/lit/ - Literature

lots of mary karr and joan didion. memoirs mostly

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Elena Ferrante

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>>12421708
Self-help books about how to get men 30 years younger than her

She read mysteries mostly

>>12421708
Lately? The nutritional information for almost everything she eats.
It's kind of depressing because she's trying to do some new diet that all the other women she knows are doing and you can tell that she worries a lot about her shape but she's pushing 60 and there's just no way that she will be able to undo what decades of sedentary and lax dieting have done to her at the age she is. Every meal you can tell that she's trying to do her best to cut back but nothing is really helping and she's getting depressed because she is realizing that her body isn't what it was when she was 20, hell, even what it was when she was 40, and she's trapped in it until she dies. She "jokes" about dying before my dad a lot now.
Her eyes have a sadness to them no matter what she looks at.

Latin manuscripts about birds. It's best not to ask her what she's reading it's always some shit like that.

>>12421708
Suzanne Summers and step mom read 50 shades of black dick for watever reason

>>12421734
Ah, she's read my work. Would she be interested in arranging a special meeting?

>>12421744
Fuck Anon. I didn’t come to this thread to feel

>>12421738
Mysteries such as "Why is my daughter a dumb lesbian neet?"

Biblical commentaries. She really likes J.C. Ryle.

>>12421744
>She "jokes" about dying before my dad a lot now

Good. Just sounds like she is coming to terms with death.

>>12421708
John Grisham and Mary Higgins Clark

Virginia Woolf

>>12421719
pretty lit mommy reads, anon

Literary fiction.

In the last couple of years she started buying more and more second hand books, titles you'd associate with "classic" authors. This
new year alone, she got 20 or so new books.

I don't know if she's doing this to plan ahead for her retirement (she hasn't stopped reading since she was a child) and fill in some gaps in her reading.

But I'm not sure. Thorughout my life, my mom has alternated between
being a total bitch and fairly supportive of me. My dad confided that she's only proud of me because I read too, which has made me wonder if she's building this ridiculously large collection for my sake, for the day she passes away.

Spiritual books and historical fiction. She also has a shrine in her room with all kinds of religious and mythological stuff, especially Eastern.

>>12421806
>she's only proud of me because I read too
Are you a NEET?

>>12421788
No, genre trash. Agatha Christie, Father Dowling etc. she got a bunch of sci-fi from a book club once and we or into Hitchhikings that way. Other than that she read her bible. No ambition but for her kids to be safe and happy. I miss her.
She never knew I was homosexual. I’m not a “neet” either

>>12421835
What part of “got” looks like “or” to this fucking thing

Hilary Mantel

>>12421708
Her favourites are Jane Austen, Kafka, Nietzsche and Agatha Christie. She also reads modern sci-fi novels

She reads dictionaries and other linguistic reference materials
Here's a cool set I found in the basement

>>12421708
My mom is dying of Lewy Body Dementia

>>12421708
Mostly free novels they give out for free on amazon.

>>12421708
Her favourite author is Dan Brown. Besides his novels, she reads books that confirm her paranormal beliefs.

>>12421738
You are not the real butters. Please stop using that name.

She is now into Agatha Christie. Used to read Mary Higgins Clark and Sue Grafton

>>12421866
>that dust

I don't even care if they don't get read that often but for God sakes buy a duster.

>>12421917
The entire basement is like this. At least five full bookshelves that never get any attention unless it's from me when I'm visiting for the holidays.
Fat hand included for scale.

>>12421832
My dad told me that before I became a NEET though.

>>12421708
Crime novels, whatever free book amazon will allow her to have for her kindle, shes gots at least 20 "how to stop being an alcoholic" books and never got to the end of any of them

>>12421708
My mom just finished Pride and Prejudice, and now we are going to read Augustine’s Confessions concurrently since I’m away at college. My mom started reading classics to try to connect with me. I don’t deserve her.

>>12421708
>tfw Mommyposter left our board as of last night
>we'll never see such pure, honest expressions of admiration toward the fairer sex ever again on /lit/
hold me, bros

>>12421936
You're disgusting but that little book looks awesome

>>12421936
Wow

>>12421708
James Patterson and wine memes.

>>12421708
Mostly YA stuff like Hunger Games and Twilight. I lent her The Hobbit and she really liked it but the when I lent her LOTR she couldn't into that. I'd like to get her away from YA onto something else.

Literally only Christian shit

>>12421991
Thanks for noticing! You're not wrong my dude; I agree wholeheartedly.
>>12421992
Yeah, it's a damn shame.

>>12421971
What happened?

>>12422040
Mommyposter, a poster who attained minor fame for his trademark comments regarding his desire for a motherly girlfriend, and the efflorescence of his expressions regarding such desire, has left our board as of yesterday. Normally, on a thread with an OP like this one, he'd have left a signature comment regarding how desperately he desires to love and be loved by a caring, dominant woman.

>>12421971
He'll be back.

>>12422039
wank me with that fat hand of yours.

>>12421827
Damn, I think we have the same mother.

>>12422070
I think perhaps I formed one half of 'mommyposter', unaware I had a brother. I shall carry his torch.

>>12422075
I've got a death grip so be careful what you wish for my dude ;^)

Would it be wise to start a smallest book thread with my findings? More book discussion and less sexually frustrated /ss/ posters I reckon...

Umberto Eco and some womens books that i didnt care to look into

comedy books like Uganda Be Kidding Me and whatever Andy Cohen writes
she also watches reality TV

>>12422103
Do right by him, anon.

>>12422103
Mommyposter help me with some recs on mommygf lit.

>>12422240
Also what makes the mommygf experience to be so different than the usual married life? What makes a mommygf so different than a wife, isn't it just another form of devilish perversioin? I don't understand, please enlighten me.

zoology stuff, quite good

>>12422103
One leaves us, yet another takes his place. Never let that torch go out.

>>12422103
Based Nuevo-Mommyposter

>>12421805
she's an author

My mom is in a book club, but it's really just a drinking club.I'm not sure that they even read. they went to Greece and she got me a Plato Bust though, so that's cool.

>>12422303
Because you don't have to be a masculine man around her, instead she takes on the dominant role, and smothers you in cuddles and unconditional love. Also plays the big spoon. Ordinary married life can't compare.

>>12422303
Oedipus Rex, A Chance Encounter

>>12421971
Who's mommyposter ? Is that his mom in the picture ? If yes I can understand why he had so much admiration for women.

>>12421708
Who is this semen demon

>>12422366
My last girlfriend was kinda like that. Gorgeous mommycore body that would smother me in bliss everytime we slept together. Very tender and supportive, would pet me like I were a little cat and ride my dick like I were a bull.

Damn now I remember why I still miss her, thanks anon.

>>12421719
didion is so momcore it's not even funny

>>12421708
How can I have this woman in my life?

>>12421708
my mom constantly reads mysteries, particularly either M.C. Beaton novels (the Hamish Macbeth series) or Janet Evanovich. And unless she is reading another book about veganism, she will just reread those two authors.
I have to read some Miyuki Miyabe mystery for class, so if it is good I will probably shill it to my mom.

>>12421708
Is that really your mum? She is a really attractive women. She is my type. I bet she's great to be around.

>>12421708
Alice Munro because she's her favourite, and YA shit because she's a librarian

Mommyposting seems innocuous, but I find it an affront to the work the xenofeminist threads must undertake.
It is an easy impulse to see Mommyworship as a submission to the feminine Other, and yet an important distinction must me made in the line of Freudian thoughts of childhood development. The Mommy, in her attentive care, does not trespass upon the ipseity, does not puncture into same in which lives consciousness/ego. As a child learns to exert itself, in crying for milk and so on, over the Mother, so does Mommyworship become an exertion of the ego into the relatively same, a relation that is not a true alterity and thus is a simple weaving of the same, without the necessary negation/puncture. As a mother has a child, so does this relationship not represent a true alterity and only a mere relation of related opposites.

Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elain Pagels. She is a spiritual woman and gave it to me. I'll read it at some point

>>12421708
my boss, who I see as my second mom reads Count of Monte Cristo

Since she's emotionally abusive in the same way my real mom was growing up, sometimes I wonder if I somehow find a way to stand up to her or, ideally, to seduce her, if I would also solve my pre-existing psychological issues in one swoop.

>>12421708
Women are the greatest thing of this Earth, the closest thing here to Paradise, as Camus brilliantly stated. Even seeing a picture of them, makes me a bit happier. They are like sunshine, in the form of human beings.

>>12422842
I don't know what this means - I know only that I'd love a woman with every fibre of my being, and no personal motive at all. They are the very light of this world.

>>12422103
We must carry on what he began. The wholesome appreciation of the feminine that overturns this board from the grips of its toxic misogyny, into a new era of /lit/, where even female posters - real ones - become comfortable enough sojourn here among us.

The bible

>>12422885
This

>>12422885
Until they open their mouths

>>12423131
When they open their mouths is actually when the real fun begins.

>>12421708
Some books about learning theory, constructivism, Vygotsky.
I know nothing about that stuff but she stills talks to me daily about how Piaget was wrong about too much shit.

>>12421708
She's currently not reading the book I got her for Christmas, despite the fact that I've already finished the book she got me for Christmas. Every year, I try to pick the safest, most-likely-to-be-read book possible, and they always just end up gathering dust. Oh well.

>>12421708
my diary desu

>>12423230
The book is Capitalism and Schizophrenia if anyone is wondering.

>>12421708
I wonder if I will stop watching mom-son porn once mom dies.

>mama and papa self-taught after dropping out of elementary school to take care of their poor families in a 3rd world country.
>their siblings all get pregnant and half illiterate.
>they work hard enough to earn money while reading books to finish their education alone
>meet each other, two intellectuals
>raise me on history and literature books without religion or want for anything.

Why don't your parents love you, anonskis?

my mom doesnt read, neither does my dad, or my siblings.

>>12421744
This reads like part of a pretty decent novel.

>>12422103
anime tiddies.... mhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

>>12422986
Well said. Anything is better than the current state of affairs, but that's a good goal to aim for.

>>12421708
Christ, looks dead

>>12421708
genre fiction mostly

>>12423610
No this reads like some requiem for a dream tier shit.
"My mommy is addicted to dietary pills and I am a coke addict lmao, she is sad and so am I and bla bla bla."
Shut the fuck up you tasteless fag

>>12423659
Stacy: The Valium Years

>>12422040
>>12422103
>>12422240
>>12423659
Why are mommies so perfect bros?

>>12422070
Maybe he's just posting Tara Tainton and Eva Green webms on /tv/

>>12421708
that's someone's mom?
huh...
huh...
hello stepson.

>>12421708
Nonfiction books about health, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, self-help, theology, yoga, a mix of new-agy stuff, sciency stuff, and spiritual/religious stuff. She's been telling me to read The Untethered Soul. She says she can't read fiction or she gets too into it and doesn't get stuff done.

Last book she read was On the Shortness of Life by Seneca. I gave it to her to read.
Otherwise it's usually catholic stuff and knitting books

>>12421870
>tfw I was actually looking at my mother's dirty feet yesterday and actually felt a bit turned on despite not usually being a footfag

>>12421708
A song of ice and fire. Harry potter. The hunger games. Pretty pleb, sadly. Although she does read actual literature from time to time.

>>12421870
Why not pirate epubs for her? She'd like it.

>>12421708
whatever words appear on candy crush for 6-10 hours every day

it's learned helplessness and she's losing it

>>12423661
This is not so different from the plot of Madame Bovary, with added drugs.

>>12421708
David Icke

>>12421734
Can I have her phone number? Asking for a friend.

>>12423661
You seem like a very nice and happy person.

>>12421708
Gordon Wood, Hannah Arendt, Montesquieu, The Bible, Victor Hugo, Ayn Rand, Herman Melville, you will not win an argument with her

>>12423882
You seem like a snide little bitch, get fucked

>>12423659
you know where those beads go at nighttime?

>>12423898
Are you supposed to be a parody of a high school faggot who is seething because his dad makes him suck his dick every night, or are you actually one?

>>12423896
>Victor Hugo, Ayn Rand,
> you will not win an argument with her

yes I will

>>12423904
Is there something you want to talk about?

>>12421796
fucking lol

Gave her the map and the territory by houllebecq for her birthday. Did I fuck up fellas?

>>12423898
In all honesty, you need to find a way to sort yourself out dude. Directing that amount of senseless anger at completely harmless posts on the internet. Whatever that shit is about, it'll eat you up eventually.

>>12421708

>>12421708
anything I give to her

>>12424042
My mum couldn't even get past the first pages in that book, she has an aversion to Houellebecq it seems, which is understandable because she's a woman.

>>12423715
Don't do this. I showed my mom how to pirate music and now every time she wants a new album it's a minimum of 45 minutes walking her through everything all over again.

>>12423671
They're women with all the bad parts removed.

>>12422360
>they went to Greece and she got me a Plato Bust though
thats dope af

>>12422842
>X isn't Y, it's just X because X is X and not Y
wow thanks

>mom reads the stranger
>"did you like it"
>"yes but that Mersault, I don't know, but he seemed kind of stupid"
>"yeah, he's a retard"

New Age and self help stuff
she's that sort of middle aged woman who likes acupuncture, chinese medicine, singing bowls, all water fasts in a 'yoga' ''retreat''

>>12422885
Based

>>12423700
Anon, you might be a degenerate.

>>12421708
Carl Schmitt, Mein Kampf, Degrelle, Fichte.
The classics really.

>>12421744
Tell her you love her, tell her about the things you're doing and things you're planning to do, thank her for things she did for you. Genuine mom's care more about their kids than anything else, make sure she's proud of raising you.

>>12422346
what does she write?

>>12421708
Mostly Agatha Christie

>>12421708
Crime

>>12421708
We went to a bookstore cuz I wanted to purchase the eye by nobakov whoever I forget his name

She also wanted a book. I suggested she purchase Anne Frank's Diary. I was being ironic. sarcastic.
She actually went and bought the book and she tells me she's really liking it...
She's like "I miss being 14!"

>>12421708
the bible and joyce meyer

>>12421708
She pretends to read Simone de Beauvoir but only actually reads instagram posts

>>12424924
blasé and redwinepilled

>>12424924
>>12424912
>>12424740
>>12423692
>>12423659
>>12421993
>>12421734
moms are just women who had unprotected sex, lads, I don't know why you expect them to have different tastes than the average thot

>>12424951
How dare you reduce motherhood to such a summary. Mothers are the very lynchpin of all species, the most divine of creatures from whom all others have come. Mothers are the heavenliest of all beings. Please don't forget this, and make sure you give your own mom a hug today if you can.

>>12425077
based

My mom is dead, but back when she was still alive her shelves used to be lined with Danielle Steel and Nora Roberts paperbacks.

>>12422471
How/where does one find a mommy gf?

>>12424951
I don't. She's the one pretending.

>>12425137
college

>>12423659
>joycean beads
What did she mean by that?

>>12421730
this

>>12421708
Law and books about it. Only. I gave her "The World as Will and Representation" as a birthday gift; about 20 pages was as far as she got.

>>12424951
You need help, anon. Hope you find it.

>>12425271
>giving her a book by a raging misogynist
What were you even thinking, lad.

Anyways bless your mom, sounds like a sweet lady.

>>12424951
yikes, this place really is /ince-lit/ now, huh

guys what do i do if i'm just endlessly enamoured with women? loving them so much my heart could burst?

>>12423594
>raising you without religion
>loving you
pick 1

>>12421708
Classic BritLit, gardening books, and lots of historical nonfiction. She has heart problems but when she's not too tired, she likes to go to local museums and look up old records and improve her personal records about our family tree. She also has a bunch of self-help books but I've never actually seen her read any of them.

>>12421749
Cool.

>>12425457
t. Stockholm syndrome

>>12422856
>emotionally abusive
How so? It seems unlikely that workplace relationship could be abusive in that way.

>>12425394
>>12425303
I'm not badmouthing moms or women in general, but it's a fact that most women like shit books, so why would mothers be different? it's not like men are better, most men don't even read

>>12425686
>It seems unlikely that workplace relationship could be abusive in that way.
lmao anon please

My mom majored in phil. Now she's working in corporate consulting, and only reads books her book group chooses.

>>12421708
my mum is one of the most well read people ive ever met, i go to her for recs and she has an individual taste unlike here

>>12425806
so
>What does your mom read/rec?

>>12425819
Harry Potter, lemony snicket, the list goes on...

>>12425077
Based and lowkey-catholicpilled

>>12425077
Absolutely Based and mompilled

detective books
fucking millions of them

>>12421708

Thomas Hardy

>>12421708

Unironically the Bible

>>12421877
>Her favourite author is Dan Brown. Besides his novels, she reads books that confirm her paranormal beliefs.
B-brother??

>>12422885
>faggot and cuck confirmed
They can be just as terrible as men in their own way

>>12426419
Which Bible do orthodox christians read?

>>12421708
All kinds of old books as research material relating to a novel she's currently writing. She's written like 4 published books for the biggest publishing company in my country. They've sold ok, not super popular. Some of them will probably be translated soon to a couple of other languages. They're these modern kind of artsy books with magical-realism.
She knows a lot about literature and buys me books sometimes.
(Sorry: just felt like mom-flexing on you fags)

>>12424951
Based

>>12421708
historical fiction about english royalty and the c j sansom novels. right now she's reading something by stephen fry

>>12421708
mostly classic sci-fi, she also loves Pratchett for some reason
>>12426501
I have the exact same image saved as "blessed image", did you get it from me or did we tap into the same collective consciousness?

>>12427232
Got it from here so probably you. Have you got any more Lord's blessings in jpg format?

>>12421708
is 4chan so underage they have moms in their 40s? If you wanted to represent mom to me it would be something like this

>>12423205

>tfw no pedagogically obsessed mum

>>12427304
Yeah but how are her feet?

>>12424879

>>12427327
old, fat, calloused and wrinkly.

Romance novels set in the 1920s

>>12421870
>>12423700

/lit/ - Literature

>>12426488
>>12426491
>mfw these replies are adjacent

>>12421897
I feel like high-tier moms tend to like detective stories
>>12427262
this one also gives off a sense of power, be it divine or not

>>12421730
>>12425189
Nice.

>>12425415
I don't know my man. I also love them so much, and I've expressed as much on here before, but there's so little I feel we can do to express that love without becoming creeps. On the street, I treat women with respect like any other person and regard them as my equal, and I'm not afraid to smile at a girl if she smiles at me (that always brightens up my day). On here though I think we can do our part by defending women when the opportunity arises. We need to do our research and we need to actively challenge the common misogynist narrative by making sound and constructive arguments regarding the virtues of women. After all, the whole point of reading literature is to question the status quo. Mommyposter gave us a voice, anon. We need to make the most of what he's given us and stand up to all this horrible misogyny.

>>12422103
I hope you can carry his torch. Yesterday was a sad day when he left. I already miss him and his innocent adoration.

>>12421708

She has a STEM major so she has a very logical and scientific mind. Ever since i was little it seemed all the conflict in our house was mostly caused by her and that despite her acting, stemmed from rational, goal-oriented motivations. Most of the books she reads are stem related but some of them are chick porn or fiction.

The bible

Whoever posted that disgusting-beyond-words image above, with the woman and the you know what, I truly despise you and I want you to know that you have ruined my entire day, maybe even my week. Seriously, you are a terrible person and I really disdain you for what you've done. Can any anons here tell me if it's been deleted yet, have the damn moderators done their job in this case?

>>12428613
What are you babbling about you fucking queer?

>>12428621
A despicable image posted above.

>>12428081
I hear you friend, but I really don't think that /lit/ is the place for men like us, regarding this aspect. Not that I know of a better community, just that I consider this one hopeless beyond measure. The incel invasion happened long ago, and this is simply their home now. Take care friend, the present paradigm of the world is a difficult one for guys like us to navigate.

>>12428613
>>12428711
Fuck off retard.

>>12428081
>the virtues of women
Such as...?

>>12422022
is she retarded?

>>12424769
memoirs, some fiction short stories, she's working on a horror novel rn

mostly yogi buddhist self improvement shit

>>12428739
Things won't change if people won't speak out. It hardly requires a purging of the board, but if people were to just make a corner for themselves to discuss these kinds of things (much lie the thread we're in now), we could offer a fresh perspective for those who wanted it. The Incel takeover only happened because no-one wanted to contest their views. Something needs to be done. The one-sided nature of the discussion on this topic is really dragging down the average quality of threads (/pol/shit is something of the norm at the moment).

>>12421708
Bird box

Gave my mum Blood Meridian for Christmas, she seems to enjoy it

My mom doesn't read. She's an absolute dullard.

>>12425686
she screams at me for minor mistakes, and throws in a bunch of attacks on my character, calling me "arrogant" and shit of that nature. She changes what she wants, or waits until the day after something is due and then screams at me for not having what she wants ready. Then she flips and becomes super nice and almost flirty. She's my PhD advisor so I'm stuck as her slave

>>12421708
Georges Bataille and Robert Heinlein

>>12428995
So exploitative

>>12421708

Whoever wrote Cloud Atlas. She's read almost all his novels.
Surprised but she finished The Fountainhead last year.
She reads a lot of mainstream shit too, like Life of Pi, Water for Elephants, that kind of thing.

>>12424071
I love when you Jordan Peterson consuming faggots try to diagnose others' problems. It's hilarious.

>>12429801
Everything in your post is mainstream

>>12421708
Reddit and The Book of Mormon

>>12421708
a lot of stuff, she has a fuckhueg library ranging from horror to philosophical treatises, fuck I love my mom

>>12428850
>memoirs
how do they portray you?

>>12425328
Lawyers are the most vile creatures known to man

>>12421744

Nice prose

She used to read typical chick books from Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, etc.

But as she's gotten older she's become a lot more political. She read Atlas Shrugged. I think I might gift her Mein Kampf

>>12426501
>>12427232
me too lmao

My mom will read anything and everything. She has read more books then I could count. She's the biggest reader I know. I love my ma but I don't always show that to her. I'm not the best kid.

>>12421708
any porn with that "mom"?

She reads non-fiction only. Guénon and Schuon mostly.

>>12421708
Agatha Christie

>>12428964
I guess you're right, but I'm also just blackpilled at this point too, brother. Feeling that this site isn't worth my coming to it anymore, for any reason. I don't know, at this point. I'd rather just migrate to Youtube and hang out in the areas with friendly girls doing positive vlogs relating to makeup, morning routines, music or so on. Seems like a better way to spend the days, imo.

>>12429686
seems kinda hot

>>12421708
King, Koontz, Atwood, that's about it. She read Kavalier and Clay over the summer, though.

Stuff like Gone Girl and Before I Go to Sleep.

>>12421708
fifty shades and ulyssess analyses. no joke

>>12421708
Sapiens

>>12425077
Based.

>>12431297
I’m here for the occasional good discussion of books, personally. As much shit as you can give this place for it’s misogyny, there are some anons with good taste (or taste slightly better than the Goodreads crowd at the very least).

I just think that there’s a whole dimension of literature being glossed over by not considering the female experience at least a little bit. Even works that are generally loved on /lit/ often have a lot of positive/interesting commentary relating to women that just goes ignored by the majority of the board. I love girls and I want to talk about them on an intellectual level without having to deal with either idpol or people finding increasingly pretentious ways of saying what amounts to nothing more than “girls are icky”.

We don’t need to change the board, we just need to stop shying away from talking about women when relevant. Especially since we love them so much. I know I’ll try to carry the torch to the best extent I can on that front.

>>12421708
Por qué los hombres aman a las cabronas II

The Shack, but also Reinventing the Shack.

>>12421708
unironically lots of autobiographies from holocaust survivors. She's like a holocaust autodidact.

>>12428621

It was a picture of a woman making quite the doody in another woman's mouth.

>>12432137
so... has she started to catch on yet?