#Mori's Library

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Send book recommendations here, they have to be educational otherwise i kill you

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YIPPEE

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-# - Maan Abu Taleb, All The Battles, trans. by Robin Moger, Hoopoe Press, 2017 (Jordan)
-# - Ezzedine C. Fishere, Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge. Trans. By John Peate, Hoopoe Press, 2017 (Egypt)
-# - Ahmed Naji, Using Life, Trans. By Ben Koerber, University of Texas Press, 2018 (Egypt)
-# - Hooda Barakat, The Tiller of Water, Trans. By Marilyn Booth, American University in Cairo Press, 2001 (Lebanon)
-# - Elias Khoury. The Gates of the Sun, trans. By Humphrey Davies, Archipelago, 2016 (new print)
-# - My name is Adam: Children of the ghetto, trans. By Humphrey Davies, MacLehose Press, 2018 (Lebanon)
-# - Jokha Al-Harthi, Celestial Boodies, trans. by Marilyn Booth, Sandstone Press, 2018 (Oman)
-# - Khaled Khalifa, Death is Hard work, Trans. By Leri Price. Faber&Faber, 2019 (Syria)
-# - Waguih Ghali, Beer in the Snooker Club, Knopf. 1964 (Egypt)
-# - Ahmed Sadaawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad, trans. by Jonathan Wright, Penguin 2018 (Iraq)
-# - Sinan Antoon, The Baghdad Eucharist trans. By Maia Tabet, Hoopoe Fiction, 2017
-# - The Book of Collateral Damage, Trans. By Jonathan Wright, Yale University Press, 2019 (Iraq)
-# - Ibtisam Azem, The Book of Disapperance, Trans. by Sinan Antoon, Syracuse University Press, 2019 (Palestine)
-# - Amjad Nasser, Land of no Rain, Trans. By Johnathan Wright, Bloomsbury, 2014
-# - Raja Alem, The Dove‘s Neclace, Trans. By Katherine Halls, Adam Talib, Duckworth Publishers, 2016 (Saudi Arabia)
-# - Ibrahim Nasrallah, The Time of White Horses, trans. By Nancy Roberts, Hoopoe Fiction, 2016
-# - Muhammad Abdelnabi. in the spiders room, Trans. By Jonathan Wright, Hoopoe Fiction, 2018
-# - Alaa Al-Aswany, The Yacoubian Building, Trans. By Humphrey Davies, American University in Cairo press, 2002
-# - Naguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy, Three novels, Trans. By William M. Hutchins
-# - Suaad Amari, Sayed Kashua - on Israel\Palestine\Occupation\Borders\Boundaries
-# - The Siege' and other poems by Mahmoud Darwish
-# - The writings of Raja Shehadeh
-# - Sonallah Ibrahim, The Committee. Excellent account of Egyptian politics during the Infitah; the policy of opening up Egypt to foreign investors in the Sadat era.
-# - Khaled Khalifa’s novels
-# - Abderrahman Munif's Cities of Salt is a classic on the disruption brought by the discovery of oil on the Arabian peninsula.

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here is that list again thank my amazing lecturer

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Does this mean I can't rec my favorite italian novelist? <:c

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allowed you're a snob

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Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

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OH

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OH OKAY

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does my snobbery pass inspection

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IM LSITENING

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PASSED

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YIPPEE Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is a fantastic little book with such lush prose.

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i also have a fondness for pulp from time to time but that goes in a different thread.

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Middlemarch by George Elliot really is just that good

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i loved invisible women by caroline criado perez

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I haven't read far enough into 100 Years Of Solitude yet but GOD that opening line is so great I think i should rec it for that alone

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wait

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nope im thinking of my year of rest and relaxation

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other books Mori recommends:

  • pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire (hard read, not because its sad but because the guy uses the most flowery language)
  • Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
  • Piraneesi by Susanna Clarke
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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

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  • Before the Parade by Rebecca Rose
    -# I haven't read it, but I met the author at a library event a few years ago and they were pretty chill. The book is all about historical queer communities in central NS
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff

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TRANS??????

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Plato's Symposium is a lot of fun

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Middlemarch by George Elliot is also just that good. Read it

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Oh I already recced that. Uhhhhhhhh read the Canterbury tales to suddenly get way way more references ig

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if it made me think

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oh brilliant

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its great

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Huh?? I never knew this existed?? Gosh, I don’t read many educational books, but I’ve heard some fairly good things about Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers, which explores the female in horror media. But that’s also a bit of a commentary and reflection rather than a strictly unopinionated read.

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That book also has some companion perfumes by BPAL! But yeah, it basically just focuses on how perceptions of womanhood and girlhood have shaped horror tropes.

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omg thank you!!!!!!!!

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Iirc, it goes into concepts like the “mother vessel for evil”, the “flirty teenage girl who dies quickly”, and the perceived evil symbolism of menstruation, and coming of age often depicted in horror movies featuring teenage girls.