scarr > Recent Status Updates

i accidentally keep touching the stars on books I've read so middlemarch went for 5 to 4.75 to 4.25 and back to 5 bc IT IS FIVE FUCKING STARS.

anyway, I might cease star ratings just to be difficult since everyone is a little too excited about quart star ratings. this is my most toxic trait lol

my friend gave me this collection of short stories bc I won’t stfu about Tanith Lee 😃

haha yes, YES more adultery!!

if you are going to lift lines for a review you post to GR, you should not be mutuals with the person you lifted lines from.

"Very slight matters were enough to gall him in his sensitive mood, and the sight of Dorothea driving past him while he felt himself plodding along as a poor devil seeking a position in a world which in his present temper offered him little that he coveted, made his conduct seem a mere matter of necessity, and took away the sustainment of resolve."

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One minute after his shrieks commenced, an enormous paw, most now like a hand whose fingers were bright claws, raked in over the side of the eyrie and opened him to let out all that he was.
The blood fell like a rain from the mast-top, straining black the sails, puddling on the deck.

"Aleksei Fyodorovich, you're unbelievably good, but sometimes you're a bit of a pedant."

LISE, I love you, I love you!

every other paragraph stressing me out (having the time of my life)

It’s an extraordinary feeling when parts of your body are touched for the first time. I’m thinking of the sensations from sex and surgery.
—jenny holzer (Introduction)

this edition came out prior to Crash so I need to find the updated edition at some point.

everyone has incorrect opinions about Olympia!