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Frieda Westphalen is on page 12 of The Hour of the Star
Wow!
So wunderschön, dass ich nie wieder ein geschriebenes Wort lesen möchte, dass nicht von Clarice Lispector geschrieben wurde.
Oct 07, 2025 12:51PM Add a comment
The Hour of the Star

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 192 of 272 of Everything You Ever Wanted
Was würde mich am meisten an Nyx deprimieren? Ich glaube, die Abhängigkeit, dass man keine eigenen Entscheidungen treffen kann und sich absolut an dem Zeitplan von Nyx halten muss.

Was würde ich an der Erde vermissen?
Oct 03, 2024 02:50AM Add a comment
Everything You Ever Wanted

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 19 of 272 of Everything You Ever Wanted
So ganz am Anfang des Buches finde ich es spannend, mir selbst ein paar Fragen zu stellen:
Welche Musik würde ich nach Nyx mitnehmen?
Würde mich die Vorstellung nach Nyx zu reisen ansprechen? Und wenn ja, wieso?

Bei Iris habe ich bisher das Gefühl, dass sie einfach Handy Entzug brauchte und evtl. einen neuen Job. Generell kommt mir die Reise egoistisch vor, alle (Probleme) hinter sich zu lassen.
Sep 30, 2024 02:51AM Add a comment
Everything You Ever Wanted

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 91 of 319 of Yellowface
"Without us, these stories wouldn't get told." Wow! Fuck you.
Mar 31, 2024 03:58PM Add a comment
Yellowface

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 107 of 294 of The Bell Jar
Das scheint mir eine wichtige Passage, aber ich verstehe sie nicht so richtig...
Jan 27, 2024 03:25PM Add a comment
The Bell Jar

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 48 of 294 of The Bell Jar
I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us.
Jan 22, 2024 02:54PM Add a comment
The Bell Jar

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 41 of 294 of The Bell Jar
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Jan 22, 2024 02:42PM Add a comment
The Bell Jar

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 40 of 294 of The Bell Jar
Haben die einfach auf den Taxiboden gekotzt und sind dann ausgestiegen?!
Und dann in den Fahrstuhl??
Kann sie mal bitte die Kotze weg wischen, auch vor ihrer Zimmertür, die Kotze von Doreen!.
Jan 22, 2024 02:42PM Add a comment
The Bell Jar

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 282 of 309 of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Some say people who join cults are "lost". But all human beings are lost to some degree. A more thoughtful way to think about how people find themselves in precariously cultish scenarios is that these folks are actively searching to be found, and ... they're more open than the average person to finding themselves in unusual places.
Jan 20, 2024 02:37AM Add a comment
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 267 of 309 of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The internet scammeth, and the internet fact-checketh away.
Jan 20, 2024 02:33AM Add a comment
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 89 of 309 of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
... America's frightfully low standards for men's charisma. As long as someone is white, male, and telling us to pay attention to him, we'll follow even "the most obviously bumbling con artist dumbass ever birthed by the universe."
Jan 13, 2024 03:48PM Add a comment
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 85 of 309 of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"It's work to think, especially about things you don't want to think about."
Das Kapitel über thought-terminating clichés kommt mir sehr sinnvoll vor. Dass 'brainwashing' kein hilfreicher Begriff ist, um Fragen auf den Grund zu gehen, wird ja schon zu Beginn geschildert, spätestens jetzt kann ich das ernsthaft nachvollziehen.
Jan 13, 2024 03:34PM Add a comment
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 24 of 309 of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
For those who bristle at the idea of comparing workout classes to religion, know that as tricky as it is to define "cult," scholars have been arguing even harder for centuries over hoe to classify "religion." You might have a feeling that Christianity is a religion, while fitness is not, but even experts have a tough time distinguishing exactly why.
Jan 13, 2024 02:33PM Add a comment
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 32 of 144 of Blendende Aussichten
Begegnungskater
Jan 07, 2024 03:46PM Add a comment
Blendende Aussichten

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 145 of 352 of The Christmas Swap
Ich habe nicht das Gefühl, Ellie oder Margot wirklich kennenzulernen. Margot scheint ganz sympathisch zu sein (viel mehr kann ich zu ihr nicht sagen) und Elie ist zwar eine coole Figur, wie sie sich aber ständig beschwert, im Haus helfen zu müssen, ist anstrengend. Geschirr spülen ist wirklich keine Zumutung.
Dec 25, 2023 05:46PM Add a comment
The Christmas Swap

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 237 of 256 of Nightbitch
This thing comes from us. It rips its way out of us, literally tears us in two, in a wash of great pain and blood and shit and piss. If the child does not enter into the world this way, then it is cut from us with a knife. The child is removed, and our organs are taken out as well, before being sewn back inside. It is perhaps the most violent experience a human can have aside from death itself.
Dec 21, 2023 05:33PM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 204 of 256 of Nightbitch
Der Monolog
Dec 21, 2023 05:27PM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 197 of 256 of Nightbitch
Look, the mother says, look at what I am capable of. I make life. I am life.
But how can I become a god?
Dec 21, 2023 05:25PM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 162 of 256 of Nightbitch
"She knew enough to live inside an entire life all on her own, and yet her husband - with his electronic skills, his engineering - he was the one who made all the money, even though she could make a world, and then, too, make a person to live in that world."
Dec 12, 2023 07:12AM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 151 of 256 of Nightbitch
"I'd like to take a leisure shit one day, she thought bitterly."
Dec 12, 2023 07:08AM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 146 of 256 of Nightbitch
"I could crush a walnut with my vagina! she yelled at no one in particular..."
Dec 12, 2023 07:04AM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 70 of 256 of Nightbitch
Ich finde es toll, wie sie sich in einen Hund verwandelt, aber man nicht sicher ist, ob es stimmt. Das gehört zu dem 'unbelievable', wovon WW schreibt.
Und wie die Mütter, zu Hunden verwandelt zu ihr kommen und mit ihrem Kind spielen... Es ist mir ziemlich egal, ob das die Realität des Buches ist oder nicht, die Idee an sich finde ich faszinierend. (Nicht, dass es das erste Mal ist, dass jemand diese Idee hatte.)
Nov 22, 2023 04:58PM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 69 of 256 of Nightbitch
What is your problem?, which was a very fair question indeed.
Nov 22, 2023 04:54PM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 65 of 256 of Nightbitch
"After all, what is more unbelievable than pushing a small human from a small hole between your legs, or having a masked, robed stranger slice open your belly and pull from it a mewling, bloodied babe?
Nov 22, 2023 04:53PM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 53 of 256 of Nightbitch
... I am afraid I will never be smart or happy or thin again. I am afraid I might be turning into a dog.
Nov 18, 2023 02:50PM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 52 of 256 of Nightbitch
Yes, vegetables were very civilized. Dogs wouldn't buy vegetables.
Listen to what you're saying, she said to herself.
Stop it, another self said. Stop talking to yourself.
Shit, she thought.
Nov 18, 2023 02:41PM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 3 of 256 of Nightbitch
Der erste Satz!!!
Nov 18, 2023 02:38PM Add a comment
Nightbitch

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 250 of 368 of Cleopatra and Frankenstein
I feel like the Book could've been called The Hungry Heart.
It's not that much about Cleo and Frank, and what I love about it while reading is how miserable everyone is and how totally different the people around see them.
That reminds me a little of Girl, Woman, Other. I was so surprised by how different the characters seemed, depending on the perspective.
Everyone is so loveable and pitiful.
Oct 26, 2023 04:32PM Add a comment
Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Frieda Westphalen
Frieda Westphalen is on page 186 of 368 of Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Don't read page 186 if you don't want to ruin your day!
WHY? I'm crying.
Oct 17, 2023 03:44PM 1 comment
Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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