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“…and he had to ask himself if he had not turned into a man consigned to doorways, for did he not spend the best part of his life standing outside one or another, waiting for them to be opened.”
Damn

This is really sweet

is this book way darker than the previous ones or has it just been a while since I read those

possibly the most rambly book of hers I've read yet

this book is such an interesting scrapbook of words, I certainly wasn't expecting to read Mario Savio's speech in here

this is my bible study

I love waiting for godot so much

VLADIMIR:
I don't understand.
ESTRAGON:
Use your intelligence, can't you?
(Vladimir uses his intelligence.)
VLADIMIR:
(finally). I remain in the dark.

I like how hooks gives us a very specific definition of love at the beginning and then proceeds to not use it in line with that definition for the rest of the book

incredibly upsetting and i'm only a third into this book

I'm on a mission to finish all the books I abandoned in order to reach my reading goal and this book is the one I've been dreading.... I think what irritates me about this book is that hooks is just so pessimistic about people and society as a whole it makes me sad

doomed yaoi

the notes from the previous owner of this book are annoying me so bad girl what do you mean "why did women need money"

for some reason once I started reading this out loud to myself in a southern drawl I liked it a lot more

the two longer stories were actually unbearable

never thought I would be saying Catholicism was the more ethical option but here we are

it's true I am a sucker for using verbs with nouns that do not work semantically. "dragging the lake" colorless green ideas sleep furiously indeed

I am so. confused

have I forgotten how to read completely

god I love Clarice Lispector so so much I need to kiss her on the mouth

if you reference a real band in your book. it is immediately going to read as a self-insert fanfiction to me. i already hate this book

Olympias is a bad bitch!!!

"She looked up at the whirling effulgent cloud, and thought, I brought down the fire from heaven; I have lived with glory. A thunderbolt struck from the sky and all was gone."

Eurydike is soooo 15 year old girl

this book is just one disaster after another. Perdikkas you are STUPID

"Now, on the mere threshold of the illimitable east, she felt like a desolation its indifferent strangeness."
I love the term 'indifferent strangeness' so much thank you Mary

ok I get the Siken obsession now y'all

"His death was something between the two of them, as his life had been. She herself was excluded. That, too, was an old story." complicated mother daughter relationships I love you<3333

poor Arridaios being tricked into sitting on the throne with a 'present' is reminding me of BOTW when you can lure the Yiga by dropping bananas and they do a silly little giddy walk

I love Renault's writing bc it never stalls, there's always momentum going into the next scene even if it's slower

I respect the writers who don't just stumble around the prompt

16 Minetta Lane by Dylan Landis is very good