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How is a biography about Theodore Roosevelt so fucking compelling? Genuinely one of the best books I’ve read this year.

Theodore being a lover boy was not something I expected

Saw some people comparing this to Stoner and…hm. Not quite. Stoner is in no way this obvious

Booker Prize shortlist Book #3 let’s go let’s go let’s go

“You make me feel so lonely.”
“I’m right here.”

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There’s nothing like the feeling of reading and not being able to put the book down…the feeling only comes upon me a few times a year but I’m grateful every time…

What if we all just killed ourselves

SURPRISE! gay guy with dead dad issues is loving the gay guy dad issues book

BREAKING: gay son finds out emotionally abusive homophobic father is also gay.

The low rating…maybe it it’s not as bad for me because I’m listening to the audiobook, but the story feels very much in line with other surrealist/realism works of fiction I’ve read so…

dude this is so long. like i am learning a lot. internalizing a lot. has helped me not crash out this week. still. soooo long and there's like 5 more books

Brb, becoming a Stoic

“Sprint for the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.”

“Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others.”

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay. I’m going to kill myself?

“Beauty is terror. We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.”

Don’t ask me anything about this book, because I literally remember nothing from when I read it as a teenager. I probably understood less than half of it then anyway…