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Enjoying it so far but I’ve been reading so much first person lately I need to switch it up

I can sit and read again without needing to pick up my phone yay

FINALLY made it to chapter one omg. That introduction took me ages to read. Idk why bc its very well written nonfiction, I just wanted to make sure I was absorbing everything

took a risk on a $1.50 DI book that I knew nothing about and it is so boring it reads like the minutes of a meeting

Read "Against Interpretation," "On Style," and "Notes On Camp" because I cant engage with Batman movies like a normal person. Coming back to Notes on Camp after reading it for my high school english class was like coming back to an old friend. It was much easier to understand this time around, after reading the first 2 essays and having a stronger background in lit theory. letterboxd stay tuned for more batman essays

Finally picked up this book again bc i slept on an air mattress in tessa’s suite and overthought getting my backpack with all my books in it from her dorm (yes i did carry like 10 books around boston for nothing all weekend). anyways something abt this just always gets to me

Picked this up from the Union Square B&N last Saturday bc i saw the title and was like omg dream song 29!! and sure enough the epigraph was dream song 29 :) when i was in line to check out i saw a review that said more depressing than the bell jar and i was like take my money already. Love the narration — probably not everyone’s cup of tea, but definitely mine. & very well executed so far (jury’s still out ofc)

Read Langston Hughes’ poetry & an essay of his. So so good, gonna go back for a closer reading. Standouts were Theme for English B and Harlem. the harlem renaissance is such a fascinating time period. i feel like writing tends to be a isolated practice so seeing all these great artists all building off of/commenting on each other in a literary community makes my heart warm and sad at the same time.

Understanding shakespeare is so much fun

I selected the wrong edition on here so the percentage was off LOL, hopefully this fixes it

Finished book two!!! Only took a year and a half LOL. Loved learning more about the Fremen.

Who needs period trackers when you just randomly cry at stories as soon as its that time of the month. This time it was the sentence “Even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she’s aware of this now, while it’s happening” that got me. The present tense hits so hard in this line especially for some reason

“my body’s sole value that your blood runs through it” This line made me genuinely cry out of nowhere. gawain i dont know you yet but youre not the weakest or the least valuable!! i care about you!!! T^T

Just finished book 1! SO good. Technically a reread up until this point lol. I’m listening to the audio book and i don’t know how to feel about it. I keep on zoning out and missing entire scenes. Which is fine when you already know what happens, but I think I’ll switch to my hard copy for books 2 and 3.