Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Famous for his Fight Club, Palahniuk never fails to spin a story that will take you on a haunting trip. He owns my very soul. You shouldn’t even bother with a synopsis and whatever you do, don’t wikipedia this.
Just read this fucking book.
This Bridge Called My Back - Writings by Radical Women of Color
I don’t care what gender studies or queer theory class you’ve taken, you need to read this book, but be warned, it is a rare find and might expensive. It contains several essays by womanists discussing their experience, racism, poverty, how racism pervaded the feminist movement in the early 1980s and most importantly the individual experiences of asian pacific, black, american indian and latina/chicana women. This words you find in this book and the truths that will make your soul sick are imperrative for understanding the history of racism, feminism, systematic oppression and white privilege. These are stories that have, even today, been swept under the rug and out of sight.
You need to read this fucking book.
You have such a fine throat, m’sieu, like a column of marble. When you came through the door retaining about you all the golden night of a summer’s day of which I know nothing, nothing, the card called “Les Amoureux” had just emerged from the tumbling chaos of imagery before me; it seemed you had stepped off the card into my darkness and, for a moment, I thought you might irradiate it.
I do not mean to hurt you. I will wait for you in my bride’s dress in the dark.
”THE BLOODY CHAMBER, Angela Carter (via drunkonstyle)
Read this fucking book. Seriously, it’s an amazing book. Angela Carter is brilliant.
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