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absolutely hated that last one. I’m low-key disgusted

the nature of a short story collection is that each one ends on a cliffhanger, which is actually very unsatisfying to read 😭

jesus christ

‘He was well acquainted with the deathly emptiness that followed the end of a life, an echo of silence where sound should have been. That’s what it felt like outside his brother’s room now, like a body waiting to drop.’

‘Recently, a few months earlier, I had seen a banana peel lying on the cobblestones, and I’d stood awhile to wait and see what would happen, but no one slipped on it. The residents of Zurich were of course too shrewd to slip on a banana peel.’

reading a book for a boy does NOT align with my spirit

I am forgetting the plot even as i am reading it. what is happening to my brain !!!!

hmm don’t really like how we’re talking about Orla

drama !

am I getting flirty vibes between ronan and kandinsky? 🤔

!!!!!!!!!!!!

omg please not a love triangle I’m not strong enough

who tf edited this why have there been like four errors already? hello ?

Stephen King I love you. please adopt me as your grandchild

omg. just gasped louder than anyone has ever gasped ever

omg….. exhilaration !!

this feels so unserious compared to my last book lol

i don’t know why but I LOVE that Stephen King sets all his books in Maine it’s so endearing to me !!

porfiry & svidrigailov u are so silly and crazy !! love u bad

switching to another edition in search of a better translation 🙏

my old copy says ‘complete and unabridged’ yet is missing many passages from my new copy ?????

third attempt pray for me 🙏😭😓😫

absolutely interminable !!! free me !!!!!!!!!!

okay this might be too fucked up even for me

every single character in this book is certifiably insane

fighting for my #life next I need to read something FUN

if I was an annotating kind of girl I would be highlighting this left right and centre !

‘The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz’s life was running swiftly too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart in the sea of inexorable time.’

I’ was divided between him and the gleam,
The motion, and the voices, of the stream

…

The horseman and the horse with silver shoes,
Galloped the downs last. All that I could lose
I lost. And then the child’s voice raised the dead.
‘No one’s been here before’ was what she said’

reminding me of Hemingway & Melville but I think that’s literally just because of the subject matter (man on boat)