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"With a longing that almost split him open, he thought of her handing him a bit of smoked hock out of her dish. He remembered just how she held it—clumsy-like, in three fingers, but with so much affection. No words, just picking up a bit of meat and holding it out to him. “And then the tears rushed down his cheeks, to make a bouquet under his chin.” ; __________ ;

"Why, human beings, if they put their minds to it, could better themselves. She didn't mean that a peasant, to give an example, would be capable from one day to the next of running NASA, or even of working for NASA, but who could say that the peasant's son, guided by his father's love and example, might not end up working there one day?" how can smth this tiny but hopeful come out of NOWHERE like this. god

this behemoth is taking over my life

im screaming i havent felt that sense of life-changing fulfillment from a book in so long/im PICKY but i have so much hope for this

god i eat this pretentious shit up

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IT'S FUN BUT WHY IS MY DESIRE TO READ AT AN ALL TIME LOW RN :(

lmfao taking forever w/ one book bc i only read it in order to fall asleep at night

uuruuugghhh... im struggling.. rly don't think im an atwood person after all. whispered 'this book is so annoying' to myself w/o even realizing n____u

straight up i'm so excited to start my first agatha chrisTIE!!!!!!!! maybe breathe a little after all the murakami for the time being huhuhu

IDK. its 3 am and im so exhausted but cant stop reading like always, and kafka is so intensely different from murakami's other books. im kinda scared but i love it. ig thats how i feel abt his books in general. i feel like im hallucinating rn

reading murakami for me is always this really...otherworldly experience, for every one of his novels, esp bc i have the tendency to read his stuff only at night and in the early early morning - but so far (and idk where i am bc i'm reading this weirdly formatted ebook version) idt anything he's written so far as struck me as so completely unsettling and WEIRD as the teacher from yamanashi's letter..

interesting how my 14 year old self was soooooo fascinated by the movie and the miniseries, but now that i'm finally reading the novel five years later all i feel is a casual? enjoyment reading through at a really fast speed, and acknowledging that the poignancy is there, but not.....caring

ive never read anything by ishiguro before, but :( a lot disappointed

read so far:
-"Girl" -Jamaica Kincaid
-"Hills LIke White Elephants" -Hemingway
-"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" -Carver
-"The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" -Shaw
-"Paul's Case"- Cather
-"A Rose for Emily"- Faulkner
-"Araby"- Joyce
-"Shiloh" - Mason
-"The Lottery"- Jackson
-"Samuel"- Paley