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My brain is just not good for reading, these days 😅 Will probably finish this short book in a year

A little too much waxing poetical about the beauty of English colonialism in the East, and the "European-like" appearance of the Indian woman Aouda, but it's very much a product of its time. Other than not aging very well it's an enjoyable read so far.

Your Honour, my client Heathcliff has never done anything wrong in his entire life.

Nelly is pure evil

They are so Orpheus and Euridice

I cannot WAIT to watch the 1993 movie, this is so good.

He was out of spirits and slightly out of temper, and a haunting horror of doing the same thing every day at the same hour besieged his brain.

This book is a deconstruction of suburbia before suburbia was even a thing.

I'm re-reading Wuthering Heights at the same time as this, and I'm getting whiplash. This is just so charming and comedic and full of flowers. Compared to complete and utter doom and despair.

If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

But he also knew that underneath it all hid still another, more fundamental truth, the reason why she wanted to leave Prague: she had never really been happy before.

"No," said the priest, "you don't have to consider everything true, you just have to consider it necessary." "A depressing opinion," said K. "Lies are made into a universal system."

This is a nightmare.

Spilled coffee all over this today 🥲

Once you get over the ridiculousness of giant walking Venus flytraps with stingers, this is a pretty insightful and engaging sci-fi

Never thought thinning out turnips could give me so much anxiety

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