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Mariel is 16% done with The Educated Imagination (Midland Book)
Feeling little tugs of inspiration and wonder that take me back to when I was 17 and passionate but conflicted about picking English Lit as my major — specific 17 y/o decisive moments including hearing Prof. Pierce's sample lecture (that made me choose Queen's) and watching Dead Poets Society (for the first time) in my Gr. 12 Writer's Craft class. First essay had me revisit (and renew) that feeling again. ☺️
Jul 28, 2025 08:30AM Add a comment
The Educated Imagination (Midland Book)

Mariel
Mariel is 8% done with The Ballerinas
ok so maybe every chapter ends with "but that was ... Before The Ruinous Event 🤫" but i am EATING this up. it feels like what the secret history was for me as a young arts major, or actually, like the clique-adjacent books i'd read as a teen about young women at elite institutions. read4fun winter!!!
Jan 23, 2025 05:52PM 1 comment
The Ballerinas

Mariel
Mariel is 37% done with The Bell Jar
it's been the LONGEST time coming (can't believe i've lived so long without reading it)
Feb 17, 2024 03:11PM Add a comment
The Bell Jar

Mariel
Mariel is on page 28 of 366 of The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
can't believe i've been so deficient in the only canon that matters* (*books that people that i love, love!)
Jan 19, 2024 07:06PM Add a comment
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Mariel
Mariel is on page 36 of 736 of The PowerScore LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible
english major canon event 😘
Jan 07, 2024 06:56PM Add a comment
The PowerScore LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible

Mariel
Mariel is 62% done with Lunch Poems
"subways are only fun when you're feeling sexy" kinda real ngl
Dec 31, 2023 09:48AM Add a comment
Lunch Poems

Mariel
Mariel is 9% done with Stoner
getting caught up on the male manipulator literary canon let's go 🙏🏼
Dec 28, 2023 03:37PM Add a comment
Stoner

Mariel
Mariel is 88% done with The Idiot
"I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time, the way it was almost always so empty, and then, with no warning, came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was..." unfortunately relatable 🧐
Dec 26, 2023 01:57PM Add a comment
The Idiot

Mariel
Mariel is 21% done with The Idiot
no one has ever been more down tremendous than selin justifying her compulsive re-reading of ivan's messages like "but literary scholars re-read balzac's novels all the time"
Dec 20, 2023 11:52AM 1 comment
The Idiot

Mariel
Mariel is 77% done with The Great Fires
"I imagine the gods saying, We will / make it up to you. We will give you / three wishes, they say. Let me see / the squirrels again, I tell them...

Let me at least fail at my life ... Let me fall / in love one last time, I beg them. Teach me mortality, frighten me / into the present. Help me to find / the heft of these days. That the nights / will be full enough and my heart feral."

oh man 🧍🏻‍♀️
Dec 12, 2023 10:06PM 1 comment
The Great Fires

Mariel
Mariel is on page 28 of 209 of A Field Guide to Getting Lost
perhaps the most topical airport read of all time <3 (thank u glenn's recs for making me feel like the most esoteric ponderer in this terminal)
Dec 02, 2023 11:35PM Add a comment
A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Mariel
Mariel is 24% done with Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
"He smiled sunnily at Sophie, and stepped out among the spires of Kingsbury. 'And you think that makes it alright,' Sophie growled as the door shut, but the smile had mollified her." LMAOOO so real sophie, princess of "i can change him" nation
Nov 30, 2023 09:37AM 1 comment
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

Mariel
Mariel is starting A Christmas Carol
every year i hyperfixate on some random niche christmas aesthetic and this year i'm rocking with 19th c. christmas cottage, like garlands of dehydrated oranges strewn next to candles lofted on sconces, so cozy but also ... conducive to spectral encounters esp. on dark nights with winter storms that force you inside <3
Nov 24, 2023 03:53PM 1 comment
A Christmas Carol

Mariel
Mariel is 26% done with The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
the old king just passed (heirless) and someone just announced "there has appeared a sword in a stone" let's GOOOOOO
Nov 22, 2023 10:52AM Add a comment
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)

Mariel
Mariel is on page 116 of 304 of Selected Poems: 1931 - 2004
"Loud is my lament, for I believed despair could last and love could last." BROOO
Nov 12, 2023 05:36PM Add a comment
Selected Poems: 1931 - 2004

Mariel
Mariel is on page 110 of 304 of Selected Poems: 1931 - 2004
"Man has been given to understand / that he lives only by the grace of those in power. / Let him therefore busy himself sipping coffee, catching butterflies. / Who cares for the Republic will have his right hand cut off. / And yet the earth merits a bit, a tiny bit, of affection. Not that I take too seriously consolations of nature, and baroque ornaments, the moon, chubby clouds..."
Nov 12, 2023 05:34PM 1 comment
Selected Poems: 1931 - 2004

Mariel
Mariel is on page 149 of 309 of Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, Vol. 1
"Again imagination seethes, / again that touch / has fired the blood within my withered heart, / again the ache, again the love!" okayyy passion 😮‍💨
Oct 30, 2023 12:53PM 1 comment
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, Vol. 1

Mariel
Mariel is on page 62 of 304 of Selected Poems: 1931 - 2004
"We, whose cunning is not unlike despair." dang
Oct 18, 2023 09:14PM Add a comment
Selected Poems: 1931 - 2004

Mariel
Mariel is on page 48 of 96 of Handwriting
"...and each time / recognition and caress, / the repeated pleasure / of finite things." let's goooooo michael
Oct 03, 2023 12:25PM 1 comment
Handwriting

Mariel
Mariel is starting Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
soooo ... when do jason derulo and james corden show up 😹😹😹
Sep 19, 2023 06:38PM Add a comment
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Mariel
Mariel is on page 140 of 160 of Autobiography of Red
feeling an anticipatory ache of loss as the pages left for me to turn grow slenderer and slenderer ... damn y'all maybe desire IS no light thing

"...running both hands all the way down / from the base of the neck / to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain."
Aug 15, 2023 12:18PM Add a comment
Autobiography of Red

Mariel
Mariel is on page 53 of 160 of Autobiography of Red
"These days Geryon was experiencing a pain not felt since childhood."

y'all .... why am i emo
Aug 14, 2023 12:50PM Add a comment
Autobiography of Red

Mariel
Mariel is on page 48 of 160 of Autobiography of Red
5 months late to the party (the party being my assigned readings 💀) but WOOOO some of these lines HIT

"'How does distance look?' is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless / within to the edge / of what can be loved. It depends on light."
Aug 14, 2023 12:39PM Add a comment
Autobiography of Red

Mariel
Mariel is 25% done with The Screwtape Letters
"If prolonged, the habit of Flippancy builds up around a man the finest armour-plating...It is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it." ok guys i might have to change my fake flippant ways fr
Jul 27, 2023 09:11AM 1 comment
The Screwtape Letters

Mariel
Mariel is 24% done with The Screwtape Letters
"...you first of all allowed the patient to read a book he really enjoyed, because he enjoyed it and not in order to make clever remarks about it to his new friends." goodreads users confirmed #TEMPTED
Jul 27, 2023 08:03AM 1 comment
The Screwtape Letters

Mariel
Mariel is starting The Metamorphosis
"she gregor on my samsa til i metamorphosize" 😪😪😪
Jul 20, 2023 02:38PM Add a comment
The Metamorphosis

Mariel
Mariel is on page 203 of 240 of Atmospheric Disturbances
prolonged over/deferred by 3 weeks but i am in fact, getting to it <3 (and surprisingly ... enjoying it?) (sorry to the haters i find the writing a lil dazzling/playful and i'm emotionally attached to harvey and rema)
Jun 28, 2023 01:43PM 1 comment
Atmospheric Disturbances

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