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Dreadwail and Hymn are so funny. I now want a pet monster

Reading a fun book because I need to place all my concentration on my thesis ugh

As a lover of Chess myself I feel it only makes sense that I read this

After a streak of sombre reads, I want to have fun and not think deeply about anything. I’m reallyyyyy hoping this doesn’t test the limited patience I’ve been having w romantasy and gives me the good time I need rn 🤞🏻

This is incredible omg. The cover having a woman on it makes so much sense now

Jaw on the floor I wasn’t expecting that 😭

“guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our acts. Everything turns on our intentions. A man may commit a disloyal or base act, even the worst, even murder, and yet remain blameless. The act does not constitute the whole truth, it is always and only a consequence, and if one day any of us has to become a judge and pronounce sentence,—

“Friendship is the noblest relationship that can exist between human beings. And it is interesting that it also exists among animals. Animals are capable of friendship, selflessness, and the desire to help others.”

“The dancer wore a wide-brimmed hat of Florentine straw, white elbow-length crocheted gloves, a tight-fitting dress of rose silk, and black silk shoes. Even her bad taste was perfect.”

When it’s so bad it’s good

“because I must be made into the masterpiece that they in their weakness failed to achieve in their own lives. Sometimes when I am about to do something, my hand stops in midair. This eternal responsibility. I have even wished them dead”

Parents like this are exhaustingggg. This book is already great! Albeit sad :(
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I’ve seen only love for this book so I’m hoping i contribute to the collective love this receives 🤞🏻

My heart is beating out of my chest 😭 how poignantly brilliant this is

I love that unreciprocated love is being explored from the POV of the one not reciprocating.

“I was on the point of jumping up, so excruciating was the thought of being loved against my will.”

I can practically see the forlorn ending this will have oh my god. And the turn this book just took only made matters worse 😣🤦🏻‍♀️

My slow progress with this read is only because I’ve been so busy with my academic studies. Zweig’s exploration of what pity can do and how much it can actually destroy is fascinating, already in my top 5 favorite reads so far this year!

“I know there is no need to be ashamed of being taken in by life now and again; it is, if anything, a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.”

Can’t wait to read all of Zweig’s books

“again and again we fall hopelessly into the foolish error of thinking that Nature sets a special stamp on outstanding individuals so that they may be recognized at a glance.”

The day I began reading 20th-century literature was the day I made one of the best decisions because there is nothing greater (to me)

“And when daylight comes in at the window you think more clearly than when you are muffled up in the malignant darkness that delights in creating spectres.”

“Men of action are the involuntary slaves of the men of reason. The worth of things depends on their interpretation. Certain men make things which other men invest with meaning, bringing them to life.”

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective. Nothing passes into the realm of the collective without leaving at the border – like a toll – most of the intelligence it contained.”

Every sentence in this book manages to be quote-worthy. And it’s so rare I see myself in a character but it feels like the narrator thought what I think, with the only difference being his ability to put his thoughts into the right words. Formidable is the lightest way to describe this 😅

Haven’t had much time to read but oh this book 😩🥺 can already tell it’s going to be one of my new favorites ever

“For those few like me who live without knowing how to have life, what’s left but renunciation as our way and contemplation as our destiny?”

Omg this book is about to get meeeee 😩

Tbh I just need Yagharek to be ok by the end of this book 😭

These last twenty pages had me going: *GASP* 🫢 oh my god *clutches head* *stares wide eyed at the invisible camera in my room*

This story is very ambitious and I almost can’t tell where it’s all going to lead? It’s a bunch of subplots and ik it’ll all come together and I’m interested to see where it goes 🤔 if someone were to ask me what this is about it would sound all over the place tbh 😂 but I think… in a good way

Baaaaaack to tackling this 🤺

There is a very definitive lack of marrow in the pain Soraya is supposedly feeling, and I hate that I can’t just enjoy the damn book without looking too deeply into things, but I don’t feel shit. Also the mc’s haven’t met yet and I picked this up for the romance 🙄 my fault