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"i pathetically fell silent, upon concluding my pathetic exclamations." boy if you dont stfu

try not to say betwixt every 4 pages challenge

this is insanely good hello
i just saw the reviews comparing this to jane eyre. haha yea so no wonder i was hooked

"A thousand dollars a throw in madison square garden wouldn't have gotten any more breathless suspense" WHAT? come again ?? zora you just pissed me off why the hell did you include this bruh

anna needs to get her effing shit together and stop sympathy farming

Levin’s insecurity and sensitivity SICKENS me

the first two opening paragraphs oooooooooooooo oooooooo oooooooooooooooooppphhh hhhhh wwwwww wow ok chill

just pretending that i understand french when a character says something in french

"but as soon as she no longer saw him, she became conscious of the place on her hand his lips had touched and she gave a shudder of revulsion"

she's literally so insane LMAOO but im lowkey here for it question maark

they r sooooo messyy

TOLSTOY i am READY 4 YOU

not me learning from the introduction that his idol was ROUSSEAU i absolutely love that

bro is not okay in the head ik gothic books are supposed to have ghosts and stuff but still wtf

"Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing; and the full mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf." How gorg is that.

so far this is kinda giving middle school relationship drama
idk thats just me tho

for literally no reason my brain decided to cast adam driver as heathcliff so whenever heathcliff shows up in the story im just seeing adam driver with a bunch of other nobodies please help me get out of this

what a treat ❤️ cannot go wrong with the bronte sisters

at first i was really struggling with identifying the characters cos they all share the same names for some reason but after staring at a picture of the family tree for long enough i finally got it

this is great and i love memoirs but this is like my fifth memoir of the year and im starting to crave other types of books

i yearn for problematic 19th cent classics that vibe is just incomparable

i just bought a copy of wuthering heights at a bookstore and im itching to read that

my summer list of books to read is seducing me 💔

taking a short break because its too sad and i started tearing up

the OG shut-in Massachusetts represent NEET

“‘This is required reading.’ - toni morrison” Yes toni morrison we all say in unison

8 pages in and im already feeling dread. im just thinking oh god oh god over and over cos idk the exact plot of this book but im scared itll become my future. reading this book is an act of BRAVERY for me

"a large figure...he could not identify, and he asked the painter whom it was intended to represent" "he worked a little at the outline...but without making it any more recognizable... 'it is Justice'" "'now i can recognize it'"
WOW this is massive Plato is still massive

nvm this is actually insane omg

143 pages in and i still don't understand what's happening <3

im not even done with this book but i already want to reread it because theres so many little details and smart things happening

Pausing this to say how much I HATE PETER WALSH!!!!! Overly insecure men who depend on a woman for their happiness piss me off SOOOO BAD (ive dealt with not one but two peter walshes in the last year). clarissa dalloway i see you and i hear you

instant tears whenever sunja's father is described. even more tears with isak's return. im literally so unwell

taking a quick break because i cried so much while reading. hoonie reminds me of my dad so i feel so moved by sunja's character. i understand exactly why she rejects hansu. she's so honorable and strong. im literally so blown away by this book because even the first chapter fully encapsulated me