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It was very unplanned, but the woman I know decided to make her own translation of Harry Potter for her grandchildren because the first book was translated terribly into Russian. The first few pages turned out to be so good that I decided to reread the whole thing in her translation

why that woman is acting so creepy tf😭

god i’m so excited to finally finish it soon. it’s so dull and boring. i am only finishing because i want to be stronger than dnfing books

surprising amount of polyamory and other erotic undertones for a novel of its time. unfortunately, even this doesn’t make it less underwhelming. I am only bothering bc i don’t want to end it after going so far

my guy, you like the great gatsby so much because you are as delulu and immature as he is. but unlike holden, gatsby was a grown ass man

how much he doesn’t want to grow up but at the same time forces himself into being an adult, each time unsuccessfully

it’s a shame i haven’t read this when i was 16, i’d feel very very seen

i didn’t expect it to be such a tedious read

frankenstein marks the beginning of my physical tbr challenge because 30 books that I’ve bought but never opened is an insane amount. i am still going to listen to audiobooks and borrow at the library but i should not buy anything new!!

i feel like i missed out on huge chunk of world’s culture just because in my russian school we’ve only studied authors from russian empire or ussr. i feel very frustrated because i could read so many good books instead of learning those propagandist soviet poems

it’s tiiiime

ok let’s be serious for a moment. i’ll probably regret reading it before seeing the movie bc it’s always like this when you see the adaptation after the book. maybe i’ll watch it somewhere in the middle of the book