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The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine
βThere is no time in our lives when we are so conspicuously without mercy as in adolescence.β I don’t think I would ever picked up this ‘obscure’ and forgotten novel if it hadn’t been for the ‘crime fiction’ module I took during my second year of uni. Thanks to that module, which was in every…
1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1st pov, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, Adult, adulthood, ALIENATION, ART/CREATIVITY, atmospheric, bad love, Barbara Vine, beautiful prose, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, books about books, books about writers, British author, class, CRIME, domestic thriller, england, f/f, favourite authors, female authors, first love, friendships, GOTHIC, GUILT, heartbreak/breakups, HISTORICAL FICTION, House As Character, identity, illness, introspective, it’s about the *yearning*, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, LONDON, loneliness, Longing, manor/big house, MEMORY, modern gothic, MURDER, murder mystery, MYSTERY, obsession, psychological, Psychological thriller, psychopaths, published in 1988, queer, re-reads, read in 2018, read in 2020, read in 2022, rich people, sapphic, SEXUALITY, strong sense of place, SUSPENSE, the female malaise, The House of Stairs, toxic relationships, unrequited love, whydunnit -
KITCHEN by banana yoshimoto
With clarity Banana Yoshimoto conveys the grief experienced by her characters. In Kitchen, Mikage, an orphan, finds herself alone after the death of her grandmother. Mikage, unable to bear another loss, attempts to withdraw from the outside world. A son and his mother become her unlikely companions and while she stays with them she begins…
1980s, 1st pov, 20th century, 3.5 STARS, Adult, Banana Yoshimoto, coming of age, favourite authors, female authors, friendships, GRIEF, HISTORICAL FICTION, japan, JAPANESE AUTHOR, Kitchen, lgbtq+ side, MAGICAL REALISM, Moonlight Shadow, mumblecore, navel gazing, NOVELLA/SHORT STORY, orphans, published in 1988, re-reads, READ IN 2019, read in 2021, ROMANCE, SLICE OF LIFE, surreal, tokyo, trans side characters, TRANSLATED FICTION
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