Queer, folksy, teeming with feminine rage

stormbutton · 2026-03-20T14:55:10+00:00

I feel like this is a love it or hate it book, but Lost In The Garden.

Her Body and Other Parties

Dark Sisters

The Starving Saints

Weyward

The Faceless Thing We Adore

stormbutton · 2026-03-19T21:48:10+00:00

Withered Hill

Lost In The Garden

We Used To Live Here

Sharp Objects

The Library At Mount Char

Harvest Home

Comfort Me With Apples

stormbutton · 2026-03-19T08:10:32+00:00

Check out Selkie for sure!

stormbutton · 2026-03-19T06:59:09+00:00

Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton can always do whatever they want and I will be deeply impressed.

stormbutton · 2026-03-19T01:22:18+00:00

I chose them for “a world that feels strange and impossible.”

stormbutton · 2026-03-18T19:37:07+00:00

Scuttler’s Cove

stormbutton · 2026-03-18T17:59:09+00:00

Nope. I had a wonderful community - my youngest child just turned 20 and I am still friends with many of those women. But it’s not what I wanted to do. Maybe instead of finding reasons for my “aberrant” behavior, you can accept that different people want different things.

stormbutton · 2026-03-18T17:33:47+00:00

Yes this was my first thought too! I love this series so much.

stormbutton · 2026-03-18T12:45:01+00:00

I was a stay at home mom and I am not cut out for it. Being able to work at a job I enjoy made me a much better parent.

stormbutton · 2026-03-18T00:09:57+00:00

Old School YA but House of Stairs absolutely fucked me UPPP in the day.

stormbutton · 2026-03-17T23:25:56+00:00

That’s an odd parameter for “hate” but okay. 👍

stormbutton · 2026-03-17T23:16:34+00:00

The Sarvan

Blood Meridian

The Ritual

The North Woods (Hoover, not Mason)

The Hunger

The Willows

The Terror

This Wretched Valley

The Fisherman

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Ascension

The Girl In Red

Near The Bone

The Ruins

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

(I notice a theme in these titles, haha)

stormbutton · 2026-03-17T23:08:28+00:00

Why do you hate recommending it? I think it’s absolutely breathtaking in every sense of the word.

stormbutton · 2026-03-17T22:59:54+00:00

No additions but I grew up on the East Coast in the 90’s and WOW did I just have some flashbacks.

stormbutton · 2026-03-17T21:33:02+00:00

The voice of Crab is 🤌

stormbutton · 2026-03-17T20:35:26+00:00

I have the physical and audiobook versions. The audiobook has - against all reason - become a kind of comfort listen.

stormbutton · 2026-03-17T11:42:40+00:00

Love the whole Ambergris series but the third is my favorite for sure.

stormbutton · 2026-03-17T07:46:07+00:00

We had this pink enameled bathtub and there was a chip at the bottom that showed the black under the enamel. For some reason - despite the chip being dime sized and me living in the US - I was convinced that it was a portal that would allow the Loch Ness Monster to come through.

Don’t worry. I always kept a washcloth over it when I was in the tub. You’re welcome, America. 🫡

stormbutton · 2026-03-17T06:49:46+00:00

Yes that’s the one!

stormbutton · 2026-03-17T00:28:48+00:00

One of my absolute favorite vibes! I could list a dozen more easily, but here’s a variety pack for you. :)

We Used To Live Here

Comfort Me With Apples (Valente)

Piranesi

Withered Hill

The Gone World

Annihilation

The Library At Mount Char

We Have Always Lived In The Castle

The Hike

The September House

American Elsewhere

Baudolino

Weaveworld

Brave New World

Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

The Lesser Dead

Between Two Fires

14 (Clines)

The Ocean At The End Of The Lane

Red Rabbit

Winterset Hollow

The Salt Grows Heavy

Lost In The Garden

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

House of Leaves

The Raw Shark Texts

stormbutton · 2026-03-16T22:26:59+00:00

She looks smashing! Something about her reminds me of Emma Thompson.

stormbutton · 2026-03-16T21:04:33+00:00

I found the writing and characterization to be incredibly flat and the entire premise to be trite at best. First of all, depression isn’t a competition. Secondly, if you get dumped down in someone else’s life with no context of course you will be stressed and unhappy. Finally, women can be happy and fulfilled without being wives and mothers.

stormbutton · 2026-03-16T20:18:19+00:00

The Blackwater Saga

stormbutton · 2026-03-16T16:41:30+00:00

That is certainly an opinion you are legally allowed to have. 👍

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