book thread

started on The Perks of Being a Wallflower, while waiting for the William Gibson Bridge trilogy. This book isn't bad, i relate myself too much.
 
i finished the count of monte cristo, which was a good book, but sort of like les miserables in a sense where i find myself asking "does it really need this many adaptations?"
i next listened to albert camus' the stranger. which i liked. and i sort of found the two books comparable in a sense where both protagonists found themselves in prison and also contemplating the spectacle of public execution
there's odd parallels i find in the two...

today i finished sylvia plath's the bell jar. i related a bit too much to the stress of good grades and school and the "why do you do things your way" shit but it's easier for me to tell people to fuck off than it was for her, i feel
 
minty said:
i finished the count of monte cristo, which was a good book, but sort of like les miserables in a sense where i find myself asking "does it really need this many adaptations?"
i next listened to albert camus' the stranger. which i liked. and i sort of found the two books comparable in a sense where both protagonists found themselves in prison and also contemplating the spectacle of public execution
there's odd parallels i find in the two...

today i finished sylvia plath's the bell jar. i related a bit too much to the stress of good grades and school and the "why do you do things your way" shit but it's easier for me to tell people to fuck off than it was for her, i feel
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Which of those 3 books - The Count of Monte Cristo, The Stranger, The Bell Jar - would you recommend?
 
currently halfway through a horror book called the midwives by duncan ralston
it's about a small conservative island community that is ran by a coven of elderly baby-eating witches
so, because the island doesn't have a hospital of its own these elderly women are present for all the births on the island (at home, ofc) n use their glamour magic to fake baby death n then carry the actually alive baby off to a sacrifice circle n eat the baby raw

halfway through n one of the witches was too sick to attend the baby eating ritual so one of the other witches brought her a tupperware of baby meat with herbs (what do you think baby meat would go well with? i'm betting a sprig of rosemary) and the unsuspecting island visitor who feels suspicious but doesn't know about the coven has to go return the tupperware n the witch there can read thoughts so she knows this liberal working-woman outsider has had an abortion n when she goes to the bathroom the witch makes her hallucinate a baby in the toilet n when she comes out she's like "flushed another one down, eh?" so basically it's a beautiful book 10/10
 
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