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“He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. he wore his happiness like a mask and the girl has run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”

so that’s why i used to listen to The Stranger w this book…..:

Force bond ahh sht. awesome.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (even when the world sucks and it’s hard to live in the state of it, it’s nice to know that I get to start my year with such a GOOD book. makes it all better.)

The choices this book makes to convey the nature and lives of any person in the direct surrounding area of our main characters is so well thought out and insanely smart. Literally blown away by this story

50% through and an infinite amount of things to say. I have literally never read a book like this before. a love letter to storytelling and family and the fate we are given and never chose, but always make beautiful. Insane. Reads like i’m watching a movie. I have not shut up about this book to literally everyone I know.

This book is taking me a little longer to read but please note it’s because this is a beautiful behemoth of a book that bids you to constantly imagine the world around these characters and how it moves. and it’s absolutely incredible

DAMNNNNNNNN

Was hoping to finish this before end of the year but i’m gonna need to take my time with this bad boy. it is spectacular and I don’t think i’ve scratched the surface of what the book actually is yet.

like 5 pages into this book and i’m already floored by the writing

damn.

left my kindle at work :(((( wanna read so bad aughhhh

DEAR GOD.

They are EVERYTHING to me

a frankly unbearable amount of yearning. give me 20

pain.

GODDDDDDDDD

I am so unbelievably obsessed with this book. I literally think about it all day this is crazy

this goes hard. best in its genre that i’ve read in a while

banger so far but i have so many new terms and words i need to keep in my brain

i had a cold brew for lunch and now i feel like a dog chasing its tail reading this book. why am i shaking

darude sandstorm mention in this book? i feel so seen

queen of diving behind bookshelves. relatable protagonist moment

if someone told me there was only one bed I would have read this YEARSSSSS AGO

crying i love them so much

horse pov!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“He was searching for his former habitual fear of death and could not find it. Where was it? What death? There was no fear, because there was no death. Instead of death there was light. “So that’s it,” he suddenly said aloud. “What joy!””

GOD FORBID you get your wife pregnant and the she acts like a pregnant woman. what a thought.

“It is my hope that this collection charts Tolstoy’s restless, lifelong, perhaps tragic yet eternally resonant search for an inner light.”

why am i already crying. this is the translator intro.

in trying to separate the MMC from his original inspiration i gave him the voice of Jacksepticeye in my head and I fear that was a choice LMAO