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hate this guy… reading this in public and pulling expressions of disgust you couldn’t comprehend

only reading ennui goodreads police come get me. that’s a threat.

WISH I HAD MORE TIME WITH THIS i could really have so much to say about the secret agent & conrad’s style here if i wasn’t speedreading for a deadline and struggling to remember who was who. curse my poor timekeeping. feel like i’m making no headway

it has taken me. much too long to connect this and walden by thoreau. kill me

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first time in ages i’ve kept myself up just reading this late which is such a feat - tartt can write a taut thriller!

kind of waiting on the “horror story” elements to kick in… it’s gothic in a sense but much of the horror is quite minimal (although not entirely absent). which isn’t a bad thing but a headscratcher when the cover advertises the book as such. living by the nice bookseller’s advice of waiting it out till it makes sense at the end

eeeearly days but the manner of narration here is so cool and worth appreciating! immediately i was like the way tokarczuk creates settings is so evocative - honestly feels like a film - and then of course it really leans onto the feeling that Wojnicz is being spectated or watched which is obviously eerie. cool stuff

sooo emotionally affected by so much of this i hope the ending doesn’t wreck me

“how do you ever expect to create anything if you get all your experiences second-hand?” 🫣

SPOILERS ofc
1. i’m struck by how lucid and modern charlotte bronte’s depiction of what i would call manipulation is like it’s actually crazy i was reading this like noooooo girl you’re being lovebombed after he’s ignored you. and you’re all alone. it’s red flag after red flag. very cool
2. just gasped the whole way through this last chapter. like audibly. and clutched my pearls

threw this in my bag for the train because jane eyre was too chunky and . it’s very train book but i’m enjoying still

i do hope nothing bad happens to my Dear Close Friend Jane Eyre

reread for essays because i can’t remember anything. ferdinand is fucking WEIRD like… ‘oh noooo u gotta change the subject before i imagine my sister sleeping with someone.. probably someone buff and massive’ freak ! and he’s a furry

another book for class to add to the cr shelf… ok

WHAT is going on

marked this as finished on storygraph because i wanted it in my september stats (because i am a shallow performative reader) and the guilt is eating me alive i lowkey don’t want to finish jt. had my seminar i have nothing else to say and no drive to finish BUT i’m a completionist so we shall see

i had nothing to say in workshop

i am so cooked workshop on this in less than two hours

this is soooooo fun i am having a grand time