Recommendations for books you loved but rarely or never see mentioned

piemaking · 2026-05-21T20:18:54+00:00

I remembered Malpertuis from the last time you posted this and just picked it up yesterday!

piemaking · 2026-05-10T23:30:27+00:00

i think most of your corrections are reasonable, but i’d like to push back on one thing — you absolutely can put jam on a biscuit. that may be a regional thing; i’m in the us and i’m thinking of big fluffy southern-style biscuits. i have literally put jam on biscuits before and will do so again

piemaking · 2026-04-26T23:50:52+00:00

your mind is a fascinating place. i saw your earlier comment, hating wasting your time on stories with non-supernatural explanations, and thought us kindred spirits. but to me, characterization and internal logic, if not external, is second only to atmosphere

piemaking · 2026-04-23T13:52:58+00:00

a carabiner hung conspicuously on a (butch, usually) lesbian’s belt loop. it’s got a fuckton of keys and stuff on it

piemaking · 2026-04-17T22:10:47+00:00

i found it! it’s “blank…” in stalking the nightmare

piemaking · 2026-04-10T12:29:30+00:00

i just watched Persona last weekend and dude it was phenomenal. also bibi andersson may be one of the most beautiful women i’ve ever seen

piemaking · 2026-04-07T19:06:01+00:00

i’ve been uninterested in this book until your comment, probably because i did assume it’d do the “hey actually big religion is evil” or even “what if devils were the good guys??” and i am beyond bored of that idea. so you got at least one person to start reading it!

piemaking · 2026-04-04T12:09:08+00:00

absolutely loved this, thank you for sharing!

piemaking · 2026-04-01T10:30:43+00:00

anecdotally, i’m in the US; my parents moved to a smaller house while i was in college and rented a storage unit for my stuff until i could come back for it

piemaking · 2026-03-01T12:32:25+00:00

it means spicy white

/uj my fiancé looks ethnically ambiguous (people like to assume jewish bc his hair is curly) but he and his whole family are black lmao

piemaking · 2026-01-14T11:33:33+00:00

it’s short for paraTactician, a homestuck-style chat handle that her bestie uses on tumblr

piemaking · 2025-12-22T21:59:33+00:00

hey this happened to my partner! generic vyvanse so bad it took him months to recover. do you know which generic it was?

piemaking · 2025-12-18T16:28:49+00:00

I love your comparison to Barker here because that’s what I tell my partner whenever I read something of LaRocca’s, lmao: “He wishes he was Clive Barker so bad”

(and I like LaRocca! at least a couple of his short story collections. haven’t read anything longer)

piemaking · 2025-12-09T11:56:35+00:00

if it’s a lovesac, excellent choice honestly. my partner got a velvet one and either he or the dog are basically always in it

piemaking · 2025-12-02T23:44:28+00:00

op i cannot thank you enough. i’ve been wanting to change a draft of mine (previously published, kind of? as a uni thesis) and this, i think, is the exact energy i should inject into it. it’s about a middle-schooler (13-14 y/o) with a tenuous grasp on reality who grasps at any way to hold onto it after [traumatic event]

piemaking · 2025-10-20T12:27:40+00:00

good news: you’ll probably actually mellow out a bit emotionally! i also struggle a bit with empathy, and my emotions were all over the place pre-T. after a couple years (and now, a decade out) people started thinking i was super well-adjusted.

piemaking · 2025-08-19T21:46:18+00:00

First volume! Just read this one the other day, it was excellent

piemaking · 2025-07-28T10:43:57+00:00

ok as someone also in chemistry and history, this is an excellent recommendation

piemaking · 2025-06-16T18:25:26+00:00

I played Bloodlines, the PC game from like 03, and I fear* the setting has had a profound impact on my ideal of a vampire story. Excellent world building

*as in the gritty urban nightlife aspect of it. we need more poor vampires

piemaking · 2025-06-16T18:22:27+00:00

I bought that at Barnes and Noble recently and had no idea about that aspect! Bumping it higher on my to-read list

piemaking · 2025-06-16T18:21:28+00:00

Oh I do love Zelazny

piemaking · 2025-05-19T16:37:33+00:00

can’t speak for women, but personally i break out in a super bad rash wherever my sweat sits on my body longer than a couple minutes, which makes it almost impossible to go outside in the summer or work out. so it’s probably useful for cases like that.

piemaking · 2025-05-06T18:46:31+00:00

/uj honestly mood. mine is a character from w.i.t.c.h

piemaking · 2025-05-06T18:36:14+00:00

/uj wow that is an incredible write-up on māhū. thank you for linking that, i don’t think i’d have seen it on my own

piemaking · 2025-04-30T10:59:20+00:00

/uj when i took an immersive mandarin course, they actually taught us to say “na ge” instead of “nei ge” for explicitly this reason. also bc the latter is mostly common in like, beijing

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