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I actually can’t catch a break with these fantasy books… Maybe it’s just time to accept I don’t like the genre 😭

Dude, it’s crazy that it took me one day to find the only queer Polish literature anthology to probably ever exist.

The Goodreads gods (Amazon) heard my prayer for a better UI and changed the damn logo instead, I’m in hell lmfao.

The magic of Pride and Prejudice is that it just totally consumes you. Why am I thinking ab these mfs all the time???

On page 8 and this book is already so damn funny.

Actually insane how well this is written…

Should I read Arnold Schawarzenegger’s book? Like for yes!!

Emily Brontë, I love you so much and I wish you were alive today so I could give you a big smooch. Five chapters in and this is just as good as I remember it being.

“They were all exactly where they wanted to be, and that place was with her, in her crappy studio, suddenly almost beautiful because of them. They didn’t even care about the flatware or the wineglasses—she knew it. They just liked that her home was a place where they could take off their shoes and stretch out on her bed and tell stories of mortification and stories of hope and get a little bit drunk.”

“But: ‘Man proposes — God disposes’, and so it happened that on Christmas Eve, Anna Gordon was delivered of a daughter; a narrow-hipped, wide-shouldered little tadpole of a baby, that yelled and yelled for three hours without ceasing, as though outraged to find itself ejected into life.”

Thanks to Aisha, I actually occasionally read cool books!

Guys! I am determined to read a good book!! The next book I read will be a 5/5!!! I am manifesting!!!!

yea guys, idk y im reading this either

Actually in shock. Finished this today, but going to post a review tomorrow to give myself time to process. Feel like I’ve just absorbed way too much stormlight.

“I know some foreigners think we are funny with figures.” I actually cannot explain how brilliant this is like wow.

“After seven years of lethargy any action seemed welcome and desirable; the country was ripe and impatient to shed in violent exercise the lazy folds of flabby skin and fat it had put on in the greedy years of indolence.” Excellent.

“So great was the ability of sapient pearwood to follow its master anywhere, the grave-goods of dead emperors had traditionally been made of it…”

Obsessed with this magical concept, but combined with an ancient Egyptian context.

“‘I assure you the thought never even crossed my mind, lord’
‘Indeed? Then if I were you I’d sue my face for slander.’”
If I could only speak with the wit of a Terry Pratchett character, I might die happy.

I don’t know, this one is hitting a little harder than the last time I read it. Hemingway’s prose style is just so stilted and weird. Every interaction feels like it’s taking place underwater.

Honestly just amazing how this novel manages to capture Americana. Also, the yearning in this novel, both for human connection and for love for yourself, looking in the mirror and seeing an image you can like and respect, rather than be afraid of, is just beautiful.

you: “prove you’re not spoiled”
me: *trauma dumps*