i got a list of books i am in the middle of NOT EXHAUSTIVE but ones i've been chipping away at recently are:

• love in amsterdam by nicolas freeling: these are my most recent caps posted... i don't really recommend it tbh i find idrc about the yarns freeling spins, BUT i do like his prose style. i got two of his novels in a 2 for 1 deal at the thrift store lol.
• the nyrb edition of honore de balzac's the human comedy: i haven't posted anything of this one but there are some choice bits from one of them (sarrasine) that i keep forgetting to post~ balzac is a heavily influential writer for one of my favourite film directors (jacques rivette) so i've been led here in a way... i have posted clips of his adaptation of the duchess of langeais WHICH this translation has!!! so i'm excited to get to it. that being said the man who wrote the introduction peter brooks said he hated rivette's take lmfao... well that's the constant divide between film and text ig.
• titus groan by mervyn peake: a really dense gothic novel as gothic novels can be. i've barely dived into this one so my thoughts are still here and there but i think the introduction talked smth of how the gormenghast series is a bit of an eclectic series in general only for like, peculiar ppl who get rlly into its universe. i don't anticipate i will be one of them tbh but we will see
• talking music by william duckworth: this is just a nonfiction i took from the library recently on avant-garde musicians lol. just putting it down bc i AM reading it rn

i can't find it in me to recommend books >_ <) read what ur heart desires~ one of my favourite books is joseph heller's catch-22 . i honestly spend also spend time reading vintage cookbooks if i'm being real with you. some theory and philosophy happens sometimes because i've been reading the infamous semiotext(e) journal polysexuality and also terry eagleton's ideology anddddd there's some bataille via the accursed share ... but again. i can't recommend books in good conscious if i don't know what ur taste is yk