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“The” books
when sylvia plath wrote “the silence depressed me. it wasn’t the silence of silence. it was my own silence.” and when anne carson wrote “why does tragedy exist? because you are full of rage. why are you full of rage? because you are full of grief.” and when jenny slate wrote “and i am getting older but i am not growing up and my heart is getting soft dark spots on it like a fruit that has gone bad.” and when virginia woolf wrote “to want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain.” and when susanna kaysen wrote “when you’re sad, you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.” and when margaret atwood wrote “already my childhood seemed far away – a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. did i regret its loss, did i want it back? i didn’t think so…” and when gillian flynn wrote “i was not a lovable child, and i’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult.”
Amy Dunne: *drops mic*
(This is probably my favorite rant in literature)
Over the past couple months I read all three of Gillian Flynn’s excellent novels in reverse chronological order and I’m glad I didn’t stop at Gone Girl because they’ve given me distinctly fucked up characters, compulsively readable prose and a trilogy-like tone to obsess over. I designed these covers in lieu of that.
gillian flynn’s books + locations
Good God, we’re in a lot of trouble if people think that Amy represents every woman. Feminism is not that fragile, I hope. What Amy does is to weaponize female stereotypes. She embodies them to get what she wants and then she detonates them. Men do bad things in films all the time and they’re called anti-heroes. Amy may not be admirable, but neither are the men on ‘The Sopranos.’
Gillian Flynn (via murphycooper)
“To me, she’s a fucking hero. To me, someone who’s been in that much psychological pain and still keeps her head above water, still manages to move through her day and be kind to people — you never see Camille save the cat, or run into a burning building, but you do see Camille be consistently kind to everyone. You see in Camille a consistent decency. For someone who has been through as much as she has, to do that and to be still alive, to me is heroic. I think it’s important for people to see what has happened to her, and what she’s been through. So for me it was a privilege to be able to be in the writer’s room and flush out that episode and be part of that.”
— Gillian Flynn on adapting Sharp Objects
Amity ‘Amma’ Crellin + character tropes
“I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains. […] I’m talking violent, wicked women. Scary women. Don’t tell me you don’t know some. The point is, women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves — to the point of almost parodic encouragement — we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important.” — Gillian Flynn
Rosamund Pike on the set of Gone Girl holding Gillian Flynn’s novel ‘sharp objects’ .
Is it just me or did the book dark places just end out of nowhere.? Like duuuudeee the Crystal bitch is still fUcking out there and Y'all not bothered?
Reading Update
Hello everyone! I've come to update you all on my book journey!
Most recently finished book:
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, 10/10
Currently Reading:
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
Next in line:
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
As always, I'm open for book recommendations!