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"Her goal wasn't the confident expression of her own desires, but self abnegation so profound that it would render her irreplaceable."

Words cannot describe how much this book is resonating with me and how utterly heartbreaking the revelations are.

reread 2026 weil "wie kann sie nur" grad erschienen ist, und ich nicht genug bekommen kann von Passi.

Will I be able to finish this before I am going to see the movie on Wednesday? absolutely not! Will I still kind of believe that I can do it? Absolutely yes.

I have been crawling through this book over the weekend, it is extremely dense with the layered narration and page-long footnotes and I am really looking forward to the more crazy pages where it's less conventional text. So far, I am creeped out and intruiged by the story but the tension is taken relieved every few pages by philosophical an scientific discussions.

The bad puns followed by AN EXPLANATION OF THE BAD PUNS are driving me insane.

annual christmas reread wuhuuu

finished all of the approximately 20 forewords an the first chapter, looooove it so far. The writing is incredible and I miss evolution biology lectures.

enjoying this quite a lot, the writing took some getting used to ngl

I love this part (I love all of it)

love love love this series, almost as much as the infernal devices.

Rereading Piranesi for my book club. 1st of all, damn, this is sooo good, cannot wait to dive into it again. 2nd, I didn't catch the Narnia reference on my first read, but it just made me irrationally happy.

How old was Santiago? That boy already knows about quantum physics?? And also the "Are you afraid?" "I don't like hungry things." slapped so hard.

this has been addictive af the whole way through, I cannot stop.

Already LOLed several times while reading the foreword, written by Nabakov himself, I fucking love this man!

Happy to report that I found a mistake. One micron (micrometer) i not a one hundredth of a millimeter, but one thousandth. Patricia Wiltshire is happy to talk rather negatively about everybody else in science, especially those that do not like to use microscopes, but sadly, this doesn't really make her a great author of books that are a pleasure to read and make her sound more bitter and opinionated than smart.

At this point, I know I wont finish my reread before the R.F. Kuang event this evening, but I WILL SEE HER LIFE TONIGHT OMGGGGGG

Reread after almost exactly 10 years. Having a lot of fun with my Percy Jackson reread

Fuuuck she’s gooood.

I have been doing this fun challenge where I use a random number generator to select a book from my physical tbr and then read it in that week (more or less). This has been such a fun motivation to tackle books that have been sitting on my tbr for a while. I drew Emma in the first week, Breakfast at Tiffany's in the second, a certain hunger this week and for next week it will be Sea of Tranquility. TBR: 140

heartless, cannibalistic psychopath food critic turned blogger has more integrity regarding sponsorships than most influencers today!

The diamond guitar 4/5

House of Flowers: 5/5 I loved this short story.

Kuang really gets the „dark“ in dark academia, meaning there‘s a lot of romantisation because academia eats you alive and how else would you bear it but it is actually not a cutesy esthetic but so fucking hard. Tbt me crying when I got my masters degree, just because it was finally over.

Breakfast at Tiffany's or the OG manic pixie dream girl. this was a lot of fun, perfect length, no notes.