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Your remember the things you want to forget and you forget the things you want to remember

“He’s the wasps nipples”

I feel like I should be able to count each book within this book as part of my reading goal for 2023

Really REALLY uncomfortable with using rape and child abuse a as a mechanism of a fantasy plot. Kinda ambiguous about whether or not the book is condoning it too ……..

“Charles looked less like a prince than a high school physics teacher with stomach trouble.”

Aged like a fine wine that did…

I totally didn’t just read two <150 page books to finish my reading challenge in time…. 🥸

“And Caius was certainly mortal, and it was right for him to die; but for me, little Vanya,Ivan Ilyich, with all my thoughts and emotions - it’s a different matter altogether.”

Wow Tolstoy has a great sense of humour and a knack for dissecting the human condition. What a way to summarise coming to terms with your own mortality.

“She locked herself in her room, refused to eat or drink, and when at last he persuaded her to open the door, first with threats and then with poorly dissimulated pleading, he found a wounded panther who would never be fifteen years old again.”

the timeless woes of being a hormonal teenage girl

DNF

fkn headache i simply couldn’t read on - even if it’s meant to be satire it’s actually causing me a devastating loss of brain cells

Farmer wants a wife meets Jane Austen narrating a planet earth documentary.