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Who would have thought I'll be reading a cheese military book written in 6th century BC (yeap, before Christ 🤯)

And here am I. And astonishingly have to admit - I love it so far! I start to understand why many says it should be in the list of books to read at least once in your lifetime.

“One may know how to conquer without being able to do it" - great quote. And is as valid now as ages ago!

It's so twisted and weird, that I feel I'm drowning in the story.
And every next chapter I want to say "what, what's going on here?!"

This is not an easy read for sure. But I'm really curious how it unfolds.

/On chapter 14 now/

Finished Othello. One famous line was missing from the adaptation: “Have you prayed tonight, Desdemona?” In the original, it’s a chilling moment before the tragedy. It also shows that Othello have his wife a chance to "confess". In the comic, the scene is shortened so much that this quiet tension disappears, making Othello more shallow. Another reminder that these 48-page versions often cut the most powerful lines.

Finished Macbeth, the only play in this series I didn’t read alongside the original.

Gosh - the graphics are insanely cruel. All the books are tragedies, but this one actually made me shiver while turning the pages. The dark atmosphere and brutality come through strongly in the illustrations, making this adaptation stand out from the rest.Scene after scene feels unsettling, and the atmosphere is heavy with violence.

finished Hamlet-again disappointed. Original story is rich and layered, seeing it compressed into a 48-page comic simply doesn’t work for me.

One of the most important questions in the play - is Hamlet truly losing his mind or only pretending as part of his plan for revenge?
In the comic version, however, Hamlet simply looks mad.

At this point I’m realizing that short graphic adaptations are not for me.

So sad... How much pain and disappointment can be in someone's life, so you are afraid to trust or even stay at the same place for long, not to get attached?!..

The most sad part is that stories like this exist in life ... Kids should have childhood...

Omg... What a twist 😱
"Amazing" Amy it is ...

If they both feel that miserable, why not get separated?
I understand they have been together for 5 years, but clearly both are not happy for the past... 3, is it?

Play is written in "iambic pentameter":
-da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM
- 10 syllables per line. five stressed beats.
(had to google, no longer remembered)

I read that it's very close to the natural rhythm of English speech and breathing.

So obvious now why I love it - feels calming, steady, almost hypnotic when I read verses slowly.

Even though I don't always like the ploy, I am in love with his writing.

I finished King Lear. I’m so disappointed. While their adaptation of R & J worked surprisingly well, King Lear completely lost its power here.

How text is cut feels cruel. Large portions of the verse are stripped down, and with them goes the rhythm, musicality, and beauty of Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter(thanks google). Without that poetic structure, the emotional weight is none and the story feels flat.

Лінтон Гідкліф не просто слабкий - у нього вже деформована емпатія. Дуже обурила сцена, коли він спокійно(!) розповідає, як Гідкліф б’є Кетрін Лінтон, і ставить це в один ряд із побиттям собаки - в мене аж мурашки пішли... Це вже не дитяча наївність, це якась нормалізація насильства! Типу - відвернувся, і не бачу,і не знаю...

Жахлива історія про деградацію поколінь - як зло, породжує більше зло...

Блін, дійшла до сцени, як Гідкліф говорить про своє ставлення до дружини... і аж фізично хочеться стиснутись 😣
Сцена справді жорстока...

Коли Гідкліф говорить про свою дружину так, ще й у її присутності, це вже не просто злість - це навмисне приниження. Холодне, демонстративне, показове. Він не втрачає контроль - він ним користується. Невже це все "мені було боляче, і хай тепер буде боляче усім!"?

Жива й атмосферна книга! Я буквально бачу все навколо, так класно описано! Персонажі складні, негативні, з поведінкою, яка мала б відштовхувати, але саме це робить історію такою захопливою - реальною.

Розповідь починається з дитинства і помітно, як дитячі травми формують характери й визначають подальше життя героїв. Читати непросто, але відірватися неможливо. Страшно дивитись, як біль перетворюється у характер.

Started this romcom while in the gym. And this is exactly a type of book I was looking for a change.
It makes me smirk and does not demand too much emotional energy. My brain doesn’t have to work, just float along and go!

Honestly, the plot is somewhat ridiculous (breaking weddings as a career, even as a side job, seriously?!), but kind of fun.

Finished reading the Illustrated Classics graphic novel edition of Romeo and Juliet from Magic Wagon, and it’s such a beautiful addition to the story! I absolutely love the illustrations - they add so much depth and emotion!

Now, the story itself is undeniably sad (and let’s be real: even my 12-year-old knows that getting married the first day you meet someone is… lame), but the language and artwork are incredible!

Gosh, from one crazy mother to another... 🙈 I need to read something light after this 🙈🙈🙈

I am not yet calmed down after Jennette McCurdy's childhood and abusive mom, and now I dive into Stephen King's book where Carrie's mother is nothing but normal... Poor kid...

Gosh... What soulless freak can ask her daughter to practice the song for her mom's funeral 🙈
When I think it just can't get worse, it does...

As a mom, I just can't comprehend how her mom could do what she did, and say what she said....


"I am not your mom anymore.
P.s. don't forget money for the fridge" - insane... 🥺

Well, now, since I have a book from the school library (thank you, Emma), I can start reading it at last!

First few pages - and I can't stop thinking of Sam and how he was catching mice in our backyard... He would have been a great warrior cat. Miss him enormously ❤️

The way the Author describes Rusty's dream with a mouse brings lots of memories of Sam and his adventures in the neighborhood...

У 6 днів стати королевою Шотландії...

У 15 вийти заміж за 14-річну хвору дитину 🙈 - спадкоємця корони Франції ...А у 17 стати королевою ще й Франції . Претендувати на ще одну корону - Англії, і зробити собі такого ворога, як Єлизавета...

Читаючи книжку, як ця, думаю, як тільки й досі "ці політичні ігри" себе не вижили... Політика завжди була і є жорстокою, а політики і досі маніпулюють живими людьми...

About halfway: this book is so hard to process. Seeing how normalized the abuse was, how fear replaced safety, and control was mistaken for love - that is just so heartbreaking.

Especially painful to realize how that shaped what she later accepted as “better" relationships - those chapters about her at 18 and Joe at 32... Gosh, just painful to go over those chapters...

Parents like that should not have kids...

Starting to listen to the audiobook book today. I was always curious to read the very first published novel by Stephen King. And this time eventually came!

Just discovered that he actually was ready to throw away the pages, thinking people would not read this in the magazine, when his wife Tabitha literally "fished" those out and said "Nope, this matters. Finish it ".

I had no idea who Cher was befor listening to this book. I just loved her song "You haven't seen the last of me"...

She had such an eventful youth, and it's incredible to watch her becoming. Yesterday I watched a few episodes of Sunny and Cher show , and then her own Cher show. Interesting "dive" into the 70th, and to see what people liked that time.

I am not yet done yet, but I'll definitely be waiting for part 2

this one lands quietly but firmly:

don’t mistake
salt for sugar
if he wants to
be with you
he will
it’s that simple

What makes this deep is how little it tries.There’s no pleading, no metaphor overload -just truth stated plainly.Illustration does half the work: salt and sugar look the same,but they are not the same.Intention reveals itself not in words,but in actions.
Love without confusion, clarity without cruelty

I can't understand why some people say it's not poetry... What is poetry ? Poetry is language distilled to carry emotion, truth, and beauty - sometimes with rhythm and rhyme, sometimes without - but always with intention.

If there is depth, feelings and beauty and if it's there, I calm it poetry. And Rupi Kaur texts are so deep and beautiful

i'm hopelessly
a lover and
a dreamer and
that will be the
death of me

she was a rose
in the hands of those
who had no intention
of keeping her

🌸🌸🌸

you might not have been my first love
but you were the love that made
all the other loves
irrelevant

In the middle of Sonny years.
...
It’s heartbeaking because I can feel two truths at the same time: Her mom, Georgia Holt, had a genuinely hard, unstable life. And Cher was still very much left to raise herself emotionally.
What makes it especially sad is that it wasn’t cruelty - it was instability. Georgia was chasing survival, love, opportunity… but how could she abandon Cher so much...

Oh, Cher!
I am totally in love with her "You haven't seen the last of me". Interesting to listen to her journey.

It's hard to realize that there are Kids who’ve learned (over and over) that adults aren’t reliable, that love can be temporary, and that trusting people can hurt them... Easy to read, and hard to put the book aside, even when there are too many questions, and I'm not sure how I feel about the main characters. it's like reading about teenagers that had so many "adult" problems...

I know Jennette as Sam in the show my daughter watched. And now, listening to her journey, it would be hard to ever re-watch those series...

P.s.
so upsetting I will have to pause for now and wait, before my listening hours are available on Spotify again. 15 hours for books a month is nothing 🙈

I love mystery and was looking for a book to recommend to my 12 year old daughter. this came up as a good YA for an earlier audience.

So far, easy to read, pretty dynamic, full of young girls"drama".
The main character is 12.