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Everytime I read classics, ima always very amazed at how “wow! Ppl hundreds of years ago have felt the same things I’ve felt and held the similar thoughts about passion and societal pressure as me!”

Jesus Christ, just when I think the husband can’t get worse, he does.

this book is so good and biting. I’m noticing a pattern of Alice and Peter, as strategic and all knowing as they appear to be, doing the best possible thing at the moment only to later figure out that there was a much more obvious and easy solution. And I feel very haunted by this frustration from hindsight! But I also respect this plot choice bc research and doing unmapped work just be like that. lol

Rf kuang really sucks you in. I’m feeling very disconcerted by the Stockholm syndrome that these students have with their advisor and with the belief that suffering is inextricable to achievement.

At least my thesis research can count towards my reading goals 🥀

I quite enjoy the grad student life mentions

“I remember, and I know that blue haze like the mist on the mountains in Switzerland. That mist which covers everything in that blissful time when childhood is just ending, and out of that vast circle, happy and gay, there is a path growing narrower and narrower, and it is delightful and alarming to enter the ballroom, bright and splendid as it is”

Excerpt From
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy.

Surprisingly very readable

Pretty self-helpy and kinda ripe with one liners that seem meant to be underlined as deep quotes.

Really enjoyed the discussion on how to convey the suffering of others second hand.

Juniper softening the racism in Athena’s book reminds of the conversation around Sofia coppala and that one movie

Holy plot twist

“I guess, I write these sentences where I try to lineate grief or doubt or joy or sex or whatever till it sounds as urgent as it feels. But I know the words will never feel like the thing. The language will never be the thing. So it’s damned, right? And I am too, for giving my life to it. Because I know my writing can never make any of these deaths matter the way they’re supposed to.”

“After you died, I could not hold a funeral, and so, my life became a funeral”

"if there's doubt around in your eye then everything you look at around you will try to confirm that" i like that

basically a book that tells u that ur problems are all in ur head? lol

this is fr a nasty book

his writing reminds me of fitzgerald