gardening / another world is possible / she pronouns
Oh he's Hozier in a past life. Lisztomania makes perfect sense now.
The Public Domain ReviewThe Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, and heartthrob Franz Liszt died #onthisday in 1886. Leon Botstein explores what we can still learn from the life and music of "possibly the greatest pianist that has ever lived” — publicdomainreview.org/essay/w... #OTD
All-time favorites have their own shelf. Nonfiction is by topic and affinity, with same author together, not alphabetized. Fiction is organized first by whether or not I've read it, then by vibe, with same author together, not alphabetized.
Immigrant PunkEnough of the horrors and doom scrolling. Let's talk about something fun. How do you arrange your books?
"MUÑECA knows all too well the lures of power, whether it comes from magic or wealth. The nightmares it weaves are not of spiders and illness, but of losing the path back to being your best and truest self; it’s a creepy, engrossing Gothic feast of a debut."
Reactor Magazine"The houses are heterosexuality, and they’re trying to kill you!" @readingtheend.bsky.social reviews Cynthia Gómez's gothic tale of a woman paralyzed by a strange illness, and the witch who pledges to save her.
OK, I'm trying to shore up my knowledge of the Gothic and Weird horror canon. Currently reading this nearly-forgotten vampire story, also planning on Dracula, Frankenstein, The King in Yellow, and Rebecca. Would love recommendations for pre-Victorian or 20th century books to add to my list.
The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat: 9780143139058 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA nineteenth-century novel about a bisexual, biracial vampire, written by a forgotten legend of Victorian horror A Penguin Classic Published the same year as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Florence Marryat’...www.penguinrandomhouse.comIt is BEYOND depressing how many of the responses to this news are "well it must be mainly because of increased confidence, right? Better energy levels? People who take GLP1s are more likely to be improving their lives overall??" Truly, what would it take for you to believe that fatphobia is real?
NBERGLP-1-induced weight loss increases single women's partnership rates by 29 percentage points and non-employed women's employment rates by 27 percentage points after 1.5+ years, from Rebecca Diamond www.nber.org/papers/w35387