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v enamoured by this, so readable and so much fun, love the dynamics in this even if it’s a bit cliche, also love how there’s plot in this! love it

didn’t rlly like the Emily Wilde series but need something cozy and nice and the premise sounds cute so my keeping my heart open and my mind equally open to the prospect of DNFing bcs life is short

listening to radiohead and annotating my eliot poem book wow #whiteboymaxxing

- hollow men (10/10) forever one of my favourite poems and what got me to appreciate poetry when I was younger- astonishing!
- ash wednesday (5/10) rlly beautiful 1st act and then the 5 following… yeah idk about this whole religious salvation as solving post ww1 poverty, massacres and man made famine dawg

as an atheist, reading t.s.eliot’s poems post his anglicanism conversion genuinely feels like the dog “he tryna ignore it” meme like what are we rlly doing here man

rewarding myself after some good news with reading on the balcony with sunshine with le tigre and shame blasting in my headphones !!! and it’s a book that I’ve been saying I’ll read for 400 years ahhhh life feels hamster rainbows lollipops meme in this moment 😁😁

also ofc pretty much all eliot's portrayals of women r misogynist bcs even when they are explored w/ complexity, they are passive, hysterical, submissive etc. and often their lack of feminine sexual desire is used to showcase the end of civilisation's renewal but i do think it's interesting how eliot does showcase modernity's focus on marriage as the death of love and how women bear the brunt of this subjugation

- a game of chess (8/10)
- the fire sermon (7.5/10)
- death by water (7/10)
- what the thunder said (7.5/10)

incredible imagery, prose, tg for eliot's footnotes and 100's of scholars who analysed these poems to death - i am tired of apocalyptic imagery and continuous references to modern sexuality is dead --> woman infertile metaphor --> no regeneration for civilisation..reminiscent of 'i want your sex' discussions

everytime I read this book I get intrigued and then just very sleepy

in which tommy orange says that listening to mitski makes you realise you are bisexual

It was as if it were a different life, they’d become guardians of their own prison and its prisoners, in actuality as guards for the actual prison as well as men guarding themselves against the Indians inside, against their blanket ways. It was simply that they needed to arrive at themselves and begin their nations anew. (Pratt)

I have like- a day to read this! Let’s go

wow wow wow this is entrancing so far, snobby westernised academic tomb raider unravelling mystery kane chronicles odyssey Bengali folklore, lost city, deep archaeological mystery, discussions of ethics of human trafficking, diaspora, global cosmopolitan VVVVVV INTERESTING don’t let me down

Bhubaneswar mention!!

was inspired by the concept of reading the library books that I BORROWED and have held hostage in my house for at least a month and a half by a person whose books I have loved before

love an older protagonist! ghosh’s prose is a constant marvel to me <33

ykw reading this rlly does reinforce how thoroughly mediocre i believe emerald fennell to be and not just in the oh 'detached tory' way but like..how much of this, visual aesthetics, characters etc. in saltburn is just a DIRECT lift from this book bcs like..honestly? galling 🫡🫡 not that it's bad but just.. like alright

not a surprise at all that my most beloved form of animation (3d) is undefinably sadistic in the insane efforts it requires and is therefore ofc pioneered by men with weird hobbies that require a freakish amount of obsessiveness… I love film <33

charlie spring i will know now in extensive detail the importance of you having that ugly poster, of which i own the book, why its on your bedroom wall. immediately exceptionally homoerotic, thinking of 'in memoriam', and saltburn (which i disliked a lot) specifically ripped this off its pages lmfao.

incredibly sweet, does so so well at depicting the perspective of a struggling child - even though I’m not typically the biggest fan of magical realism, I’m
Enjoying the simplicity of it here- it makes perfect sense! Maybe I should read more kids ish books

It was between this and I capture the castle and I just happened to have borrowed this from the library in physical copy so despite this being magical realism here’s hoping I love it! If not… DNF babes I can’t have anymore 3 stars this year it will BREAK ME

i am sitting down and putting the god damn phone away and finishing this book so help me god

interesting character, interesting dynamics but unfortunately too many side characters and a bit too abstract of a plot for me to feel truly connected to anything. which ig reflects how lost the main character feels - but i feel like this tackles too much and leaves me feeling kind of nothing instead.

just how closely do i have to remember the story of hamlet to understand this...like i do know it and did study it at one point dont get me wrong but my understanding is now surface level at best

jesus christ she's so mean

“OM: Okay, so—not that it’s a bad thing, but are you only showing up for the sex?
FEW: ……
She acts like she’s having a religious experience.
OM: Which religion, if you had to hazard a guess?
“The Church of Euthanasia,” Greta said.
FEW: [PAUSE] Hare Krishna.
OM: Interesting.

wtf 😭😭😭

the cover design (2 dogs) is immediately ingenious… also this is so immediately engrossing, exactly what I need!

love bomb by nerd playing while I’m reading this LMFAOOOO STOP

elinor: you know very sad but at least now you can hold your head up high and move forwa-
marianne: i have no pride 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️😄😄

slowly but surely I will finish this book even if it makes me kinda fall
Asleep everytime

unfortunately every time I pick up a book recently I just kinda fall asleep which has a lot less to do with the quality of the book and more to do with me not being in the mood for reading but :(((((

2nd time attempting to read it is the charm (reached 80% on audiobook last time and was like… did I rlly fully comprehend any of it so decided to DNF it) daisy edgar jones im so excited for u