Dear lovely Shinji, please recommend some books that will fit in my backpack and make my world wonderful, or at least change a piece of me.

  • 1984, George Orwell
  • As A Peace Loving Global Citizen, Sun Myung Moon 
  • Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson 
  • Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
  • Beloved, Toni Morrison 
  • The Birth of Tragedy (and Truth and Lying In a Non-Moral Sense), Nietzsche 
  • Bluets, Maggie Nelson 
  • The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
  • The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
  • A Burnt Out Case, Graham Greene
  • The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch
  • The Collector, John Fowles
  • A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell 
  • The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
  • Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham
  • Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
  • The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
  • Goose Chase, Patrice Kindl
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
  • The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
  • In The Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje
  • Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
  • Just Kids, Patti Smith
  • Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  • Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Macbeth, Shakespeare
  • A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
  • Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
  • On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
  • The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia 
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Suskind
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain 
  • Running In The Family, Michael Ondaatje
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion 
  • The Tenth Man, Graham Greene
  • The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
  • The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
  • White Oleander, janet Fitch
  • The WInter  Vault, Anne Michaels
  • The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe
  • Written On The Body, Jeannette Winterson 

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like a baby's ass.

I know this isn’t a review blog (which sucks for me because I could be getting paid for praising the skies for these products I love) but I figure that hearing a chick who hates buying bullshit beauty products unless they seriously up my fierce factor might be more convincing than a chick who was given free stuff to rave about.

So a little while back I wrote about how I have decided to marry olive oil extra virgin olive oil since it was treating my face so well. We are still happily together- but I wanted to share with you the product which is making my entire body feel just as scrumdiddlyumptious. This motherfucker right here:

(click that dumb ass bottle) It’s Neutrogena body oil and it’s meant to go on your damp skin after a shower. The reason I like it is because it doesn’t feel like slathering dollar store lube all over my body like some moisturizers can feel like and it’s far more glamorous a process than shaking the bottle of cocoa butter lotion and having it fart out onto your hand and then take a damn hour to rub it all in. No- with this body oil you feel like Cleopatra or some shit when you rub it on yourself. It’s very watery but it really spreads out easily, meaning you don’t need much to get a lot. What I like to do is retire to my bedroom, light some candles, put on a Kenny G tape and then oil my entire body up. I let shit get real sexy. I rub the ash right out of those elbows, I spend way longer than necessary on my boobs and butt and probably have a “ME GUSTA” face while doing so, I hit up the neck, arms, legs, feet and because I’m a pastel goth rebel I wipe my hands off by massaging the rest into the ends of my hair, which are almost always in need of extra moisture. And I make sure not to use too much or else my body will feel like a giant strand of Uncle Jesse’s hair. But in about 20 minutes it all soaks in completely and the skin just feels so soft and heavenly and pretty that you just want to throw on high heels and a trench coat and drive to your lover’s house for some surprise sexual intercourse. 

It’s also pretty reasonably priced, especially considering you don’t use a lot each time. I’m not sure if it would produce such awesome results for people with certain skin conditions, but if you have dry skin (or just want super smooth, nourished skin) it’s worth a try. And I’m serious about setting the mood when you do it- shit can get intense. 

Also I’m sorry for the creepy header.

Random recommendations:

  • Book: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
  • Documentary: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
  • Film: The Uninvited
  • Song: Candles by Daughter
  • Tea: Cinnamon Apple Spice (Celestial Seasonings brand)
  • Nail polish color: Lincoln Park After Dark by OPI

Sorry I meant like, the girl is popular for her beauty :)

Ok, here are some female leads who are popular or known for their image (I’ll also mention the ones you listed in the previous post just for the sake for other people reading this):

  • Hakuji
  • Six Half
  • 3D Kanojo
  • Hibi Chouchou
  • Ao Haru Ride
  • Toraware Beast
  • Kaichou wa Maid-Sama
  • Skirt o Nuida Sono Ato wa (it’s not yuri)
  • Boku wa Kiss de Uso wo Tsuku
  • Akuma to Love Song
  • Ojousama wa Oyomesama
  • Akagami no Shirayukihime
  • Tomodachi no Hanashi
  • The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manor
  • Oremonogatari!!
  • Romantica Clock
  • Boku wa Ookami
  • Fujoshi Kanojo
  • Paradise Kiss
  • Inu x Boku SS
  • Switch Girl
  • Special A
  • Karekano

Some of these recommendations fit better into your request, but I think all of the ones I mentioned can belong there.

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