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so close girl please don’t be evil to your staff 🤞🏻🤞🏻

i don’t know… cool but also so intensely what a guy in the 1930s thinks is cool

flying through this! what can i say catholicism and isolation and creepy goings-on are like myyyy buzzwords

will i finish two books in one day? stay tuned

been slowly reading a couple chapters of this before bed and it’s like a hug :)

😁😁😁

have owned this book for like three years and read it twice now and only realised now that the front cover is a curtain (or more fittingly a shawl) and not hahaha a really washed out picture of a forest

tramp stamp idea!!!!! all of part 2: time passes

reread for essay

when does he paint tha picture

think i need a diagram for who is who i’m getting a headache

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?” 🫣