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expatgirl ([personal profile] expatgirl) wrote2018-12-11 07:28 pm
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Recs? Recs.

 Hi everybody!

I want to get back into writing again, and to do that, I need to start reading again. Moving internationally and having...things...going on in the brainpan have made that hard for me lately. So I'm looking for recs!

No permanent MCD. A little dark is OK, a little scary/spooky is OK, angst is OK. Preferably balanced out with a variety of other emotions but hey. Also queer as fuck.
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[personal profile] aerialiste 2018-12-11 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Well...I have something, but I don't know if you want it? I keep thinking of Salinger's dedication to Nine Stories:

As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book.

Offering my small cool lima bean, then: [x]
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[personal profile] expatgirl 2018-12-12 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I will respond in the most measured way possible:

klafjioIND[FIVN

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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[personal profile] aerialiste 2018-12-12 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS PLEASES ME GREATLY

YOU'RE WELCOME

[what hurt the most? did you HATE John for leaving?]
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[personal profile] expatgirl 2018-12-13 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! I wanted to shake him and shake him and shake him.

You are going to have to make it up to me, you know.
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[personal profile] aerialiste 2018-12-13 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I swear on a stack of Pat Barker, I will make it up to you with "Craiglockhart," at a future but soon date! I just have to get some of these postdoc apps out from under me because I'm TRIPPING OVER THEM.
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[personal profile] expatgirl 2018-12-14 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, """Professional responsibilities""". I had those once.
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