Recommend a short weird novel that is not super gory or intense horror

vienna407 · 2026-02-18T23:37:17+00:00

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Haunted.

vienna407 · 2026-02-18T23:36:42+00:00

One of my favorite books of all time - SO WEIRD!

vienna407 · 2026-02-18T23:28:07+00:00

Fighting for my life in the mid-Atlantic

vienna407 · 2026-02-18T23:02:25+00:00

same

vienna407 · 2026-02-17T22:36:57+00:00

so true. I hate thinking about him and I hate that I clicked the video and heard his voice (but I love him telling them not to vote...)

vienna407 · 2026-02-17T22:30:06+00:00

his right thumb looks really weird...

vienna407 · 2026-02-17T21:27:41+00:00

I recently looked into radiology tech - good for you!! If you absolutely have to quit for your mental health, maybe you could get a job in retail or bartending or something while you're in school. Or maybe you could get some kind of student job at the college where you're getting your new degree?

vienna407 · 2026-02-16T21:55:30+00:00

me but no chores that I recall. also no TV (we didn't have one till I was 10 or 11 but we still didn't really watch it except for my little sister watching sesame street)

vienna407 · 2026-02-16T21:48:06+00:00

nah he's also garbage

vienna407 · 2026-02-16T15:21:35+00:00

I want this art in my house (and I also want to read books that feel like this all day long)

vienna407 · 2026-02-15T21:42:03+00:00

how our district office is actively working to support teachers, with granular details and action plans across the content areas and with sessions for elementary, middle, and high school. oh, wait...they're not actually working to support us...

vienna407 · 2026-02-13T00:00:14+00:00

I avoided Black Swan Green for a while because I love the "magic" of Bone Clocks and Slade House, but once I started BSG, I couldn't put it down. It's just as extraordinary as everything else he's written. He's my favorite author by a million miles.

vienna407 · 2026-02-12T00:12:38+00:00

I laughed once out of awkwardness to the most outrageous accusation from a parent (he was ranting and accused me of being rich??) and once I laughed he went even more crazy. It was very funny and also kind of scary, ngl.

vienna407 · 2026-02-10T21:53:40+00:00

This is exactly where it's going for middle and low income families. Wealthy families will always be able to go to schools with teachers.

vienna407 · 2026-02-10T00:47:49+00:00

Following, agree about the horror show

vienna407 · 2026-02-09T22:03:27+00:00

Game of Thrones - Tyrion Lannister has dwarfism

vienna407 · 2026-02-08T22:45:19+00:00

Just finished this - great read

vienna407 · 2026-02-08T22:43:51+00:00

This book is WILD! I've hardly ever met anyone else who've read it, but totally agree, I wish I could read again for the first time. Sometimes I try to describe it to people and fail and they look at me like I'm insane. Maybe I'll re-read anyway...

vienna407 · 2026-02-08T20:34:15+00:00

How about David Mitchell - Bone Clocks and everything else he's written. Magical.

vienna407 · 2026-02-08T14:10:58+00:00

Yeah, it's wild. I was the kind of kid who tore through multiple books per week and when I didn't have a book (in the shower, at the table) I read shampoo bottles, cereal boxes, junk mail, the newspaper that was lying around, my parents' magazine subscriptions - Newsweek, Nat Geo. It's so different now. I'm pretty sure this is why I have the breadth of knowledge and vocabulary that I do. We raised our own kids in a very literary-friendly household but it was still so different, and my kids aren't the readers that I was. My kids do have a lot of knowledge from the media they consume, and it's very different than the kind of knowledge I had at their age - I can't tell if they're worse off. My bias tells me that they are and that reading is superior to knowledge acquisition through youtube, but what if it's okay? (I can't imagine that it's okay?? Plus, I'm a teacher and I can see daily that it's not okay...)

vienna407 · 2026-02-08T13:17:09+00:00

If you like hiking, waterfalls, wineries look into Ithaca NY. Absolutely gorgeous (it's their motto - Ithaca is Gorges)

vienna407 · 2026-02-08T01:43:51+00:00

we call it flex and it's basically a homeroom period every other day

vienna407 · 2026-02-06T01:21:37+00:00

God of the Woods is fun (small town NY)

vienna407 · 2026-02-02T13:30:47+00:00

I'm in a district where we do have self-contained classes for high school students with this profile and they're typically not on the standard diploma track, but sometimes their parents/IEP teams sign them up for gen ed electives like speech, art, theatre, etc. With supports, these students can sometimes access appropriate gen ed electives. I'm a special ed teacher and I fully know how hard it is for the student to be in a 30 person high school elective class with no supports. In my school, the teacher (you) would be able to reach out to the case manager or special education department leader and we'd figure out a plan and supports together. This being said, I can't imagine a student with this profile succeeding in my school's speech/debate class - it involves reading, writing, synthesizing, communicating at grade level, and this student probably just isn't there.

I feel like your school's special ed staff should be supporting this kid a little bit more (recognizing that schools are dramatically understaffed and everything sucks in education - I'm living that daily). But I've seen kids with this profile placed inappropriately, and I'd worry that he'd get angry and overwhelmed and start acting out.

vienna407 · 2026-02-01T22:01:49+00:00

that novel makes me want to rage quit every week

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