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🚨confession alert: while scrolling through susbstack, I came across a wonderful passage from ‘the brothers karamzov’, and now I have a feeling that I might be reading the wrong Dostoevsky!! 👀

Voltaire, Montesquieu, Locke!!!!! oof, this book is brimming with such surprises and i’m LOVIN’ it so much!!!

“the world is an illusion, and living is dreaming,” I muttered.
𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 💜

reading is all fun and games until a line hits so hard, you end up staring at the wall in silence for ten minutes..!! 🥹

“If one knew the whole truth about everything, could hear what was unsaid, and see what was parked in the shadows—then would there be any sense in wanting anything at all?”

I don’t particularly appreciate some of the dynamics but the writing (translation?!) style is just extraordinary!!!

“where you have set your mind begin the journey
Let your heart have no fear, keep your eyes on me.” 💜

I don’t want to finish this book!!! 😭

so far this book has crushed me both physically and emotionally.. 🖤

this better be good than the last one!! 🤞🏼

I miss reading books. I miss writing reviews (though sometimes but still :p) right after finishing a good book. I miss commenting on my nerdy friend’s reviews. I miss being able to binge read for hours at a time. I miss y’all soOooOo muchhhh Xoxo 💜🥹

This is the one going to cause another reading slump that I can’t afford at the moment given how far behind I am on my reading challenge already..

DNFing for now!!

You know that feeling when you're stuck between wanting to read a book because it's so good and not wanting to read it because you never want it to end? Well, that’s where I’m at with this book.. Can feel a pretty bad book hangover coming on already! 🥺

Fun Fact: (memory-evoking properties aside lol :p) hardcovers smell better than paperbacks!! 📖🤍

Never underestimate the power of a good stretch!!! 🤍 #HappyYogaDay2022

This book is bonkers and I’m loving it!!!!! 🤪

Here I go!! Time to finally find out what the fuss is all about 😋

I think, I may have finally found a book that I do not want to put down but I have to for the simple reason that I don’t want to finish it!

Why on earth do we have MULTIPLE names for the SAME person in this book?!?!? Whyyyyy?!?!!!! 😭

Should’ve DNFd long time ago, but I guess, it’s too late for that already!

All I want is for ‘Intimacies’ by Katie Kitamura & ‘The Island of Missing Trees’ by Elif Safak to win the Women’s Prize this year. Is that really too much to ask?! 🤷🏻‍♀️