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[peaceinshadows]

Right. Some cousinly people are coming over to Lahore from London and I have decided to ask them to bring some books for me. So, what would you lot on my friends' list suggest I ask them to bring? Any recent reads you are in love with? Share here, please. Cram in your favourite quotes from the tomes to impress me and really just to give me an idea

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[theotherchicago]

Anything by Jonathan Lethem is worth reading. Especially The Fortress of Solitude. It is about boys and superpowers and Brooklyn and hidden things. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is like Holden Caulfield and Flowers for Algernon and Werther, except with more life than any of them.

And oh, Elizabeth Wurtzel's Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women is a favourite of mine, as is Inga Muscio's Cunt (which is actually the Bible). They are both non-fiction books about the brash, sex-positive variety of feminism, and both worth reading if you are into that.

Aimee Bender has a wonderful, surreal collection of short stories called The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, which includes The Rememberer, and a novel called An Invisible Sign of my Own. Both are worth reading, but the stories range from beautiful to downright perfect.

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[peaceinshadows]

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women is available here in my uni's main library.

::whips out library card!::

And. The Fortress of Solitude and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt are on my list now. And that short story you linked to heartbreakingly beautiful. Thankyouthankyouthankyou.