Reading Challenge: bah, subject

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Not Part of the Challenge: The Conditions of Love (2008?) by Morishima Akiko

• My first manga. I didn't get most of it, because I didn't realize until the next one that I wasn't reading the panels in the right order.


• Also my first yuri...

Not Part of the Challenge: Lovesick Dead (2007?) by Junji Ito

• Nice and creepy


• The translation may have been a bit clunky, I dunno. It seemed unnatural for them to be saying "the Intersections Pretty Boy" everytime they talked about him.

Translation: The Descent into Hell (2006) by Dante, translated by Dorothy L. Sayers in 1949

• Realized too late that it was an abridged version of Inferno. I'll listen to The Divine Comedy on audiobook one day.


• Dante only fainted twice, which is impressive considering all of the shit he saw


• "So gaped as one I saw there, from the chin / Down to the fart-hole split as by a cleaver" see what I mean?

Based on a true story: So Young to Die (1993) by Candice F. Ransom

• Originally bought it because the illustration of Hannah seemed so badass


• I think this category is for narrative nonfiction or something like Picnic At Hanging Rock. This read more like a wiki article.

Book your mom loves: The Secret (2006) by Rhonda Byrne

• Don't get me started

TW: rape

Book with one word title: Lucky (1999) by Alice Sebold

• I don't know why, but I read three one-star ratings on Goodreads. They were all, sadly, by women. One criticized Sebold for making money off of her story, one criticized Sebold for making her whole life about her rape and being unlikable, one said she didn't believe anything Sebold wrote. (this gets a little graphic) Her reason was that she didn't think it was possible for a man to shove his fist into a vagina. Um, that's why she had to get stitches


• I think these come down to rape culture (people expecting victims to act a certain way or not believing their stories) and how people can't stand it if a woman writer or woman character acts like an asshole sometimes (yet they'll forgive male writers or male characters for anything).


• Although it did make me a little squeamish that Sebold wrote about her former roommates rape


• This book pointed out to me at how rape survivors have to comfort people around them rather than focus on their healing