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Francesca Danielle
is on page 30 of 709
I enjoy books that toy with permanence and how art, whether written or in photographs, can be imprints of the soul and how tampering with these would be akin to slicing off angles of a person’s preserved being. Truant’s mounting anxiety making him see figures in the shadows mirroring Zampano’s paranoia and Navidson’s frustration. A museum of broken people who are “missing” something that makes them human.
— Oct 03, 2026 12:51AM
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Francesca Danielle
is on page 162 of 709
As the rescue team traverses the house and goes down the staircase, the passages also mirror where they are relative to depths.
— Oct 17, 2026 08:29AM
Francesca Danielle
is on page 134 of 709
Footnotes 165-167 just goes to show that the book IS the House… a House made of Leaves (the pages). I’m beginning to see just how literal some of the book begins to be if you interpret the winding formatting of footnotes 165-167 as the labyrinth of going back-and-forth in the darkness of the unknown.
Or how the formatting of page 134 reflects taking steps deeper into the house, down a staircase.
— Oct 16, 2026 11:50AM
Or how the formatting of page 134 reflects taking steps deeper into the house, down a staircase.
Francesca Danielle
is on page 117 of 709
Long-ass paragraph that goes backwards and forwards like a spiral staircase, footnotes making me jump to the end of the book and then back and forth between the beginning and then making me decipher incomprehensible sentences…. So this is home….
Physically went Awwww at footnotes 367:) about love stories only being a code that can be deciphered by your one true love:) Awwww
— Oct 16, 2026 11:25AM
Physically went Awwww at footnotes 367:) about love stories only being a code that can be deciphered by your one true love:) Awwww
Francesca Danielle
is on page 115 of 709
I’ve been trying to read this chapter for days but it’s literally leading me around like a labyrinth. Amazing stuff
— Oct 16, 2026 10:48AM
Francesca Danielle
is on page 111 of 709
Here comes the start of the Minotaur and Labyrinth themes! The myth of the Minotaur being a deformed and unwanted child makes me think of the troubled childhood that Navy had and how the Minos play probably has the “happiest” ending out of all the narratives present in the book.
Subtle foreshadowing about how the monster wasn’t what killed the Athenians, but the Labyrinth itself.
— Oct 14, 2026 11:12AM
Subtle foreshadowing about how the monster wasn’t what killed the Athenians, but the Labyrinth itself.
Francesca Danielle
is on page 109 of 709
Navy: Going through the horrors
Zampano: Going through the horrors
Johnny: Jacking my shit crazy styleeeeee
— Oct 14, 2026 11:05AM
Zampano: Going through the horrors
Johnny: Jacking my shit crazy styleeeeee
Francesca Danielle
is on page 104 of 709
Something about grief hollowing you out and hardening you from the inside. Interesting how broken people flock to finding the meaning between the gaps yet still find fear in exploring the dark unknown.
— Oct 14, 2026 10:50AM
Francesca Danielle
is on page 96 of 709
Well, that was a heavy chapter. No notes so far, outside of the permeating paranoia that the house seems to incite in everyone, including the exploration crew.
Exploration #4 was briefly mentioned in the beginning, I guess this is the context for that. The exploraiton team somehow gets lost and Navy follows after him. Only Holloway and Navy make it back (so it seems). Also why is there a checkmark...? Huh.
— Oct 11, 2026 07:56AM
Exploration #4 was briefly mentioned in the beginning, I guess this is the context for that. The exploraiton team somehow gets lost and Navy follows after him. Only Holloway and Navy make it back (so it seems). Also why is there a checkmark...? Huh.
Francesca Danielle
is on page 80 of 709
Approaching the end of the first 100 pages which means that the prologue is almost done… and the real horror begins. Not sure if I like the old creature horror angle it’s building up towards but given how everyone is paranoid and hallucinating, I will (begrudgingly) Take it.
— Oct 10, 2026 08:55AM
Francesca Danielle
is on page 72 of 709
Post-Whalestoe Letters: Unreliable narrators are hit-or-miss, but the depiction of despairing schizophrenia, troubled love, and anxious delusion was enough to bore a hole in my gut at the sheer dread that the section elicited in me. Not only was the encoded letter horrible, but it left me wondering if it was all a hallucination in the end. I suppose it doesn't really matter in the end, anyway.
— Oct 09, 2026 09:45AM