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Ngl... this is so bad

Story 1 - Record of a Defection:

Man this made me so sad already...

let's get back to this one after months of not touching it XD

DNF at 24%

It's not bad. I'm just not really interested. It's more a me problem than anything.

DNF at 9%

I love VE Schwab so much, but I don't know what to say... my interest in this is at 0%. This story has simply not hooked me one bit. It's not horrible, it's not good.

This is so good wtf😭

Im getting 5 star tingles 🥹

definitely one of the best in the series so far! maybe even the best

DNFing

Okay, objectively I can see Elena Ferrante is a good writer, but for some reason I just can't gel with her. I didn't like 'My Brilliant Friend' by her, but because every one loves it, I wondered if maybe I didn't like the book because we were following young girls. So I decided to read this one to see if the book is the problem or the author. But no, I don't think Elena and me are gonna be friends.

ooooh this is goooooood

I couldn't care less about what happens to Emily. Her and Wendell have 0 chemistry, actually they have negative 20% chemistry. I just can't get on board with them.
Emily constantly preaches how smart she is but I'm not seeing any of that supposed intelligence put into action. How about you stop telling me you're so smart and show me instead?

DNF at 21%.

I'm sorry, I just can't do it. I just don't want to. My interest is at a negative 100%. I don't like the writing; it's racist, and uninteresting. Mind you, I usually never have an issue with privileged complaining characters, but this one is just annoying and I don't feel sorry for her in any way. She is the one making herself a victim.

Bloodchild - read. I... okay. Damn.

DNF
it says enough when i dnf an 88 page book. just no.

DNF at 31%

No idea where the story is going and simply isn't captivating either.
I didn't understand what the point was of the main character being the way he is, he just uses the women around him. A man that every woman lusts over and wants to climb like a tree, the second they see him, is simply not my cup of tea.

The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as it it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it places itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence, and this is what we have made of it.

- José Saramago (Blindness)

found this on the shelf of a hostel I'm staying at in Thailand, so I thought why not read it

saw someone say this reminded them of normal people, i kind of see why - and it's exactly what i like. starting to get attached to these beautiful characters. i love books about love that are not love stories i realised

kid cudi is on repeat in the background

all I wanna do is read but I have to much workkk

i actually bawled-

it's. just. so. beautiful.
reading it so slowly but it's because i need to savour it and i am annotating half of every page. it's giving me so much to think about, i am in the writing mood once again. might write a couple paragraphs tomorrow.
i think i am in love with virginia woolf.

i am now crying.

"To be loved by Susan would be to be impaled by a bird's sharp beak, to be nailed to a barnyard door. Yet there are moments where I could wish to be speared by a beak, to be nailed to a barnyard door, positively, once and for all."

i-
excuse me while i have a mental breakdown-