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rereading books can be tricky– you've managed to forget all of their shitty aspects and you start to think: "why is this one of my favourite books?"

but then, it's as deliciously queer as a book can get, painful and difficult– and also, there's rob, the character who though seems to be so out of pocket in their queer found family, he somehow makes me feel understood like no other character ever did

"the walker" literally me

"No walk, as far as I am concerned, is ever wasted. In contrast, for example, to a car journey. In a city – especially one dominated by cars, by individualistic rather than collective, private rather than public modes of transport – it is walking that habitually makes me feel alive. It makes me feel [...] vitally connected to the city's ceaseless circuits of energy."

this is like

if "the ghost quartet" (the musical) and "the horror and the wild" (the album) had a child in the form of a book, i can promise y'all it makes sense

joey batey the man that you are

w tej książce jest trans wąż btw

"W wieku pięciu lat nauczyłem się czytać, w wieku lay sześciu była to już choroba." dosłownie ja

ismail kadare przestań mnie prześladować pls

"Because it is the middle of the empire that must look upon this and say: Yes, this is tragic, but necessary, because the alternative is barbarism. The alternative to the countless killed and maimed and orphaned and left without home without school without hospital and the screaming from under the rubble and the corpses disposed of by vultures and dogs and babies left to scream and starve, is barbarism."

"many loves" by allen ginsberg but sapphic

dosłownie ojciec schulza po siedemdziesięciu latach w montevideo

ej ale ja się nie pisałem na polityczny komentarz akurat dzisiaj ze wszystkich poranków, zostawcie mnie w spokoju

for a second i forgot a baby goat could be called a kid and got so confused lmao

also A BOOK ABOUT A BABY GOAT!!!!!! i adore goats guys they're awesome

genuinely vomit incuding

i wanted to put some quotes here but for some reason updates have a word limit so im gonna do that when i finally finish this brilliant book (the events described are so insanely terrifying i actually have to take breaks from reading, jesus christ)

w moim wydaniu madame zostaje po raz pierwszy wspomniana na stronie 44, to taki świat walczyłem

nosz cholera jak to jest napisane

"You're Ampert's father?"
"I am. And no doubt you're wondering why I'm here, Haymitch." KTO TAK MÓWI

ja nie wiem, to nawet nie jest bardzo dziwne, ale któraś z recenzji pisze, że to jest napisane jak fanfik i jako wasz specjalista od fanfików chcę zaznaczyć, że na 1000% istnieją lepiej napisane prace na ao3 o haymitchu

also suzanne collins nazwij normalnie postać challenge

ale to będzie fan service, o panowie

co tu robi david hume

two things

1. raif is a he/him lesbian. this level of yearning can be found only in sapphic relationships and hozier songs, don't even argue with me

2. what the fuck is this writing style. what the fuck is with the three dots everywhere. is this a beloved classic or a wattpad book from 2015. I AM LOSING MY MIND FOR FUCK'S SAKE
(it might be the translator's fault tho)

is this book just a 300 pages long david bowie reference

(i'll admit tho, naming the first chapter after my favourite bowie song is a powerful move, i want to cry already)

"(...) the kitten attacked the remnant of a stick of butter left on the kitchen table, I saw him lift his head, his whiskers gilded yellow, and I knew his name, the most mischievous Behemoth from Bulgakov's «The Master and Margarita,» the greatest cat in literature. Behemoth, I said, and he meowed back, pleased with himself. It was his name."

some behemoth recognition 🙏🙏

i feel like several books of the ones i've read throughout last few months were so unhinged this one isn't even that weirdl in comparison and idk it's just incredible how my perspective changed

so far the book itself is alright lmao

"You thought dairy made you gay?" so true so true

qiu miaojin mentioned!!!! (friendly reminder, i love "last words from montmartre")

podróże z herodotem jumpscare

i can never escape

what the actual fuck

(/pos? i think?)

HOLY SHIT IT'S SO GOOD IT'S SO GOOD IT'S SO GOOD

this book is such an amazing experience

"[...] so I ride among my dead, look at that "my dead," how language fails again and again, I ride my horse, my kite, my little-wind-wind among them, the mej who fought where I did not fight and died where I did not die."

"Maybe it was that Cyrus had done the wrong drugs in the right order, or the right drugs in the wrong order, but when God finally spoke back to him after twenty-seven years of silence, what Cyrus wanted more than anything else was a do-over. Clarification. (...) willing God to confirm that the bulb's flicker had been a divine action and not just the old apartment's trashy wiring."

the greatest first paragraph ever

took me a while but we're finally back (hopefully for good)

"(...) my truth isn't inscribed on my body. It loves somewhere deeper, somewhere steadier, somewhere the body becomes irrelevant. Nothing must be changed for this to be true. If I am in a state of becoming, it has no endpoint. (...) I am painting myself as the bird that, to the world outside this room, does not exist."

it's beautiful

people have been asking me what i'm reading for the whole day and answering with "a play about communists in nazi germany" never gets old with their reactions of surprise and confusion

"Wszystkie historie, które się wydarzyły, są do siebie podobne; każda historia, która się nie wydarzyła, nie wydarzyła się na swój sposób."
to jest ta anna karenina???