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Thank you!! I hope you have the best time! Any short books you're looking forward to?

Isn't it the best??

That's such a legitimate way to go about it as well 😂I'm definitely moodread slamming some more in there because I'm gonna run out of my short audiobooks soon.

Oh this is so kind of you to recommend! Thank you!! I'm starting an Irish playlist with them now. 💚 I love the sound of John Francis Flynn, it kinda reminds me of Broken Social Scene which was a fave of mine in high school and college. Please don't hesitate to recommend more 🥲

Thank you so much!!! I found the Tiffany book and wasn't sure how it could fit into a prompt at first until it all fell into place :)

@@ameliareads589 oooh what are you reading? I love to know everyone’s TBR in case I want to add them to my own 😂

@@aveyclub Orient Express by Graham Green, Boulder by Eva Baltasar, Oblivion by Josephine Hart, Stella by Takis Würger, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, Great Jones Streer by Don DeLillo, Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes, The King Bows and Kills by Herta Müller, Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, Qissat edited by Jo Glanville, The Goverment Inspector by Nikolai Gogol. For three prompts I I haven't decided yet which books to add and there might be some changes anyway as we go, because that's the way I do readathons. Are you also participating in Straya September? Which would be even more exciting, now that you are living in Australia.

@@TheBookubus thank you!! I will believe it when I taste it on the vegan cheese 😂

Agree!!! Are you making a TBR video ahead of time? What are you planning on reading?

That absolutely counts!! Oh I totally get that. I'm very much a mood reader as well and very rarely make a monthly TBR. This one being all shorties and my last one in July being only 4 books are by far the exception. 😅

Thank you! I'd love to hear what you end up with, I feel confident that I can add some more shorties on to the month after the prompts and I'm always down for a rec :)

Ah thank you so much!! 🐇 It's truly such a joy to figure out these TBRs and having them all work together. I think making it audiobook forward is a winning strategy as well!

It feels like... there's no way I can just make this at home right? But I have faith! I'll definitely let you know if it turns out good and pretend like I never did it if it's a fail 😂

It was a blast! The most successful TBR I've ever set tbh :)

Lord knows you're talented enough to do whatever you set your mind to!

@@pastorytime2683 very well said! I don’t think I have the fortitude to read any extreme horror that has not been at least thoroughly vetted by friends first 😅 thank you!!!! 💛 🔪

There are so many good shorty options it's hard to narrow down!! My library tag for it has already gotten very long 😂

Thank YOU for watching! Such an underrated book, I hope you love it if you check it out 💚

Thank you!! 💚 There's sriracha and cholula in supermarkets here as well! Tabasco is the only Louisiana style hot sauce I've seen in the shops but I much prefer Crystal. This is truly a niche Louisiana thing to care about I think haha

I hope you like it as much as I did! Do you have any horror reads you'd recommend that have similar topics?

That's ok, we all have personal preferences! Do you have any online-ish horror books you have loved?

@@user-tr9pi6fv6u 👀 I’m listening…

@@aveyclub Hi! So...I recently realized that there are some really interesting ties between Oedipus Rex and Things Have Gotten Worse: 1. The relationship between Zoe and Agnes is extremely similar to the situation to the prophecies in Oedipus Rex: In the play Oedipus Rex, the city of Thebes is cursed by a plague that is a punishment for the death of the former king Laius. The only way it can be stopped is by revealing Laiu's killer and expelling them from Thebes. Meanwhile, Oedipus is dealing with he own prophecy: he is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother. Zoe and Agnes have an abusive relationship that is also a Sub/Dom dynamic. However, each one has a different idea as to how they want this dynamic to work. Agnes wants Zoe to be her partner and to have a symbolic child with her (Her kink is a way of healthily processing childhood trauma). However, Zoe wants a Sub/Dom dynamic where Zoe is a Mommy Dom (she takes on a maternal role while Zoe is "baby." ) When Agnes tries to bring up her idea of having a "child" with Zoe, the dynamic becomes incestuous, and Zoe lashes out by brutally punishing her symbolically (ex: commanding Agnes to crush a symbolic child with a rock...which Agnes didn't have to do, but is still compelled to do anyway do to her desperate affection for Zoe). Agnes is Oedipus, and Zoe is Jocasta (Oedipus's mother and wife with whom he has several children). Zoe is also the curse, giving commands to Agnes, who blindly follows them. 2. Do you deserve your eyes: during the climax for Oedipus Rex, Oedipus is trying to figure out the cause of the plague, while at the same time ignoring the warning signs in denial that it was him who caused all of this. In despair, once he was forced to face the reality of the situation, Oedipus gouges out his own eyes. Its only after doing this that he accepts reality for what it actually is. Meanwhile, in Things Have Gotten Worse..., Agnes is repeatedly asked "Do you deserve your eyes?" The situation between Agnes and Zoe is very complex in that while we know who Agnes is (a vulnerable woman who was badly abused as a child, and who desperately wants some kind of loving relationship and a chance to have a healthy family), but we don't know who Zoe is. Their emails are all online. For all we know, Zoe may not even be a woman. They may be a guy fetishizing Zoe for being a lesbian, and is pushing his fantasies on her (the crushing of the bug (crushing fetish) and the tapeworm (bug catching fetish)). Its also highly possible that Zoe may really be the real deal, but doesn't really believe that Agnes is actually obeying Zoe's commands in real life (its all just online roleplay). Agnes is so desperate for a connection for love from someone else that she degrades and self harms just to keep Zoe's attention. Eventually, Zoe realizes the situation is real and actually affects a real person, and abandons Agnes...but Agnes doesn't. Agnes is so blinded by desperation and madness that she still keeps responding to Zoe long after they are gone. In despair, its suggested that Agnes crawls into her closet with their "child" (Oedipus' fulfilled prophecy), and gouges out her eyes with her apple peeler. It's then that the audience faces the answer to Zoe's question: Doe's Agnes deserve her eyes? Does a character who is blind to reality deserve to bear witness to it? Or is it better to be blind, and yet live with the despair that is reality? We the reader don't get to decide: Agnes does, and apparently, she believes she doesn't believe she deserves her eyes. However, unlike Oedipus, who accepts his reality and finds peace in it, Agnes also decides that she can't live with reality either. So there's my Ted Talk for today!

@@user-tr9pi6fv6u what an incredible interpretation, I love this!! Thank you so much for taking the time to write it all out. It’s been a while since I’ve read either text now and this definitely makes sense to me to view it as this classic tragedy. I’ve never heard this interpretation from anyone else!

@@ameliareads589 Hello! ☺️ West Girls was the first thing I read by her so I feel the same way!!

I think my heattech must have been in the mail while I was recording this vlog. I've been wearing it every day now 😂 I need to get lighter weight gloves for sure; I only have my north face subarctic ones that look like they're for like, summitting Everest lol

Oh gosh and it seems so highly rated too? That's a shame. I really hope you like West Girls! I feel like it's polarizing because there's a lot of unlikeable characters but I love that.

I know, I feel like I was so excited for it to come out and now it's however much later. But books will always stay ready for you :) Thank you!!

Oh I hope you like it!! 👁️ Isn't the cover good? The Australian cover is neat too but I don't think conveys the tone as well as the American cover does.

I agree!! So happy that the book itself lives up to its cover as well!

Aw, I love Bert and Siân and you're such a good letterboxd follow 🥲 That's a good idea about the year end gift! It's an adjustment how easy going some things are but definitely for the better overall!! No tipping is definitely a step in the right direction for a host of reasons. Thanks for reaching out; always love a chat 💚 Cancel Reply

Happy you're here! This is the first year for Giallo July as more than a personal project but I'm looking forward to it 😊

no.. thank u!!! 💚

Thank you!

Agree! Thank you!!

Thank you!! I love a fun makeup to lean into my clownlike tendencies 😊 Unfortunately, it seems that Ozploitation went a different route than giallo where we don't get too many movies like that. I do have an Aussie neo-giallo on my watchlist as well but it's supposed to be pretty bad 🙈 (and I think like proper bad and not the bad we love)

So kind, thank you!!

Of course I had to! Really looking forward to it 💛

I haven't! I really haven't read too much crime fiction at all.

​@@aveyclub this one would be a good intro i think

@@mahmoudoraby7222 thanks for the rec! :)

You’re so kind! The only Sodergren I’ve read is The Forgotten Island so I’ll have to get to this one. Absolutely My Year of Rest and Relaxation. It’s definitely a favorite vibe for books so I’m happy to have a new one recommended. 💚

@@aveyclub 🙏🙏

Omg you sent me this book but I haven't read it yet 🙈 I'm going to read it and then it'll be my recommendation for Spring breakers.

Thank you so much!! It's truly such a peaceful and beautiful place. :)

Oh believe me, we will all be hearing from Daisy again. Things are so good here; I hope for y’all as well 💚

@@aveyclub ♥️♥️

Totally agree! It could have been cool to get more stories from that corner of the web but I’m happy to get a weird little mood of a story in any case.

I thought so! I loved watching the bees go about their business. Thank you for watching :)

Yes! Nature is always beautiful!🥹@@aveyclub

Hi to Greece! Sorry I missed your comment; I hope YOU have a good day!

Thank you so much!!

Thank you!! ☺️ This was my first by her but I’m definitely keen to get to more from her soon after I wrap up Stella Prize reading.