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Two recent articles caught my eye, both about the (supposed?) dearth of “sad boy” literature. We’re Doing “Men Don’t Read Books” Discourse Again. Here’s What We’re Missing from GQ about “the self-improvement-obsessed grindset bros who can’t spare the bandwidth to pick up a novel are the people who need literature most”. Ouch! And Where is All the Sad Boy Literature from Esquire which posits “‘sad girl lit’ is everywhere, but young men are glaringly absent from the contemporary canon of popular authors writing about sex and intimacy. Could that be about to change?”
Both articles are from “men’s” magazines, and I’ll let you decide what you think about them. They served as a springboard for me to look for “sad boy lit”, or books that tell stories of all the myriad ways that boys grow into men. I came up with three lists, and honestly, “assigning” titles to one list or another was a bit arbitrary.
September is National Preparedness Month. Are you ready?
Live to Tell the Tale: Surviving Everything From Late Stage Capitalism to a Zombie Apocalypse
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper” –T. S. Eliot
September is Healthy Aging Month
“I meant to behave. There were just too many other options” –Darynda Jones
September is National Self-Care Awareness Month.
These lists can help you be good to yourself.
every flavor tells a story
“First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not”. — Octavia Butler
Stay in. Your home as therapy.
Self-Care: Other People Matter
Finding and improving relationships @work, @play, @love, while volunteering, and more
Take care of your body, it’s the only one you get
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions”. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
October is the start of Spooky Season.
To get you in the mood, try these booklists
Because life is scary
“what the eyes see and ears hear, the mind believes” –Harry Houdini
Enter if You Dare: Haunted Houses
Step into the Unknown
Enter if You Dare: More Haunted Houses
Home is Where the Haunt is
Gothic Fiction – Contemporary Settings
gothic vibes, up-to-the-minute settings
fiction from the recent past, to the Victorian era, to settings shrouded in the mists of time – all with creepy Gothic vibes
haunted houses, ghosts, all things that Go Bump in the Night
Gothic Fiction: Southern, Rural, or Isolated
lonely and terrifying stories best read with the lights on
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