lily > Recent Status Updates

“The destroyers had only to set it into motion, and sit back to count the casualties. But it was more than a body count; the lies devoured white hearts, and for more than two hundred years white people had worked to fill their emptiness; they tried to glut the hollowness with patriotic wars and with great technology and the wealth it brought. And always they had been fooling themselves, and they knew it.”

I saved her for last out of my recent batch of library books. One chapter down and I’m brimming with excitement

so hooked I’m reading it at the bar 😭

my library loan ended and now I have to wait for my next hold 😔

her poor hand??

A couple nights ago I read this before bed and then had a dream that I was in a scenic Swiss paradise with green grass and a burbling blue river and picturesque mountains and a baby goat came running up to me from over the river bridge in the distance and sat in my lap and fell asleep. Will be reading this before bed from now on so I can meet my baby goat friend again

The audiobook is amazing so far. Stunning cast

If the prose were a person its favorite pastime would be staring lovingly at itself in the mirror

This book is changing my life, Virginia Woolf I’m so sorry it’s taken me this long to appreciate you, you truly get me. Fighting demons not to immediately go watch the Tilda Swinton movie.

“For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.” (pg75)

I’m obsessed