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Donna Tartt. June 2023. I have died and gone to literary heaven.

If I wasn’t a poc I would be very uncomfortable rn

How do you misspell the biggest city in Brazil multiple times?! São Paolo???? You mean São Paulo* and the rape, abuse idk. May be my first DNF this year

Celia is something else OMG!!!! Adding every novel by Wait to my tbr bc this is gorgeous.

This is GORGEOUS

I can’t believe I waited years to read this… I’m HOOKED

WTF

Setton’s writing is utterly enthralling and gorgeous. I'm obsessed. And Daphne!!! Wow.

Sooooo I feel a little claustrophobic

The first story is just wow.

I was hooked from the first page. And wow, the prose is stunning.

Soo soo good

So far, so sooo good.

My first time reading a Stephen King novel, and I'm loving it.

“Someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call themselves an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning.”

”The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother.” LOVE :)

“And he might have been able to cradle himself in the soothing belief that he was alone in a world bathed in darkness or the cold light of the moon, had his delicate compass not taught him better.” The writing is beyond beautiful. I'm pacing myself as I don't want it to end.

Wow.

“True feeling is always circular—either circular, or paradoxical—simply because it's cause and it's expression are two halves of the very same thing! Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love. Any man who disagrees with me has never been in love—not truly.” Fave.

I've been taking my time because this is SO GOOD

I have no words.

“We’d spend nights reading together, on separate sides of a shelf, not speaking, listening to the books around us.” Where can I find such a man to share paradise on earth with? Also, this book is soo good so far.

This is absolutely brilliant.

Bloody hell (Ron Weasley voice) :O

My first David Mitchell read and I am hooked. Nirvana references are a delightful bonus.