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Barbara Pym
“There was something obscurely humiliating about going into town on the bus, Emma felt, beginning with her not knowing what the fare was and having to fumble for the right coins when she entered.”
Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves
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Ottessa Moshfegh
“A grown woman is like a coyote—she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they'll die of sadness. Over the years I've grown to love men for this weakness.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh
“Nobody is really so orderly, so perfect. To have a house like that says more about what's wrong with you than any decrepit dump. Those people with perfect houses are simply obsessed with death. A house that is so well maintained, furnished with good-looking furniture of high quality, decorated tastefully, everything in its place, becomes a living tomb. People truly engaged in life have messy houses.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Barbara Pym
“The clergy nowadays seldom included the weather in their prayers....”
Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves

Clive Barker
“He kissed her as he worked, and swallowed the pestilence with her spittle; his hands came off her body gritty with her contagious cells. He knew none of this, of course. He was perfectly innocent of what corruption he embraced, and took into himself with every uninspired thrust.”
Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six

600 Gothic Literature — 102 members — last activity Dec 15, 2025 07:53AM
Discussing the darker aspects of 18th - 21st century literature. If you cannot find a topic you are interested in feel free to create a new thread for ...more
116665 Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time in 2014 — 93 members — last activity Mar 09, 2019 04:37PM
A reading group for Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time". This group reading adventure will begin on January 1, 2014 and go on through December ...more
2083 NYRB Classics — 1427 members — last activity Jan 01, 2026 03:09PM
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58827 Brain Pain — 1248 members — last activity Oct 10, 2023 09:29AM
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170208 2016: A Dance to the Music of Time — 96 members — last activity Nov 14, 2019 07:37PM
2016 reading group for the 12 book series by Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time. One book per month.
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