Lidya’s Reviews > The Brothers Karamazov > Status Update

Kolya epitomising the "I'm fourteen and this is deep" meme was not something I anticipated to chance upon in this novel

Ok I am COMMITTED to finishing this book before the end of the year. There's a dog rn, not sure where he came from, but the vibes are feeling kinda sad :(

"His soul, filled with ecstasy, thirsted for freedom, space, latitude. Above him wide and boundless keeled the cupola of the heavens, full of quiet, brilliant stars. Doubled from zenith to horizon ran the Milky way, as yet unclear. The cool night, quiet to the point of fixity, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the cathedral sparkled in the sapphire sky.

I'm in tears 😭

The way they just hit us back-to-back with mutiny and then the grand inquisitor... I might need to sit down for this one. In fact I might need to sit down and pick up a different book to read for a bit cause I'll need some days to process the mental assault that was those two chapters 😭😭

Man this book is WILD and so much messier than I expected 😭😭

"From a fatherly viewpoint he did what he was bound to do, that is to say he utterly and completely abandoned the child he had begotten with Adelaida Ivanovna, not out of any ill-feelings towards him, or any resentments of an injured spouse, but simply because he altogether forgot about him." (p. 19)

Sir??? SIR??