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this book gives me such a depressingly comfortable sadness

My thoughts over the last month:

I love physical media, but my use of Goodreads and Pinterest is not so much of a time-consuming affliction as I thought it was. No reason to not continue, but I guess with less pressure? Less pressure to get '5 books ahead' on my reading goal, less pressure to log instantaneously.

The fact that LinkedIn is now part of my daily routine... we're getting old ahhhhh

I'm a senior :))))

hiiii guys! happy new year!! I hope that 2026 is the best year for all of us <3333

I am going on hiatus for the next month to detox from social media, as part of the physical media movement. I don't know if or when I'll be back.

hope that you all have a splendiferous start to 2026 xxx

Brb just got traumatised by the quote on the first page helpp

I am genuinely concerned that I'll become pretentiously, performatively pseudo-intellectual.

I miss being a kid, when everything I did was honest and self-driven; now I reconsider every action within the context of others(' opinions). I miss my curiosity. I miss watching documentaries. I miss thinking of something I want to learn about and then reading 10 books about it.

I opened up booktok for the first time today. Having been lulled into a sense of security with booktube, I was not ready to be absolutely traumatised.

The fact that anything about domestic violence, abuse, and literal SA is revered like it is trivial. It is so incredibly short-sighted and horrifying. The way that shock value is preferred over anything else? It's horrific what's normalised and easily accessible.

Current TBR !!
- Atlas Shrugged
- Michel Montaigne Essay Collection
- Robert Frost Poetry
- Looking for Alaska (re-read)
- The Decline of Magic
- The Mahabharata

I have big news guys:
I DID MY FIRST EVER PROPER EXTERNAL EXAM!!!

I must match the whimsy of my soul with a whimsical appearance immediately

I mean, I HATE the lack of quotation marks, but I felt like it had so much potential in the school-year chapters. Now it feels so rushed and a little gross 🥲

why am I not academic weaponing like I used to academic weapon anymore? :'(

Ok - After not having read a single book for honestly a month, here is my July TBR!!
- Finish Middlemarch
- Continue reading Shelley compendium
- Epictetus' Dicourses
- Caesar's The Civil War
- Plato's The Last Day of Socrates
- Voltaire's Candide
- Susan Stebbing
- 哈利波特 (Chinese Edition)
- Harrius Potter (Latin Edition)
- 苍兰诀 (English and Chinese versions)
- Virgil's Aeneid

I'M BACK PPL!
I took a longer break than expected, but I look forward to inputting all of the books I've read in this time and seeing what you guys have been doing :)

hey guys just dropping in to say that i'm pretty much going to be logging myself out of goodreads/all social media rn just so I can focus on school etc. will be back in a couple of months, presumably! have a good May/June :)

Hi !! I’m going to be taking a back seat on Goodreads from now, so I probably won’t be very interactive with other’s updates, though I will still log my own books and rate. Please unfriend if you’d rather have more actively participating friends :)

Loving this so far! Starting to go through the classics in my library rn and enjoying all of them 🙂‍↕️ would recommend especially with the elif intro!!

one more week! then half-term break (thank goodness)

ngl this is hard to get through

this is so amazing - one of the first biographies that I have enjoyed :)

On the mme grind 💪🙂‍↕️ (iykyk)

On the mme grind 💪🙂‍↕️

I'll have to see how this goes! I didn't love the Hobbit just because of the writing style, imo, but I look forward to reading this series because it is a classic!

Also it feels like a Gossip Girl/Breakfast Club mystery/thriller mash-up cross-over spin-off...