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I love Tolstoy because you read about his marriage, and it's like "wow, he doesn't know anything about women", and then you read anything written by Tolstoy, and it's like "wow, nobody understands women better than he does"

patiently waiting for adam driver's autobiography

my opinion about this book changes with each chapter

I love when he talks about food, his daughter, and his hate for people he dislikes

I also love the level of self-awareness, and the second it disappears, he starts pissing me off

overall, I think I am once again enjoying his writing

i love when he talks about food!

but that's pretty much it

"oh my God, all these entitled, misogynistic, insufferable rich people of st barts!!!" says mr Bourdain as he spends his week at st barts, doing drugs, spending thousands of dollars on hotels/shitty restaurants, and referring to each eastern european woman he encounters as a hooker/prostitute/whore

it's fine, he is doing it in a "be a traveller, not a tourist" kinda way

The more I read, the more I realise that the casting choices for the Netflix adaptation are lowkey horrible.

let's go

almost done i promise

Forsyte Saga set in New York (kind of)

poor woman

weird free download kindle version that really annoys me but hey that's all i could find

one drive to prince charles away from completing the audiobook i promise

"You may cry out as much as you like against the rich, you haven’t got courage enough to give back to the poor the money that luck brings you. You will never be worthy of happiness as long as you have anything of your own, and your hatred of the bourgeois only comes of your mad desire to be bourgeois in their place."

This book is worth reading just to be introduced to Souvarine

communism sounds great i wonder if anyone tried that before

Antagonism breeds extremism

!!!

I swear Kenzaburo's books are impossible to get

Peak experience: listening to Germinal whilst driving for an hour to another day of placements

new york maxxxing in march (Wharton, SATC, Love Story) and I love it

"miracle to see one's only son safe past the Siren Isle and in the haven of a blameless domesticity"

boy mums

"I'm not like other women" well I am and I am in a happier place that's for sure

Turkish literature hello

rich people have too much free time

THE FILM CASTING IS NOT ACCURATE i don't care

book rules:

1. This person is a good one; they must die randomly, so the main character doesn't have to worry about killing them
2. This person is a bad one and spent their whole life preparing for these games. Somehow, a malnourished kid from District 12 kills them easily without using any brainpower because why not

bonus: billie eilish level of political insight to spice up the world-building

I can't find the exact book, but it's basically "After the Ball" + a small collection of other short stories by Tolstoy that I haven't read before

nine prison breaks later i finally have a couple of chapters left to go

"This woman is ridiculous because she is terrified of giving birth and tries to avoid a C-section at all costs"

Why work in obsgyn if you hate women

Imagine dealing with a lamp pole/koala-style penis degloving injury a few months out of med school

even if 90% of it is a lie it's still very fun