lmk what you think of this review cause I kinda want to review her short stories ("homesick for another world") that like genuinely made my skin crawl in a fairly good way
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haven't shared my review of My Year of Rest and Relaxation yet. it's...a story, but really good. and, in comparison to the narrator, you'll feel much better about yourself !
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📚💙 Just finished #McGlue #OttessaMoshfegh Three out of four stars. Might recommend (CW: sexual violence). Might read again. "I wake up." Next up: #RilkeOnLoveAndOtherDifficulties #TranslationsAndConsiderationsByJohnJ.L.Mood
In progress: #McGlue #OttessaMoshfegh
Finished #Eileen
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I hated almost everything. I was very unhappy and angry all the time. I tried to control myself, and that only made me more awkward, unhappier, and angrier. I was like Joan of Arc, or Hamlet, but born into the wrong life....
#Eileen
#OttessaMoshfegh
"God is a made-up story," our mother told us... "There are no prizes for good little girls...Don't be a fool." I don't think she was ever so caring as when she delivered this terrifying pronouncement: "To hell with God. And to hell with your father."
"If Fleabag had a lovechild with Ottessa Moshfegh and raised it on hospital vending machine food and hot gossip—Afterward would be it."
❤️❤️❤️ Thanks, Nessa!
#Fleabag #OttessaMoshfegh #NessasBookReviews
Cover of a book with a woman in a pale blue dress slumped over on a chair. She is still managing to sit, just, and her long red hair touches the grey carpet. Green shoes still on and white stockinged legs are bent by the knee with toes touching the ground. She has white gloves on. Chair is blue and next to it on the right is a metal bowl of fruit with bananas grapes and a pear on top. Its on the top of a tall metal thin stand with round base. Brown grey curtain behind.
I know I always say that it’s the cover that gets me when choosing a book!
Maybe I was just a little tired myself that day! 😳🤣
#TBR It’s been on my tbr a while now.
#MyYearofRestandRelaxation
by #OttessaMoshfegh
It’s a funny start…watch this space!
Reading Book Reviews Makes Me Despair at the Human Race
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Promised a lot more than it delivered. Ottessa Moshfegh's "Eileen". #books #eileen #ottessamoshfegh #literature #reading
The cover of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, showing a portrait of a young white woman with a detached expression in a white garment.
The most millennial book I’ve ever read—that is to say, I loved it.
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This story had me cackling as I recognized family and acquaintances who are just as contemptible as Moshfegh’s characters. If you enjoy immersing yourselves in worlds of absurdity, disdain, and self-hatred there are few writers who do it better. #OttessaMoshfegh #TheNewYorker #ShortStory #BookSky
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Quote taken from “homesick for another world” by Ottessa Moshfegh
« Entendons-nous: je ne me suicidais pas. C'était même tout le contraire d'un suicide. Mon hibernation relevait d'un instinct de conservation. Je pensais qu'elle me sauverait la vie. »
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Good lord….. ha, get it?
Also, the girls are out and proud today. Fight me.
#Inverted #bookishthoughts #bookishthings #bookworm #bookreview #bookishhumor #lapvona #ottessamoshfegh #booksky
Actual footage of me talking in circles. Lol
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Have you read this?? I NEED TO TALK TO SOMEONE.
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Just about to finish this up. I really love her writing but I wish this book had a bit more plot or conflict…something. #booksky #ottessamoshfegh
What dark force inside me always makes me start the darkest, most abysmal books when I'm not doing so well anyway?
This time: #Lapvona
A novel by #OttessaMoshfegh
Weeeee!!!! ☠️💓🙄🫠
#BookSky
« Depuis l'adolescence, j'avais oscillé entre le désir de ressembler à la WASP gâtée que j'étais et celui de ressembler à la nullarde que je pensais être et que j'aurais dû être si j'avais eu un peu de courage. »
#Moshfegh #OttessaMoshfegh #Adolescence #Courage
Image of the front cover of the following book: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, published by Vintage, and issued by Durham University library
Further to friends' recommendations, & with 🙏 to @durham-university.bsky.social library for the lending, I'm off to read this book tonight. Review to follow... #ottessamoshfegh
#Lapvona
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She had saved her old eyes, her original ones...When she had first removed them, she had to say goodbye to many of the memories she'd had. But she was not a sentimental woman. Her new eyes didn't know who she had been. And so she was new to herself…
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#TheWriteWomen
Hey guys! Our interview with Ottessa Moshfegh goes out on the 1st! It was a really fun interview thanks to all the questions you guys sent on, and I hope you’ll all enjoy listening www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... #wbc #booksky #ottessamoshfegh @harriettsg.bsky.social
eileen drawing
lowkey I think I might have to lighten it because some details are getting lost😔
#art #digitalart #digitallainting #eileen #ottessamoshfegh #sketch #drawing #artist
We just had a phenomenal interview with Ottessa Moshfegh where she was answering your questions on ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ - so excited to start editing it tomorrow, you guys are in for a treat!
#booksky #ottessamoshfegh @harriettsg.bsky.social
Sometimes the narrator in ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ is unbearable, at others sympathetic, relatable, even philosophical. How did you guys feel about her as you were reading?
DM us your thoughts/questions for the show or email us - worldbookclub@bbc.co.uk
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A quote superimposed on an image of a messy bed. Atomic particles. Subatomic particles. Look deeper and deeper and eventually you'll find nothing. We’re mostly empty space. We're mostly nothing. Tra-la-la. And we're all the same nothingness. You and me, just filling the space with nothingness. - ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ Ottessa Moshfegh
Hey guys, next book we’re discussing on the show is ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’.
I find Moshfegh’s writing mesmeric, even in the darkest moments I can’t put it down. What do you guys think of her writing style?
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Hey WorldBookClub listeners, announcing the next author who will be answering your questions - Ottessa Moshfegh! We’ll be talking about her novel ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ and would love to hear your questions, so email us @ worldbookclub@bbc.co.uk by Feb 10th :) #booksky #ottessamoshfegh
