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lord harry is just like the dude you meet at a party who you are forced into conversation with who thinks every single thought of his is not just profound but something that has never been thought of. he thinks that, despite having no complex relationships or connections that are genuinely his own, he has mastered all there is to know about humanity and specifically…women. #kyschallenge

need to see dorian gray’s (victorian society’s sexiest man of 1890) reaction to people’s magazine’s sexiest man of 2026 being noah wyle…the concept of oscar wilde writing a petty preface expose on people magazine sexiest man alive

“Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.”

I have to laugh- genuinely how some Gen Z around me sound, I’m so sorry can we please get a grip

was tempted to DNF but literally all the reviews r very positive so I’m gonna get to the halfway point! actually started this a couple weeks ago but never got back to it, reading for Morocco 🇲🇦

i misread the name of this author SEVERAL times and rewarped it in my mind to be desi so uh mb! but hoping this is good, it's intriguing?

truly a 5/5 so far, how the fuck is this a debut novel? but i'm also v scared bcs ik she does not gaf about a sad ending, she will break your heart 40 times over and i just... i want there to be some semblance of happiness. it does not. look good though.

am I too stupid for this or am I just not the audience for this (likely?) or am I too smart for this (impossible)

honestly would not know this was written by rf kuang if she wasn’t on the literal front cover (and obviously incredibly popular)

also the 2nd romance ish book I’ve read in the past month about 2 people wandering about the highlands (the mountains) and this one isn’t shite! it’s actually v lovely- what an incredible change ☺️

wow I never finished one day bcs I don’t like the epistolary format but the tv show is one of my favourite pieces of media to ever exist and I’m absolutely loving the earnestness and humour in his prose so i definitely should! didn’t want to stop reading this last night this is so sweet

trying to get through the last 10% of this book holy fuck

trying to get through the last 10% of this book holy fuck

one of those books where i can sincerely say i am muttering to myself furiously "there is no hope for women there is no hope for women there is no hope for women"

i rlly am so done with this book. i've been audiobooking it for the past couple of days while doing all sorts of chores and crafts but like it rlly is just rape rape rape and misogyny that's pulled apart superficially but then justified bcs its the historical period and after just reading deadbeat (which could not be more relevant to rn, but also its unfortunately always relevant), i just - no! also, boring!

one of the most perfect book covers i've ever seen. also this is my third time borrowing this from the library so happy to actually be reading it this time!

this storm rn meaning stuck inside with nothing to do but read

i saw someone say that this read more like a romantasy… now that I am like halfway through… are you ppl insane

god i hate t.s.eliot's ultra-religious arc sir pls fuck off with ur straight up sermons
- journey of the magi (3/10) always hated this poem, hate teaching it, was so glad i didn't have to do it for my hsc
- a song for simeon (6.5/10) pretty
- animula (10/10) new favourite love love love adulthood meaning killing of the soul
- marina (7/10) love a full greek allegory and i learned about pericles!

leigh… truly the master of openings and captivating captivating prose

i mean i’m still not rlly interested in the jacobites genealogy aspect of this tbh but i do rlly like the romance and scottish aspect even if im wondering why the hell this book is so long and why is there 7 proceeding books all of this length … anyway great book to read before bed in any case!

nvm i devoureddd this last night, way funnier than i expected and almost acts like a cozy slow-burn historical fantasy! also bcs i've always dreamed of going to scotland (2028 plan), this would have been so perfect to read before going! this makes me wanna watch the tv show so bad (finally). maybe i should read more stuff outside of my scope, ty yeelin <33

was gifted this by a dearly beloved friend who couldn't have possibly picked a book more opposite to my book taste in the world! but it's been in the shelf for an absurd amount of time and it was one of my goals to read it so biting the bullet now

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 😁😁