HIIII DID SOMEBODY SAY BOOKS I LOVE TALKING ABOUT BOOKS first of all TAT thank youuuuu for the sweet compliment second of all BOY OH BOY do i have BOOKS for you

of course i am your local kurt vonnegut FREAK i've read pretty much every thing he's ever written!! i think if you like my writing style in particular you'd definitely enjoy his stuff bc my writing is super inspired by his. you'll notice that i love doing like. small fourth-wall breaks (addressing the reader with 'you might have noticed...' or 'you already know...') which is something i've definitely gotten from his writing. out of his books i think 'slaughterhouse 5' is a must read (his most famous and the staple of his writing) and my favs are 'sirens of titans' (this book changed my life) and 'cat's cradle'. i loveeee the way vonnegut uses humor and plays with metaphors and motifs. i think the way he talks about time and uses non-linear narratives in his works is also just. badonkers. off the rails. crazy good. and def something I'm a lot inspired by. please go read a book of his. you won't be disappointed

vonnegut is def my biggest inspiration but i enjoy reading a lot of other stuff!! i AM an English (literature) major so reading and talking about it is literally part of the job HAHA

i'd also highly recommend neil gaiman's stuff. his 'sandman' comics are literally like. the foundation of me really getting into playing with medium. from his actual novels/prose writing i quite enjoy 'the ocean at the end of the lane' and 'stardust'

im also currently reading through some of r.f.kuang's works! i finished reading 'babel' a few months ago and REALLY enjoyed it. i'll probably read 'yellowface' soon and have high expectations for it. in general i really enjoy reading asian diaspora (which is funny, because i /am/ asian but im not diasporic) so of course i really enjoy kazuo ishiguro's stuff!! i haven't read all of his stuff yet but i really enjoyed 'the remains of the day' and 'the buried giant'. ocean vyong's 'on earth we're briefly gorgeous' immediately sticks out to me in this category.

im HUGE on poetry too. i consume a lot of it. anything carol ann duffy i've probably read, and i mostly like. lurk on poetry foundation's website and read whatever they recommend. bit more difficult to rec anything bc with poetry i kinda just read anything that comes up, but im a big fan of philip larkin's poetry in particular!!

anon you don't even know how happy you've made me to get to talk abt books LOL i could go on and on and on but alas. character limit. i also enjoy reading comics a lot (in particular dc and batman-related stuff)! im currently keeping up with the nightwing run (not the greatest thing on earth and really fanservicey but eh. he's my fav character) as well as a few selected batman runs. im also currently keeping up with the bnha and jjk mangas LOL. if you're interested the next book on my to read list is donna tartt's the secret history! i got recced it by a friend last year and need to find time to sit down n crack it open.