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back from my hiatus with a so-far enjoyable murakami classic! really hopeful that I'll stick to this

The poisonous rabbit chapter was very Of Mice and Men to me

i love this so far. i love these quirky little old men in books who eat mushrooms and take vacations on park benches.

"Horrific as it was, the present dark, I was afraid to leave it for the other, permanent dark--jelly and bloat, the muddy pit. I had seen the shadow of it on Bunny's face--stupid terror; the whole world opening upside down; his life exploding in a thunder of crows and the sky expanding empty over his stomach like a white ocean. Then nothing. Rotten stumps, sowbugs crawling in the fallen leaves. Dirt and dark." p488-9

i certainly did not expect this. i have no idea what's gonna happen in the entire remaining half of the story... i love this book

UGH she started drinking again and i knew she would but it's still disappointing. it's interesting how the reader never learns some characters' names, and i wonder if that signifies their relevance to the main character. for example, she never calls paul's sons by their names? they're her step kids? but to her, they're just "paul's boys"... this book is full of 🚩🚩🚩

have i mentioned that i love this book? it's so powerfully written and it's teaching me that i in fact do have the attention span for longer books as long as they interest me

this book is so good. oh my god. i didnt let myself expect it to get so interesting this early on.

have u guys ever heard of this app called fable?

i have conflicting feelings on this book so far, partially bc i don't have strong feelings about any of the characters. all i know is they keep doing questionable shit

i dont actually know what page i got to in this bc i left it in the library. i hope i can find it again. it's a rly quick read that i found on a random bookshelf and tbh i thought the protagonist was a man for a looong time, even when her friend said smt abt a girls night out. lowk a disappointment that she's a straight woman when i thought she was a gay man, but at least she's not a straight man given the storyline.

"Someone---was it van Gogh?---said that orange is the color of insanity" (p42) @amoraides23

i rly want more time to read this rn, im very curious abt how this story will progress. i dont like that a prominent character is named julian bc i cant help but associate him with julian from these violent delights.

quitters, inc.: 3.75/5

"You see... a pragmatic problem demands pragmatic solutions. You must realize we have your best interests at heart"

this was an interesting concept, but im surprised by how little the protagonist, dick morrison, broke the rules. yet he was slightly less bland than the other protagonists so far, and there was even a little character development? except he described his son as half of a person-

tbh i was relieved when a certain someone finally died? don't wanna name names and spoil it but i'm talking about a certain incestuous someone who tries to push any guilt for his actions onto other people and would make a horrible parent?

i finished the story but skipped over 46% of it... will try to go back and read the rest until it becomes unbearably boring

«¡Dejadme! ¿Por qué me ofendéis?»

i'm reading this for class but we're skipping over (teacher is summarizing) a bunch of chapters bc they're allegedly long and boring. so im 60% through the book but ive only actually read a third of that. i might go back and read the chapters i skipped afterward if they aren't too slow.

it's interesting but very wordy. i think there's prob a lot more mlm romance going on than shelley intended

i want this ending to shock me. my expectations are high.

"All they were---all they had ever been---was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun" (378)

AAAAAAAA this is so TENSE please just DO IT already

sometimes they come back: 3.75/5

"I started for them and someone slugged me... That was it. I had a breakdown. No screaming meemies or crouching in the corner. I just couldn't go back"
"She has a slight limp and a scar, but otherwise, good as new... I guess you could say the same for me"

i have sm unanswered questions - what breakdown? this was interesting and horrific and the resolution left sm unsaid

the lawnmower man: 4/5
children of the corn: 3.75/5

WHAT ACTUALLY- I WAS NOT EXPECTING- the lawnmower man took me entirely by surprise and unexpectedly made me laugh.
"That was a mistake, buddy... You shoulda stuck with God bless the grass"
"Now if you was just to show me where you keep your sharpest butcher knife"

i forgot i read children of the corn separately, i guess that was good too?

dios mío

strawberry spring: 4.5/5

a collection of 20 short stories which i won't be reading in order or in a short time span.

"Who is to say that one of those shadows was not the man or the thing that came to be known as Springheel Jack? Not I, for I passed many shadows but in the fog I saw no faces"

dude this shits so intense i have no idea what's about to happen